IBM White Papers

Protecting Against Database Attacks and Insider Threats: Top 5 Scenarios

Data security presents a multi-dimensional challenge in today's complex IT environment. Multiple access paths and permission levels have resulted in a broad array of security threats and vulnerabilities. Traditional "fortress approaches" such as firewalls and IDS/IPS systems are no longer sufficient to defend against attackers who can easily bypass perimeter defenses. These security measures can't differentiate or prevent unauthorized traffic that appears to be legitimate. We invite you to read this new eBook: "Protecting against database attacks and insider threats" to learn the top five scenarios and essential best practices for preventing database attacks and insider threats.

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Database Activity Monitoring Is Evolving

In this report, Gartner writes that "Database audit and protection (DAP) represents an evolutionary advance in database activity monitoring tools." DAP suites provide comprehensive, cross-platform support in heterogeneous database environments to protect sensitive data from inappropriate use. Organizations are increasingly concerned with optimizing database security and mitigating risks associated with database vulnerabilities. And, the need to meet compliance requirements is pressuring organizations to adopt more aggressive and expansive data controls. Read the analyst report and learn how you can leverage the core capabilities of a DAP solution for better database security.

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Establishing a Strategy for Database Security is No Longer Optional

As databases continue to grow in size, complexity and importance, enterprises struggle to identify the most appropriate controls regarding their use and misuse. The most effective database security implementations will leverage controls across administrative, preventive and detective controls. The report identifies best practices, including: Implementing database activity monitoring to mitigate the high levels of risk from database vulnerabilities, and address audit findings in areas such as database segregation of duties and change management; using data security measures, such as data masking and data encryption; and monitoring privileged-user access and access to critical data.

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Thinking Outside The Data Warehouse

This high level, business problem focused eBook uses 5 customer scenarios to show how people and organizations are tackling real issues using IBM solutions. It is 20 pages, fully interactive and covers IBM's overall Warehousing portfolio of offerings, inclusive of:
- IBM Smart Analytics System
- IBM Netezza family of appliances
- InfoSphere Warehouse 9.7.3
- Informix Time Series
- InfoSphere Warehouse Packs & Industry Models

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Using BD for Smarter Decision Making

This paper, by Colin White, BI research, looks at new developments in business analytics and discusses the benefits analyzing big data bring to the business. It also examines different types of big data workloads and offers suggestions on how to optimize systems to handle different workloads and integrate them into a single infrastructure for making smarter and faster business decisions.

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Proven strategies for uncovering cost savings with IBM DB2

Learn how your organization can take advantage of recent breakthroughs to lower the cost of data management. This informative e-book describes proven strategies for lowering the costs associated with:

- database administration
- database development
- database systems
- data storage

This e-book also discusses the new breakthrough features that make it easier than ever for you to move to DB2. Not only is it easier than ever to move your database to DB2, it is also easier than ever to find skills to work with DB2. Organizations around the world are using these valuable strategies to lower their IT costs. Make sure that you use them as well.

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Is Your Database Ready For Your Company's Future?

This brochure is targeted to executives and will cover all the business benefits of DB2. No matter what industry or market you are in, data has become more than just details of recorded transactions, events and customer records - it's the lifeblood of your business, as vital as cash.That makes your database a critical part of your business. Can it stay a step ahead of the demands that your customers, employees and partners place upon it?

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Deliver Cost-Effective Business Continuity with Extreme Capacity

IBM DB2 provides application cluster transparency technology that equips organizations running OLTP applications with the ability to deliver high availability and continuous uptime for transactional data, plus the flexibility and capacity they need to remain competitive.

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Information Governance: Turning Data Into Business

In June 2011, IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to explore current information governance practices, challenges, and ROI among US, UK, and German firms. In conducting an online survey of 200 information governance decision makers and follow up in depth interviews with five of these respondents - Forrester found that companies that implement an information governance strategy across their enterprise achieve better business results than those that are less mature in their governance initiatives.

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Cloud Computing for Midsize Business: Delivering Innovation and Efficiency

You may be considering a cloud computing solution or in the midst of specifying one or even implementing a solution. Read this paper to see what IBM discovered about how companies like yours are adopting, implementing and using cloud computing solutions. Learn about the current rate of adoption, as well as drivers, barriers, and considerations that are influencing the adoption of cloud computing.

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Cloud Computing in the Midmarket: Assessing the Options

You may be looking at cloud computing as a means to access IT resources that may not be affordable otherwise. Cloud solution options include public, private and hybrid models each of which offers its own benefits, cost model and risks. Read this analyst brief from IDC to learn about each of these models and discover how your organization can take advantage of them. The paper also looks at how organizations can integrate cloud solutions into existing infrastructures and how an incremental implementation approach might work. Finally the paper explains some principles for measuring the success of your cloud solutions.

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Cloud Security: Who do you trust?

Cloud computing changes the way we use computing with the promise of significant economic and efficiency benefits. But significant security issues are presented with this new approach to computing. This white paper explains why trust, reliability and security decisions are central to choosing the right model.

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Dispelling the Vapor Around Cloud Computing

Cloud technology has enormous potential to enable highly efficient and dynamic IT infrastructures that are more elastic and responsive to potential disruptions and data loss. Virtualization technologies combined with new cloud management techniques enable IBM to provide a simplified "anywhere, anytime" self-service approach for the delivery and consumption of IT services. Read this paper to see how using a cloud-based approach for your IT can free you to reap immediate benefits of a specific technology instead of having to spend time, resources, and money focusing on how to implement it.

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Strengthen Your Business with Cloud Computing

If your midsize company has limited resources, you need to make the most of your IT investment. Cloud computing can lead to extraordinary cost savings and business innovation. This white paper provides a brief overview of cloud computing, explains how midsize companies can benefit, and describes the steps they can take to take advantage of what it has to offer.

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King Fish Media: How Analytics Bring Organizations Closer to Their Customers

To succeed today, it's imperative for every business to get to know their customers much better than most have in the past - much better. Find out how IBM Business Analytics solutions can help your company turn disconnected data into information, information into insight, then turn insight into action that can boost your bottom line.

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Reporting for Midsize Companies: Empower Your Business With Self-Service Reporting

Data is only data until it can be used to drive business outcomes. IBM Cognos Express turns raw data into meaningful information that yields insights, which can fuel business transformation. This white paper discusses reporting, analysis, dashboards, planning and other capabilities your company can use to drive business decisions.

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In-Memory Analytics: Leveraging Emerging Technologies for Business Intelligence

A recent Gartner research note highlghts the advances in emerging technologies that will have a significant impact in making it easier to build and consume analytical applications. Im-memory analytics will make it easier to build high-performance analytical applications against large data sets. In-memory analytics precludes the need for a mid-market company to invest in a data warehouse when beginning to take advantage of a business analytics solution. Instead of storing data in a data warehouse, in-memory analytics stores the data set in memory, allowing for dramatic improvements in query response and the end-user experience.

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Why performance management? A guide for the midsize organization

By linking insights to action, performance management has enormous potential to transform midsize business. When data becomes information, it gains value as insights that fuel action, propelling business forward. This white paper shows how IBM Cognos Express is a cost-effective choice for performance management.

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Business Analytics: Optimizing Your Operations

Larger businesses have always had the advantage of having more resources to throw at problems. Organizations - large and small - are gathering and storing enormous amounts of information. But typically, only the big companies have been able to take full advantage of this data, extracting insight for business advantage. Read this e-book to see how mid-sized organizations can now better use information to drive business decisions to lower costs and improve profit. Discover how you can overcome the barriers midsized business face and use the latest analytics tools to improve your competitive position.

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The Essential Guide to Choosing a Web Analytics and Online Marketing Solution

Today's customers have information at their fingertips and can dictate a new set of terms in the dynamic relationship between buyers and sellers. Smarter Commerce puts the customer at the center of all operations. Read this brochure to learn how your organization can build better business processes.

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