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Unified SOA Tools Align Business and IT by Oracle Corporation
SOA suite that includes pre-integration with BPM technology. The top benefit: the ability to strategically align information technology with an enterprise’s business mission. Learn how global enterprises have achieved this goal thanks to Oracle’s fully...
E-Guide: Microsoft Virtualization- From Data Center to Desktop by Dell and Microsoft
virtualization environments.

This guide examines strategies for moving an organization toward a dynamic information technology (IT) environment using data center virtualization technologies. As companies approach Dynamic IT, their data centers...
Closing the print security gap by ComputerWeekly.com
and discusses the current market landscape while recommending some best practices for adopting an integrated information and print security strategy.

The market landscape for print security


By Louella Fernandes, principal analyst, and...
Determining Total Cost of Ownership for Data Center and Network Room Infrastructure by APC by Schneider Electric
cost of ownership (TCO) of data center and network room physical infrastructure and relating these costs to the overall Information Technology infrastructure is described, with examples. The cost drivers of TCO are quantified. The largest cost driver is shown to...
7 Ways to Manage Rapid Patient Data Growth by Dell Compellent
medical records a mainstay of the U.S. healthcare system is a major factor behind the patient data growth. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act stipulates that all patient records – including historical data – need to be in...
Rethinking Managed Print Services (MPS) by ComputerWeekly.com
adopted by larger enterprises, the emergence of independent MPS providers that offer vendor-agnostic, best-of-breed technology, software and services is promising to expand the penetration of MPS beyond the exclusive domain of large enterprises.

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The data sharing paradox. A guide to small business on data sharing and security by ComputerWeekly.com
This small business report looks at the degree to which small businesses are sharing data, the ways in which they are doing so and the real and perceived risks. It shows how these risks can be mitigated.

Small businesses acknowledge that enabling access to data for remote employees and users from external organisations is fundamental to ensuring the on-going...
The data sharing paradox. A guide to small business on data sharing and security. by ComputerWeekly.com
This small business report looks at the degree to which small businesses are sharing data, the ways in which they are doing so and the real and perceived risks. It shows how these risks can be mitigated.

Small businesses acknowledge that enabling access to data for remote employees and users from external organisations is fundamental to ensuring the on-going...
Managing Data Growth and Monetizing Information Value: Competing in the Expanding Universe of Digital Information and Big Data by EMC Isilon
can benefit most from big data technologies - read on for more.

The continued expansion of business-critical information and unstructured rich content within extended enterprises is changing the storage dynamic in a wide range of...
The Smart Archive Strategy from IBM by IBM
a comprehensive strategy to efficiently meet the archiving mandate, helps enable more effective management of information over time, unifies structured and unstructured data archiving through common collection and classification...
Information Protection & Control: Six Step Best Practice Guide by CA Technologies.
to solving data control challenges and mandates. View this videocast for a 6-step best practice guide for tackling information protection and control issues.

Many organizations today struggle to meet their data governance initiatives, as...
Information Governance Online Symposium -- Next Generation Digital Convergence for All by SearchCompliance.com
been more daunting. And that task of digital convergence isn’t reserved for just health care organizations; information managers in government, legal, and other industries must also align their records with modern technology. This three...
Analyst paper: Operational Decision Management -- Making better business decisions with flexible, automated business rules and events by IBM
success. For instance, the ability to automatically make different decisions in real time based on execution-specific information, such as the customer or client details and previous history, enables a higher degree of personalization.

Business...
Making SIEM work: Processes and policies to enable success by Sensage, Inc.
questions on how to successfully put SIEM into action.

Is security information and event management (SIEM) a process or a technology? It's both, though most people only focus on SIEM as a technology. In reality, the process of SIEM must happen first, before...
How to tackle Enterprise Information Protection & Control by ComputerWeekly.com
Information protection needs to cover all data, from word processing documents to datawithin databases and executable code. It...
Top 10 reasons to strengthen information security with desktop virtualization by Citrix
Read this white paper to learn more about how deploying desktop virtualization can ensure your information is secure, allowing you to embrace workshifting and emerging technology.

In order to maintain productivity levels as...
Increasing Return on Investment with Data Services by Oracle Corporation

As the IT world has evolved, the focus has increasingly and almost unavoidably shifted to technology at the expense of information. Although the technological side is unquestionably important, the ultimate purpose of an IT department is to increase...
Matching Technology Improves Data Quality by Talend
Matching technology plays an important role in achieving a single view of customers, parts, transactions or almost any type of data. Often...
Computer Weekly 6 December 2011: Read this week’s issue of the UK’s leading technology publication, featuring news on open data, cyber security and our social media awards by ComputerWeekly.com
15m GBP in IT to cut costs

Essex County Council CIO David Wilde explains how he hopes to make annual savings from better technology.

Social Media Awards - the winners

Computer Weekly's search for the best use of social media in IT is finally over. After...
Dell Technology Perspective: Intelligent Data Management by Dell, Inc.
IT organizations to evolve from managing the storage of their data, to managing and delivering the data as strategic information.

Intelligent Data Management (IDM) is Dell’s overall approach to help enable IT organizations to evolve from managing...
Microsoft® Hyper-V™ R2 Reference Architecture for Dell® PowerEdge™ Rack Servers and Dell PowerVault™ Storage by Dell and Microsoft
This white paper includes information useful both before and after the purchase of a business ready configuration that includes Dell PowerEdge R710...
Articles
The worlds of IT and facilities arose from different business needs -- IT, concerned with the flow of information; facilities, with requirements for space, power and cooling. In this era of virtualized data centers, the two ivory towers need to come together to ensure long-lasting business continuity, according to midmarket CIOs and other experts.

"The biggest challenge is building something that will last for years," said Kathleen Agnew, who recently worked on a data center consolidation and virtualization project as ITS operations manager at King County Library System (KCLS) Service Center in Issaquah, Wash. King County spans 2,134 square miles on Puget Sound (including Seattle), nearly twice the geographic size of the average U.S. county. Home to more than 1.9 million people, it's also the 14th most populous county in the nation.

During the KCLS consolidation project, the IT and facilities departments worked together to bring in an electrical engineer to help define the request for proposal, particularly with regard to the UPS system; an architect to assist with pulling permits; and a mechanical engineer to ensure that the consolidated data center is structurally sound, Agnew said. "In this day and age, you... More...

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WiMAX, EV-DO, MIMO, ZigBee and UMTS. It sounds like a spelling bee gone out of control, but these are just a sampling of the ... More...
Historically, security threats were thought to be from bad guys outside your network. That resulted in strengthening... More...
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You built your mobility strategy, found a primary business need for tablets for your team, and made everyone happy by...
Private clouds are sort of an artificial phenomenon; private clouds is just a term describing corporate IT for the past...
Cloud services come in a variety of forms -- cloud bursting, disaster recovery support, outsourced services, development...