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Innovation in a Time of Change – Investment and Technical Trends in the Data Center

This 2009 Data Center Survey reveals how data centers respond to new challenges and opportunities. Over 730 IT professionals from 54 countries in charge of their organizations' data centers were surveyed to identify their priorities and action plans to adopt new technologies.
Source: Commscope | 11 Feb 2010 Tags: Data Centres

IDC's Views: Mission-Critical Workloads on x86 server infrastructure

See IDC's views on deploying mission-critical workloads on X86 server infrastructure and how IDC views NEC in the x86 server space and how NEC can support to realize to virtualize your environment and deal with challenges.
Source: NEC | 08 Jan 2010 Tags: IT services,Server,NEC
Websense

A market report on the current threat Webscape, insight into the most recent hacks, exploits and trends in Web, email and data security

2nd half of 2009 Websense Security Labs discovered 95% user-generated blogs comments, chat rooms & message boards - spam/ malicious. 35% Web attacks included data-stealing code. 58% data-stealing attacks conducted over the Web
Source: websense | 02 Mar 2010 Tags: Security,Web,Malware
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Seven ways ITIL can help you in economic downtime

IT Infrastructure Library practices promote a well-functioning, collaborative IT environment that can enable the business and your IT organization to cope with the effects of economic stress. ITIL can help you to deliver higher-performing technology services that help your business to be both more competitive today and poised for growth when the economy rebounds.
Source: BMC | 30 Nov 2009 Tags: Software,IT infrastructure

Enterprise Applications

Looking for Compliance and Access Governance for your firm?

Increasing regulatory compliance demands forcing you to review your policies and procedures? Looking for a solution that streamlines & automates access certification, role lifecycle management & risk management?
Source: Novell | 01 Mar 2010 Tags: Novell,Risk Analysis

Business Process Transformation: Logistics

The plan for the RFID-enabled Supply Chain Management Nerve Center involved drastically reducing human data entry error and the need for time-consuming corrections.
Source: YHC Group | 25 Feb 2010 Tags: Enterprise Application

Corporate social responsibility - An emerging CIO mandate

Three external issues that are consistently rising on the CEO agenda are all related to corporate social responsibility.
Source: IBM Malaysia | 09 Dec 2009 Tags: IT Management

Hardware

Asset Recovery – Balancing risk and opportunity

The rapid innovation in IT infrastructure equipment has its downside: Short product lifecycles result in rapid turnover and the need to frequently refresh technology. This can pose a real business challenge.
Source: HP | 02 Sep 2008 Tags: IT infrastructure

Accelerated server refresh reduces data center cost

A detailed ROI analysis showed that we can reduce costs by refreshing all servers after four years.
Source: Intel | 06 Aug 2008 Tags: Server

A consolidation, virtualization and power study on the IBM System z10

This paper demonstrates the IBM System z10 as an excellent system for power efficiency and performance, discusses server consolidation and virtualization implementation and strategies, and highlights a power benchmarking study on this platform.
Source: IBM | 31 Jul 2008 Tags: Server,Virtualisation

IT Services

IDC's Views: Mission-Critical Workloads on x86 server infrastructure

See IDC's views on deploying mission-critical workloads on X86 server infrastructure and how IDC views NEC in the x86 server space and how NEC can support to realize to virtualize your environment and deal with challenges.
Source: NEC | 08 Jan 2010 Tags: IT services,Server,NEC

Application complexity - A drain on the IT budget

This paper discusses the challenges in providing clear benchmarks for application costs and suggests practical strategies for simplifying application portfolios in large organizations.
Source: TCS | 04 Jan 2010 Tags: IT Management

Global 75 (Part 3)

75 outstanding vendors who have made an impact worldwide
Source: MIS Asia | 07 Dec 2009 Tags: IT services

Open Source

Not just ‘nice to do’: Efficient IT benefits the environment and bottom line.

This whitepaper focuses on concrete steps CIOs can take to deploy and maintain a “greener” environment.
Source: HP | 14 Aug 2008 Tags: CIOs,Green IT

Energy & efficiency: The worldwide drive to ‘green’

This paper examines the responses from the 103 energy & utilities industry respondents.
Source: IBM | 31 Jul 2008 Tags: Green IT

The new CIO: Insights from the Center for CIO Leadership

An interview with Harvey Koeppel, Executive Director, Center for CIO Leadership
Source: IBM | 31 Jul 2008 Tags: Leadership & Management

Security

Botnet study: Compromised hosts, DDoS attacks

This bulletin details a review of some of the recent insights by Team Cymru, concentrating on the Asia-Pacific Region.
Source: Team Cymru | 19 Mar 2010 Tags: Security

The Case and Criteria for Combining Application Acceleration and Security

Studying various challenges in driving the application performance and security, this whitepaper will establish the benefits of having a single, combined product that addresses both sets of objectives – acceleration and security.
Source: Transition | 18 Mar 2010 Tags: Application Performance Management,Security

Social networking sites: Security battlefield or opportunity?

How hackers are ingeniously leveraging social networking sites and the Web 2.0 to create new phishing attacks
Source: Check Point Software Technologies Ltd | 08 Mar 2010 Tags: Security

Storage

Innovation in a Time of Change – Investment and Technical Trends in the Data Center

This 2009 Data Center Survey reveals how data centers respond to new challenges and opportunities. Over 730 IT professionals from 54 countries in charge of their organizations' data centers were surveyed to identify their priorities and action plans to adopt new technologies.
Source: Commscope | 11 Feb 2010 Tags: Data Centres

A comparison of total costs of ownership of 10 Gigabit Network Deployments in the Data Center

Synopsis In the whitepaper, four different data center networks (3 on cabling architecture and 1 on converged model) were proposed to illustrate CAPEX and operational considerations. 1000 servers spanning 50 cabinets were used as a baseline for all comparisons.
Source: Commscope | 08 Jan 2010 Tags: Data Centres,Networking

EMC Symmetrix V-Max: Information Infrastructure for Virtual and Physical Realities

Simplify and automate management of virtual data centers with EMC
Source: EMC | 03 Dec 2009 Tags: Storage,Data Centres

Software

SOA Strategy

A Comprehensive Yet Flexible Suite for a Pervasive Architecture
Source: Oracle | 02 Feb 2010 Tags: SOA,Oracle

Is cloud computing the next big thing?

This paper on Cloud Computing explains why it may well be so. It traces the context of Cloud Computing, a paradigm shift in IT.
Source: TCS | 04 Jan 2010 Tags: Cloud computing

Building Credit Scorecards Using Credit Scoring for SAS Enterprise Miner

This paper discusses the benefits of performing credit scoring and the advantages of building credit scoring models in-house using SAS Enterprise Miner.
Source: SAS | 17 Dec 2009 Tags: Software

Telecomms & Networking

Rich media mobile advertising

This whitepaper includes definitions, attributes and examples of Rich Media Mobile Advertising that are currently being used in the marketplace.
Source: Mobile Marketing Association | 19 Mar 2010 Tags: Mobile Telephony

SDV International Logistics improves applications delivery productivity with Citrix XenApp

SDV International Logistics is a worldwide leader in international freight forwarding, transportation and logistics.
Source: SDV International Logistics | 04 Jan 2010 Tags: Transport & Logistics

Data Center Cooling Best Practices

Learn how to maximise power efficiency in data centers through smart planning and design
Source: Siemon | 16 Nov 2009 Tags: Networking,Telecommunications

Feature

John Madden

IT Services

IT service providers searching for stronger recovery

Judging by the most recent round of earnings reports (the latest being from HP), IT services providers appear fairly confident about future growth this year following a disastrous 2009.
By John Madden | 23 Feb 2010

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