As companies brace for more bumps in the economic downturn, many organisations are indiscriminately cutting costs. To ensure a seamless transition into the post-recession market, however, slashing and burning is not recommended. Now is the time to strategically trim and strengthen for success. This IDC White...
It is critical that organizations are proactive in their approach to mitigating insider threats. Week-after week there are disturbing, déjà vu-like stories of significant data breaches, arrests connected to insider attacks, or investigation reports emphasizing the necessity to control privileged accounts that hold highly sensitive data. This white paper explores...
Start-up storage vendor Pliant Technology has begun shipping a new class of enterprise flash drives to OEMs for evaluation and qualification that should become available in commercial format by the end of September 2009. The technology, called Lightning, is a cache-less enterprise flash format that is designed...
Listen to IBM Internet Security Systems' take on network security convergence. You will learn how to get more out of your existing investments in network security, combat new Web 2.0, Web application and database threats without purchasing stand alone technologies, and how to protect your company from worms to botnets...
Pella uses the latest technologies to craft beautiful, energy-efficient windows and doors. To support this work, the company's IT Operations and Infrastructure team became an early adopter of the Windows 7 operating system. After the pilot program is complete, Pella expects to benefit from the improved IT management, faster deployment,...
Outsourcing of IT support is a market reality. According to research provided by Gartner, Inc., external service providers are currently maintaining approximately 25 to 30% of all IT infrastructure. If you are considering or haven't yet considered outsourcing your company's IT infrastructure support, then watch this new program and...
Virtualization of business applications allows IT operations in companies of all sizes to reduce costs, improve IT services and manage risk. The most dramatic cost savings are the result of reducing hardware, space and energy usage, as well as the productivity gains that also lead to cost savings ...
Ohio-based Stoneridge is a designer and producer of highly engineered electrical systems and components that are used in automobiles, commercial trucks, and agricultural vehicles. The company's engineers, who work throughout the world, needed better and more cost-effective tools with which to collaborate on design projects. Stoneridge also needed to replace...
C2k is a government agency that provides central IT services to approximately 1,200 schools throughout Northern Ireland. C2k's suppliers include HP for Wide-Area Network WAN services and Northgate Information Systems for local-area network services. C2k coordinates these services centrally to control costs, maintain service quality, and take advantage of economies...
Sui Southern Gas Company SSGC wanted to establish the company's position as a public utility with a customer centric approach to business and integrate multiple disparate billing and customer data systems. The challenge was to improve business processes and deploy industry best practices. SSGC implemented Oracle Utilities Customer Care and...
The presenter of this webcast highlights some of the key areas where companies are overspending on software licenses and maintenance today. The attendee will discover four easy ways that can quickly reduce the associated costs and more efficiently manage software licenses.
In today's business environment, ROI derived from Information Technology IT is defined as the percentage measurement of an IT project's expected return, which is calculated by dividing net benefits by costs. This white paper helps in learning how the following categories determine the long-term, financial impact of an ECM system...
The presenters of this webcast discuss how to reduce costs with a vendor management program. The presenters will explain how to achieve significant vendor savings by centralizing vendor relationship information and managing vendor performance.
Allied Irish Bank AIB wanted a Managed Print Services MPS solution at its head office that would improve service quality, deliver cost savings and lower operational risk. AIB examined its print cost profile and visited several UK and Irish financial reference sites to explore best practice scenarios. AIB implemented the...
Merck Sharp & Dohme Italia SpA wanted to consolidate its ageing, unmanaged print, copy and fax fleet and introduce a Managed Print Service MPS solution to drive down costs. Merck Sharp & Dohme Italia SpA conducted a survey to ascertain the cost-per-user of its multi-vendor fleet and decided to introduce...
In today's economy, eliminating fixed costs due to older, dedicated servers is an excellent way to shift budgets and resources to projects which make the business more competitive. Many organizations running mature application environments based on SPARC hardware are considering their choices for new server platforms. Adopting a standards-based infrastructure...
Whether we are in a down economy, seeing jobs go offshore, or witnessing jobs being cut altogether, there are certain IT skills that will never go out of style With spending on cost-saving technologies such as virtualization rising, and the maintenance of networking and enterprise Microsoft software keeping IT professionals...
The attendee of this webcast will learn the compelling new IT solutions from VMware that enable Small and Midsize Businesses SMBs to significantly reduce IT costs and improve business continuity. VMware vSphere 4 delivers Always On IT to SMBs by delivering the high availability, performance and reliability of the VMware...
If people are struggling to stay competitive in a tough marketplace, they're not alone. Expectations of claimants, providers, and regulatory agencies are changing quicker than ever before, requiring unprecedented agility. Customer satisfaction today is measured by their ability to provide instant, detailed, and accurate answers to questions. TPL processing involving...
In the past, RISC-based servers delivered performance and memory advantages that made them the workhorses of corporate computing. And even though the systems used expensive, proprietary components and were expensive to operate, many organizations ran their critical business applications - including database, ERP, CRM, DNS server, and others - on...
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