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Storage As A Service – Archive

Storage As A Service – Archive

Tweet The volume of data that your organization produces is growing year on year. And the problem is getting worse: regulatory requirements are forcing you to retain more data, and hold on to it for longer; new applications such...

The Security Landscape: Converging Waves of Pain

The Security Landscape: Converging Waves of Pain

Tweet With the pace of change overwhelming security efforts, how can IT take control? In today’s world of anytime, anywhere connectivity, IT’s marching orders seem like a contradiction in terms: give employees, partners, and customers access to everything they need...

Big Data Infographic: The Rapid Growth of Global Data

Big Data Infographic: The Rapid Growth of Global Data

Tweet The production of data is expanding at an astonishing pace. Experts now point to 4300% increase in annual data generation by 2020. Drivers include the switch from analog to digital technologies and the rapid increase in data generation...

Unleash your data with software defined storage and IBM Storwize V5000

Unleash your data with software defined storage and IBM Storwize V5000

Tweet Organizations of all sizes are faced with the challenge of storing and gaining insight from rapidly growing volumes of data from many new sources, all while controlling costs. They are turning to software defined environments for their flexibility,...

NYC BPM Event: Process Efficiency World  Tour 2013 with Bonitasoft

NYC BPM Event: Process Efficiency World Tour 2013 with Bonitasoft

Bonitasoft
Last Tuesday, November 5th, I had the privilege of attending a live Open Source BPM event hosted by Bonitasoft in New York City. It was the 11th stop on their 2013 Process Efficiency World Tour, and was geared...

Podcast: Humanizing BPM with Clay Richardson, Forrester Research

Podcast: Humanizing BPM with Clay Richardson, Forrester Research

In this brief podcast, Clay Richardson, Principle Analyst at Forrester Research, discusses the future of BPM and emphasizes the value of the user experience, referring to business processes today as existing within the “Age of the Customer”.

2013 Application Performance Monitoring Comparison Report

2013 Application Performance Monitoring Comparison Report

This comparison guide looks at 14 Application Performance Monitoring products developed for the enterprise and SMB.





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DATA and ANALYTICS 

Storage As A Service – Archive

November 20, 2013 No Comments

Tweet The volume of data that your organization produces is growing year on year. And the problem is getting worse: regulatory requirements are forcing you to retain more data, and hold on to it for longer; new applications such as video are producing bigger files; and other technologies are creating masses of new data. And […]

The Security Landscape: Converging Waves of Pain

November 20, 2013 No Comments

Tweet With the pace of change overwhelming security efforts, how can IT take control? In today’s world of anytime, anywhere connectivity, IT’s marching orders seem like a contradiction in terms: give employees, partners, and customers access to everything they need when they need it, and keep it secure. Even this statement oversimplifies the problem, because IT […]

Big Data Infographic: The Rapid Growth of Global Data

November 20, 2013 No Comments

Tweet The production of data is expanding at an astonishing pace. Experts now point to 4300% increase in annual data generation by 2020. Drivers include the switch from analog to digital technologies and the rapid increase in data generation by individuals and corporations alike. DOWNLOAD WHITE PAPER

Best Practices for Migration of Archived Data

November 19, 2013 No Comments

by Sam Elbeck, GlobanetOver the last decade, we have witnessed the inception and evolution of the archiving industry. The year 1999 marked the unofficial start of the archiving industry, when just a few software companies began competing to provide these solutions. Read More >>>

Big Data’s Transformation of the NBA

November 19, 2013 No Comments

by Gil Allouche, QuobleAside from maybe the creation of fantasy leagues, the last huge transformation was the invention of the TV and the live broadcast of sporting events from around the world. Now, big data is promising a whole new transformation in the sporting world. Read More >>>

Unleash your data with software defined storage and IBM Storwize V5000

November 18, 2013 No Comments

Tweet Organizations of all sizes are faced with the challenge of storing and gaining insight from rapidly growing volumes of data from many new sources, all while controlling costs. They are turning to software defined environments for their flexibility, efficiency, and responsiveness to changing business demands. In this webcast we’ll examine software defined storage and […]

Taking the Leap to Virtualization

November 18, 2013 No Comments

Read this whitepaper to learn how virtualization offers dramatic benefits for midsize companies, including efficiency, cost savings, and increased reliability and performance. Find out the best way to implement a virtualization solution to allow you to do more with less and free up IT staff to focus on strategic projects that help your company grow.

Virtual Machine Backup and Recovery: Five Critical Decisions

November 18, 2013 No Comments

This paper explores the five critical decisions organizations must adhere to when building a backup and recovery plan to prevent the complexity of virtualization that complicates IT services and the day-to-day of IT professionals across industries. It covers complete backup and recovery solutions, purpose built for organizations with specific virtualization requirements.

ESG Assessing the TCO of Unified vs. Parallel Backup Solutions for Virtual Environments

November 18, 2013 No Comments

This whitepaper covers what to look for in a virtualization protection solution as well as whether to consider the merits of a separate solution for protecting one’s virtual environment, compared with using a unified solution that offers comparable virtualization protection capabilities.

ESG Report: Exablox Re-Imagines File Storage

November 15, 2013 No Comments

Exablox emerged from stealth mode with a new platform (OneBlox) designed for midsized enterprises with content-intensive applications.

NYC BPM Event: Process Efficiency World Tour 2013 with Bonitasoft

November 14, 2013 No Comments

BonitasoftLast Tuesday, November 5th, I had the privilege of attending a live Open Source BPM event hosted by Bonitasoft in New York City. It was the 11th stop on their 2013 Process Efficiency World Tour, and was geared towards organizations looking to maximize business processes and information systems with BPM. Read More >>>

Podcast: Humanizing BPM with Clay Richardson, Forrester Research

November 13, 2013 No Comments

In this brief podcast, Clay Richardson, Principle Analyst at Forrester Research, discusses the future of BPM and emphasizes the value of the user experience, referring to business processes today as existing within the “Age of the Customer”.

Mining Dark Data for Business Gold

November 13, 2013 No Comments

CommVaultIt may not seem like much, but the “dark data” accumulated over the years you’ve been in business could be an untapped digital gold mine, which could give your company a competitive advantage if used in conjunction with the critical data you employ every day. Read More >>>

CA-Issued Certificates: Grade A Value for Today’s Publishers

November 12, 2013 No Comments

CA Security CouncilNow, with digital information ranking so high on our list of assets to protect, the thought of trusting an obscure website with our credit card details seems as unthinkable as picking up a piece of gum we find on the street and popping it into our mouth. Read More >>>

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: Restructuring a Fragmented Enterprise with MuleSoft

November 11, 2013 No Comments

With James Donelan, MulesoftIn the interview below, James Donelan from Mulesoft accentuates the value of open source solutions, and outlines ways in which organizations today can achieve a competitive advantage by connecting and automating their business processes across applications and data sources. Read More >>>

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview with Rajesh Ganesan, ManageEngine – Union of Service Desk and Other Business Services

November 8, 2013 No Comments

With Rajesh Ganesan, ManageEngineIn the discussion below, Rajesh Ganesan from ManageEngine talks about the move to help IT provide more value by fusing the IT service desk with the tools needed to create business applications and services for their end users. Read More >>>

Coverage for Each Company: How the BlackBerry 10 Security is Insured

November 7, 2013 No Comments

Most computer experts agree that the phenomenon BYOD (bring your own device) is the tendency for the most important mobility for today’s businesses. However, the consumerization is a combination of personal use or professional use – and terminals designed exclusively for consumers do not contain any integrated protection against leakage of business data through personal channels.

Get the Most out of Your Investment: Get BlackBerry 10 Free Licenses

November 7, 2013 No Comments

What is the exchange of BlackBerry Enterprise Server licensing program? Read More to find out.

Now is the Time to Take Your First Steps With the BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 Software

November 7, 2013 No Comments

Discover 5 most important reasons to start your trial today.

Everything you Need in One and the Same Place: BlackBerry 10 Ready Program

November 7, 2013 No Comments

The BlackBerry ® 10 Ready program is designed to help solve the important issues raised by our customers. This document provides a quick and convenient program overview: your single source for everything you need to prepare.

BlackBerry 10: Easy to Use with ActiveSync

November 7, 2013 No Comments

You may already know that BlackBerry ® smartphones 10 can be activated using the Microsoft ® ActiveSync ® protocol for basic security and management of the terminals.

Five Key Points to Take Into Account When Choosing Your MDM Solution

November 7, 2013 No Comments

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is one of the most important trends in the recent history of the computer. According to Gartner, 70% of mobile professionals will perform their work on intelligent personal devices by 2018.

Choose an MDM Platform: Where To Start the Conversation

November 7, 2013 No Comments

There are a dozen of different MDM platforms on the market. If you are in the early stages of choosing your solution or if you plan to change suppliers, here are seven essential questions to ask and the answers offered by BlackBerry® to each of them.

Gaining a competitive advantage through real-time data

November 6, 2013 No Comments

In A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the all-knowing computer Deep Thought was asked to come up with “the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything.” Seven and a half million years later, Deep Thought provided the answer—42. However, as so much time had elapsed, everyone had forgotten the question, which rendered the wisdom confusing at best and utterly useless at worst. Not to worry, though: a new supercomputer was tasked with reverse-engineering the question.

How Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Allows You To Protect and Recover Your Applications After a Disaster

November 4, 2013 No Comments

Disasters happen, especially when it comes to technology. Hurricanes, floods and viruses are all well known, but we took a look at a lesser-known phenomena: the zombie apocalypse and the impact it could have on your business.

Why you need Managed File Transfer

October 31, 2013 No Comments

For years, businesses have struggled to balance security and productivity in their mobile work policies. In an attempt to get work done, mobile users have often skirted the IT rules and turned to readily available consumer file-sharing options outside the corporate IT structure. This approach creates numerous issues from both an IT and business process perspective, mainly security, visibility and control vulnerabilities.

2013 Application Performance Monitoring Comparison Report

October 29, 2013 No Comments

This comparison guide looks at 14 Application Performance Monitoring products developed for the enterprise and SMB.

10 Reasons You Need Network and Application Visibility

October 28, 2013 No Comments

An independent ROI study of Cascade customers, conducted by IDC in April 2010, found a remarkable three-year ROI of 364% and a payback period of just 5.5 months. Find out how Cascade and other Riverbed technologies can accelerate IT performance and save money for your organization.

SAS Data Management: Big data simplified for business

October 23, 2013 No Comments

Organizations struggle to quickly gain value from all data. But growing investments in Hadoop and other big data technologies demand time and skills to integrate data, filter it, and apply it to reports, analysis and more. SAS, a leader in data quality and data integration, has updated SAS® Data Management to empower business users to fit data to their needs while accommodating IT data management practices.

SGI® Launches Portfolio of New Solutions to Enable Big Data Innovations, Big Breakthroughs

October 22, 2013 No Comments

SGI (Nasdaq: SGI), the trusted leader in high performance computing and Big Data, today introduced SGI® InfiniteData™ Cluster, SGI® ObjectStore™ and SGI® LiveArc™ AE for SGI® InfiniteStorage™ Gateway as part of the company’s portfolio of Big Data solutions. Focused on helping customers solve their most demanding business and technology challenges, SGI’s new solutions enable business and government agencies to perform Big Data analytics with faster and greater insight, achieve the extreme capacity and scale needed for Big Data storage, and manage storage investments more cost effectively.

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