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IT Briefcase Product Comparison Report — Enterprise Social Networking

IT Briefcase Product Comparison Report — Enterprise Social Networking

IT Briefcase's Inaugural Product Comparison Report for Enterprise Social Networking. This comparison guide looks at 9 Enterprise Social Networking products developed for the enterprise and SMB.

Live Webcast: Minimize technical challenges while delivering high impact analytics

Live Webcast: Minimize technical challenges while delivering high impact analytics

Join this live webcast where we'll discuss how you can minimize the technical challenges associated with delivering high impact analytics

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: The Strength of Granite, with David Greene, Riverbed Technology

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: The Strength of Granite, with David Greene, Riverbed Technology

By David Greene, Riverbed Technology
In this interview, David Greene from Riverbed technology offers expert advice for organizations looking to quickly, economically, and efficiently secure and protect data in the data center while ensuring that branches have the performance...

Prepare and Assess Readiness for Cloud Services

Prepare and Assess Readiness for Cloud Services

Tweet The focus of this white paper is to offer both business executives and IT executives insights into the key issues that customers consider paramount when utilizing cloud services, paying particular attention to the types of applications organizations currently...

White Paper: Evaluating Apache Cassandra as a Cloud Database

White Paper: Evaluating Apache Cassandra as a Cloud Database

IDC predicts that by that same year, as much as 10 percent of all data will be maintained in a cloud.





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IT Briefcase Product Comparison Report — Enterprise Social Networking

June 4, 2013 No Comments

IT Briefcase’s Inaugural Product Comparison Report for Enterprise Social Networking. This comparison guide looks at 9 Enterprise Social Networking products developed for the enterprise and SMB.

Special Opportunity for IT Briefcase Audience: Gartner CISO Invitational Program

May 30, 2013 No Comments

Gartner will host the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Invitational Program

4 Steps to a Big Data Strategy

May 1, 2013 No Comments

By Joe Caserta, Caserta ConceptsIs Big Data a business initiative or an IT initiative? For decades, businesses have been trying to make sense of disorganized transaction data sprinkled throughout the enterprise, relying heavily on human resources to analyze data via data warehouses. Read More >>>

Live Webcast: Minimize technical challenges while delivering high impact analytics

April 29, 2013 No Comments

Join this live webcast where we’ll discuss how you can minimize the technical challenges associated with delivering high impact analytics

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: The Strength of Granite, with David Greene, Riverbed Technology

April 29, 2013 No Comments

By David Greene, Riverbed TechnologyIn this interview, David Greene from Riverbed technology offers expert advice for organizations looking to quickly, economically, and efficiently secure and protect data in the data center while ensuring that branches have the performance and resource availability required to successfully conduct business. Read More >>>

U.S. Navy Issues New Cloud Computing Policy

April 18, 2013 No Comments

By Patrick Burke, Rackspace HostingCloud computing is truly earning its stripes: The latest institution to call on the cloud to cut costs and put its security features to the test is none other than the U.S. Navy. Read More >>>

Cloud on Winning Side of Legal Victory

April 10, 2013 No Comments

By Patrick Burke, Rackspace HostingThe cloud gained a legal victory recently in a case between a startup and several major broadcasting players. The U.S. Court of Appeals in New York has refused to shut down Aereo, a service that allows users to record live broadcast content in the cloud for later consumption. Read More >>>

Time to ReThink Network Security

April 9, 2013 No Comments

Daniel Joseph Barry, NapatechThree recent trends in the IT industry have improved the efficiency and effectiveness of digital services: cloud computing, big data analysis and mobility. Unfortunately, this also provides cybercriminals with fewer, and more valuable, targets. Read More >>>

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: Leveraging Social Business with Tim Minahan, Ariba

April 2, 2013 No Comments

with Tim Minahan, AribaIn this interview, Tim Minahan from Ariba outlines ways in which social business networks provide an easy way to link, coordinate, and conduct virtual business in today’s rapidly evolving business world. Read More >>>

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: Customer-centric Social Business with Tara Sporrer, Moxie Software

April 1, 2013 No Comments

with Tara Sporrer, Moxie SoftwareIn the below interview, Tara Sporrer outlines ways in which companies can maximize the benefits of social business by making accessible the “collective smarts” of their organization. Read More >>>

Common Virtualization Challenges Faced by SMBs and How to Solve Them

March 27, 2013 No Comments

By Srdan Mutabdzija, Schneider ElectricThis article discusses common issues SMBs face as they strive to achieve energy efficiency and maximize operations in their wiring closets and server rooms, and suggests solutions and best practices for helping overcome these challenges. Read More >>>

How Cloud Can Save an Organization Big Bucks

March 21, 2013 No Comments

By Patrick Burke, Rackspace HostingOne of cloud computing’s most attractive features is its ability to scale back costs and allow an organization to redirect its IT department’s efforts from one of maintenance to one of revenue-generating projects. Read More >>>

Cloud Continues Its Move Into the Mainstream

March 14, 2013 No Comments

By Patrick Burke, Rackspace HostingWhether being implemented in one of the world’s largest corporations or helping a mom-and-pop shop back up employee records and track supplier invoices, cloud computing is now a growing part of everyday business processes and functions. Read More >>>

Why IT Is Letting the Inmates Run the Asylum

March 8, 2013 No Comments

By Patrick Burke, Rackspace HostingIT’s latest trend seems to be one of, to borrow a colorful expression, the inmates running the asylum. More companies are relying on their employees’ cloud preferences and incorporating their personal choices of cloud apps into CIO-approved production boosters. Read More >>>

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: The Future of Mobile Security with Toby Rush, CEO, EyeVerify

March 8, 2013 1 Comment

with Toby Rush, EyeVerifyIn this interview, Toby Rush from EyeVerify stresses the importance of mobile device security, and emphasizes the value of biometrics as a next-generation security solution that every organization should consider. Read More >>>

Enterprise App Demands Grow and Shift to In-house: Effects on IT

March 1, 2013 No Comments

By Justin Strong, NovellIf an app can track my 26 mile run through a remote desert, then why can’t my company make an app to help me find client reports while away from my desk? So how is the enterprise responding? Read More >>>

Agile & Security: How to keep it safe when you’re moving fast

February 28, 2013 No Comments

By Cliff Schertz, Tiempo Development A key component of development, effective security practices that prevent compromised data, exploited vulnerabilities and other breaches are critical for creating a solid product that satisfies and protects customers at the same time. Read More >>>

The Importance of Ethernet in Building Smarter Systems with IBM Flex and IBM PureSystems™

February 26, 2013 No Comments

Attend this informative event and develop a better understanding of IBM’s System Networking strategy and our vision for the data center of the future. In this one-hour webcast, we will discuss how we are helping clients like you address the challenges of today and tomorrow

Why HANA? A Customer’s Perspective

February 15, 2013 No Comments

In 60 minutes you will understand the full value proposition of SAP HANA on Savvis Foundation Hosting and have a better understanding of what to look for and how to make a realistic decision for your company

Get More out of SAP/R3 without SAP BW While Saving Time and Money

February 15, 2013 No Comments

Discover how an IBM Cognos business-driven analytics solution—custom-designed to meet your organization’s unique needs—can provide game-changing advantages over a standard-issue ERP vendor’s approach to BI

Prepare and Assess Readiness for Cloud Services

February 12, 2013 No Comments

Tweet The focus of this white paper is to offer both business executives and IT executives insights into the key issues that customers consider paramount when utilizing cloud services, paying particular attention to the types of applications organizations currently view as applicable for use within a cloud environment. This paper provides a framework of cloud […]

Storage gets exciting for 2013

February 8, 2013 No Comments

By Dawn AltmanBig changes are in store for big data in 2013, as companies increasingly adopt newer methods of data management and storage. Three technologies remain poised to change data management: solid state drives, Ethernet-based storage protocols and data virtualization. Read More >>>

Best Practices for Migrating to the Cloud

February 4, 2013 No Comments

By Jake Robinson, BluelockAs an Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider, Bluelock sees a lot of migration of applications. Migration is occurring from physical servers to cloud, from private cloud to public cloud and back to private cloud from public cloud. Read More >>>

Cloud’s Presence Is Clear at CES 2013

January 21, 2013 No Comments

By Patrick Burke, Rackspace HostingThe 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) featured just about everything you ever wanted to know about mobile technology, cloud computing, Ultra HDTVs and the current and future state of nearly everything that requires a power source. Read More >>>

Benchmarking For a Better Cloud

January 21, 2013 No Comments

By Kurt Hagerman and Todd Gleason, FireHostIn the not-so-distant past, evaluating cloud infrastructure options was a simple task. There wasn’t a lot of variety in the cloud, so the choice came down to cloud vs. dedicated, and in pretty much every category but price, dedicated won. Read More >>>

A Good Reason to Learn Cloud Computing: 7M Jobs by 2015

January 16, 2013 No Comments

By Patrick Burke, Rackspace HostingCloud-related skills represent the majority of growth opportunities in IT employment worldwide and demand for cloud-related positions is expected to grow by 26 percent annually through 2015. Yet lack of training prevents many cloud job positions from being filled. Read More >>>

More Changes in Health Care Needed to Fulfill Promise of Health Information Technology

January 8, 2013 No Comments

Despite wide investments nationally in electronic medical records and related tools, the cost-saving promise of health information technology has not been reached because the systems deployed are neither interconnected nor easy to use, according to a new RAND Corporation analysis.

Getting Started with Fuse ESB Enterprise 7.1

January 8, 2013 No Comments

Fuse ESB Enterprise is an open source ESB built specifically for messaging and integration. In this webinar we’ll first take a tour of the many features shipped with Fuse ESB Enterprise.

Top Online Security Threats of 2013 — and How You Can Protect Yourself

December 31, 2012 No Comments

Next year will be the year of the mobile security threat, according to Internet security software giant McAfee, based on the predictions report it released today of the leading security threats expected in 2013. With online technology rapidly moving from computers to the palms of our hands, cybercriminals and hackers are evolving their methods to fit the times. Whether it’s the new Windows 8 OS or the trendy HTML5 browser language, cybercriminals will be stepping up their game in 2013 to capitalize on the newest technology.

White Paper: Evaluating Apache Cassandra as a Cloud Database

December 27, 2012 No Comments

IDC predicts that by that same year, as much as 10 percent of all data will be maintained in a cloud.

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