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Police departments today generate, collect, and save an ever increasing volume of digital content from a growing number of sources. Storing and managing that data can be a complicated and costly process if a proper technology solution is not used.
Tweet Long term data center or network room capacity planning may seem impossible in the face of evolving IT technology and business requirements. Nevertheless, data center facilities have a lifetime that may span many generations of IT equipment, so planning – or lack of planning – can have a large impact on the effectiveness of […]
Tweet System planning is the Achilles’ heel of a data center physical infrastructure project. Planning mistakes can magnify and propagate through later deployment phases, resulting in delays, cost overruns, wasted time, and ultimately a compromised system. Much of the trouble can be eliminated by viewing system planning as a data flow model, with an orderly […]
Tweet As the design and deployment of data center physical infrastructure moves away from art and more toward science, the benefits of a standardized and predictable process are becoming compelling. Beyond the ordering, delivery, and installation of hardware, any build or upgrade project depends critically upon a well-defined process as insurance against surprises, cost overruns, […]
Data centers are routinely and unknowingly missing a great portion of their entitlement from virtualization. Beyond virtualization’s undisputed IT benefits – from reduced rack footprint to disaster recovery – is the parallel story of a substantial benefit from optimizing the physical infrastructure that supports it.
Learn the most important practices you should look to implement to get the most out of your SOA and BPM investments.
Read Forrester’s evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of top ESB vendors across a range of business and technology criteria, and see why Fuse ESB achieved high scores in the architecture, orchestration and product strategy.
The need for improved business processes management (BPM) is driving many organizations to invest in collaboration and workflow solutions. Yet purchasing a new technology doesn’t automatically guarantee success.
This white paper describes three significant issues with Group Policy change management using native tools: Boundary control, direct access to the live environment, and recovery from problems.
Featured White PapersThis white paper outlines seven common challenges associated with securely administering Active Directory.
DATA and ANALYTICS , Featured White Papers, Top StoriesPrivileged identity management (PIM) is composed of password safes, sensitive entitlement management, and session recording and auditing. In the past, controlling distribution of passwords to these environments was enough, but today, auditors have started to pay much closer attention to what administrators actually do in these environments.
DATA SECURITY, Featured White Papers, Top StoriesBy John Kindervag – Forrester Research, Inc. This report is a deep dive into a potential way in which you could use the concepts of the Zero Trust Model and conceivably implement them in a real-world environment.
Model-driven development is a necessity for business agility, and model-driven development requires business-IT collaboration. So, what’s the solution to enabling business-IT collaboration and creating more agile business processes?
To help you evaluate various solutions and technologies available on the market, and to compare the leading open source application integration technology with alternatives, this white paper presents top the 10 reasons why organizations are choosing open source for application integration.
Download this case study to learn how scale-out storage platform helped UCLA LONI, the world’s largest repository of brain images.
TGen needed a storage solution that required less management resources and allowed TGen to repurpose its previous system as a backup archive.
Harvard Medical School’s storage requirements grew exponentially and they needed a lower cost, reliable, scalable central storage repository.
The ideal storage solution for bio-research must deliver capacity, speed, manageability, scalability, and security.
One of the major purposes of the federal program for the meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) is to produce improved clinical outcomes for patients.
Tweet An analysis of a survey conducted by Progress Software in October 2010 Biggest Challenge in Building a Responsive Enterprise: Capturing events and using systems to make decisions As previously discussed (Building Responsive Enterprises: One Decision At A Time, 2010), organizations must become more responsive. Rapid changes in business conditions, global competitors and increasingly networked […]
Tweet A floor plan strongly affects the power density capability and electrical efficiency of a data center. Despite this critical role in data center design, many floor plans are established through incremental deployment without a central plan. Once a poor floor plan has been deployed, it is often difficult or impossible to recover the resulting […]
Cloud Quickstart equips your organization with the expertise, high-level support, and knowledge transfer to rapidly build, manage, and optimize a cloud solution tailored to your unique technology environment.
Public cloud resources can augment in-house IT in many useful ways. In fact, they can be so useful and easy to consume that we see public clouds widely used in organizations without going through the usual IT processes and procedures—indeed, that’s often sort of the point.
This white paper describes the drivers for better IT security auditing, the problems with current approaches and how to automate IT security audits.
This white paper discusses the importance of deploying an email continuity solution and provides advice on the key issues that should be considered when doing so.
Featured White PapersThis Google white paper will explain the ways Google creates a security-based platform for offering its Google Apps products, covering topics like information security, physical security and operational security.
Featured White PapersIn May 2010, Google commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and expected return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by adopting Google Apps after having managed a traditional on-premise messaging and collaboration environment.
Featured White PapersIt is difficult today for many to imagine living outside of a tri-screen household – television, computer, and cell phone. In the process of advancing convenience, security is compromised.
Featured White PapersLatest generation high density and variable density IT equipment create conditions that traditional data center room cooling was never intended to address, resulting in cooling systems that are inefficient, unpredictable, and low in power density.
Featured White PapersIt is never possible to guarantee that a company is totally secure or that a breach will not occur.
