Inside the Briefcase


Solution Brief:  From Cost Center to Innovator with Microsoft® and Dell™ Solutions 

Solution Brief:  From Cost Center to Innovator with Microsoft® and Dell™ Solutions 

In the face of these challenges, how can you transform your IT organization from cost center to innovator? The answer is simple: Microsoft on Dell. End-to-end solutions from Dell combine Microsoft Windows Server® 2012 “Cloud Operating System” and a...

The Future is Here: Smart Electronics Designed to be Worn

The Future is Here: Smart Electronics Designed to be Worn

In this program, Gartner analyst Angela McIntyre and Dr. Andrea Claussen and Thomas Claussen of ambiotex look at how measuring and combining heart rate variability, respiration, pulse and movement can make a huge difference for athletes and stress workers...

What Makes a Private Cloud a CLOUD?

What Makes a Private Cloud a CLOUD?

Tweet Creating an agile, manageable private cloud environment that enables efficiency and solves business problems isn’t easy. We take a look at the steps required. Organizations of every size have the capability to build a private cloud—and frankly, they...

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: The Value of BPM in 2015

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: The Value of BPM in 2015

with Anatoly Belaychuk, Comindware
In this interview, BPM Evangelist at Comindware outlines some of the key challenges and benefits BPM will offer to organizations in 2015.
Read More >>>

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview with SIOS Technology: SANS-based vs. Cloud Clusters

with Jerry Melnick, SIOS Technology
In this interview, Jerry Melnick, COO, SIOS Technology discusses the difference between SAN-based and Cloud data storage clusters, and the benefits and drawbacks of each approach.
Read More >>>

Federating Identities for a Successful Enterprise IdP Deployment

Federating Identities for a Successful Enterprise IdP Deployment

by Lisa Grady, Radiant Logic
When customers, employees, or partners log in—from any device—they expect a seamless experience and secure access to your resources. Organizations are trying to meet a number of benchmarks, not just in terms of security...

The New Rhythm of IT: 5 Hurdles to Overcome in 2014

The New Rhythm of IT: 5 Hurdles to Overcome in 2014

by Ken Berryman, BMC Software, Inc.
The Federal Reserve estimates that in 2012 one in six checks were deposited as a digital image rather than in physical form. For consumers, almost 50 percent of these image-based deposits were through...

The Ins and Outs of Secure Fax and Document Delivery Solutions for the Enterprise

The Ins and Outs of Secure Fax and Document Delivery Solutions for the Enterprise

by Bill Ho, Biscom
Data center annual budgets today are often devoted to securing an organization’s IT networks. One of the most important security considerations IT personnel face is the need to protect sensitive information, such as data exchanged...

Protecting Your Data at Each Step of the Networking Path

Protecting Your Data at Each Step of the Networking Path

by Bill Manning, APC by Schneider Electric
As the amount of business critical data grows, the importance of data availability surges – businesses simply cannot afford to lose precious data due to instances of downtime.
Read More >>>

Efficient Data Automation for Financial Firms

Efficient Data Automation for Financial Firms

By Jim Manias, Advanced Systems Concepts
For modern companies, apps and systems (not pigeons) are carrying the data, and it falls on IT to be sure this movement happens quickly and accurately.Timeliness and efficiency in the delivery of...

To Cloud or Not to Cloud, That is the Question

To Cloud or Not to Cloud, That is the Question

By Joe Caserta, Caserta Concepts
One of the biggest decisions any business will need to make this year is where to store the company’s data. Is renting space in the Cloud the answer, or is it best to...

How can Big Data cross the Oceanic Gap?

How can Big Data cross the Oceanic Gap?

By Yves de Montcheuil, Talend
Big data technologies are definitely California-born. The Internet giants invented Hadoop and most NoSQL databases. Over the years, adoption has spread from “new economy” companies to almost all industries.
Read More >>>

Where does Security fit in DevOps?

Where does Security fit in DevOps?

By Eric Minick and Diana Kelley, IBM
Organizations are under increased pressure to continuously create and deploy innovative products, software, and apps. This added pressure makes it increasingly important to embed security throughout the entire development process.

Sabermetrics for the Data Center

Sabermetrics for the Data Center

by Dave Wagner, TeamQuest
Today, cost-effective and winning teams today are being built by integrating holistic understandings and measurements that look to yield a result greater than the sum of the parts -- measuring what matters.
Read...

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview with Sai Sundhar Padmanabhan, ManageEngine

with Sai Sundhar Padmanabhan, ManageEngine
Below, Sai Sundhar Padmanabhan, marketing analyst at ManageEngine, discusses the state of network traffic flows, why the ability to monitor high flow rates is critical to IT and business, and how to make...

Info-tech Vendor Landscape: Virtual Backup Software

Info-tech Vendor Landscape: Virtual Backup Software

This independent report from Info-Tech evaluates and scores 14 companies in the Virtual Machine Backup market. It can help you understand what's new in the virtual backup market, evaluate virtual backup vendors and products for your needs and determine...

Conquering the Top 5 Enterprise Data Protection Challenges

Conquering the Top 5 Enterprise Data Protection Challenges

Today's datacenters face a gauntlet of challenges including protection of physical and virtual environments, fast recovery of data, reducing backup times and storage requirements, server consolidation, and disaster recovery. How are savvy CIO's conquering these types of challenges? Find...

Virtual Machine Backup: Is Your Organization Doing It Right?

Virtual Machine Backup: Is Your Organization Doing It Right?

If you're not virtualizing, you're missing reduced equipment, management, and utilities costs, along with increased server utilization rates and the right path to cloud computing. But when you virtualize, backup becomes even more of an issue. Traditional agent-based backup...

What the Open Source Community Learned from Heartbleed

What the Open Source Community Learned from Heartbleed

by Eren Niazi, Open Source Storage
In this article, I’ll take the “compliment sandwich” approach. First, we’ll examine what characteristics of Open Source facilitated a speedy and effective response, because we want to keep them around. Second, I’ll...

BYOD Security: 5 Tips for IT Professionals

BYOD Security: 5 Tips for IT Professionals

by Rick DelGado, Independent Author
Personal devices have become a common part of the working environment now. More and more, companies are adopting Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies, allowing employees to use their own devices both inside and outside...

How Real-Time Analytics can Boost Employee Performance

How Real-Time Analytics can Boost Employee Performance

by Gil Allouche, Quoble
If your company is struggling with employee performance and output, then big data analytics should be part of your future plans. Not only does big data allow companies to gather, and analyze large amounts...

Workflows, People and Processes

Workflows, People and Processes

By Trev Harmon, Adaptive Computing
In the world of business there seems to constantly be a battle for supremacy between People and Process. Both ideological camps put forth their ideas and justifications, much of which is based on...

Turning to Cloud for Better Health Care

Turning to Cloud for Better Health Care

By Jane Munn, IBM
Physicians and healthcare facilities across the nation are facing increasing pressures to reduce costs, increase efficiency, meet regulatory requirements and, ultimately, improve patient care. One of the challenges they face in achieving those goals is...

The Forrester Wave™: Hybrid2 Integration, Q1 2014

The Forrester Wave™: Hybrid2 Integration, Q1 2014

Read this report to compare 14 of the most significant middleware providers and their fit for hybrid scenarios between the cloud and on-premises, as well as across the different traditional on-premises integration capabilities.

Is an Open Source BPM Solution Right For You?

Is an Open Source BPM Solution Right For You?

If you are considering deploying business process management (BPM) solutions, an enterprise open source approach may be just what you are looking for.

The Benefits of Migrating to a Modern Application Platform Infrastructure

The Benefits of Migrating to a Modern Application Platform Infrastructure

Read this paper to learn about the characteristics of a modern middleware platform and how companies benefit from migrating from older inflexible monolithic infrastructures to a modular and flexible environment.

Sabre Holdings Builds Travel Partner Gateway with FuseSource

Sabre Holdings Builds Travel Partner Gateway with FuseSource

Learn how Sabre Holdings was able to manage their projected growth by migrating to Red Hat JBoss Fuse, an integration platform that allows them to quickly integrate new content.

IDC: The Intelligent Integrated Enterprise

IDC: The Intelligent Integrated Enterprise

Read this paper to learn how you can create an intelligent, integrated enterprise that dramatically increases both customer satisfaction and profitability.

Forrester Analyst Paper: Open Source BPM Hits the Mark for Delivering New Class of Process Apps

Forrester Analyst Paper: Open Source BPM Hits the Mark for Delivering New Class of Process Apps

This paper outlines the challenges faced by application development teams today, and how developers can benefit most from open source BPM solutions.

Big Data: A Boon to the Travel Industry

Big Data: A Boon to the Travel Industry

by Gil Allouche, Quoble
Over the years, technology has transformed entire industries and the travel industry is no exception. Once tethered to a brick and mortar model, Travel took off with the advent of the Internet. And now,...





Briefcase Highlights


Inside the Briefcase

Solution Brief:  From Cost Center to Innovator with Microsoft® and Dell™ Solutions 

March 9, 2015 No Comments

In the face of these challenges, how can you transform your IT organization from cost center to innovator? The answer is simple: Microsoft on Dell. End-to-end solutions from Dell combine Microsoft Windows Server® 2012 “Cloud Operating System” and a new generation of Microsoft business applications on flexible, scalable, power-efficient, virtualization-ready infrastructure.

The Future is Here: Smart Electronics Designed to be Worn

February 23, 2015 No Comments

In this program, Gartner analyst Angela McIntyre and Dr. Andrea Claussen and Thomas Claussen of ambiotex look at how measuring and combining heart rate variability, respiration, pulse and movement can make a huge difference for athletes and stress workers and why wearable technologies are impacting the health, fitness and other industries.

What Makes a Private Cloud a CLOUD?

February 12, 2015 No Comments

Tweet Creating an agile, manageable private cloud environment that enables efficiency and solves business problems isn’t easy. We take a look at the steps required. Organizations of every size have the capability to build a private cloud—and frankly, they should. A private cloud opens the way to agility in the datacenter. Download this white paper […]

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: The Value of BPM in 2015

January 23, 2015 No Comments

with Anatoly Belaychuk, ComindwareIn this interview, BPM Evangelist at Comindware outlines some of the key challenges and benefits BPM will offer to organizations in 2015. Read More >>>

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview with SIOS Technology: SANS-based vs. Cloud Clusters

December 3, 2014 No Comments

with Jerry Melnick, SIOS TechnologyIn this interview, Jerry Melnick, COO, SIOS Technology discusses the difference between SAN-based and Cloud data storage clusters, and the benefits and drawbacks of each approach. Read More >>>

Federating Identities for a Successful Enterprise IdP Deployment

October 15, 2014 No Comments

by Lisa Grady, Radiant LogicWhen customers, employees, or partners log in—from any device—they expect a seamless experience and secure access to your resources. Organizations are trying to meet a number of benchmarks, not just in terms of security but also productivity and simplicity for your users. Read More >>>

The New Rhythm of IT: 5 Hurdles to Overcome in 2014

October 8, 2014 No Comments

by Ken Berryman, BMC Software, Inc.The Federal Reserve estimates that in 2012 one in six checks were deposited as a digital image rather than in physical form. For consumers, almost 50 percent of these image-based deposits were through mobile devices. Read More >>>

The Ins and Outs of Secure Fax and Document Delivery Solutions for the Enterprise

October 8, 2014 No Comments

by Bill Ho, BiscomData center annual budgets today are often devoted to securing an organization’s IT networks. One of the most important security considerations IT personnel face is the need to protect sensitive information, such as data exchanged within the healthcare, financial, and legal sectors. Read More >>>

Protecting Your Data at Each Step of the Networking Path

September 18, 2014 No Comments

by Bill Manning, APC by Schneider ElectricAs the amount of business critical data grows, the importance of data availability surges – businesses simply cannot afford to lose precious data due to instances of downtime. Read More >>>

Efficient Data Automation for Financial Firms

August 26, 2014 No Comments

By Jim Manias, Advanced Systems Concepts For modern companies, apps and systems (not pigeons) are carrying the data, and it falls on IT to be sure this movement happens quickly and accurately.Timeliness and efficiency in the delivery of relevant data translates into increased revenues and reduced risks for all financial firms. Read More >>>

To Cloud or Not to Cloud, That is the Question

August 11, 2014 No Comments

By Joe Caserta, Caserta ConceptsOne of the biggest decisions any business will need to make this year is where to store the company’s data. Is renting space in the Cloud the answer, or is it best to keep data in-house by investing in the appropriate infrastructure? Read More >>>

How can Big Data cross the Oceanic Gap?

July 2, 2014 No Comments

By Yves de Montcheuil, TalendBig data technologies are definitely California-born. The Internet giants invented Hadoop and most NoSQL databases. Over the years, adoption has spread from “new economy” companies to almost all industries. Read More >>>

Where does Security fit in DevOps?

June 24, 2014 No Comments

By Eric Minick and Diana Kelley, IBMOrganizations are under increased pressure to continuously create and deploy innovative products, software, and apps. This added pressure makes it increasingly important to embed security throughout the entire development process. Read More >>>

Sabermetrics for the Data Center

June 3, 2014 No Comments

by Dave Wagner, TeamQuestToday, cost-effective and winning teams today are being built by integrating holistic understandings and measurements that look to yield a result greater than the sum of the parts — measuring what matters. Read More >>>

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview with Sai Sundhar Padmanabhan, ManageEngine

June 3, 2014 No Comments

with Sai Sundhar Padmanabhan, ManageEngineBelow, Sai Sundhar Padmanabhan, marketing analyst at ManageEngine, discusses the state of network traffic flows, why the ability to monitor high flow rates is critical to IT and business, and how to make sure you can handle high flows.      Read More >>>

Info-tech Vendor Landscape: Virtual Backup Software

May 6, 2014 No Comments

This independent report from Info-Tech evaluates and scores 14 companies in the Virtual Machine Backup market. It can help you understand what’s new in the virtual backup market, evaluate virtual backup vendors and products for your needs and determine which products are most appropriate for your organization. Find out why Symantec was named a “Champion” in virtual backup software.

Conquering the Top 5 Enterprise Data Protection Challenges

May 6, 2014 No Comments

Today’s datacenters face a gauntlet of challenges including protection of physical and virtual environments, fast recovery of data, reducing backup times and storage requirements, server consolidation, and disaster recovery. How are savvy CIO’s conquering these types of challenges? Find out how in this white paper by vExpert, David Davis!

Virtual Machine Backup: Is Your Organization Doing It Right?

May 6, 2014 No Comments

If you’re not virtualizing, you’re missing reduced equipment, management, and utilities costs, along with increased server utilization rates and the right path to cloud computing. But when you virtualize, backup becomes even more of an issue. Traditional agent-based backup and recovery won’t work in a virtual environment. Going without a solid backup and recovery plan for your virtualized data is an unacceptable business risk. Check out this easy-to absorb infographic to learn the five things to look for in a virtual machine backup solution.

What the Open Source Community Learned from Heartbleed

May 5, 2014 No Comments

by Eren Niazi, Open Source StorageIn this article, I’ll take the “compliment sandwich” approach. First, we’ll examine what characteristics of Open Source facilitated a speedy and effective response, because we want to keep them around. Second, I’ll review where the open source community could have performed better. Read More >>>

BYOD Security: 5 Tips for IT Professionals

May 5, 2014 No Comments

by Rick DelGado, Independent AuthorPersonal devices have become a common part of the working environment now. More and more, companies are adopting Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies, allowing employees to use their own devices both inside and outside the office.Read More >>>

How Real-Time Analytics can Boost Employee Performance

May 5, 2014 No Comments

by Gil Allouche, QuobleIf your company is struggling with employee performance and output, then big data analytics should be part of your future plans. Not only does big data allow companies to gather, and analyze large amounts of data, but with data analytics tools, companies of any size can now analyze data in real-time. Read More >>>

Workflows, People and Processes

April 22, 2014 No Comments

By Trev Harmon, Adaptive Computing In the world of business there seems to constantly be a battle for supremacy between People and Process. Both ideological camps put forth their ideas and justifications, much of which is based on research and founded through their own internal point of view. Read More >>>

Turning to Cloud for Better Health Care

April 15, 2014 No Comments

By Jane Munn, IBMPhysicians and healthcare facilities across the nation are facing increasing pressures to reduce costs, increase efficiency, meet regulatory requirements and, ultimately, improve patient care. One of the challenges they face in achieving those goals is how to effectively manage, store and share information. Read More >>>

The Forrester Wave™: Hybrid2 Integration, Q1 2014

April 9, 2014 No Comments

Read this report to compare 14 of the most significant middleware providers and their fit for hybrid scenarios between the cloud and on-premises, as well as across the different traditional on-premises integration capabilities.

Is an Open Source BPM Solution Right For You?

April 9, 2014 No Comments

If you are considering deploying business process management (BPM) solutions, an enterprise open source approach may be just what you are looking for.

The Benefits of Migrating to a Modern Application Platform Infrastructure

April 9, 2014 No Comments

Read this paper to learn about the characteristics of a modern middleware platform and how companies benefit from migrating from older inflexible monolithic infrastructures to a modular and flexible environment.

Sabre Holdings Builds Travel Partner Gateway with FuseSource

April 9, 2014 No Comments

Learn how Sabre Holdings was able to manage their projected growth by migrating to Red Hat JBoss Fuse, an integration platform that allows them to quickly integrate new content.

IDC: The Intelligent Integrated Enterprise

April 9, 2014 No Comments

Read this paper to learn how you can create an intelligent, integrated enterprise that dramatically increases both customer satisfaction and profitability.

Forrester Analyst Paper: Open Source BPM Hits the Mark for Delivering New Class of Process Apps

April 9, 2014 No Comments

This paper outlines the challenges faced by application development teams today, and how developers can benefit most from open source BPM solutions.

Big Data: A Boon to the Travel Industry

April 4, 2014 No Comments

by Gil Allouche, QuobleOver the years, technology has transformed entire industries and the travel industry is no exception. Once tethered to a brick and mortar model, Travel took off with the advent of the Internet. And now, Big Data analytics is set to transform the industry once more. Read More >>>

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