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Defining the Big Data Age – Challenges, Opportunities, and Considerations

Defining the Big Data Age – Challenges, Opportunities, and Considerations

Learn from Gartner analysts and experts at HP and Intel, how the age of Big Data presents challenges and opportunities, and what some of the key considerations are as you plan your journey.

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: Transforming the “Internet of Things” with Chris McNabb, Dell Boomi

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: Transforming the “Internet of Things” with Chris McNabb, Dell Boomi

with Chris McNabb, DELL Boomi
In this interview, Chris McNabb from Dell Boomi offers expert advice for organizations looking to overcome security and compliance issues arising around the proliferation of cloud computing and mobile applications. Read More >>>

The CIO’s New Role:  Core Strategy Enabler

The CIO’s New Role: Core Strategy Enabler

The CIO Barometer is a survey carried out for the fifth year by CSC. It is based on a quantitative analysis of the trends and outlooks for IT directors.

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: The Changing Complexion of Secure File Transfer in 2014

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: The Changing Complexion of Secure File Transfer in 2014

with Bill Ho, President at Biscom
In this interview, Bill Ho offers expert advice for organizations looking to tackle cloud and mobile challenges, as well as increase productivity while retaining data security. Read More >>>

Why your legacy storage is naughty?

Why your legacy storage is naughty?

Download this White Paper and learn how to make your Storage Nice!

10 Things Your Next Firewall Must Do

10 Things Your Next Firewall Must Do

Download this white paper and learn the challenges your firewall is now experiencing with all the new layers of complexity and how to address the situation.

Storage As A Service – Store

Storage As A Service – Store

Tweet Maintaining instant availability of your company’s data for those that need it, while keeping it safe, is a challenge. Every day you generate a torrent of new data — documents, media files and databases. Purging the oldest data...

Storage As A Service – Recover

Storage As A Service – Recover

Tweet The risk of data loss is not something you can afford to ignore. You need to know that backups are up to date and can be restored quickly and reliably. As data volumes continue to grow, and backup...

Taking on Cyberthreats and Driving Value with Managed Security Services

Taking on Cyberthreats and Driving Value with Managed Security Services

Tweet IT departments everywhere are confronting a dangerous mix of escalating cyberattacks and stagnant budgets. Factor in the security threat of mobile devices and the rise in compliance demands, and the situation threatens to spin out of control. CSC,...

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...

What’s Your Verdict: Moving Applications to the Cloud: Stick or Twist?

What’s Your Verdict: Moving Applications to the Cloud: Stick or Twist?

Tweet When IT leaders were asked this question, what was their verdict? If you’ve started on the journey to move your applications to the cloud, just how far can you go? Download this white paper and find out if...

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,...

History Says So….Crowdsourcing will change your life.

History Says So….Crowdsourcing will change your life.

with Siamak Farah, InfoStreet
We live in very exciting times. Wave after wave of technological innovations are changing our lives on a daily basis. Often, we don’t notice the change until we are swept up by it. For...

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”.

Presidential Order and Directive Set New Initiatives and Mandates for Securing Critical Infrastructure

Presidential Order and Directive Set New Initiatives and Mandates for Securing Critical Infrastructure

This white paper from CSC looks at the consequences of the Presidential Order and initiatives for securing critical infrastructures and the next steps organizations should take.

What’s Your Verdict: Moving Applications to the Cloud: Stick or Twist?

What’s Your Verdict: Moving Applications to the Cloud: Stick or Twist?

When IT leaders were asked this question, what was their verdict? If you’ve started on the journey to move your applications to the cloud, just how far can you go?

Big Data Infographic: The Rapid Growth of Global Data

Big Data Infographic: The Rapid Growth of Global Data

The evolution of the way we produce, process and analyze data is changing the world around us in fundamental ways. Download this CSC white paper to view more.

Download a FREE TRIAL of SQL Diagnostic Manager

Download a FREE TRIAL of SQL Diagnostic Manager

Find and fix SQL Server performance problems in 30 seconds or less with SQL Diagnostic Manager.

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.

Enterprise BI Comparison Report

Enterprise BI Comparison Report

This comparison guide looks at 9 Enterprise Business Intelligence products developed for the enterprise and SMB.
Read More >>

3 Ways Small Businesses Can Be Prepared During National Preparedness Month

3 Ways Small Businesses Can Be Prepared During National Preparedness Month

By Larry Lang, Quorum
Most organizations understand the importance of keeping critical data safe from both manual and natural disasters. It is surprising, however, to hear just how many companies are not prepared for the day their system...

IT Briefcase Newsletter: IT Security

IT Briefcase Newsletter: IT Security

View August 2013 Newsletter on IT Security. This newsletter features enticing interviews and articles on Information Technology Security.

VIDEO: Getting Started with Apache Camel

VIDEO: Getting Started with Apache Camel

Tweet Claus Ibsen, Principal Software Engineer, FuseSource This session will teach you how to get a good start with Apache Camel. It will cover the basic concepts of Camel such as Enterprise Integration Patterns and Domain Specific Languages, all...

Part II: FuseSource / JBoss Roadmap – how to add functionality to your middleware

Part II: FuseSource / JBoss Roadmap – how to add functionality to your middleware

The recent acquisition of FuseSource by Red Hat brings together two gorillas of open source software. Now the benefits are being brought to you. Part II

Part I: FuseSource / JBoss Roadmap – the best in Open Source Middleware

Part I: FuseSource / JBoss Roadmap – the best in Open Source Middleware

The recent acquisition of FuseSource by Red Hat brings together two gorillas of open source software. Now the benefits are being brought to you.

Webcast: Achieving Greater Marketing Performance with Improved Marketing Operations

Webcast: Achieving Greater Marketing Performance with Improved Marketing Operations

Smarter Commerce Webinar: Achieving Greater Marketing Performance with Improved Marketing Operations on August 15th at 1:00pm ET

Conflicts between IT Vendors, Channel Partners on the Rise

Conflicts between IT Vendors, Channel Partners on the Rise

By Carolyn April, CompTIA
With so many firms generating so much business, opportunities for conflict between vendors and channel firms are bound to occur. Indeed, channel conflict isn’t anything new. Read More >>>





Briefcase Highlights


Inside the Briefcase

Defining the Big Data Age – Challenges, Opportunities, and Considerations

February 10, 2014 No Comments

Learn from Gartner analysts and experts at HP and Intel, how the age of Big Data presents challenges and opportunities, and what some of the key considerations are as you plan your journey.

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: Transforming the “Internet of Things” with Chris McNabb, Dell Boomi

January 13, 2014 No Comments

with Chris McNabb, DELL BoomiIn this interview, Chris McNabb from Dell Boomi offers expert advice for organizations looking to overcome security and compliance issues arising around the proliferation of cloud computing and mobile applications. Read More >>>

The CIO’s New Role: Core Strategy Enabler

January 9, 2014 No Comments

The CIO Barometer is a survey carried out for the fifth year by CSC. It is based on a quantitative analysis of the trends and outlooks for IT directors.

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: The Changing Complexion of Secure File Transfer in 2014

December 19, 2013 No Comments

with Bill Ho, President at Biscom In this interview, Bill Ho offers expert advice for organizations looking to tackle cloud and mobile challenges, as well as increase productivity while retaining data security. Read More >>>

Why your legacy storage is naughty?

December 12, 2013 No Comments

Download this White Paper and learn how to make your Storage Nice!

10 Things Your Next Firewall Must Do

December 9, 2013 No Comments

Download this white paper and learn the challenges your firewall is now experiencing with all the new layers of complexity and how to address the situation.

Storage As A Service – Store

November 20, 2013 No Comments

Tweet Maintaining instant availability of your company’s data for those that need it, while keeping it safe, is a challenge. Every day you generate a torrent of new data — documents, media files and databases. Purging the oldest data to make room may not be an option, because regulation demands that you retain more information […]

Storage As A Service – Recover

November 20, 2013 No Comments

Tweet The risk of data loss is not something you can afford to ignore. You need to know that backups are up to date and can be restored quickly and reliably. As data volumes continue to grow, and backup windows get shorter, simply adding more storage to your backup array is no longer sustainable. Traditional […]

Taking on Cyberthreats and Driving Value with Managed Security Services

November 20, 2013 No Comments

Tweet IT departments everywhere are confronting a dangerous mix of escalating cyberattacks and stagnant budgets. Factor in the security threat of mobile devices and the rise in compliance demands, and the situation threatens to spin out of control. CSC, in partnership with RSA and IDG Research, recently surveyed IT professionals across a wide array of […]

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

What’s Your Verdict: Moving Applications to the Cloud: Stick or Twist?

November 20, 2013 No Comments

Tweet When IT leaders were asked this question, what was their verdict? If you’ve started on the journey to move your applications to the cloud, just how far can you go? Download this white paper and find out if our speakers and audience said they would ‘stick’ at highly standardised and commoditised test and development […]

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 […]

History Says So….Crowdsourcing will change your life.

November 15, 2013 No Comments

with Siamak Farah, InfoStreetWe live in very exciting times. Wave after wave of technological innovations are changing our lives on a daily basis. Often, we don’t notice the change until we are swept up by it. For instance, who amongst us would have said that they would use a tablet even as recent as 10 years ago? Read More >>>

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”.

Presidential Order and Directive Set New Initiatives and Mandates for Securing Critical Infrastructure

November 12, 2013 No Comments

This white paper from CSC looks at the consequences of the Presidential Order and initiatives for securing critical infrastructures and the next steps organizations should take.

What’s Your Verdict: Moving Applications to the Cloud: Stick or Twist?

November 12, 2013 No Comments

When IT leaders were asked this question, what was their verdict? If you’ve started on the journey to move your applications to the cloud, just how far can you go?

Big Data Infographic: The Rapid Growth of Global Data

November 12, 2013 No Comments

The evolution of the way we produce, process and analyze data is changing the world around us in fundamental ways. Download this CSC white paper to view more.

Download a FREE TRIAL of SQL Diagnostic Manager

November 4, 2013 No Comments

Find and fix SQL Server performance problems in 30 seconds or less with SQL Diagnostic Manager.

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.

Enterprise BI Comparison Report

October 8, 2013 No Comments

This comparison guide looks at 9 Enterprise Business Intelligence products developed for the enterprise and SMB. Read More >>

3 Ways Small Businesses Can Be Prepared During National Preparedness Month

September 16, 2013 No Comments

By Larry Lang, QuorumMost organizations understand the importance of keeping critical data safe from both manual and natural disasters. It is surprising, however, to hear just how many companies are not prepared for the day their system goes down and data is lost. Read More >>>

IT Briefcase Newsletter: IT Security

August 26, 2013 No Comments

View August 2013 Newsletter on IT Security. This newsletter features enticing interviews and articles on Information Technology Security.

VIDEO: Getting Started with Apache Camel

August 14, 2013 No Comments

Tweet Claus Ibsen, Principal Software Engineer, FuseSource This session will teach you how to get a good start with Apache Camel. It will cover the basic concepts of Camel such as Enterprise Integration Patterns and Domain Specific Languages, all explained with simple examples demonstrating the theory applied in practice using code. We will then discuss […]

Part II: FuseSource / JBoss Roadmap – how to add functionality to your middleware

August 5, 2013 No Comments

The recent acquisition of FuseSource by Red Hat brings together two gorillas of open source software. Now the benefits are being brought to you. Part II

Part I: FuseSource / JBoss Roadmap – the best in Open Source Middleware

August 5, 2013 No Comments

The recent acquisition of FuseSource by Red Hat brings together two gorillas of open source software. Now the benefits are being brought to you.

Webcast: Achieving Greater Marketing Performance with Improved Marketing Operations

August 2, 2013 No Comments

Smarter Commerce Webinar: Achieving Greater Marketing Performance with Improved Marketing Operations on August 15th at 1:00pm ET

Conflicts between IT Vendors, Channel Partners on the Rise

July 1, 2013 No Comments

By Carolyn April, CompTIAWith so many firms generating so much business, opportunities for conflict between vendors and channel firms are bound to occur. Indeed, channel conflict isn’t anything new. Read More >>>

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