Productivity White Papers

This report helps you to understand some of the benefits and practicalities of Windows Server 2012 and the latest incarnation of the System Center management environment. Beyond the early experiences reported here, it’s important to understand that with these latest server and tool releases, Microsoft is enabling its customers to put a strategic foundation in place for the future.

This whitepaper will demonstrate how implementing the McAfee solution to assess vulnerability, provides comprehensive, risk-based vulnerability assessment for your organizatin to help you manage the 400 new vulnerabilites per month with the fewest possible resources.

McAfee Security Management solutions merge security products, management, and real-time intelligence to make your security effective for your business. It starts with deep integration within the system stack and across the IT environment. We add global, contextual visibility into changing events—within and beyond your organization’s boundaries—and connect all your systems with a cross-product command and control core.

NSS Labs performed an independent test of the McAfee Network Security Platform (NSP) M-8000 v6.1. The product was subjected to thorough testing at the NSS Labs facility in Austin, Texas, based on the Network Intrusion Prevention methodology v6.2 available on www.nsslabs.com. This test was conducted free of charge and NSS Labs did not receive any compensation in return for McAfee’s participation.

McAfee® EDB is the only data management system specifically designed from the ground up to satisfy the unique requirements of the SIEM/logging market. It has features and capabilities that contribute to its uniqueness and suitability for the SIEM/logging market. Several of these features and capabilities are described in this document to help you understand why McAfee EDB is the leading data management solution for SIEM/logging.

Most enterprises are struggling with the breadth and diversity of the constantly changing threat landscape, the number of assets they have to track and manage, and knowing where to best direct their limited time and resources. McAfee Vulnerability Manager has the flexibility, scale, coverage, accuracy, and performance suited to any organization

The service desk of the future will need to keep on top of metrics and be able to provide reports that demonstrate business value and drive service improvements. That’s why this report advocates starting a comprehensive metrics programme now to ensure that you’re ready for the future (it’s never too early to start collecting data). The service desk has always been the customer-facing portal into IT, it’s future role will be to measure the performance of technology services, act as the ‘dashboard’ for assessing the success of the services operation and provide pertinent, timely and useful information to the business to enable them to make informed decisions.

Many organizations have understandably turned to consolidation and virtualization to reduce server complexity, footprint and cost-to-scale. The next step is to optimize performance using analytics, policy-based automation and new technologies like cloud computing. Companies that focus on server optimization are seeing greater flexibility and sustained cost and operational efficiencies, with administrators able to manage 2.5 times more servers and almost twice as many virtual machines per server.

Enterprise data-centers are straining to keep pace with dynamic business demands, as well as to incorporate advanced technologies and architectures that aim to improve infrastructure performance, scale and economics. meeting these requirements, however, often requires a complete rethinking of how data centers are designed and managed. Fortunately, many enterprise IT architects are leading cloud providers have already demonstrated the viability and the benefits of a more modern, software-defined data center. This Nutanix white paper examines eight fundamental steps leading to a more efficient, manageable and scalable data center.

While information security continues to evolve in sophistication, attacking networks and stealing information has arguably become easier due to popular new technologies that introduce loopholes in enterprise security.

A successful managed services business is reliant on a solid business strategy and service delivery model as well as finding the right technology for your needs.

Kaseya's all-in-one approach to security offers MSPs a new source of revenue and reduces repair times through integration with Intel vPro technology. In doing so, MSPs further entrench themselves with customers, which ultimately translates to stronger customer loyalty.

A new business reality is emerging across all segments of the business spectrum, and it is creating opportunity and challenges that must be considered and planned for today. The new reality is the product of the convergence of mobility, video, and collaboration, driven by three megatrends.

This paper will examine the benefits of today’s video collaboration technology; identify the ways in which video collaboration can improve business processes across a range of industries and job roles; and highlight what to look for in a video collaboration solution to maximize your return on investment.

Video collaboration expands the reach of education. Walls mean little; oceans even less. Barriers of time and of place are breaking down, allowing students to learn in much different and more profound ways than ever before. Not only is learning more flexible due to mobile video communication solutions, but it can be eye-opening and life-altering as students experience new worlds, new ideas and new possibilities. Truly, video collaboration is more than just a ”nice to have” technology in education. Today, it is essential to improving student achievement and preparing them as professionals in the global economy.

One of the simplest, most effective ways to bring healthcare to the community level is through video collaboration. When video technology is enabled through a standards-based, scalable platform, community members can all join a multipoint video call to collaborate and work together with professionals and even with groups of similarly afflicted, empathetic peers to address health issues. Patients benefit from more regular evaluations and better access to specialty support. They participate in live or recorded education sessions—regardless of location or ability to travel. And with today’s move to ubiquitous video, you cannot only do one-to-one video sessions, but groups can meet over video to share ideas and best practices.

TechValidate invited over 6,300 IT Professionals to participate in a survey and provide insight about the current Backup and Disaster Recovery landscape.

From Dealing with Rogue “IT Hobbyists” to Disinterested Bosses, Kaseya Presents Common IT Systems Management Pain Points in the Retail Sector and Our Solutions

Business today is driven by a global economy that generates an unprecedented volume, variety, and velocity of data. Security needs to adapt to a world that’s evolving faster than ever before. Read this dossier to find out more.

Industry leaders are engaging in multichannel integration for some very good reasons. More effective cross-channel strategies lead to more satisfied consumers as well as more efficient, more profitable retail operations. In fact, as the survey indicates, consumers expect integrated multichannel experience from their favorite brands.

This informative webinar focuses on the impact that mobile brings to your enterprise- to your enterprise architecture, changes in development, and how you can use mobile as a driver for change moving forward. Continue for an analysis of the challenges surrounding enterprise mobility.

•Big Data + Integration •Integration In the Age of The Customer •Impact of Mobile

Since the idea of outsourcing applications development became popular in the past 20 years, much of that activity has taken place in geographies such as India, the Middle East and even Russia. Those regions have offered an abundant, increasingly tech-savvy labor force and relatively low labor rates. But for North American companies, outsourcing development of business-critical applications has proven problematic when working with developers so far removed from headquarters-based IT departments and those organizations’ user bases. Companies in the U.S., Canada and Mexico have been looking for “near-sourcing” partners that can meet – or even exceed – the technical benefits provided by outsourcing firms in other parts of the world, while delivering other tangible and intangible benefits. Here are three reasons why a near-sourcing strategy for applications development can make sense for your North American organization.

A robust configuration management database (CMDB) is the heart of a successful service knowledge management system. It is the faithful source of configuration details and relationships people rely on to manage services throughout their lifecycle. Like personal relationships, building and maintaining an effective CMDB is a commitment that requires care and attention to get the best value.

Smartphones and tablets are game changers for engagement because people carry them everywhere they go. Your customers and partners and employees have perpetual access to the vast resources of the Internet — and hopefully your mobile app as well — in the key moments of their day. In interviews with more than 100 mobile innovators, we have found four places where mobile engagement transforms services and processes: customer engagement, process acceleration, employee productivity, and new business services. Even at this early stage of development, you can see positive impacts of mobile engagement in apps from General Electric, Trane, and Uber Technologies. We close with a simple framework for prioritizing which apps and features people will actually use based how useful and convenient they are.