Project Management 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.

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

Kaseya works with thousands of IT service providers and MSPs around the world and has identified the characteristics of our most successful customers. Take a look under the hood. Kick the tires. Find out what it takes to be truly successful.

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.

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

Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust automates IT support and service delivery to provide 99.9% system uptime to hospital staff.

Kaseya presents the top ten IT management pain points in healthcare and our solution for making your life easier.

From dealing with rogue “IT hobbyists” to naïve bosses, Kaseya presents common IT systems management pain points in the education industry and our solutions

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

London council uses private cloud to cut costs and support flexible working. Newham Council delivers high-quality public services to around 300,000 people living east of the City of London, close to the principal sites of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Realize the benefits of consolidating your ERP products down to one.

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.

The IBM Global Reputational Risk and IT Study is one of the largest studies ever conducted to examine the relationship between IT and reputational risk.

First generation security intelligence and SIEM products have promised much to a security industry weighed down by a growing list of responsibilities and held back by stagnant budgets. Having implemented previous “panacea” products, such as intrusion detection (IDS) and intrusion prevention systems (IPS), security and risk professionals know that some of these tools bring burdens that may match or even outweigh their benefits, commonly in the form of considerable resources required to manage the solution.

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.

As the number of mobile devices doing double duty at home and at work continues to grow, businesses face a broad spectrum of new, potentially catastrophic risks. Defending mobile devices is now a necessity.

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.

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.

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Get 3 big ideas from Steven M.R. Covey on how to demonstrate and profoundly impact the level of trust in your relationships, your team and your organisation.

In this white paper, you will find out how to: Consolidate to drive enterprise visibility and standardization Enable intuitive, approachable and business friendly IT Automate to accelerate IT responsiveness and innovation

The real state of data protection is actually quite different for both environments and depends upon a number of factors, some of which are discussed here.