Ahhhhh... Get Relief from 10 Common IT Systems Management Pains Managing today’s IT infrastructure doesn’t have to be thankless. Nor does it have to be painful or require tons of overtime. In this panel webinar moderated by United Business Media Editor Dan Neel, gain valuable management insights from executives at People’s Bank & Trust and Gulf Coast Community Services Association, hear their discussion of common IT systems management pain points, and learn how these leaders found relief using IT automation technology.
Patch Management: Four Capabilities You Need (But Probably Don’t Have) Every organization needs to apply software updates in a timely manner to prevent security breaches. Allowing malware to infect unpatched holes in a system can lead to the loss of intellectual property, exposure of customer and employee information, regulatory fines, notification costs, damage to reputation, and loss of revenue. Download this white paper to learn how the MaaS360 Patch Management Service: • Extends your reach to both on and off LAN • Simplifies your daily IT patching workflows—from discovery, packaging and testing through to deployment and tracking • Reduces your overall cost of patch operations
Managing People You Can't See Attend our Webinar to hear James Ware and Charles Grantham, creators of the Future of Work program, discuss how the nature of work has changed to include mobile and remote employees, the challenges this creates for managers and tactics to effectively manage people you can't see.
Ziff Davis Research: Supporting Employees Anytime, Anywhere "The definition of work has clearly evolved. IDC predicts that 75 percent of the U.S. workforce will be mobile by 2011. Has the IT help desk evolved to support today’s mobile workforce? This white paper takes an in-depth look at the challenges of supporting today’s workforce and how Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) enables IT to provide secure, effective remote support – anytime and anywhere. "
Faster Problem Resolution with Efficient Remote Support Capabilities This three-part eGuide explores how user-centric remote support addresses today's IT help desk challenges, simplifies the troubleshooting process and speeds problem resolution.
Benefits of Automating Data Warehousing In most cases, the data is transactional data pulled from a number of different applications in the enterprise, but it can be any type of data. The goal of a data warehouse is to provide an enterprise with high quality information that they can use to make tactical and strategic decisions. Typical data warehouse operations deal with extremely large amounts of data. Missing one step in the process, or executing a step at the wrong time, can result in a significant amount of wasted processing time, or in the worst case scenario, bad data.
Employee Web Use and Misuse: Companies, Their Employees and the Internet The Internet has created new opportunities for mischief and new challenges for managers. In the end, it comes down to choice. Where do you draw the line? How do you balance individual access with the overall protection and good of the business? What is the correct balance between monitoring and blocking? This white paper examines a Web security solution that gives companies the ability to monitor and enforce their Internet usage policies, bringing site monitoring and URL filtering together while insuring security with anti-virus and anti-spyware protection.
Virtual Events for Dummies Understanding how you can use virtual events to engage your audience, cut out costly physical meetings and events, and bring in sales leads or prospects at four to five times your current rate is what this book is about. The virtual event is your key to realizing all these benefits, and nobody has to fly standby or stay in a terrible hotel room to attend. With this book, you find out not only what virtual events are but also how they differ from physical events. You learn how to use the power of virtual events in ways that can revolutionize your entire business. You also get examples of virtual event uses in the real world, and more.
Managing Cash Flow in Times of Crisis Discover specific actions companies can take to ensure high cash-flow velocity and vital liquidity. Get answers to these key questions: How can I protect the health of my commercial cash flows? How can I gain better visibility into sources and uses of cash? And how can I increase control over my global cash balances?
Cloud Computing: The Evolution of the IT Help Desk Watch this on-demand Webinar with Elaina Stergiades, IDC senior research analyst, to discover how IT organizations can better meet the needs of their internal customers.
Consolidate and Virtualize Your Windows Environment with NetApp and VMware NetApp and VMware have teamed together to create a joint solution to help to consolidate and virtualize the existing Microsoft applications environment, thereby helping reduce the infrastructure costs by up to 50% and protecting all the applications with best-in-class availability. Because NetApp and VMware technologies are already jointly used in thousands of customer sites, the solution is simple and risk free. By boosting server and storage utilization to 60 - 80% (versus the 5 - 25% rates common in traditional environments), one can slash the hardware costs.
The True Costs of E-mail Encryption E-mail encryption doesn’t have to be as complex and costly as it has been in the past. New solutions using IBE (identity-based encryption) eradicate the need for digital certificates by calculating key values based upon identity characteristics like a recipient’s e-mail address. Of all of the e-mail encryption offerings based upon IBE, Trend Micro’s technical design and true cost of ownership stand out from the crowd. When ESG created a model to compare the costs of PKI and IBE solutions, Trend Micro Encryption delivered a 78% savings over a PKI alternative.
Security update: Threats in 2010 - What you need to know Join Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, to learn about the latest security threats and trends in malware in this live Webcast. Armed with the latest data from SophosLabs – where more than 50,000 new samples of malware are analyzed daily – Graham will discuss the latest tactics the bad guys are using to infect your systems and steal your data.
Bandwidth Bandits This paper will discuss how the Internet bandwidth is a finite and expensive resource that needs protection from spammers, criminals, hackers, time-wasters and employee misuse. Not only is it expensive and limited but it is a vital business tool. This white paper explains the true cost of bandwidth bandits on businesses.
Beyond Sales 2.0: Driving Next Generation Sales Prospecting Technology and improved access to information is making selling both harder, and easier. Our increased “connectedness” offers opportunities for the innovative, insightful and motivated sales professional to shine. This whitepaper discusses how to integrate sales 2.0, social selling and selling fundamentals for improved results.
Running and Optimizing IT: A Best Practice Approach To increase competitive advantage, organizations all over the world are looking for ways to wield IT as a strategic business weapon. The ITIL framework offers a widely accepted set of recommendations and best practices that help organizations achieve this objective.
Exploiting Untapped Opportunities: 3 Strategies for Using Executive Sales Triggers Prospects with critical trigger events are up to 8x more likely to buy than prospects without associated trigger events such as executive changes, mergers and acquisitions, and funding announcements… These trigger events can translate into immediate sales opportunities. Join best-selling authors and sales experts Craig Elias and Tibor Shanto for an insightful webinar to learn: • How to find and harness executive changes to drive sales • What common habits of specific roles can Trigger multiple selling opportunities • How a single change in personnel can lead to four separate qualified prospects
Avoiding the Hazards of IT Consolidation In an effort to reduce costs and streamline operations, today's large, distributed organizations are investing more in data center transformation, consolidation, and server virtualization. And yet many IT consolidation projects suffer from poor planning and implementation issues that ultimately impact application performance and user productivity. This technology brief investigates the processes and tools that are needed to provide complete enterprise visibility and WAN acceleration for high-priority traffic.
NetApp Storage for Windows Environments: Challenges and Solutions Consolidating your Microsoft® SQL Server®, Exchange, and SharePoint® Server data along with your Windows® files using NetApp® storage for Windows environments reduces the cost of physical storage as well as ongoing management costs in Windows environments. Storage utilization improves dramatically, storage management becomes simpler, and headaches associated with backup and restore are reduced or eliminated. NetApp storage solutions scale to accommodate growth, while letting you easily reclaim storage space as needed.
SAP Landscapes on Autopilot with Intelligent Service Automation This white paper discusses the benefits of introducing an enterprise-wide automation strategy, which coordinates SAP and non-SAP application workloads with the IT administration and computing demands of the operating system. Efficient coordination of these technologies will result in higher productivity of your SAP systems in your organization.
Solutions to the Top Ten IT System Management Pain Points From dealing with rogue “IT hobbyists” to naïve bosses, managing the IT infrastructure for a mid-sized company is a thankless job. People just don’t understand the expertise, time and patience required. This fact-filled white paper presents the top ten IT management pain points and the solutions for making your life easier.
How to Keep the Keepers and Maintain Optimal Turnover Levels Losing one or two key people can have a significant impact on profitability. This white paper outlines how managers can determine whom to keep, how to treat those who leave, and what to do to retain those necessary to the organization.
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateway This industry report covers the email gateway market. Gartner, Inc. positions Symantec in the Leaders quadrant in its 2010 Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways (anti-spam, anti-virus, outbound content filtering, email encryption, intrusion prevention). In this report, Gartner analysts note that, "The e-mail security market is very mature. Targeted phishing detection, outbound e-mail inspection, encryption and delivery form factor are the major differentiators." Please enter your contact information to view the complete Gartner Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways 2010 report.
Top Ten Web Threats and How to Eliminate This paper raises real challenges for IT managers who have to protect the business against malware, keep internet bandwidth available for legitimate business needs and enforce acceptable use policies for the human resource department. Managers everywhere must also find a balance between allowing reasonable personal internet use at work and maintaining productivity and concentration in the office.
Strategies for Workforce Continuity and Productivity Watch this on-demand Webinar with industry analyst Jon Collins. Jon will explore the unique challenges facing IT organizations today and how to combine best practices with support tools to keep a remote workforce connected and productive.
Define, Hire, And Develop Your Next-Generation Project Managers This Forrester white paper explores the evolution of project management and outlines steps for defining, hiring and developing your next-generation project managers.
Windows Data Consolidation in Mid-Sized Virtual Server Environments In this ESG white paper learn about Windows data consolidation in mid-sized virtual server environments. This white paper focuses on the challenges of virtualizing Windows environments and the need to consider network storage as a part of the overall solution. NetApp and VMware's joint solution is also examined in detail.
Consolidating Windows Storage and Servers Yields Big Benefits In this article hear from Keith Alioto, IT Director at Osiris Therapeutics discuss the evolution of their infrastructure and describe where they are now and where they’re headed. He’ll also talk about why they made the decisions they have and the importance of choosing the right partners.
Securing the Physical, Virtual, Cloud Continuum Information security best practices have not changed much in 15 years -- strong perimeter defense and defense in depth are still the primary security controls. However, virtualization and cloud computing are radically altering data center operations, leading to a hybrid physical/virtual/cloud computing environment. Securing this new environment demands the adoption of best practices that achieve their underlying objectives while adapting to the dynamics of this new infrastructure. Security and compliance controls need to extend across the physical, virtual, cloud continuum. This requires an adaptive perimeter defense.
The Power of Virtual Collaboration in Project Management Watch this on-demand Webinar to hear Terrence Gargiulo, president of MakingStories.net, share stories of how companies use virtual collaboration technology to address these challenges and effectively manage projects.
Discover Five Ways to Manage the Rising Costs of Benefits Find out how to get the benefits package you need without breaking the bank. Read about five ways to manage costs and attract top talent, including: finding a benefits package that’s tailored for your industry, and taking advantage of technology to keep a lid on administrative costs.
ESG – What’s Needed for Cloud Computing Just what is cloud computing anyway? Skeptics might say it is nothing but industry hyperbole, visionaries might say it is the future of IT. In reality, both statements are true-cloud computing has been embellished by the tech industry, but it does hold real potential for new types of on-¬-demand dynamic IT services. This paper seeks to clarify the definition of cloud computing, identify how far along users are in terms of cloud deployment, and examine the role of the network in the cloud computing model.
ESG – What’s Needed for Cloud Computing Just what is cloud computing anyway? Skeptics might say it is nothing but industry hyperbole, visionaries might say it is the future of IT. In reality, both statements are true-cloud computing has been embellished by the tech industry, but it does hold real potential for new types of on-¬-demand dynamic IT services. This paper seeks to clarify the definition of cloud computing, identify how far along users are in terms of cloud deployment, and examine the role of the network in the cloud computing model.
The State Of Customer Experience, 2010 With tighter budgets and fewer resources, companies across North America are turning to improved customer experience as a way to build business and enhance brand loyalty. The biggest obstacle to that effort? According to Forrester Research, it’s creating a comprehensive, company-wide customer experience strategy. Read this white paper for a survey of the current state of customer experience at 141 firms across North America and find out how your own organization’s efforts compare.
Targeted Trojans: The Silent Danger of a Clever Malware This paper will discuss the history and progression of the modern Trojan attack. It will explore the methodology used by hackers in selecting a target and developing a compelling attack and will cite several examples of some successful targeted Trojans. Finally, this paper will look at the Symantec Hosted Services MessageLabs™ Complete Email Guard solution and how Symantec Hosted Services can help protect an organization against targeted Trojans in the future.
10 Strategies to Build a Social Business Collaboration Platform Case study featuring IT Director Wolfgang Jastrowski of Swiss Re shares how Swiss Re planned, built, and grew a collaborative platform – over 12,000 global users – using Jive Social Business Software. His insights and advice can be leveraged by any organization looking to successfully implement a social collaboration initiative.
ESG Report: HP Data Protector and Deduplication Solutions Explosive data growth, replicating data centers, and expanding data footprints are some of the factors that are making data deduplication one of the hottest topics around. But choosing a deduplication strategy is not a one-size-fits-all discussion. HP offers a variety of easily deployed target-based deduplication solutions which suit a range of performance and cost requirements. HP Data Protector software supports any 3rd party inline deduplication target. Together with HP StorageWorks target-based deduplication capabilities, it provides integrated solutions which allow management of both backup and replication from one software interface.
Top 10 Concerns of Buying a VoIP Business Phone System As more companies switch to Business VoIP as a cost effective means of telecommunications, many businesses have learned the hard lessons of working with the wrong technology or vendor. Learn the top 10 concerns that should drive your business VoIP vendor selection process. Learning from business VoIP implementation failures will ensure success in your business VoIP rollout. A good business VoIP deployment will ensure no dropped calls, excellent sound quality, no latency and a perfect uptime of your company's phone system.
Accelerate SAP NetWeaver with Application Automation SAP NetWeaver is an extensive set of business applications for managing important business processes across your organization. UC4 Software provides an advanced solution for the SAP NetWeaver technology platform that reduces implementation time, accelerates business processes, and provides true enterprise process management within, around, and beyond SAP NetWeaver.
Enabling Efficient, High Output Teams through Web Conferencing Based on in-depth interviews with Web conferencing users, this new Wainhouse Research white paper explores the value of Web conferencing for catalyzing team interaction and collaboration.
Anatomy of a Lousy Pitch: The 6 Worst Presentation Habits and How You Can Avoid Them Join us February 9 to hear Wackel reveal the 6 worst presentation habits that put barriers between you and your listener. You'll also learn unique and proven methods for conquering these habits so that you can become a more polished, professional and inspiring presenter.
Unified Windows Storage Consolidation This report documents the results of ESG Lab hands-on testing of a NetApp Unified Storage Architecture deployed in a VMware virtual server environment with a goal of simplifying, protecting, and consolidating physical servers hosting Microsoft applications.
Special Report: Nine Telltale Signs You Should Replace Your Current WMS Is an inflexible or legacy warehouse management system (WMS) putting your business at risk? You rely on a warehouse management system (WMS) to maintain ongoing operations, support changing customer requirements, keep up with new industry regulations, and simply get product out the door on a daily basis. What happens when you’re no longer able to get the job done? In this new industry report, you’ll learn to analyze the operational factors influenced by your WMS—and find out whether your system is constraining your company’s growth and global reach. Download Now
ESG Whitepaper: Windows Data Consolidation in Mid-Sized Virtual Server Environments ESG Whitepaper talking about Windows Data Consolidation in Mid-Sized Virtual Server Environments. This paper focuses on the challenges of virtualizing Windows environments and the need to consider network storage as a part of the overall solution. NetApp and VMware's joint solution is also examined in detail.
10 Principles for Building an Effective Human Capital Plan A high-level look at principles that should guide a C-level exec or an HR manager in creating an effective HC plan. Because human capital issues do indeed have a big impact on business.
4 Principles of Effective Threat Protection – How can you make them a reality? With all the web-connected ways your organization does business, how can you effectively prevent the multitude of potential malware attacks across your network? To achieve this goal, your threat protection strategy should include layers of protection that both support your company’s business processes and secure the data and assets you value – just deploying anti-virus and firewalls is no longer enough.
Bullet-Proofing Instant Messaging Consumer-grade instant messaging (IM) opens a door for malware, and can compromise your regulatory compliance efforts and violate copyright protection. This white paper describes how a secure IM service works with standard IM packages to screen and filter traffic, enabling you to block malware and prevent transmission of unauthorized content.
Live Online Training that Works: Strategies for High Impact Learning and Development The demand for live online training has virtually exploded. Cost savings, as well as benefits unique to online training, make it a clear choice for trainers. To be successful, however, online training requires a new set of strategies. This new eBook by Tom Bunzel provides proven techniques for maximizing engagement, retention and the overall effectiveness of live online training. Plus, it includes an online training resource checklist. Read the eBook to learn: - 5 principles of a successful online training program - Tips for strategic planning and preparation - Best practices for trainer performance
Securing Data in the Cloud This document is intended to give a broad overview of our security policies, processes and practices current at the date of writing. It would be impossible to describe all security controls in a document of this length, security policies change over time, and our own security policies prohibit the release of detailed information regarding our security practices.
Workshifting Benefits: The Bottom Line This new white paper from the Telework Research Network provides a quantitative synthesis of the potential benefits that regular telecommuting can offer companies, employees and communities.
Start Branding - Creating an Employment Brand that Increases Engagement, Retention - and the Bottom Line Because regardless of size or industry, if you have employees, you have an employment brand. And whether you realize it or not, your employment brand is affecting your ability to recruit and retain employees – for better or for worse. What you need is a strategy for understanding how others perceive your brand, so you can create a brand that truly reflects you as an employer. This strategy will ultimately help you better attract and retain employees. Let this e-book be your guide to understanding how your employment brand is your greatest resource when it comes to recruiting and retaining your greatest asset – your people.
Dynamic Scheduling in Intelligent Service Automation The internet, global economy, and information demands have dramatically changed the way today’s modern data centers work. We have become an “on demand” society and have come to expect fast response to our information requests. This document describes the philosophy of just-in-time processing and how dynamic scheduling can solve the challenges that IT is facing today.
What is Social Business Software? And What Can It Do For You? Download this paper to discover how organizations are leveraging social business software to energize employees and partners, engage with customers, and manage their brand across the social web.
HP Data Protector Software Interaction with Deduplication Enabled Replication This white paper will describe the necessary steps and processes to import replicated cartridges into the media management database of an HP Data Protector Cell Manager for further tape/backup data handling such as restore operations or object copy operations.
The State of IT Systems Management IT professionals need to support users through innovative and cost-efficient IT services but currently lack the budget, staff and tools to meet their goals.
Total Economic Impact™ Of Trend Micro Enterprise Security In 2009, Trend Micro commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying Trend Micro Enterprise Security and the Smart Protection Network for their endpoint, web, and messaging security. This study illustrates the financial impact of an organization migrating to Trend Micro Enterprise Security and the benefits received from deploying a cloud-client solution.
Increase IT Performance from the Enterprise to the Cloud with WAN Optimization WAN optimization plays an important role in today's highly distributed datacenters and cloud computing architectures. Massive consolidation and data mobility, enabled by virtualization, have radically altered how we build servers, design applications, and deploy storage for the emerging "cloud" decade. This paper discusses how Riverbed solutions effectively eliminate IT performance constraints in such environments.
ITSM in the Cloud - A Change in the Weather Watch this on-demand Webinar to hear David Mainville, CEO of Consulting-Portal, share his insights on cloud computing and its increasing role in IT service management.
A Day in the Life of a U.S. Information Worker This Forrester white paper provides a snapshot of a typical day in the life of a U.S. information worker. It reveals how workers are employing new technologies and applications, interacting with their teams and engaging in mobile activities.
Consolidate and Virtualize Windows Applications – Review Windows Consolidation Best Practices and Architecture Listen to this on-demand Webcast and hear Chris Rima of Tucson Electric Power discuss how his organization managed data growth and improved performance with storage and server virtualization. You’ll also hear Brian Garrett from ESG and NetApp experts discuss ways to consolidate your Windows® application data, files, and virtual machines to help you: • Simplify daily management tasks, reducing overhead by up to 60% • Better protect Windows data, reducing disruptions by up to 50% • Provision storage within minutes and efficiently meet data growth within budget
Increase IT Performance from the Enterprise to the Cloud with WAN Optimization WAN optimization plays an important role in today's highly distributed datacenters and cloud computing architectures. Massive consolidation and data mobility, enabled by virtualization, have radically altered how we build servers, design applications, and deploy storage for the emerging "cloud" decade. This paper discusses how Riverbed solutions effectively eliminate IT performance constraints in such environments.
Legacy Tools: Not Built for Today’s Helpdesk Today’s mobile workforce can help drive efficiency and boost the bottom line for your organization. However, it is essential that the helpdesk have the right tools to support a widespread employee base. This paper explores the challenges of supporting a remote workforce with legacy tools such as RDP™, pcAnywhere™, VPNs and VNC™ and identifies best practices that organizations can use to choose helpdesk tools that better support today’s workforce while also cutting costs.
5 Strategies for Generating Revenue Using Sales Triggers If you received 100 leads and I told you that 10 of them were 800% MORE LIKELY TO BUY…who would you call first? Imagine a tool that delivered that every day. Download this brief for quick hit strategies on using triggers and get a trial of iSell.
Building a Power Savings Policy Energy Star estimates that an organization can save up to $75 per computer per year with power management. This manual provides guidelines for managing energy consumption that are sensible, measurable and easy to enforce. Considerations include: customizing user profiles; qualifying for government rebates; automation capabilities of power management software; and reporting metrics, including ROI.
Email Archiving: a Business-Critical Application See how business email is increasingly at risk and examine options for protecting these business assets. Simple backup of email systems is not enough. Installing email archiving software may cost some companies more money and the loss of more data than outsourcing these archiving tasks. MessageLabs Email Archiving Service protects business email 24X7X365 with enterprise-level features and support.
Why Field Sales and Telesales Are Becoming Virtual Sales This CSO Insights white paper explores how telesales and field-based sales teams can strategically use online meetings to engage prospects, increase performance and reduce costs.
Ahhhhh... Get Relief from 10 Common IT Systems Management Pains Managing today’s IT infrastructure doesn’t have to be thankless. Nor does it have to be painful or require tons of overtime. In this panel webinar moderated by United Business Media Editor Dan Neel, gain valuable management insights from executives at People’s Bank & Trust and Gulf Coast Community Services Association, hear their discussion of common IT systems management pain points, and learn how these leaders found relief using IT automation technology.
Fake Anti-Virus: What You Need to Know Poisoned SEO pages and email and social networking spam that direct users to fake anti-virus sites are on the rise, putting your organization at risk. Users are tricked into thinking their computer has been infected and they must buy software to remove the viruses. Once installed, the fake anti-virus may also install other malware such as spam bots or keyloggers. Don’t let this happen to you or your employees. Join this live Webcast featuring Richard Wang, Director of Threat Research at Sophos to learn why fake anti-virus is so popular with cybercriminals and how you can keep fake AV out of your network.
Ahhhhh... Get Relief from 10 Common IT Systems Management Pains Managing today’s IT infrastructure doesn’t have to be thankless. Nor does it have to be painful or require tons of overtime. In this panel webinar moderated by United Business Media Editor Dan Neel, gain valuable management insights from executives at People’s Bank & Trust and Gulf Coast Community Services Association, hear their discussion of common IT systems management pain points, and learn how these leaders found relief using IT automation technology.
Measuring the Business Impact of Support This ServiceXRG white paper explores the importance of quantifying the impact of support on your business.
Beyond Job Scheduling: The Road to Enterprise Process Automation The new global business environment and in particular the Internet with its implied on-line, real-time, 24x7 operation has dramatically altered this rigid notion of job scheduling. This white paper discusses how new solutions are required that can automate and accelerate existing business processes and adapt to new processes and systems as they arise.
Helpdesks without Boundaries: Penske Supports Worldwide Users Through its use of non-employee agents to rent their big yellow trucks in areas that aren't large enough for a full Penske facility, Penske is a long-standing participant in the extended IT ecosystem. Although they have nearly 19,000 employees, they also work with a network of 1,600 external agents. These agents account for 10% of the 10,000-11,000 internal helpdesk calls that Penske receives each month - and Penske uses LogMeIn Rescue to help resolve almost all of these calls. Learn more in this case study.
UC4 Automated Virtualization: Intelligent Service Automation for Physical and Virtual Environments This whitepaper describes how the UC4 Automation Engine integrates with virtual environments. With this integration, UC4 Software has enabled customers to manage management tasks such as Deploy Virtual Machines, Power ON/Off, Create Snapshot, and others. Using the UC4 Automation Engine as the central administration tool, hypervisor tasks can now be part of the IT processes and part of the IT Housekeeping strategy.
Spark Innovation Across Your Brand Portfolio - Yum! Brands Case Study - Case Study Yum! Marketing Manager Cindy Costa shares real-world anecdotes and best practices around how their online employee community has helped unify the company to take advantage of research, ideas, and innovations across the multiple individual brands, as well as improve the overall Yum! culture and experience.
Buying a Phone System? Compare the 94 Business Phone Systems in One Chart With this Spring 2010 Edition of the Phone System Comparison Chart quickly see differences between brands like Avaya, Mitel, Cisco, ShoreTel, 8x8, Panasonic, etc and compare over 94 phone systems by 52 brands for small to big business. Our detailed chart also compares PBX and Business VoIP systems side by side so you can make an educated comparison of your options. This analysis is prepared in an easy to use Excel spreadsheet so you can add information to suit your analysis and presentation needs.
Sharepoint in Healthcare: Collaboration and Information Sharing in a Secure Environment Learn how organizations are using SharePoint to lower their costs while increasing the quality of their care and see analyst recommendations on how best to secure SharePoint.
Sales Force Automation Market Primer How companies sell and interact with their prospects and customers is constantly changing. Get the latest research on how companies are using CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and SFA (Sales Force Automation) to grow their business and revenue. Download your FREE Market Primer to get the fundamentals of how sales, marketing and customer service teams are using CRM and SFA. This free in-depth Market Primer provides you with an easy approach to today's dynamic and complex sales and customer interaction landscape.
Email on Cruise Control: How to Guarantee Security, Speed and Confidence in Email All manners of communication, external and internal, corporate memos to customer orders and even legal documents now flow freely via email. Given the high value of the information flowing through email, companies must ensure that their email systems are availability, secure, private, compliant with regulatory requirements and resilient to data loss and legal exposure. This paper will discuss the wide variety of challenges associated with email security and availability and illustrate how integral email is to the operations of any organization. More importantly this paper will highlight an alternative hosted solution by Symantec Hosted Services
Dealing with Significant Webcast Audiences Behind Corporate Firewalls Webcasts are frequently used for corporate meetings – such as a sales kickoffs, town hall meetings, and internal training. In these situations, virtually all of the webcast viewers attend from a single corporation, and view the webcast from a network inside the corporate firewall. For these types of “internal webcasts”, it is essential to assess the demands that such events place upon the corporate network, and to minimize any negative impacts on both the networks and the Webcast. Download this white paper to learn: (a) how internal webcasts place demands on your corporate networks, and (b) measures to address networks susceptible to high webcast loads.
Ten Questions to Ask Your Cloud Vendor This whitepaper will offer a strategic introduction to cloud computing, discuss its benefits and point out potential concerns. If you are looking to move to cloud computing, this paper will also provide a set of questions you should ask your cloud vendor so you can better understand its impact on your organization and help you avoid possible pitfalls.
CareerBuilder's Ultimate Recruitment Guide While your recruitment needs may be vastly different from every other business, you still do have recruitment needs. And whether you are concerned with getting less application drop-off, building a stronger employment brand, delving into the world of social media, providing more training opportunities for your employees, or a myriad of other challenges, CareerBuilder’s team of experts can help you isolate and tackle the specific areas of concern in your recruitment process and move forward to meet your next challenge with confidence and ease.
The Power of Trigger-Based Selling: How to Find and Sell to Prospects that 8x More Likely to Buy Research shows that prospects with associated sales triggers are 8x more likely to buy. Learn about specific trigger-based selling tactics that can help you to increase sales productivity by helping you to target prospects based on specific selling opportunities. Use Sales Triggers to Address These Critical Business Challenges: • Get to the hottest opportunities at the right time •Find the right executive & management contacts •Craft a compelling reason for a discussion •Spend more time on selling, less on researching Download this brief and qualify for a free trial of OneSource iSell—a unique, personalized sales engine incorporating intelligent sales triggers to drive effective selling.
Special Report: The ERP Warehouse Module vs. Best-of-Breed WMS The question for today’s supply chain professional isn’t whether your ERP offers warehouse management functionality. The question is whether you’ll actually be able to achieve efficient order fulfillment operations when using it. In the report, you will learn the critical decision factors every warehouse, logistics, IT and supply chain professional must consider when comparing these two very different options for optimal warehouse management efficiency. Download Now
Consolidate and Virtualize Your Windows Environment with NetApp and VMware This whitepaper explores the reasons for consolidating Windows environments and the benefits of doing so with a joint NetApp-VMware solution.
CSC Gets Social - Case Study With over 45,000 active members, CSC needed a collaboration solution to improve expertise location, speed up onboarding, promote innovation, preserve IP, and reduce time spent evaluating solution and technology partner options. This case study illustrates how CSC was able to reduce proposal development times and customer acquisition costs as well as increase collaboration around business processes that are driving efficiencies.
Computer Lifecycle Management: Save Energy and Slash Costs In this webinar, Gartner analyst Terrence Cosgrove looks at how IT can realize savings in desktop operations, specifically on software licenses and energy consumption. Using real-life examples, Terrence demonstrates how PC management tools can help companies run at peak cost efficiency. Also, Kurt von Schwedler, IT Team Lead at Bensalem School District, discusses how his team replaced manual software installations with automated imaging, and centrally managed the power usage of their PCs to save over $50,000 annually.
Safe and Sound: Ensuring Complete Protection for Your Company's Email Communication Organizations of all sizes send confidential business information by email. A single data breach can have serious consequences such as brand damage, customer attrition, regulatory penalties, and intellectual property theft. Download this white paper to learn: (a) 3 examples of how emailing confidential business information led to identity theft, (b) 3 steps that companies should take to protect confidential information, and (c) Options for encryting confidential data in business email.
Cloud Financials Come of Age The independent experts at Saugatuck Technology recently took a hard look at whether cloud computing is truly ready to take on mission-critical applications like Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), financial management and accounting.
Content is Marketing Currency How do you make your online content stand out from the rest? According to Ardath Albee, B2B marketing strategist and CEO of Marketing Interactions, the answer is relevance. In this new eBook, Albee explores the critical role of an online content strategy in increasing the demand for your company¿s products and solutions. Read the eBook to learn: - 7 factors that play key roles in increasing the currency value of marketing content - 8 methods of listening that will help you improve content relevance - How to integrate different formats, create an editorial calendar and measure success
Overcoming the Online Trainer's Dilemma Today's training demands are complex and varied - ranging from issues of scalability and ease of use to price and content access. Download this new Wainhouse Research white paper to explore how trainers feel about the various types of training tools available, which features are useful for training online and how effective a Web conferencing tool can be for trainers. Download the white paper to learn: - How Web conferencing has evolved to improve training - What's behind the 3 waves of training technology - 5 major factors essential to a Web conferencing platform
NetApp Storage for Windows Environments: Challenges and Solutions This paper discusses how consolidating your Microsoft® SQL Server®, Exchange, and SharePoint® Server data along with your Windows® files using NetApp® storage for Windows environments reduces the cost of physical storage as well as ongoing management costs in Windows environments.
Configuring Oracle RMAN backups with HP Data Protector to Use Deduplication on the VLS The purpose of this document is to describe the necessary steps to modify Oracle Backup Specifications within Data Protector to support deduplication in the VLS.
Phone Systems for Small, Medium & Enterprise Business: Which to Buy? Read reviews on the leading five phone system brands in each category and understand why they lead their niche. See the differences between premise and hosted solutions, and help decide the best phone system for your company. Our free guide covers brands such as 8x8, M5, Smoothstone, Cisco, Mitel, Panasonic, Shoretel, NEC, Avaya and many more.
Virtualization Security: Achieving Compliance for the Virtual Infrastructure Virtualization introduces an entirely new environment to the data center with unique characteristics – each with potential compliance risks. Senior Analyst Ted Ritter from Nemertes Research takes an in-depth look at virtualization security solutions that can help address compliance concerns. The paper includes: *Tools and approaches security officers are using – for better and *worse Competitive matrix of virtualization security vendors and what they offer *A look at a new class of virtual security products *Predictions of key trends in 2010 and beyond *Enterprise recommendations to better achieve compliance
Demo: Automating SAP System Copy In a new online demo, UC4 Automated System Copy for SAP™, we'll walk you through the steps it takes to complete a totally automatic SAP system copy, with no pre- and post-processing to chew up time and money, and no needless mistakes. In under 5 minutes you will learn how simple it is to save time and cost of this SAP-recommended process by as much as 90 percent.
Contact Center Innovation: What the Future Holds Watch this on-demand Webinar with John Ragsdale to learn which qualitative, quantitative and cost metrics to include in a dashboard for customer service or technical support. Ragsdale will demonstrate how companies are leveraging innovative remote-support platforms to create and automate effective dashboards.
Driving IT help desk efficiency with customer-centric remote support The IT help desk is a high-stress environment. While the obvious objective is to resolve technical issues, IT help desks also battle call length, employee dissatisfaction and low morale. IDC predicts that by 2011, 73 percent of the U.S. workforce will be mobile, inevitably increasing the pressure. That’s why more companies are turning to Web-based, customer-centric remote support to support a burgeoning remote workforce.
Buyer's Guide: Sales Force Automation This comprehensive buyer’s guide analyzes what SFA (Sales Force Automation) can do for your company. You'll get an in-depth understanding of what factors you need to consider when purchasing an SFA. Find out what solution is best for your sales, marketing and call center teams. Accurate sales forecasting and CRM can make or break a business, yet many sales and marketing managers struggle to find an SFA solution that gets their team excited. This FREE information-packed guide will help you find the right solution for your sales and marketing teams. You'll get everything you need to consider when purchasing SFA for your company
Top Ten Trends in Business Intelligence Business Intelligence technologies are evolving nearly as fast as your enterprise data is growing. This rapid evolution is causing confusion and new challenges for both the IT professionals tasked with maintaining these mission critical systems and the line of business professionals that rely on business intelligence to drive their business.
Manage Your Calls without an Operator Operator-assisted conference calls come at a price - about 25 cents per minute. And those quarters can add up to big bucks quickly, especially for larger audio conferences. This new brief explores how HiDef Corporate™ Web Controls enable you to expertly manage your audio conferencing and cut costs with a simple click of the mouse.
4 Proven Methods to Reduce Backup Costs Join this 45-minute interactive webcast led by IDG Senior Editor Jim Malone to explore the proven methods by which Iron Mountain helps customers better understand – and take control of – their growing data problems while significantly reducing their mounting backup costs. And the answer isn’t “more backup!” Iron Mountain technology executives Steve Blumenau and John Gniadek illustrate the hidden costs of data within your organization and help you think differently about how you manage your data.
Automating SAP System Copy UC4 Automated System Copy™ for SAP reduces the time and cost of this SAP-recommended process by as much as 90 percent. The time savings you’ll realize will make it easy for you to perform SAP system copies whenever you need them—whether you’re creating a test system or providing users with actual test data for simulation of real business situations. Request the whitepaper to learn more.
VMware's VMworld: The Global Destination for Virtualization Learn how the global leader in virtualization solutions uses Social Business Software to connect with prospects, customers, experts, and partners to expand their audience from 15,000 to 50,000.
Latest Trends in Desktop Virtualization and Windows 7 Migration In this webcast, listen to a Forrester analyst discuss findings of a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of VMware on desktop OS migration adoption and the latest desktop virtualization trends in the migration process. Find out why organizations should consider application and desktop virtualization as part of their Window 7 migration strategy.
Latest Trends in Desktop Virtualization and Windows 7 Migration In this webcast, listen to a Forrester analyst discuss findings of a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of VMware on desktop OS migration adoption and the latest desktop virtualization trends in the migration process. Find out why organizations should consider application and desktop virtualization as part of their Window 7 migration strategy.
The War Room, the CMDB and the CMS: the Essentials of Networked Federation Join us for this one-hour Webinar, which will explore the: *Do’s and don’ts for effective assimilation of the Network Operation Center war room into a CMS *Real-world examples of how phased deployments are moving to combine this “best of both worlds” into a rejuvenated war room through a networked CMS *How this supports the move to virtualization and Cloud Services *Benefits of integrating IPAM into your CMS
Juniper Networks Taps Into Skills, Talents, and Centers of Excellence Around the Globe - Case Study With over 1,100 unique visits a day, Juniper Networks uses SBS to enable their network of engineers to self organize to manage projects, sales to collaborate on strategies to win business, product teams to partner on specifications, and ad hoc teams to form around special interest areas such as innovation.
Five Best Practices to Develop an Actionable Sales Forecast Hear from Right90 Vice President of Professional Services, Denise Stokowski, as she provides best practices on how to achieve a forecast that drives revenue, inventory and margin. These best practices are derived from first-hand experience working with customers in a wide variety of industries at different levels of process maturity. Learn how you can overcome the most common barriers to achieving forecast adoption, methods for removing subjectivity, and how to drive accountability and collaboration in order to deliver amazing business results.
Pivotal CRM from CDC Software: Proving the Value of Microsoft Office Business Applications This Microsoft white paper describes the concept of Microsoft Office Business Applications software that incorporates or builds upon the ubiquitous and familiar Microsoft Office suite—and describes how Pivotal CRM embodies this concept, bringing outstanding value to Pivotal CRM and Microsoft customers alike.
Mastering the Complexity of Revenue Management With complex regulations, continually evolving interpretations and stiff penalties, the mission-critical task of revenue management is more complex than ever. 66% of companies fail to evaluate the revenue impact of deferred revenue, and a whopping 92% of public companies say they still use spreadsheets for critical revenue-accounting tasks, leaving them exposed to a host of issues including compliance, audit and forecasting problems.
Absolute Manage Absolute Manage is a computer configuration lifecycle management solution that allows you to manage PCs and Macs from a single interface. In this 10-minute demo, we walk you through the following capabilities: Application and License Management; Security, Change and Configuration Management; Automated Patch Management; Computer Imaging; Asset Inventory; and Power Management.
CMO Guide to Maximizing Customer Marketing Performance & ROI We’ve all read how marketing to existing customers is less expensive and more profitable than acquiring new ones. Why, then, do marketing teams tend to devote the bulk of their attention – and budget – to acquiring new customers? This new white paper explores how to use intelligence and analytics to target marketing that drives more sales, increases the average value per customer and improves retention rates. Learn: • How to gain insight into tactical effectiveness, true sales lift impact and performance gaps • How to measure the greater profit potential of marketing to existing customers • 4 key factors of successful insights-based marketing
5 Hidden Costs of Using “Free” and Legacy Tools for Support "Next generation” remote support tools are specifically built for remote support and optimized for helpdesks addressing today’s tough IT challenges. Traditional remote access and meeting tools were not designed as remote support tools for helpdesks and IT professionals. Do you know what hidden costs their lack of helpdesk-specific management functionality may be imposing on your business?
Lower Your Windows IT Costs by as Much as 50% View this on-demand Webcast and hear Robert R. Ross from Data Center Inc. discuss how the company achieved 166% ROI over three years by consolidating its Windows® environment with NetApp® and VMware®.
Understanding and Enhancing Virtual Desktop Security Desktop virtualization isn’t a mere fad or industry hyperbole. ESG research indicates that large organizations are actively deploying desktop virtualization technology today or plan to do so in the next 12 to 18 months. This brings up a plethora of questions. Why are enterprises jumping on the virtual desktop bandwagon? How are they measuring success? What about endpoint security? Many CISOs consider endpoint security a chaotic mess. Will desktop virtualization make this situation better or worse—and why?
Improving First-Call Resolution with Team Collaboration Technology This new white paper examines key challenges facing customer support organizations and explores the many advantages of collaborative remote support, including ad hoc training, faster first-contact resolution and an improved customer experience.
The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs This eBook reveals the strategies used by Apple® CEO Steve Jobs to deliver powerful presentations that inform, educate and entertain. Learn Jobs's 10 secret tactics that will have you presenting like a pro in no time.
Buyer's Guide: VoIP Contact Center Solutions Find out what you need to know before implementing a contact center. Download your VoIP Contact Center Buyer’s Guide now.
Using Social Media to Advance Your Online Training Program eGuide The social media revolution has come to online training. And experts contend that trainers who embrace social media will have bigger classes and better, more collaborative interactions with students. This new eGuide explores the latest uses and trends in social media and provides strategies for leveraging social media to improve the online training experience for both trainers and students. Download the eGuide to learn: - What online trainers need to know about social media - How to create a collaborative experience and more engaging content - Features to look for in online training technologies
Unleashing Cloud Performance: Making the Promise of Cloud a Reality Want to free yourself from the spiraling cost and complexity of your current IT infrastructure? Riverbed can help by giving you three key strategies for delivering cloud services with LAN-like performance to end users and IT managers alike. In this whitepaper, we explore how WAN optimization from Riverbed can break the cloud performance barrier and deliver on the promise of accelerated cloud performance for widely distributed enterprises.
How Web Controls Are Changing Audio Conferencing While the advent of the Web changed the way we do just about everything, audio conferencing kept a steady low profile. Until now. The next generation of audio conferencing adds Web-based capabilities to the traditional infrastructure, making it easy to manage users and get real-time usage and billing reports; all without the need (or expense) of operator assistance. Watch this Webinar to hear Marc Beattie of Wainhouse Research explore the results of a study on the next generation of audio conferencing, including business benefits, real-world impact and recommended best practices.
Top 5 Reasons to Replace your Remote Support Tool Even if you have a remote support tool, the changing demands of employees and customers may necessitate a change. End users are much more distributed, more mobile, and rely on an array of personal and corporate-issued client devices to access applications and data. This puts more pressure on the helpdesk to improve its responsiveness both on and off the corporate LAN. Now may be the time to reevaluate your remote support to add new capabilities, increase efficiency and consolidate support tools. What do you stand to gain by switching your remote support tool?
Accelerate Product Innovation, Get Your Customers Involved -- SAP Case Study SAP continues a tradition of industry leadership & customer value. Watch this on-demand webcast as SAP shares strategies and advice for your own social media initiatives.
Unleashing Cloud Performance: Making the Promise of Cloud a Reality Want to free yourself from the spiraling cost and complexity of your current IT infrastructure? Riverbed can help by giving you three key strategies for delivering cloud services with LAN-like performance to end users and IT managers alike. In this whitepaper, we explore how WAN optimization from Riverbed can break the cloud performance barrier and deliver on the promise of accelerated cloud performance for widely distributed enterprises.
Endpoint Security: Data Protection for IT, Freedom for Laptop Users According to a survey by Research Concepts, 72% of IT managers believe their own employees are responsible for incidents of data breach. Even the best encryption is not fool-proof against careless employees or insiders armed with the right passwords. This whitepaper discusses the research findings and endpoint security that remains effective regardless of end-user reliability. Learn how you can take action if a computer goes missing from your organization.
Accelerate ROI with a Complete WAN Optimization Solution Want to achieve faster ROI by deploying a complete WAN optimization solution? Read the latest IDC report entitled “Improving the Business Value of WAN Optimization” to get the facts. You’ll discover how WAN optimization can help your business to cut IT costs without compromising performance, gain greater efficiency, and improve end user productivity and overall satisfaction. There are also some key real world case studies where current customers have shown real results.
Web Self-Service in Telecommunications: Growth, Differentiation, and a Sustainable Solution to High Cost Customer Support This white paper presents the blueprint for making telecom customer support organizations leaner and more responsive through Web Self-Service. Many telecom providers are struggling with customer experience online, and face a major upswing in support costs as a result. Does this sound familiar? Are you seeking ways to reduce your customer support costs AND increase customer satisfaction? In this latest addition to the IntelliResponse knowledge series, we present the blueprint for making telecom customer support organizations leaner and more responsive through Web Self-Service.
CRM+: An Innovative Approach to Agile Solution Development Torn between buying generic software that doesn't quite fit your needs and building your own from scratch? Discover a third option. An exciting new development concept called CRM+ exploits the underlying platforms of some leading customer relationship management systems to achieve a rapid development solution that avoids both the complexity of custom development and the inflexibility of out-of-the-box software. This approach enables not just deep CRM customization, but easy development of entirely new software applications that address all kinds of other enterprise software needs. Learn more in this white paper.
Email on Cruise Control: How to Guarantee Security, Speed and Confidence in Email This white paper explores the complexity of managing email as a critical business component. It discusses the 5 key challenges around email security, and illustrates how integral email is to the operations of any organization. It also discusses how you can ensure that your email systems are available, secure, private, compliant with regulatory requirements, and resilient to data loss.
American Cancer Society Case Study As a nonprofit organization, the American Cancer Society must carefully control and manage expenses. And after an unexpected $1,200 audio conferencing overage fee, the organization began researching a way to reduce the costs and complexity of audio conferencing. This new case study explores how HiDef Corporate™ from Citrix Online Audio enables the American Cancer Society to cut audio conferencing costs by nearly 50% - savings that bolster the organization's core mission.
CEO / CFO Outlook 2010 Survey More than 100 software and SaaS CEOs and CFOs shared their forecasts for their own companies and their predictions for the industry as a whole with the Sand Hill Group. Sand Hill Group has published a survey paper that highlights key trends and predictions
Hosted CRM Buyer’s Guide Customer serivce is the backbone of every successful sale. Personalizing the customer experience is critical to retaining clients, and in today's competitive marketplace it's absolutely vital to keep customers coming back. In this comprehensive Buyers Guide, Focus analysts have compiled a complete overview of what CRM can offer your company.
B-to-B Lead Generation: 2009 Marketing ROI Performance & Evaluation Study "Download the second annual MarketingProfs Marketing ROI & Performance Evaluation Study to explore the impact of the economic downturn on lead-generation marketing, current priorities for marketers and best practices used by marketing organizations with proven effectiveness and growth. Download the special report to learn: - Why economic pressures have led to an increased focus on lead quality - How to tap into the untapped potential of nurturing stalled leads - Common characteristics of organizations with effective lead-generation marketing"
Why Application Automation should be Part of IT Infrastructure This white paper describes how an innovative workload automation and job scheduling tool that is brought in at the beginning of a project and used as part of the infrastructure can significantly reduce implementation costs, by reducing the resources required at each phase of the project including design, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance, and thereby reduce total project costs
Sony Delivers a Premium Product with a Premium Support Experience In order to maintain its market leadership position in consumer electronics, Sony knows that it must deliver service and support that instills trust and confidence in its brand. Sony VAIO customers expect a premium product and a premium support experience. To that end, Sony always strives to improve their service delivery and provide high quality support. With the help of LogMeIn Rescue, Sony increased its customer satisfcation and reduced average talk time on calls. Find out how they did it in this case study.
Using Online Communities to Galvanize a Workforce & Streamline Operations Manheim has harnessed the Social Web to galvanize its workforce and streamline operations. Intranet usage has grown to over 66%, reflecting a more engaged workforce; revenue-generating marketing promotions are delivered more quickly; and adoption of newly-standardized processes has improved.
Hybrid E-mail Security: Integrating SaaS and On-Premise Solutions Using a panel of qualified IT decision-makers, in May 2010 we conducted a web survey of 150 US organizations that have at least 1,000 users in their e-mail environments. Survey respondents have detailed knowledge of the e-mail security products and services their company uses, and have influence in the e-mail security purchase process. This paper discusses the results of the survey and our conclusions based on those results.
Save Resources and Reduce Costs by Simplifying 5 Critical IT Workflows in 2010 Managing desktops, laptops, netbooks, or handhelds? Cloud-based business intelligence services can simplify operations, improve data security, and reduce costs. This 30-minute webcast, featuring Chris Corbet and Jonathan Dale of MaaS360, will focus on the top 5 critical IT tasks that can be simplified in 2010. Individuals responsible for IT functions like Desktop Management, Governance Risk and Compliance, Mobile Operations and Helpdesk Services will find this information immediately beneficial.
Successful Social Media Strategies - National Instruments - Case Study To stay on the cutting edge of online marketing and brand management, explore the visionary strategy of National Instruments in engaging customers and partners across the social web. Hear real-world stories and best practices from the company's outreach efforts, using the NI Community, the blogosphere, Twitter, Facebook, and more.
Citrix and Microsoft: Leading the Desktop Virtualization Revolution Planning to migrate to Windows 7? Struggling to patch end point devices for new application releases and updates? Data residing on end point devices creating potential security risks? Continuing to follow the decades-old PC refresh cycle and traditional distributed desktop model is a poor choice for IT departments that face reduced budgets and headcount. Join Citrix and Microsoft in this live webinar to learn about the only industry leading desktop delivery solution that will enable you to: - Radically simplify desktop management - Reduce desktop and application management costs - Improve security - Accelerate enterprise wide deployment of Windows 7
ON24 Virtual Briefing Center Organizations today face a growing number of marketing and corporate communications challenges. Improving lead quality and more effectively engaging buyers are common concerns. An innovative new virtual environment solution from ON24, the ON24 Virtual Briefing Center, is designed for enterprises seeking an effective, flexible and exciting marketing and corporate communications solution. Click below to view a demo.
4 Strategies for Controlling Applications on Your Network Use of instant messaging, peer-to-peer, mobile synchronization, games and other non-approved applications on the corporate network zaps productivity and is a source of malware infection and data loss. Controlling applications is a sound security policy and is required to be compliant with Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and other data protection legislation. But, monitoring and controlling applications is difficult and time consuming for resource constrained IT staff.
Getting Encryption Right: Practical and Proactive Data Encryption Listen in as MassMutual's CISO and Security Executive of the Year Bruce Bonsall and the 451 Group's Security Research Director Josh Corman discuss proactive approaches to protecting critical mobile data on end-user devices. Bonsall will discuss how his Fortune 500 company proactively protected customers' data prior to state privacy legislation by rolling out centrally managed encryption to thousands of professionals and a large network of brokers in the field. By attending this live eSeminar, you will discover how to protect an ever-expanding list of endpoints, including laptop and desktop computers, smartphones, and USB flash drives.
Achieving Business Value with Network and Application Visibility In this white paper, IDC analyzes the ROI that customers can expect from Riverbed Cascade, based on interviews with Cascade customers. Additionally, IDC lays out the business case for proactively managing network and application performance. Get the visibility you need to achieve your IT objectives. Download this whitepaper today.
Social Software Strategies for the Enterprise -- Cisco, Nike & Forrester Research Roundtable This stellar panel explores Forrester's market research & best-practices across the industry to provide you with insights you need to effectively implement a holistic Social Business Software strategy -- both inside and outside your company
Improving E-mail Management and Supervision Information governance: You know it's critical to have the right strategy—especially when it comes to managing e-mail. But, do you know if your archiving, compliance, and eDiscovery practices are adequately protecting your business? View this recorded webcast to find out how EMC SourceOne solutions for e-mail management and supervision can help you implement the best information governance strategy—one that saves you time and money.
4 Strategies for Controlling Applications on Your Network Use of instant messaging , peer-to-peer, mobile synchronization, games and other non-approved applications on the corporate network zaps productivity and is a source of malware infection and data loss . Controlling applications is a sound security policy and is required to be compliant with Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and other data protection legislation. But, monitoring and controlling applications is difficult and time consuming for resource constrained IT staff.
A Facilitator’s Guide to Training and Collaborating across Generations Today's workforce has a broader representation of generations than ever before. As each generation asserts its needs and desires, organizations are facing the challenge of helping the generations work more collaboratively and ultimately improving productivity. View to: - Understand best practices for hiring, training and communicating with people from each generation. - Understand the impact generational perspectives can have on an organization’s abilities to develop high performing teams and to thrive in a competitive environment. - Identify how to promote a culture around collaboration, where organizations leverage each employee's unique perspective and where generational differences contribute to a rich learning environment.
You’d never treat customers like this if they visited your offices – why do you do it on the website? Visitors to a company web site are experiencing confusion and frustration trying to conduct business with your company. The adage that “you don’t get a second chance to make a first impression” is more relevant today than ever. Studies show that 80% of all web site visitors abandon the site before looking at a specific product/service web page, and a further 65% of those abandon at product web pages. In this webinar, Mitchell Kramer, Senior VP at Patricia Seybold Group, walks you through the advantages of Web Self-Service technology for addressing this prevalent problem.
Botnets: An Insidious Growing Threat. In this webinar, Rik Ferguson, Trend Micro Senior Security Advisor, will explain how ZeuS and other botnets target enterprises's intellectual property—like source codes and financial data—and how they have recently expanded to target additional market segments. Jai Balasubramaniyan, Trend Micro Product Marketing Manager, will then discuss the advanced technology Trend Micro offers to immediately eliminate botnet attacks. Trend Micro™ Threat Management Services wipes out dangerous info-stealing botnet attacks before they can compromise your network.
EMC: Adding Value to VMware Solutions Join Chris Carrier, Director of Marketing at EMC, to learn about our industry-leading virtualization solutions and services, designed to help you optimize, extend, and accelerate your VMware infrastructure.
Cloud Computing Can Save You Money This Forrester whitepaper explains how you can talk to your CFO about SaaS and cloud computing. Infrastructure and operations is underfinanced, and those in the profession should know that they need to add new technologies if they want to lower their costs. The appeal of presence technologies like cloud computing is growing as a viable counterweight to potential project loss and dwindling budgets. Cloud’s month-by-month payment models are growing appeal, while its rapid project rollout speed and specialist focus prevents the company from suffering during the transition.
Unified Communications Solutions for Enterprise and Midmarket “Unified Communications” is hard to define and harder to buy. Each vendor has its own approach to Unified Communications, but this Comparison Guide now compares apples to apples on how to easily upgrade or purchase a solution that fits your budget and requirements.
5 Reasons Why Focusing on Web Self-Service in a Downturn Pays Off Learn the five reasons why leveraging web self-service to enhance the customer experience makes sense now more than ever. Investing in the customer experience has never been more important. In this latest addition to the IntelliResponse knowledge series, we present five reasons why leveraging web self-service to enhance the customer experience makes sense now more than ever.
The Wild, Wild Web: How to Ensure 360-Degree Border Security Organizations have serious threats to their metaphorical border - the corporate networks, from all directions – Web, email, IM – and the complexity, speed, and innovation of these threats are evolving at an unprecedented pace. Even worse for the modern organization is the lack of resources required to protect their borders from this level of threat stemming from all possible directions. This paper will discuss the modern threat of blended attacks and illustrate how integral web, email and IM are to the operations of any organization. More importantly this paper will highlight an alternative hosted solution by Symantec Hosted Services
"Dialing In" Has Changed Forever Virtually every business needs audio conferencing and it's a great low-cost tool for connecting your team. But the options available today are overwhelming and complicated features, non-intuitive controls, and low audio quality is common. So how do you select a solution that provides just the opposite? Watch this on-demand webinar to learn how web controls make audio conferencing easier and more cost-effective than ever before.
Confessions of a Software Company CEO Software CFOs face unprecedented challenges when it comes to financial management - a disconnected quote-to-cash process, constantly evolving revenue recognition guidelines and a lack of real-time visibility into revenue, pipeline and renewals, just to name a few. Download the eBook Confessions of a Software Company CFO and learn specific actions that leading software companies are taking to improve their performance
On-Premise CRM Comparison Guide This information-packed side-by-side comparison guide compares 11 of the top CRM vendor’s features and costs. View it to ensure that you are making the right decision for your company. If your business needs the flexibility offered by an in-house CRM system, your first step should be to research offerings from some of the industry's biggest vendors. Find out how different solutions address different features, how much you can expect to pay and what kind of technology infrastructure you need in place. This guide compares solutions from vendors such as Microsoft, SugarCRM, SAP, Infor and seven more.
Computrace, by Absolute Software View this flash demo to see Absolute in action. No matter where computers are connected, you can monitor installed software/hardware, track location using GPS and WiFi and take action if a device is lost or stolen.
5 Tips for Getting More Leads from Speaking Gigs When it comes to generating leads, there’s a good possibility you’ve got a trick up your sleeve that may be underutilized or completely overlooked. Land a few speaking engagements in front of a highly-targeted audience, demonstrate your vast knowledge, likable demeanor and mad skills, and there’s a good chance you’ll walk away with some hot prospects. View this on-demand Webinar you will learn: - The key to getting referred and making speaking for free pay off big - The secret about sharing your secrets - How to get more people to “opt in” for follow up
The Help Desk Is on the Critical Path for Pandemic/Disaster Recovery This Forrester white paper explores the critical role that the help desk should play in your organization's business continuity planning.
Overcome Market Pressures with a Well-Armed Sales Force -- T-Mobile Case Study T-Mobile employs over 36,000 employees & has over 32 million customers in the US alone. By creating a secure employee social network, T-Mobile empowers its sales force so they can quickly react to market pressures and overcome obstacles in a highly competitive market.
Enhancing the Customer Experience with a Multi-Channel Online Service Solution Leverage the latest online technologies and tactics to attract, convert and retain your best customers. Join experts from IntelliResponse, Live Person and 24-7 INtouch as they discuss the latest multi-channel strategies designed to increase customer acquisition, retention and satisfaction.
Why 'Old School' Self-Service is Hurting Your Customers and what you can do about it (via Web, Mobile and Social Media) It's a new era of customer service. Find out how next generation self-service can help your business. Watch this webinar hosted by IntelliResponse and featuring Dr. Natalie Petouhoff, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, Inc. to discuss the customer service challenges created by traditional self-service and how organizations can drive new self-service enhancements in 2010 via web, mobile and social media.
Intelligent Service Automation Working with Service Oriented Architecture This white paper describes how the rapid pace of today’s business environment has created demand for a new breed of tool to automate business processes. This new breed of tool must go beyond the world of scripting and simple time-based events, venturing into a new realm where applications and events can be driven dynamically in response to constantly changing business conditions.
Maximizing the Value of Online Learning in Your Organization Learning has entered a new era. Our responsibility as learning professionals is to be tireless in finding innovative ways to deliver business value. In this new eBook, Terrence Gargiulo of makingstories.net explores the fundamentals of online learning, including drivers, benefits and how to create an online learning strategy that maximizes business value.
How to Drive Deeper Engagement with Virtual Events and Community Learn how virtual events enable new methods to nurture and engage your online community, find out more about the value of leveraging your online community's influence and enthusiasm to drive superior results in virtual events, and hear successful case studies on how the combination of virtual shows and online communities increase web traffic and SEO results.
Building Online Communities The social web has created a shift in how companies are marketing to their consumers. Brand affinity is the holy grail of marketing departments. But how can you reach that level of devotion in your customer base? Instead of marketing to your customers, let your customers talk to you. Have them tell you what they want instead of you telling them what they should have. Marketers are shifting their focus from media and technology to the conversations taking place on the social web. Social Businss Software allows them to capture these conversations by providing the framework in which they take place.
Controlling Wireless Costs with Any Connection Reporting: Supporting Three Dimensions of Mobile Intelligence Wireless connectivity costs are spiraling upward for most organizations. WIth no systematic way to track connection and cost data across all of their employees and service providers, organizations cant make intelligent decisions about how to contain these rising costs. With Any Connection Reporting, enterprises can reduce the the cost of wireless connectivity even as usage grows. Read this whitepaper to learn more about Any Connection Reporting and its benefits.
The Definitive Webinar Marketing eGuide This new Quantum Leap Marketing eGuide provides the definitive roadmap for creating a Webinar marketing plan designed to significantly boost sales for your company. The comprehensive eGuide also includes a Webinar marketing plan outline and Webinar invite to help you get started today.
Five Reasons Why Smaller Organizations Should Consider High Availability Until recently, System i high availability solutions were reserved mostly for large enterprises. Now that high availability is dramatically easier to use and less expensive to own and manage, the picture has changed. Thousands of small and mid-sized companies can now afford to cost-justify the “luxury” of rapid, complete data recovery. Interestingly (and fortunately), this shift is occurring when downtime is causing more of a disruption and expense to businesses than ever before. With technology costs dropping and downtime costs skyrocketing, companies have a huge incentive to evaluate System i high availability technology.
Justifying IT Security: Managing Risk & Keeping Your Network Secure The goal of a security program is to choose and implement cost effective countermeasures that mitigate the vulnerabilities that will most likely lead to loss. This paper discusses the management of Risk and how Vulnerability Management is one of the few counter-measures easily justified by its ability to optimize risk. In this book you will discover: • What IT policy compliance is all about • How laws and regulations govern compliance • Ten best practices • How automation can ease compliance and save money
Evaluating and Contracting for Cloud Financials: Best Practice Considerations Your current business applications are costing you time, money and resources. Not to mention the negative impact on your productivity. You've heard about tens of thousands of companies like yours flocking to cloud computing and gaining flexibility, innovation, productivity, efficiency, accessibility, and cost-savings. But how do you avoid costly mistakes? Download the white paper "Evaluating and Contracting for Cloud Financials: Best Practice Considerations." You'll find practical advice and tips to ensure your choice is both cost-effective and right for your organization.
Hosted CRM Comparison Guide This in-depth guide compares 15 of the top CRM vendors' features and costs. Preview to ensure that you are making the right decision for your company. If your business is in the market for a CRM solution, then you must download this comprehensive comparison guide. Download this side-by-side comparison guide that breaks down the industry's top 15 CRM players (including Salesforce.com, RightNow Technologies, NetSuite, Microsoft, SugarCRM and Oracle) so you can quickly and easily compare the features and costs of each.
Managing Macs in a Windows Environment How do you maintain Macs in a network environment with a PC-centric infrastructure? If your company is one of the many that are using both PCs and Macs, this whitepaper explains what to look for in a client-management solution so that you can cut out inefficiencies and headaches! Topics include: * Functions you need to actively manage Mac clients * Planning for scalability * Benefits of having a single cross-platform solution
Zeus and ZBots: The Who, What, and How of Cybercrime’s Supercomputers ZeuS, ZBot, and latest Kneber bot are all part of the same ZBOT family that Trend Micro has been monitoring since 2007—but these bots are getting a lot of press lately because ZBOT, and its “Zeus” variants, are considered some of the most dangerous malware out there. Imagine a botnet, where only a few hundred criminals have more than 100 million computers under their control, giving them more computing power than the entire world’s supercomputers combined. Watch to learn how Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ blocks botnet attacks and other web threats with email, web, and file reputation technologies.
Key Strategies to Simplify Exchange Auditing When your business deals with sensitive data, a strong auditing and compliance policy MUST be in place. And this policy needs to provide specific details about security compromises and unauthorized system changes – not just a general overview. Safeguarding your company and implementing a rock-solid auditing policy means collecting ALL the information when a security breach occurs. Discover how to easily understand and control who accesses your company’s most valuable data. Also, you’ll learn how to find much more than just surface details when security is compromised, so you have the power to safeguard company’s valuable information. Secure your Exchange server, and empower your auditing and compliance policies. Read this valuable white paper today.
Vyatta Network Virtualization Planning Guide As virtualization spreads throughout data centers, complex infrastructures are being created within virtual environments that require the same functionality as traditional router, firewall and VPN devices located on the physical network. This paper presents use cases to illustrate how Vyatta takes virtualization beyond applications and operating systems and allows users who are migrating to VMware and Xen environments to also virtualize routing and security.
Automation Within, Around, and Beyond Oracle E-Business Suite This white paper will examine how to significantly improve your ROI and describe how UC4 Workload Automation Suite enhances and extends the Oracle E-Business Suite. It is possible to significantly improve your ROI for the Oracle E-Business Suite by: • Simplifying complex IT infrastructure. • Providing visibility, management, and control of business processes. • Mitigating risk by controlling your most mission critical business processes. • Providing business with the agility to respond to a dynamic market.
Creating a Foundation for Today’s Enterprise-wide Virtual Infrastructure Virtualization helps organizations around the globe turn their IT infrastructures into true competitive assets. Learn about the challenges facing today's organizations as they seek to implement the foundations of a virtualized infrastructure and about best practices for these implementations.
5 Best Practices to Protect Windows 7 Computers There are a number of security enhancements in the new Windows 7 release but is that protection enough? With many organizations considering the move to the latest Microsoft OS, now is the ideal time to review your endpoint and data protection practices to make sure you are getting the most out of your Windows 7 implementation.
Understanding Windows 7 Security Features What has changed for the better and worse with Windows 7 when it comes to endpoint security? There are some improvements to the built-in firewall and encryption features, remote management as well as better integration with Microsoft's Network Access Protection services in Windows Server 2008. This panel will discuss these and other topics and talk about what are the security implications when you make the migration to Windows 7 in your enterprise.
Improving Your ROI for PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleSoft Enterprise is a powerful suite of products designed to meet the full spectrum of enterprise software needs. However, it is possible to significantly improve your ROI for PeopleSoft Enterprise. Read about the challenges businesses face in a PeopleSoft Enterprises environment and shows why UC4 Workload Automation Suite is the best choice for remediation.
The ROI of Online Customer Service Communities Forrester Research shares primary research results about the factors customer service and support executives consider when determining the value of online communities, including a reduction in agent-assisted interactions, an increase in customer retention/customer lifetime values (CLV), an increase in first-contact resolution (FCR), and more.
How to Maximize eServices Self-service solutions are becoming a common part of many web sites because they educate prospective buyers, drive incremental sales, reduce contact center costs and improve customer satisfaction. Learn how to maximize eServices within your organization, and make the customer service transition from the web to the contact center effortless. Jeremy Green, a Senior Manager with TD Bank Financial Group, discusses how he successfully pioneered online eService deployments for sales and service at this national bank. Jeremy has 10 years of experience managing teams dedicated to driving online sales, transactions, cross-selling and channel integration efforts.
Customer Community: Why It’s the Holy Grail of Word of Mouth Marketing Join Barak Libai of the MIT Sloan School and the Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business in Tel Aviv along with Lithium's Principal Scientist for Analytics , Michael Wu, for a revealing discussion about recent findings from rich data on word of mouth interactions.
Audio Conferencing That Won't Break the Bank Whether you are having an internal meeting, customer meeting or a large Webinar, you rely on audio conferencing to get your work done and decisions made. What if you could partner with a communications service provider offering enterprise scale and reliability, global access numbers and Web-based conference management to help you reduce the bottom line on your audio-conferencing costs? HiDef Corporate conferencing service does just that. Join us for a look at how HiDef Corporate can put you in control of your meetings while cutting the cost of audio conferencing from your IT budget.
NetApp: Building a Connected Brand Learn how an industry-leading provider of storage and data management solutions used Social Business Software to accelerate a global branding initiative and connect with thousands of community members across one hundred countries.
Unified Communications for Competitve Advantage Solve the problem of disconnected networks and communications applications. HP ProCurve network equipment and Avaya Aura Unified Communications solutions give businesses a competitive advantage by bringing together voice, video and data on a single IP network while lowering costs, increasing productivity and improving network performance.
Solving the Lost Laptop Problem: The Ponemon Approach to Mobile Security Has your company ever lost a laptop? If not, you’re lucky. The loss of one laptop has been disastrous for IT departments, exposing millions of dollars worth of sensitive data. Now, consider how many laptops are in your company and the amount of data on each – is it worth the risk to not secure every one? Learn how to minimize these risks from Dr. Larry Ponemon of the Ponemon Institute. The world’s leading authority on information security discusses the latest findings on the cost of data breaches and the most effective preventative measures.
How IT Operations Managers Can Be Heroes In this webcast, featured guest Chris Silva of Forrester Research will discuss how operations managers can reduce costs and streamline the management of laptops and mobile devices by consolidating management tools, obtaining better visibility into endpoints, and leveraging hosted applications. Chris will also discuss the new role of the Mobile Operations Manager. In the last part of the webcast Jim Szafranski, Vice President of Customer Platform Services at Fiberlink, will demonstrate six ways that a hosted mobility platform can reduce costs and improve security.
How to Improve Disaster Recovery for the Enterprise: Advanced Replications Powered by WAN Optimization - Taneja Group Ready to accelerate disaster recovery across your entire enterprise? In the latest Taneja whitepaper entitled “How to Improve Disaster Recovery for the Enterprise: Advanced Replication Powered by WAN Optimization”, experts discuss how you can do just that by deploying WAN optimization. With it, your business can increase wide area network efficiency, overcome application latency, reduce network traffic, and optimize IT performance for disaster recovery. Get the facts now on how you can streamline IT infrastructure and recover from disasters fast with the right WAN acceleration solution.
The Phone System Buyer's Guide: A Step-by-Step Guide to Selecting a Cost-Effective Office Phone System In today’s slowing economic climate, businesses are looking for ways to reduce costs in every area. Download this white paper and learn how to reduce costs quickly and easily by evaluating and migrating to a state-of-the-art, feature-rich VoIP business phone system.
Seybold Report: Customer Service Company and Product Update Q12009 Get an update on the progress of the KM-based customer service market and IntelliResponse. In this report by the Patricia Seybold Group, a Boston-based consulting and research firm specializing in helping Fortune 500 companies with their e-business strategies, they provide an update on the progress of the KM-based customer service market and IntelliResponse.
Getting the Most from Your Marketing Events: The ROI of IN-Person Seminars, Trade Shows and Webinars Do you know your numbers? If getting more high-quality leads from your marketing events spend is a top priority, then it pays to know the return on investment of your marketing events tactics. This new white paper explores which marketing events offer the greatest return on investment for your budget and staff. Read survey results of marketers using different types of events, and then calculate your own event costs with the marketing events ROI calculator.
Economist Intelligence Unit: A New Mandate for IT Armed with increasingly sophisticated applications, IT-led teams have consistently found new ways to streamline enterprise business processes, vastly improving operating efficiency and reducing costs. Most IT leaders are ready to accept the challenge, but what does revenue generation mean for the IT function?
Next-Generation Disaster Recovery and Availability Technologies for IBM Power Systems Journaling? RAID? Vaulting? Mirroring? High availability? Know your data protection and recovery options! Download this information-packed 29-page report that reviews the spectrum of IBM i (i5/OS) and AIX resilience and recovery technologies and best practices choices, including the latest, next-generation solutions. Use the paper to better evaluate alternatives in light of your own needs and constraints around recovery time, data currency, IT staffing, and budget.
The State of Resilience on IBM Power Systems Business leaders understand intuitively the value of their data and know that they must daily address the practical, tangible issues of protecting their business information from loss or corruption and putting it to work effectively, efficiently and profitably. This insightful report includes the input of over 4,000 companies during 2009 that run AIX and IBM i (i5/OS) environments, focusing on data protection and recovery technologies/strategies. Learn how your peers are striking the balance between the often conflicting priorities of IT availability, system performance, service level agreements, IT staffing and budgets.
Top 10 Reports for Managing Vulnerabilities New network vulnerabilities appear constantly and the ability for IT security professionals to handle new flaws, fix misconfigurations and protect against threats requires constant attention. However, with shrinking budgets and growing responsibilities, time and resources are at constrained. Therefore, sifting through pages of raw vulnerability information yields few results and makes it impossible to accurately measure your security posture. This free guide covers the key aspects of the vulnerability management lifecycle and shows you what reports today's best-in-class organizations are using to reduce risks on their network infrastructure.
Boosting Customer Loyalty with Social Software -- InterContinental Hotels Group Case Study InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) created, Priority Club Connect, an online community to connect & engage its 40 million Priority Club Rewards members. Discover how this enhanced customer loyalty programs & transformed customers into brand advocates. Get strategies & advice for deploying &optimizing customer loyalty communities
Minimizing Windows 7 migration worries with VMware View In this webcast, you’ll hear from IDC about the expected release of Windows 7, OS trends, and why organizations should start to think about application and desktop virtualization as a part of their migration strategies. VMware will provide an overview of its View solution – and how its leading desktop products will help organizations during the Windows 7 migration process, and provide strong management, user experience and TCO benefits after deployment. • VMware View Minimizes business impact due to Win7 migration • VMware View insures application compatibility in Win7 migration. VMware View Minimizes the cost of migration to Win7 migration.
Desktop Virtualization for “Dummies” What are the main drivers and challenges behind desktop virtualization today? Listen to this webcast, where IDC will present an overview of the market trends, and identify the key points behind what’s driving customer adoption. VMware representative will discuss VMware View™ solution and use cases, and how you can benefit by deploying a desktop virtualization solution from VMware. VMware® ThinApp™ agentless application virtualization helps you deliver a single executable onto a wide variety of Windows platforms. The application is completely isolated from the OS and behaves the same across platforms.
What's Working in Small Business Marketing and Webinars Today small business marketers must make every dollar count by investing in proven effective tactics. Quantum Leap Marketing recently conducted a survey to find out how small business marketers are responding to tough economic times and how they plan to optimize marketing efforts for maximum results.
Identify and Engage Inactive Prospects Inactive contacts can impact your ability to measure the true effectiveness of your campaigns. Looking at which subset of your database is actively engaged with you, and which part is not, will give you a much clearer picture of the effectiveness of your demand generation programs. In this two minute video, learn how to get started!
Creating the Ideal Email Subject Line Don't you wish there was a magic formula for writing email subject lines? How do you write a subject line that will get someone to open and respond to your email? This short video offers a four quick tips to ensure email effectiveness.
Zero-day Attacks: How They Work and How to Protect Yourself In this webinar you will learn how all three communication vectors including email, web, and files, were combined with a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft™ Internet Explorer (IE), to attack Google and other large organizations. This recent zero-day vulnerability in IE forced Microsoft to release an out-of-band patch. Some reports also suggest that cybercriminals are launching attacks using recent vulnerabilities found in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat as well. Register now and see how to protect yourself from zero-day threats.
IDC Research Report: Automated, Integrated IT Operations Improve Efficiency and Deliver Cost Savings Tight budgets and increasingly complex IT environments mean that IT operations teams must operate as efficiently as possible in order to keep the business running and end users satisfied. IDC research shows that standardized IT operations processes and workflows supported by automated, integrated tools consistently save time and money while improving service levels.
6 Mistakes Companies Make and How to Avoid Them Answer six questions and find out if your company is making the same mistakes as your peers in a down economy. Determine the level of business intelligence opportunity across your organization and whether a business intelligence solution can improve your organization’s decision making and, ultimately, its performance.
Disaster Recovery: Improving Performance While Controlling Costs How long can your Enterprise afford to be without your data? With an accelerated disaster recovery program, you never have to answer this question. Download this webseminar and learn how advancements in WAN optimization can reduce RPOs and RTOs even more. And hear featured customer case studies demonstrating how enterprises are putting these solutions into practice today. With lost data being a competitive liability, there is no room for downtime in today’s business world.
VMware’s VMworld: The Global Destination for Virtualizationding Learn how the global leader in virtualization solutions used Social Business Software to connect with prospects, customers, experts, and partners to expand their audience from 15,000 to 50,000. Originally launched as an extension of their popular VMworld conference, as VMworld.com approaches its one year anniversary it has established itself as the largest virtualization community in the world. VMware can now see in real time the hot areas in the virtualization community, the trends and top of mind concerns, and leverage these insights in product direction and messaging.
Controlling the Cost of Audio Conferencing Audio conferencing is a vital tool for business communication but the fees most services charge for operator-assisted calls can really add up. This Wainhouse Research application brief explores the costs of audio conferencing – specifically whether organizations consider cost to be a problem and what they’re doing to control it. Download the brief to learn: * What to look for in an audio conferencing service plan * Which tools best control costs and why some organizations are opting to consolidate usage to a single supplier * How Web-based call controls, online reports and recording help maximize use while controlling costs
Business Process Acceleration within Oracle E-Business Suite This white paper will examine how to significantly increase your Oracle Applications ROI and describes how UC4 Workload Automation Suite enhances processing within the Oracle E-Business Suite. Improve your ROI for the Oracle E-Business Suite by: • Simplifying complex IT infrastructure. • Providing visibility, management, and control of business processes. • Mitigating risk by controlling your most mission critical business processes. • Providing business with the agility to respond to a dynamic market
Managing and Securing Mobile Healthcare Data and Devices The healthcare enterprise worker is one of the most mobile of her peers across vertical industries. With the high degree of mobility inherent in the corridor-warrior and day-extender work styles of most healthcare professionals, IT must remain cognizant of where critical data is being stored and what’s at risk on top of providing 24x7 productivity.
ESG Lab Audit Report: EMC IT A Blueprint for Data Center Efficiency This ESG Lab Audit Report summarizes EMC's own IT organizations' efforts to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and environmental sustainability of its existing IT infrastructure.
The Benefits of Data Replication in HACMP/PowerHA Cluster Management Implementations PowerHA (formerly HACMP) clusters multiple servers to shared storage, offering automatic recovery of applications and system resources if a failure occurs with the primary server. But clustering is only one part of a truly resilient IT infrastructure. The other essential component is data replication technology.
Powering the Customer Network with Lithium Social CRM Social CRM is a new strategy and applications approach to combine the power of online customer communities, broader social networks, and traditional CRM systems to deliver this next generation of customers and customer relationships. To elaborate on how Social CRM can be used to drive action, Lithium has written a comprehensive white paper.
Seybold Report: Framework for Evaluating Customer Self-Service Products and Services Learn how to evaluate service solutions that deliver a great end-to-end customer experience. In this report by the Patricia Seybold Group present their evaluation framework for customer self-service products. Senior VP and Senior Consultant, Mitchell I. Kramer, explains how to evaluate service solutions that deliver a great end-to-end customer experience. The Patricia Seybold Group is a Boston-based consulting and research firm specializing in helping Fortune 500 companies with their e-business strategies.
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Accelerate ROI with a Complete WAN Optimization Solution Want to achieve faster ROI by deploying a complete WAN optimization solution? Read the latest IDC report entitled “Improving the Business Value of WAN Optimization” to get the facts. You’ll discover how WAN optimization can help your business to cut IT costs without compromising performance, gain greater efficiency, and improve end user productivity and overall satisfaction. There are also some key real world case studies where current customers have shown real results.
Security Update: Threats in a Web 2.0 World Cybercrime is becoming a more serious threat than ever before, with a growing tide of malware and spam attacks putting identities, finances and corporate reputations at risk. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, will explore the world of computer security threats during a live Webcast. Gain insights into the latest trends in malware with SophosLabs -- where more than 50,000 new samples of malware are analyzed every day. Featuring live Q&A, this interactive Web event sponsored by Sophos will help you with today's security challenges and beyond. Join us to learn more about: • Exploitation of social-networking websites • Malware, malware, malware • Future trends for cyber attack in 2010 Register today for this informative webcast.
Marketing for Trainers: How to Promote Your Training Programs Trainers are under more pressure than ever to demonstrate results. For many, this begins with a productivity metric like “how many trainees did you reach?” The good news is that you don’t have to be a marketer to create compelling communications that improve attendance rates. Join Webinar expert and author of the new book, “The Virtual Presenter's Handbook,” Roger Courville, to learn practical steps to immediately supercharge the promotion of your training programs.
Understanding TCO & ROI for VMware View Total cost of ownership is one of the key criteria for evaluating desktop architecture. In this webcast, you’ll hear from VMware and IDC about measuring TCO and ROI for a VMware View™ 4 implementation. We will cover IDC findings on real cost savings achieved by VMware View™ 4 customers, the methodology used for the TCO/ROI analysis, and the tools you can leverage to customize and perform your own TCO analysis. We will also provide guidance on how to effectively position and pitch VMware View internally. • VMware View provides lowest TCO • VMware View provides fastest payback period • VMware View provides highest ROI
How to Move Your Training Program Online The pressure is on for trainers to reach more customers and employees quickly – regardless of location – but without increasing headcount. Forget the private jet and unlimited fuel budget — you’re going to need technology to really go the distance. This new research brief explores how an online training program empowers organizations to reach more trainees effectively, and examines best practices for implementing an online training program within your organization.
Forrester Consulting – A Standard Branch Office IT Platform to Optimize and Consolidate Want a standard IT platform that delivers network optimization and virtualization to the branch office? Look no further. In this report, Forrester investigates the reasons why you should consider WAN optimization solutions as the best way to gain better IT performance, cost savings, and greater flexibility for your business. And it’s also a smart network improvement investment over the long-term. Get the facts about WAN optimization in this study.
Forrester Consulting – A Standard Branch Office IT Platform to Optimize and Consolidate Want a standard IT platform that delivers network optimization and virtualization to the branch office? Look no further. In this report, Forrester investigates the reasons why you should consider WAN optimization solutions as the best way to gain better IT performance, cost savings, and greater flexibility for your business. And it’s also a smart network improvement investment over the long-term. Get the facts about WAN optimization in this study.
Reaping the Benefits of Next Generation Dashboards Traditional BI solutions face many obstacles and limitations. However, the need for timely and succinct business intelligence (BI) continues to grow. As a result, BI has continued to evolve - creating a next generation of BI. This white paper explores how organizations are demanding more integrated and flexible business intelligence solutions that facilitate more timely and informed decisions, as well as how next generation of dashboards solve these challenges.
Accelerate Product Innovation, Get Your Customers Involved -- SAP case study The essence of SAP’s customer focused ecosystem is value, speed, and innovation. SAP’s approach focuses on the needs of organizations and individuals by providing open communications between SAP, its customers, and partners. Powering the ecosystem with the Collaboration Workspace, a branded online community, helps SAP continue its tradition of industry leadership and customer value. Watch this on-demand webcast to get strategies and advice for your own social media initiatives.
Union Gas Web Self-Service Modern customer interactions now rely more and more on the web as the hub for first point of contact. Whether via a smartphone, corporate web site, or social media channel like Facebook, this new multi-channel reality can put customer satisfaction at many organizations to the test. This is why ensuring a high quality and consistent customer experience across these new channels is just good business, not only in terms of its impact on customer satisfaction, but also in the resulting bottom line savings.
Data Quality: A Survival Guide to Marketing Discover the concept of data as it pertains to marketing, and particularly as it is supported by data quality functions inside of the broader EIM framework. This white paper reviews how to improve your customer data for marketing effectiveness.
Death to PST Files Email is one of a company's most widely used assets - the average corporate user sends and receives 167 messages per day. Since a company must provide employees constant access to their email accounts and retain copies of every important message, managing the email of an entire enterprise is exceedingly difficult. Many employees use Personal Storage Table (PST) files as a "personal email filing cabinet" that can burden a company's storage and cause data loss or corruption. Learn how a hosted archiving solution helps companies manage the huge volume of email messages, guard against data loss and comply with document-retention regulations.
Learn why VMware View is the Widely Deployed Platform for Desktop Virtualization In today's challenging climate, users have a myriad of questions when considering a virtual desktop infrastructure. It is important to understand the benefits of VMware View™ versus other alternative solutions. We’ll cover what are the key decision criteria when evaluating a virtual desktop session, and how VMware View meets those needs. Attend this webcast and learn: • Top 3 benefits why VMware View is the superior desktop virtualization platform • Recent test case scenarios through Tolly Enterprise Group • How VMware View solves IT desktop pain points
How to Make the Case for IT Automation The benefits of automation are clear, but how do they translate-in hours and dollars saved-in the real world? To help IT professionals find out, Kaseya has teamed with Ziff Davis Enterprise to present this fact filled white paper on making the case for Automation.
Next Generation Audio Conferencing While the advent of the Web changed the way we do just about everything, audio conferencing kept a steady low profile. Buckle up: Audio conferencing is about to hit warp speed on the information superhighway. This Wainhouse Research application brief explores the results of a groundbreaking survey on the next generation of audio conferencing. Get acquainted with Web-controlled audio conferencing, including business benefits, real-world impact and recommended best practices. Download the brief to learn: • What the next generation of audio conferencing looks like • How Web-controlled audio conferencing will benefit your business • What to look for in a Web-controlled audio conferencing service
Delivering Interactive Training Online You don’t have to look far to see why organizations are in constant training mode – a global marketplace brings with it a break-neck flow of new technologies, product rollouts and policies. But what do you do when budgets are tight and employees are no longer just down the hall? This white paper explores today’s unique training landscape, where employees are increasingly mobile and dispersed across the globe. In this new business environment, the traditional in-person training paradigm is no longer a sustainable solution.
Vyatta vs. Cisco 7204 BGP Performance Evaluation Over the past decade the Internet has grown rapidly resulting in a significant increase in the amount of traffic and the size of the Internet routing table managed by service provider and enterprise edge routers. Existing proprietary edge routers are quickly running out of the processing power and memory capacity required to keep up with these growing demands. This paper is a performance test of Vyatta’s open networking vs. Cisco 7200 series routers that demonstrates superior performance for a fraction of the price.
Web Conferencing Training Trends 2010: North America Organizations are increasingly choosing online training in an effort to optimize efficiency. And it seems to be delivering big payoffs. But what’s behind this accelerating trend? This new 1080 Group brief details key research findings on the use of Web conferencing for training, and it explores the opportunities created by online meetings for boosting productivity and delivering value.
Reducing Total Cost of Ownership for Oracle Retail Oracle Retail offers software solutions that support many of the operational activities of a typical retailer. The software solutions create value by applying innovative technology to help retailers efficiently create, manage, and fulfill consumer demand. UC4 Workload Automation Suite can cut the batch schedule development and implementation time to just a few weeks, and reduce ongoing maintenance. The result is reduced total cost of ownership (TCO).This white paper describes how UC4 significantly shortens the Retail batch schedule development time, as well as the additional functionality UC4 brings to Retail applications.
The Power of Information Availability: What Every Healthcare IT Manager Needs to Know Are you ready to take on the burden of ensuring ever-higher service level availability and a comprehensive approach to compliance? This white paper outlines how an information availability solution—can ensure the uptime and accessibility of data and applications, regardless of planned or unplanned interruptions. They can transform costly unproductive downtime into value producing uptime and help you deal with the IT challenges behind innovative patient care and compliance.
Achieving Rapid Data Recovery for IBM AIX® Environments If you're like most businesses, you're using some form of data protection today – probably tape-based backup. The problem with these legacy backup methods is that they do not fully address the needs of IBM AIX users. Your applications need to have 24 x 7 availability, and the time needed to backup to tape -- and perform a full system recovery, should you need it -- just is not there. You need to have a backup solution that fully addresses the needs of your IBM AIX operating environment.
The Benefits of Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for IBM i5/OS and AIX Environments A rewind button for applications, files and transactions? That's what continuous data protection (CDP) technology provides to managers of IBM AIX and i5/OS operating environments. CDP rapidly recovers accidentally deleted or otherwise corrupted data and provides many other valuable benefits. Read this informative eight-page paper to learn more about this breakthrough data protection technology.
Vulnerability Management Buyer's Checklist: Key Questions to Ask Before You Select a VM Solution Choosing a solution for Vulnerability Management (VM) is a critical step toward protecting your organization's network and data. Without proven, automated technology for precise detection and remediation, no network can withstand the daily onslaught of new vulnerabilities that threaten security. To help finalize your decision on which solution to buy, this guide provides this 12-point short list of considerations that will help you determine what will work best for your organization.
Best Practices for Online Communities While there are many best practices to run successful communities, this summary will help you get started on focusing on the areas to create the best returns on your community investment. To elaborate on how Social CRM can be used to drive action, Lithium has written a comprehensive white paper.
Buyer's Guide: Unified Communications New advances in communications technology have made reaching customers and contacting remote employees easier than ever. However, managing applications ranging from IM to Web conferencing can be difficult for your IT staff. UC (Unified Communications) offers a better way for your company to handle all its communications from one platform without overhauling your existing IT infrastructure. Read this Buyer's Guide today to get started learning about how UC can benefit your business!
Jupiter Research Report: Site Visitor Frustrations with Web Site Self-Service and Search Learn what web visitors have to say about current online tools for site search and self-service from this Jupiter conducted survey. The Internet continues to evolve into an increasingly valuable research, shopping and customer support tool for customers. Publishers who fail to provide a clear and concise means of gathering and sharing information with their customers will suffer decreased overall sales as well as diminished customer loyalty. Learn what web visitors have to say about current online tools for site search and self-service from this Jupiter conducted survey.
Boosting Customer Loyalty with Social Software -- InterContinental Hotels Group Case Study InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) created an online community to connect and engage with its 40 million Priority Club Rewards members. IHG's vision for the new social media platform, Priority Club Connect, is to become the central online gathering place for Priority Club Rewards Members and other like-minded travelers to engage with the Priority Club Loyalty Program and connect and share their traveler experiences. Priority Club Connect encourages members to talk directly with IHG management through a video blog on the community and to participate in special offers available only through the community.
Backup and recovery of VMware environments with HP Data Protector Software Audio White Paper Protecting virtual machines and their application data with frequent backups and minimal impact to the virtual infrastructure has become one of the biggest information management challenges for technology organizations to overcome. Lose your fear of losing your data. HP Data Protector software can provide complete data protection for your virtualized environment, including support for the whole virtual machine and all of its application data.
Sales 2.0 and Social Media: The Sales Manager’s Guide to Next-Generation Prospecting In today’s marketplace it’s all about connecting smarter by combining selling fundamentals + new social media tools. * Sales 2.0 and Social Media – A New Approach to Prospecting * Don’t Forget the Fundamentals – It’s Still About Delivering a Tailored Message * Success Strategies – Putting Social Media to Work
Invest In Your Sales Forecast, and Increased Revenues Will Follow Organizations adopting best-in-class sales forecasts realize clear benefits: * 20% more reps achieving quota; * 11% lift in plan attainment; * 25% increase in win rate. Find out how sales forecasting optimization and sales performance relate in this practical exploration of the latest data from CSO Insights annual Sales Performance Optimization study. With actionable recommendations, you’ll learn how to improve your results with a best-in-class sales process based on companies who are using a trusted, actionable sales forecast to drive more business.
Digital Body Language 101: Turn Buyer Behavior Into Dollars Just as a salesperson uses physical body language to understand a prospect’s buying intentions, marketers can use digital body language -the digital clues your prospects leave behind online -- to target the right people, with the right message, at the right time. Download this free guide now to learn how using digital body language to target your campaigns will result in better conversion rates and gives sales the insight they need to close more deals.
SMB Hosted Security Buyer’s Guide Hosted security providers offer a wealth of similar services and qualifications; an accurate comparison is essential for midmarket organizations to determine TCO and understand associated risks and rewards. This buyer’s guide arms IT Managers with key security considerations and evaluation criteria for comparing prospective hosted security providers. With the right data, you can make a strong business case for hosted security.
Accurate Costing Is Key to Profitability What should you do to manage pricing and profitability effectively? Read this research paper about the essentials for success: the right costing methodology, the right information, and the right analytical tools.
Audio Conferencing 2.0: Control Costs & Simplify Administration Audio conferencing has seen very few innovations in recent years — unless you consider complicated operations and added expenses to be significant milestones. Simply put, the industry has been stagnant. Until now. Enter HiDef Corporate, the new audio-conferencing solution. We’re taking audio conferencing to an entirely new level. Built with Web-based administration and control, HiDef Corporate audio conferencing gives you crystal-clear audio plus the tools to extract maximum value from every call.
Improving Your ROI for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne JD Edwards EnterpriseOne is a powerful suite of products designed to meet the full spectrum of enterprise software needs. However, you can significantly improve your ROI for EnterpriseOne by reducing your EnterpriseOne batch window, controlling ad hoc jobs, and distributing output more efficiently. When UC4 Workload Automation Suiteis applied to EnterpriseOne, it significantly reduces EnterpriseOne batch window, controls ad hoc jobs, and automates output distribution.
An Introduction to System i High Availability Because of the need to keep systems available for increasing amounts of time, companies are realizing that a system failure or a site disaster would create an enormous disruption and expense, especially if it went on for longer than a few hours. For many companies, exposure to this amount of potential downtime has become unacceptable. Shops that thought they weren’t candidates for a high availability solution are now realizing an urgent need to start looking at their options.
Environment Health and Safety: Best-in-Class Strategies to Manage Risk and Compliance in Operations This webcast will highlight how Best-in-Class organizations are successfully managing environment, health and safety programs from a people, processes, and technology perspective. It will further focus on the role software assumes in supporting EHS initiatives, with specific attention being paid to how the Best-in-Class minimize environmental incidents, reduce carbon footprint, and ensure the safety of facilities, workers, and products.
Measuring Community Health for Online Communities Successful communities is a result of growing, vibrant participation. The Community Health Index describes how to identify and balance 6 key metrics.
Customer Experience Management & the Financial Services Provider Learn the best ways to use exceptional customer experience to differentiate your institution in the rapidly evolving financial services industry. Beginning with your contact center and web properties, and extending out to include assisted channels, mobile and new social media, we examine the multi-channel approach necessary to successfully manage the customer experience for your financial services institution.
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Advanced Load Balancing: 8 Must-have Features for Today's Network Demands Application availability and scalability are no longer enough. Today's enterprises require an integrated solution that also delivers the highest levels of security, performance and adaptability for their business critical Web applications.
Business Intelligence for the Small to Medium Sized Business "As information flows more freely in the business world, decisions need to be made quicker and based on sturdier data. The analytical capability that was once reserved for large enterprises has now permeated the world of Small to Medium Businesses (SMBs) and provided a solid foundation of visibility into what really matters to these companies. Aberdeen's research shows a marked uptake in the use of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions in the SMB market over the past year. Based on feedback from almost 650 end-user organizations, this report serves as a roadmap for SMBs looking to improve their analytical capability and achieve Best-in-Class performance through the deployment of BI."
Energy Impact of Increased Server Inlet Temperature The quest for efficiency improvement raises questions regarding the optimal air temperature for data centers. This paper will show a complex interaction between server power and total data center consumption in which energy savings is realized within a temperature sweet spot. This temperature sweet spot varies by equipment, containment solution, and other factors.
Virtualization for Dummies This free e-book—an official release in the renowned “For Dummies” series—explores why virtualization is in such great demand and what it can do for your business. Discover 4 powerful and very different trends driving virtualization adoption; 3 key types of server virtualization; and 4 system resources you'd be crazy not to have plenty of. Learn how to save on servers, real estate, and energy—download your free copy now.
Achieving Virtualization Control with Intelligent Service Automation Do all your vendors, platforms, and virtual machines add up to a manual scripting nightmare? Not if you have the know-how and technology to integrate it all.
Delivering on the Promise of Web-based Customer Experience Peter Sargent, Vice President at Jupiter Research, discusses the dire consequences poor customer experience management can have on organizations, and how the latest in web-based tools such as Web Self-Service can help empower users with the right information.
Data Quality Strategy: A Step-by-Step Approach Learn about the importance of having a data quality strategy and setting the overall goals. The six factors of data are also explained in detail and how to tie it together for implementation.
Citrix Solutions Accelerate Network Performance of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 The job of IT organizations is to enable business to be conducted as efficiently as possible by bringing users and applications together. Increasingly complex business processes and high user expectations can place a significant burden on your infrastructure. Citrix Application Delivery Solutions deliver meaningful and measurable benefits through reduction of users' transcation response time by an impressive 30 - 90%.
Wachovia's Paul Turpin Talks About DB2 Paul Turpin, DBA at Wachovia, talks about his experiences with DB2 and with the International DB2 Users Group.
Reaping the Benefits of Next Generation Dashboards Traditional BI solutions face many obstacles and limitations. However, the need for timely and succinct business intelligence (BI) continues to grow. As a result, BI has continued to evolve - creating a next generation of BI. This white paper explores how organizations are demanding more integrated and flexible business intelligence solutions that facilitate more timely and informed decisions, as well as how next generation of dashboards solve these challenges.
Making the Most of SharePoint and ECM Learn how to maximize your combined investments in SharePoint and Documentum enterprise content management (ECM). Register to view this recorded webcast and find out how you can: *Expand the reach of content management throughout your organization *Balance IT's compliance and management needs with information worker usability considerations *Ensure content is securely managed with a single security model applied to all content—regardless of application *Extend SharePoint by providing a scalable, regulated infrastructure within your standard content architecture
Beyond Boundaries: A New Role in Finance in Driving Business Collaboration CFO Research Services whitepaper. Conducted a research program among senior finance executives in the US, EMEA and APJ to examine shifts in traditional sourcing and procurement practices in the global economy. And revealed three themes on how finance is using alliances, partners (external and internal) successfully.
Are Your Marketing Programs Successful? A Guide for Measuring Marketing Effectiveness. Marketers today don't have the luxury of deploying marketing campaigns without quantifying the results. Measuring your marketing effectiveness will help you justify programs and optimize results. Sometimes knowing what to track and how to define success is half the battle. Download this free eBook now and get access to hands-on tips and real-life lessons on how to track the effectiveness of your marketing programs.
Minimizing Windows 7 migration worries with VMware View In this webcast, you’ll hear from IDC about the expected release of Windows 7, OS trends, and why organizations should start to think about application and desktop virtualization as a part of their migration strategies. VMware will provide an overview of its View solution – and how its leading desktop products will help organizations during the Windows 7 migration process, and provide strong management, user experience and TCO benefits after deployment. • VMware View Minimizes business impact due to Win7 migration • VMware View insures application compatibility in Win7 migration. VMware View Minimizes the cost of migration to Win7 migration.
The Value of Web-Based Audio Conferencing Companies are on the hunt for ways to increase productivity without much IT investment. So it should come as no surprise that many organizations are choosing Web-based audio conferencing to ratchet up efficiency while reducing costs. In this new IDC Analyst Connection, Robert Mahowald, IDC research director, explores the value of Web-based audio conferencing and how it enables organizations to better manage users and costs.
Enterprise Automation: Removing Risk and Improving Business Processes Across Departments, Geographies, and the Cloud Every company has a unique approach to executing technology-driven business processes. Processes such as invoicing, procurement, and supply chain, though commonplace, are different for every company and always mission critical. However, in today’s businesses, these processes are also complex. There are multiple handoffs between computer-executed and manual tasks, between applications such as Oracle E-Business Suite and SAP, or even between a company and its business partners. And although process integrity is a hallmark of high performing businesses, many companies lack an automated means to ensure that these often complex process flows complete every step successfully.
Riverbed Services Platform Feature Brief Consolidation and virtualization are hot trends in IT, helping organizations increase their flexibility in delivering valuable services and reduce costs. The enhanced Riverbed® Services Platform (RSP) provides customers with the capability to run up to five additional services and applications virtually on VMware in a protected partition on the Steelhead® appliance. This revolutionary approach allows customers to deploy local services in all their branch offices without the need to deploy and maintain full-blown servers to run the applications. The business benefits are minimizing the hardware needed at the branch office, enabling companies to consolidate IT operations even further, reducing costs, and simplifying administration, all while still delivering high quality local services.
High Availability in an SAP Environment Due to its integration into every aspect of your business, any lack of availability of your SAP® application, or its underlying data, represents a serious threat to your ability to deliver your products and services to your customers. This white paper will review the unique issues related to High Availability and Disaster Recovery in your SAP environment, including 2- and 3-tier architectures, and guide you in developing appropriate SAP data and application management strategies.
Gold In Them Hills: Computing the ROI for Support Communities This white paper, “Gold In Them Hills: Computing the ROI for Support Communities,” describes approaches used successfully by Lithium’s customers to compute a realistic ROI (Return On Investment) for their proposed or established support community initiative.
Market Primer: Phone Systems Virtually every company today needs a functioning phone system. Learn everything you need to know about current offerings in this FREE Market Primer.
Customer Experience Management & the Insurance Provider This white paper examines the best ways to use exceptional customer experience to differentiate your organization in the rapidly evolving insurance industry. Beginning with your contact center and web properties, and extending out to include assisted channels, mobile and new social media, we examine the multi-channel approach necessary to successfully manage the customer experience for your organization.
Simplify and Speed Business Intelligence and Web Analytics Deployment This webcast introduces the latest business intelligence technology that can help you discover your insight “needle” in a haystack of data. In under an hour, you'll learn how to avoid expensive hardware and “forklift” upgrades, via an open-source platform; cut costs by storing more data on modest hardware; and effectively deploy a business intelligence implementation. Get the meaningful data you need, for less—view this free webcast now.
Overcome Market Pressures with a Well-Armed Sales Force T-Mobile is one of the largest telecommunications providers in the world, with over 36,000 employees and over 32 million customers in the US alone. One year ago, T-Mobile began an initiative to overhaul how it trained, informed, and connected with its enterprise sales team. By creating a secure employee social network, the company empowered its sales force with the latest in product, market, and sales information. T-Mobile is seeing tremendous results.
Application Delivery over the WAN: Acceleration Alone is not Enough Looking to maximize IT performance by leveraging WAN optimization solutions across your entire organization? Today, the simple fact is that acceleration alone is not enough. In this report, Aberdeen Group report examines best practices for managing application performance over the wide area network. No matter where your company is at in the process, this report can help you achieve success in accelerating performance and cost savings.
Increasing Data Center Efficiency by Using Improved High Density Power Distribution A new approach to power distribution for high density server installations saves floor space, simplifies power cabling, saves capital cost, reduces weight, and increases electrical efficiency. This paper describes this distribution architecture and quantifies the benefits.
Economist Intelligence Unit: Business intelligence Putting information to Work A recent survey by "The Economist" on BI / Analytics revealed the following IT priorities: - Platform standardization - Process embedded analytics - Performance management - Speed (in-memory processing) - Information quality You will notice a strong match between customers' needs, and SAP's offerings and strategy for BI and Analytics - confirming SAP's vision and direction. This (independent) study was sponsored jointly by SAP and Intel, further demonstrating SAP's commitment and thought leadership for BI / Analytics. An integral element of a larger BI / Analytics campaign by SAP and Intel, this work will also further the market's awareness and recognition of SAP's leadership in the BI / Analytics space.
Application Delivery over the WAN: Acceleration Alone is not Enough Looking to maximize IT performance by leveraging WAN optimization solutions across your entire organization? Today, the simple fact is that acceleration alone is not enough. In this report, Aberdeen Group report examines best practices for managing application performance over the wide area network. No matter where your company is at in the process, this report can help you achieve success in accelerating performance and cost savings.
Adaptive Blue: Glue On this episode of ReadWriteTalk, we sit down with some of the team from Adaptive Blue and discuss their new product Glue.
Keys to Oracle Application Acceleration: Advances in Delivery Systems Citrix® NetScaler® is an ideal solution for any enterprise seeking accelerated Oracle application performance, availability, and security. These purpose-built appliances integrate multiple technologies to deliver highly efficient data compression and content caching, greater availability, improved visibility, advanced traffic management and comprehensive security. Learn more in this white paper.
The Benefits of Power Management The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that computers account for about 7% of the electricity used in offices. Despite most computers’ energy saving modes, an estimated 30-40% of them are still left fully powered outside of business hours! Organizations can substantially reduce their energy bills and environmental impact by controlling their computers’ power usage. This whitepaper explores the financial and environmental benefits of power management systems.
Social Media, Demand Generation, and the Evolution of Marketing Steve Woods, Mike Volpe, and Craig Rosenberg, will go beyond the buzzwords and hype surrounding social media and discuss how to think about social media in the context of your demand generation strategy. With real world examples from a variety of industries, these experts will bring a new perspective, and challenge the way we think about campaigns, marketing assets, analysis, and our prospects.
Performance Management 2.0 Performance Management 2.0 is a leading-edge strategy for database tuning and troubleshooting. Fueled by technology that captures and analyzes the actual workload on the database, it provides your organization with: Fast, effective problem resolution—to minimize the impact of outages and slowdowns The best possible tuning outcomes—for superior performance Efficiency and flexibility—to improve service delivery, even with fewer or less experienced staff Cost savings—by eliminating unnecessary hardware purchases and reliance on outside consultants This ground-breaking approach enables DBAs and database analysts to: Immediately understand any database’s unique performance profile Pinpoint the root cause of performance issues past or present Resolve complex or intermittent problems Identify and reverse downward trends in performance Don't miss this opportunity to learn about "the next big thing" in database performance management—and gain insight you won’t find anywhere else!
Java Posse #220 - JavaFX Launch and Interview An Interview with John Burkey and Octavian Tanase of Sun Microsystems about JavaFX. The audio quality is telephone grade, you have been warned.
Up Your EQ (Engagement Quotient!) with 10 Practical Presentation Skills Research shows that trainers who can turn passive participants into active participants significantly improve learner retention rates. View this informative one-hour Webinar archive to learn how to accelerate your success with engaging learners in a live webinar.
Hosted Security Services: Why It Makes Budget and Security Sense in Today's Economy A rise in converged web and email threats increases the need for improved security solutions; just as a struggling economy drives the need to cut costs. How does a mid-market organization like yours do both? Exclusively for IT decision makers, this webcast will reveal : * Key business drivers for Hosted Security stemming from an increasingly sophisticated threat landscape, dwindling in-house security expertise, and reduced IT budgets. * Four initial concerns faced by IT in deciding to outsource security. * How Hosted Security compares with software and appliance.
The Renewed Finance Function: Extending Performance Management Beyond Finance Learn how the role of the finance team has changed in recent years due to increased oversight from regulators, more active investors, and company-specific changes in business operations. Running transactional processes with close control, improving efficiency, and cutting costs pushes finance to continually evolve its processes and systems.
HP Data Protector Notebook Extension HP Data Protector software Notebook Extension is a new solution that extends formal backup policies to notebook and desktop PCs. The solution provides continuous and automated protection of information stored locally - even when working offline. Benefits include reduced risk of information loss, lower operational cost, and improved productivity.
Growing Channel Sales in a Shrinking Market Learn how Intel leverages an online partner community to cut costs and grow sales.
Windows 7 Commercial Adoption Outlook Windows XP won’t be around forever, and the anticipation for commercial adoption of Windows 7 is reaching a boiling point. With Windows 7 available now, IT professionals should start preparing for it now. Download this white paper to learn the five steps that Forrester recommends to prepare for Windows 7 migration.
Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers Electricity usage costs have become an increasing fraction of the total cost of ownership for data centers. It is possible to dramatically reduce the electrical consumption of typical data centers through appropriate design of the network-critical physical infrastructure and through the design of the IT architecture. This paper explains how to quantify the electricity savings and provides examples of methods that can greatly reduce electrical power consumption.
Process Automation with VMware In this whitepaper, you’ll discover how to grapple virtualization's complexities by automating time drains like on/off control, making backups and snapshots, and provisioning resources (virtual machines).
Preparing for the 2.0 World This free white paper from the experts at IDC reveals the profound impact of social technologies—also known as Web 2.0—on enterprise IT. You can meet users' new, more demanding requirements—if you're ready. Learn 5 key Web 2.0 challenges; the specific software and hardware you'll need to optimize your Web 2.0 deployment; and services to consider as you build out your social strategy. Download this free IDC white paper now.
eDiscovery Compliance and Its New Requirements: The IT Manager’s Guide to 100% Compliance Email is discoverable and may be used as evidence in litigation. The US federal court system clarified eDiscovery rules and requirements with the amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP). Some 30 states and Canada’s provincial courts have followed suit. Learn how to navigate eDiscovery challenges imposed by North American courts and regulators in this MessageLabs white paper.
Lead Nurturing 101: How to Turn Latent Interest into Revenue Your marketing campaigns drum up lots of interest, but what happens to those leads that don’t convert? Your marketing database is an investment so make sure you get the most out of it. Simple lead nurturing helps you warm up those contacts that aren’t quite ready to buy. Download this free eBook now and learn how to get started with lead nurturing to maximize your marketing database investment.
PCoIP - The Hot New Protocol of VMware View 4 As one of the major features of VMware View™ 4, PCoIP is a next generation display protocol designed to deliver a robust and rich end user experience. We will discuss how VMware View with PCoIP enable IT organization to address their users from the task workers to the designers growing demand, we will compare this innovative technology with other legacy protocols and address the different scenarios that are of concern to virtual desktop solutions and finally the benefits this brings to users and IT. VMware® ThinApp™ agentless application virtualization helps you deliver a single executable onto a wide variety of Windows platforms. The application is completely isolated from the OS and behaves the same across platforms.
Complete View of the Enterprise: Linking Operational and Financial Planning Read this white paper from CFO Research Services, which examines why and how chief financial offers are looking to create "highly integrated" organizations by moving from standalone spreadsheets to integrated planning, budgeting, and forecasting systems. (CFO Research Services, 2008)
Developing A Universal Approach to Cleansing Customer and Product Data Take a look at this review of current industry problems concerning data quality, and learn more about how companies are addressing quality problems with customer, product, and other types of corporate data. Read about products and use cases from SAP to see how vendors are supporting data cleansing.
Oracle SOA Suite and The Modernization Many Enterprises rely heavily on background (batch) processing, especially to support legacy systems. Oracle and UC4 provide the products to modernize these legacy batch systems. Oracle SOA Suite brings the benefits of being able to quickly meet customer demands, lowering technology costs, making business rules more visible and easier to alter, and reducing the reliance on expensive custom development for integration of legacy systems with other applications.
Organizing Your Company for Social Computing With an ever-increasing number of brands engaging in social media marketing in recent years, this paper provide recommendation for both organization best practices and budget management.
2010 Enterprise Phone Systems Buyer’s Guide Get the essential steps for choosing a new enterprise-class business phone system with our updated Buyer’s Guide. Our comprehensive Guide has the very latest information to guide you through the selection and purchase process. You will be able to understand your business requirements and confidently move into the vendor comparison stage.
The Top Three Myths of Knowledge Management for Customer Service In this white paper, we examine why KM is hurting your customers, and what you can do about it. The following top three myths of knowledge management as they relate to customer service are challenged: Myth #1: The "Value" of Existing Content Myth #2: Content can be Applied Readily to Growing Channels Myth #3: Search is the Best Way to Connect Customers to Answers
What You Don’t Manage Can Hurt You: An IDC Perspective on Information Governance During this webcast you’ll hear from Laura DuBois, Program Director for IDC's Storage Software practice, as she discusses information governance challenges and opportunities. She’ll also provide her perspective on the new EMC SourceOne information governance solutions. Find out how to: * Enable proactive e-mail and information management, allowing the central management of multiple content types through consistent retention, disposition, and lifecycle management policies * Mitigate risk associated with industry and other regulations * Reduce IT, storage and eDiscovery/eDisclosure costs
Considerations for Integrating Intelligence into Security Operations With attacks increasingly targeted and potentially devastating, ‘managing’ security is no longer enough. Organizations are turning to proactive cyber threat intelligence to complement and extend their internal security operations. This White Paper outlines four critical elements of cyber security intelligence that must be met to ensure that integration of the intelligence will improve the safety and profitability of enterprises.
Assuring Business Continuity in Virtualized Environments Protecting virtual machines and their application data with frequent backups and minimal impact to the virtual infrastructure has become one of the biggest information management challenges for technology organizations to overcome. Lose your fear of losing your data. HP Data Protector software can provide complete data protection for your virtualized environment, including support for the whole virtual machine and all of its application data.
Flexible Computing: Advancing End-User Productivity with Centralized Control Supporting an increasingly distributed workforce can be a huge drain on IT resources. By enabling a customized end-user experience with server-based control of data, settings, and applications, Flexible Computing Solutions are designed to simplify management, enhance security, and lower total cost of ownership. Download this white paper to learn more about Flexible Computing benefits and best practices.
The Handbook of Application Delivery Ensuring acceptable application delivery will become even more difficult over the next few years. As a result, IT organizations need to ensure that the approach that they take to resolving the current application delivery challenges can scale to support the emerging challenges. This handbook elaborates on the key tasks associated with planning, optimization, management and control and provides decision criteria to help IT organizations choose appropriate solutions.
Reducing Storage Complexity The experts at IDC predict that external disk storage capacity will grow 50% through 2010—but with that capacity comes a new set of hurdles. In this free white paper, you'll discover 4 key storage challenges for organizations facing the future; 4 important benefits of unified storage; and performance requirements to look for. Don't drown in a sea of data—make it work for you. Download this free IDC white paper now.
The Renewed Finance Function: Extending Performance Management Beyond Finance Learn why the requirement to close books quickly and with quality is emerging again as an important project for today's global finance function. With a streamlined, efficient, and high-quality close as a key ingredient of financial excellence, find out how to overcome the barriers and meet the challenges.
The Handbook of Application Delivery Ensuring acceptable application delivery will become even more difficult over the next few years. As a result, IT organizations need to ensure that the approach that they take to resolving the current application delivery challenges can scale to support the emerging challenges. This handbook elaborates on the key tasks associated with planning, optimization, management and control and provides decision criteria to help IT organizations choose appropriate solutions.
Enterprise Performance Management - Financial Excellence and Beyond Explore trends in executive management, and how CFOs are taking a more strategic role to help deal with today's business pressures. Now, CFOs are taking advantage of the latest advances in performance management software to help drive organizational alignment and operational excellence.
Data Protection for VMware and Application Data in Mission Critical Environments Read this whitepaper to learn how companies can build and deploy an effective backup solution in their VMware virtualization environment while achieving improved RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and RTO (Recovery Time Objective) of backups, significantly lower backup windows, and efficient data mobility in the process.
The Economist: In search of clarity - Unraveling the complexities of executive decision-making Consider why decision making by companies needs to improve – efficiency and quality. companies should focus on two areas of improvement: First, obtaining and verifying the necessary data needed for decision-makers. Second, to understand how human beings fit into the decision-making process.
What's New in Toad® Data Modeler? Toad® Data Modeler is a powerful, yet low-cost, data modeling and design tool that is built for the individual developer, DBA, data architect and database designer. View this on demand Webcast to learn about the following enhancements, including: Real-time reverse engineering Easier generation of alter reports Integration with Toad for Oracle Added support for DB2 LUW version 8 and version 9, and for Windows XP 64-bit and Vista
Citrix and Microsoft: Leading the Desktop Virtualization Revolution Planning to migrate to Windows 7? Struggling to patch end point devices for new application releases and updates? Data residing on end point devices creating potential security risks? Continuing to follow the decades-old PC refresh cycle and traditional distributed desktop model is a poor choice for IT departments that face reduced budgets and headcount. Join Citrix and Microsoft in this live webinar to learn about the only industry leading desktop delivery solution that will enable you to: - Radically simplify desktop management - Reduce desktop and application management costs - Improve security - Accelerate enterprise wide deployment of Windows 7
Speaking of Security Podcast #129 This week's Speaking of Security podcast features an on-the-scene report from the Gartner Identity and Access Management Summit, one of the key shows on the security event calendar. The Summit was held last week in Orlando, Florida.
IBM SOA Healthcheck Overview IBM offers Healthchecks for SOA, to ensure that you are maximizing the value of your SOA deployments. This video provides an easy to understand overview of the IBM SOA Healthchecks.
A Complete View of the Enterprise What is driving the finance department to become a hub for the integration of financial and non-financial data into forecasting and planning? To learn why, CFO Research Services surveyed 400 CFOs to obtain their views on the priorities and challenges around integrating operational and financial planning processes. Download this whitepaper to learn the results from this survey.
Managing Risk through Financial Processes - Embedding Governance, Risk and Compliance The Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed 446 senior executives about their views on their financial processes and their attempts to improve them. Survey respondents came from the finance, risk, general management, strategy/business development and information technology (IT) functions. Download this whitepaper to learn the results of this survey.
Mobility Redefined Across industries and in organizations of all sizes, mobile technology is breaking down the borders of business as usual. Employees are taking their work with them wherever they go and expecting ubiquitous network access -- from the conference room down the hall to customer and vendor sites around the world. Supporting the diverse needs of a highly mobile workforce has become a strategic IT and business priority. Download this white paper to learn best practices for supporting mobile devices.
Ten Cooling Solutions to Support High-Density Server Deployment High-density servers offer a significant performance per watt benefit. However, depending on the deployment, they can present a significant cooling challenge. Innovative strategies must be used for proper cooling of high-density equipment. This paper provides ten approaches for increasing cooling efficiency, cooling capacity, and power density in existing datacenters.
Achieving Real-Time Virtualization Control with Workload Automation This webinar will provide actionable advice on how to optimize your virtual data center and achieve real-time control, to run leaner IT while more effectively servicing real business needs.
Guide to Reducing IT Costs Through Virtualization With Blades This free white paper from the experts at IDC posits solutions to the key problems posed by data center crowding. Learn how blade servers can help by drastically cutting energy costs, so you can reduce overhead and stay green; cutting down on deployment time, repairs, monitoring, and management; minimizing real estate; and even slashing operational costs. Download this free white paper and discover what blades can do for your business.
BPM Taxonomy Whitepaper - Dan Woods - Sponsored by SAP and Accenture Read this Whitepaper to learn about the practices and technology related to business process management (BPM). This Whitepaper includes explanation of basic concepts, examines the transformational effect on the enterprise, and analyzes the value that BPM can create.
Tangled Web When cyber-criminals stage attacks on businesses with covert malware, spam and scams that drain employee productivity, users aren't aware they've been victimized. Rich media, open-source platforms and social-networking sites are vulnerable to these threats. Learn how a hosted web security and content filtering service intercepts all types of web-borne attacks.
The New Buying Process: How to Online Behavior is Critical Sales Intelligence By the time your prospect talks to your salesperson, they will already have conducted substantial online research. To capitalize on this new buying process, you need to feed your sales team real-time information on how prospects identify, understand, evaluate, and buy products. Download this free guide now to learn how you can capture your prospects’ online behavior and arm your sales team with critical intelligence.
The Scoring Imperative Buyers have always given sales subtle clues about their buying disposition – a raised eyebrow, crossed arms, deferring glances. However, in today’s online world, these clues come in the form of web site visits, content downloads, blog posts, etc – their digital body language. Marketers must now learn how to interpret this new digital language to develop predictive models that reveal, rank and categorize the most qualified buyers – we call this lead scoring.
Achieving Rapid Data Recovery for Credit Union Core Processing Applications Continuous member service is an important deliverable for credit unions, and is probably the most obvious sign to members that a credit union has its priorities set appropriately. The right business processes, supported by a reliable information technology (IT) infrastructure, are the foundation on which continuous member service is built. The core component to this foundation is your data, and there are a variety of risks to which this data may be subject. Learn how to prevent data loss while improving restore times should the worst occur.
Succeeding With Online Idea Exchanges Why should you be considering a public idea exchange and what your need to know before you begin.
Web Self-Service and the Multi-Channel Customer Experience We examine the best ways to use exceptional customer service to differentiate your organization in the rapidly evolving multi-channel customer service environment. Beginning with your contact center and web properties, and extending out to include assisted channels, mobile and new social media, this paper examines the multi-channel approach necessary to successfully manage the customer experience for an organization.
Social Software Strategies for the Enterprise Hear real-world examples from Nike and Cisco, who are leveraging social media tools to enable more rapid team collaboration and deeper customer engagement. The panel also explores Forrester's market research and best-practices from across the industry, to provide you with the insights you need to effectively implement a holistic Social Business Software strategy -- both inside and outside your company.
How to Transform Desktop Management with VMware View Learn how customers are using VMware View™ 4, the leading desktop virtualization solution, to address complex desktop challenges and meet the needs of both end users and IT organizations. View this webcast and learn how to: • Transform your IT organization by delivering desktops as a managed service • Address dynamic and diverse IT challenges with user-centric computing • Energize end users with a superior desktop experience
Best Practices in Creating a Strategic Finance Function Many CFOs and the finance organizations they lead have started to take on new strategic roles within the enterprise. Their goal is to enforce stricter control processes to ensure legal and regulatory compliance, offer strategic insights into the internal and external business environment, and connect the business strategy with daily operations through performance tracking. To assess the trends in the finance function and identify best practices, APQC, an internationally recognized nonprofit organization that provides best practice research, metrics, measures, has evaluated the performance of more than 130 finance organizations. This SAP Insight shares the results of SAP research as well as APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative (OSBC) research.
Complete Data Protection for VMware Virtual Environments Read this whitepaper to learn how companies can build and deploy an effective backup solution in their VMware virtualization environment while achieving improved RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and RTO (Recovery Time Objective) of backups, significantly lower backup windows, and efficient data mobility in the process.
Guide to Cost-Effectively Refreshing Aging Servers A significant number of the servers shipped this year will replace existing ones, according to this white paper from the experts at IDC. More capable servers can bring down energy and real estate costs, while cutting operating expenses and supporting new server-intensive Web apps. Now learn the most cost-effective strategy for refreshing your servers—and when it makes more sense to refresh than to upgrade. Download your copy today.
The Financial Close: Optimizing Performance and Driving Financial Excellence Learn why the requirement to close books quickly and with quality is emerging again as an important project for today's global finance function. With a streamlined, efficient, and high-quality close as a key ingredient of financial excellence, find out how to overcome the barriers and meet the challenges.
So, You’re Responsible for Managing Laptops Does your PC lifecycle management (PCLM) reflect the issues associated with mobile users? Many organizations face expensive inefficiencies by not managing mobile assets effectively. This whitepaper suggests how you can improve PCLM to increase auditing accuracy, compliance, security and efficiency. Topics include: * Common inventory challenges * Where most companies are losing money * How to track hardware/software outside your network * How to automate and centralize data
Increasing ROI with Live Online Training To help organizations make an informed decision about online training solutions, the eLearning Guild™ commissioned an independent study to identify leaders in the online training space. The study’s findings revealed Citrix® GoToMeeting® Corporate with GoToWebinar® is a top performer – from ease of use to return on investment. Download the research brief to see why GoToMeeting Corporate rates number one for online training ROI.
Empowering a Mobile Workforce: A Holistic Approach to Managing your BlackBerry Ecosystem Learn solutions that will enable a holistic support environment for managing BlackBerry resources across the enterprise. Topics of discussion will include how to: *Identify the most common challenges to enterprise BlackBerry management *Utilize best practices, such as ITIL, to increase the supportability of mobile devices *Enable prompt problem identification and improved time to resolution *Evaluate new solutions that will enable a common interface for managing enterprise BlackBerry support services. This is a can’t-miss event for any organization supporting BlackBerry devices or looking to empower their mobile workforce.
Asia-Pacific Enterprise Network Solutions: China, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia and more... Please join us for this exciting On-Demand Webcast to see how your business can achieve a secure global enterprise network solution for the best price and guaranteed performance to select hard-to-reach Asia-Pacific locations. Virtela provides around the clock monitoring and management services to many of the world's largest companies.
Cross Selling with One Source Empowering Your Sales Force with Dynamic Corporate Family Tree Contacts & Data
Securely Connecting a Global Network of Professionals Learn how the AFMS connects 20,000 Department of Defense medical professionals.
Simplifying Image Management Just as companies no longer build their own PCs by assembling motherboards, disk drives, adapter cards and memory, many organizations have moved away from installing numerous, individual, tailored software packages on every new PC. Practicing good image management is important in any customer’s OS environment, but it comes even more into focus as companies prepare for a migration to Windows 7. This white paper outlines best practices for image management.
Guidance for Calculation of Efficiency (PUE) in Real Data Centers Before data center infrastructure efficiency can be benchmarked using PUE or other metrics, there must be agreement on exactly what power consumptions constitute IT loads, what consumptions constitute physical infrastructure, and what loads should not be counted. Unfortunately, commonly published efficiency data is not computed using a standard methodology, and the same data center wil have different efficiency rating when different methodologies are applied. This paper explains the problem and describes a standardized method for classifying data center loads for efficiency calculations.
Sun Reference Architecture for Oracle 11g This free white paper comes as companies adopt grid computing to deliver greater efficiency, minimize costs, protect investments, and adapt to changing business needs. Inside, you'll learn 10 key questions to ask when evaluating a grid computing solution; how companies are using grids to maximize reliability, availability, flexibility, and performance; how to connect equipment to optimize scaling, throughput, and overhead; and best practices for grid design. Download your copy now.
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Improving Organizational Performance Through Pervasive Business Intelligence Explore the growing body of evidence suggesting a direct link between investment in business analytics solutions and organizational performance. This white paper highlights market trends that point toward more pervasive use of BI solutions. The recommendations presented are based on ongoing IDC coverage of the BI and analytics solutions market.
Breakthrough Data Recovery for IBM AIX Environments Companies of all sizes can reap significant benefits with new data replication technologies for IBM AIX environments, including CDP (continuous data protection). Read more in this informative white paper.
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Buyer's Guide: Small Business Essentials for VoIP If you're a business owner, the scrutiny and service demands of your VoIP service provider should exceed that of a residential customer. Quality is a requirement and guarantees should be provided. The complexity of the system increases exponentially as more lines get added and the range of features you may need could be very different.
The Petabytes are Coming: Will Your Content Repository Scale? An explosion of user-generated content has dramatically shifted the dynamics and economics of storage. Faced with terabyte- and petabyte-sized mountains of unstructured data, a broad range of industries including Digital Media, Web 2.0 and traditional enterprises are clamoring for fundamentally different approaches to their extreme storage needs. Whether they are hosting video, images, music, data or documents, these businesses need storage systems that can scale, are easy to use and manage, and break new ground in terms of affordability. For many of these companies, data is their business. Join this webcast as Pete Brey of HP reviews how HP is helping customers build next-generation file serving environments that scale to meet ever-changing storage demands. Pete will preview the soon-to-be-released HP StorageWorks 9100 Extreme Data Storage System. He'll explain how this turnkey platform targets the specific requirements of petabyte-scale deployments with independent performance and capacity scaling and simplified management, at a fraction of the cost of traditional enterprise class storage. Pete will also provide real-world examples of how companies can deploy ExDS to sustain their current storage needs while better positioning for growth.
Introducing GoToTraining: Online Training Made Easy How can you make the most of your training time and budget? Moving at least part of your training efforts online not only saves time, money and other valuable resources, it increases productivity, reach and flexibility by creating new opportunities for expanding your training program.
CRM Built for IT: The Executive Guide to Selecting CRM that Meets IT Needs How can IT directors and executives make sure the CRM solution their firm selects will best address both the business' needs and the IT department's challegnes - both now and in the future? This white paper provides everything the CIO and IT team must know to evaluate a CRM system based on the critical business and technical issues that matter to IT directors and chief information and technology officers.
Michelin Tire Corp. and SOA Learn how Michelin uses WebSphere Portal and Message Broker in their global enterprise architecture.
Enterprise Performance Management for Finance Read how SAP solutions for performance management help you improve corporate performance by aligning strategy with the actions required to achieve it. You can consolidate financial and nonfinancial information to gain insight into the factors that drive business success.
Market Overview: Desktop Virtualization and Trends What are the main drivers and challenges behind desktop virtualization today? Listen to this webcast, where IDC will present an overview of the market trends, and identify the key points behind what’s driving customer adoption. VMware representative will discuss VMware View™ solution and use cases, and how you can benefit by deploying a desktop virtualization solution from VMware. VMware® ThinApp™ agentless application virtualization helps you deliver a single executable onto a wide variety of Windows platforms. The application is completely isolated from the OS and behaves the same across platforms.
Managing Risk in Perilous Times: Practical Steps to Accelerate Recovery In this whitepaper, the Economist Intelligence Unit examines the lessons that have been learnt from the current financial crisis, and propose ten practical lessons that could help companies to address perceived weaknesses in risk identification, assessment and management. The research is based on in-depth interviews with leading participants from the financial services industry, along with a selection of independent risk experts.
The Aging Help Desk: Migrating to a Modern Desk Even in this down economy, companies are looking at the help/service desk as a place where investments can be made with many different types of returns. This investment does not always take the form of product replacements. Instead, monetary gains can be achieved through more effective use of staff, reduction in the number of operations that are in place, more strategic approach to software deployments, etc. User priorities and goals were assessed in this research along with operational elements such as metrics that would help IT to improve the quality and credibility of its operation.
Employee Web Use and Misuse: Companies, Their Employees and the Internet The Internet has created new opportunities for mischief and new challenges for managers. In the end, it comes down to choice. Where do you draw the line? How do you balance individual access with the overall protection and good of the business? What is the correct balance between monitoring and blocking? This white paper examines a Web security solution that gives companies the ability to monitor and enforce their Internet usage policies, bringing site monitoring and URL filtering together while insuring security with anti-virus and anti-spyware protection.
HP Data Protector 6.1 software VMware Integration Installation Best Practice Read this whitepaper to learn the best ways for installing the Data Protector VMware Integration package and shows the pros and cons of each method. You can choose the method which fits your requirements.
Bringing Windows Server Virtualization to Your Production Environment Virtualization technology is fast becoming the strategy of choice for companies that want to reap the benefits of cost-effective, flexible, and easy-to-manage server environments. This white paper discusses the features virtual machines must deliver in order to be considered production-level, and the procedural issues that may be overlooked.
Deploying High-Density Zones in a Low-Density Data Center New breakthroughs in power and cooling technology allow for a simple and rapid deployment of self-contained high-density zones within an existing or new-low density data center. Guidance on planning design, implementation, and predictable operation of high-density zones is provided.
Reducing Costs Through Better Server Utilization In this free white paper, learn how a lower server count can keep the datacenter agile enough to cope with today's dynamically changing priorities and pressures. Discover how consolidation can help deliver services faster while cutting costs, conserving energy, and reacting faster to new demands—and how one company realized a 10x improvement in price/performance and an 83% reduction in power usage and heat dissipation. Download your free copy now.
Social Media Toolkit for Marketers: Reach Your Prospects Wherever They Are The rise in blogs and social media allows your buyers to evaluate your products and services without your knowledge. Your prospects could be having an online conversation right now about your products or services. Are you doing everything you can to capitalize on those dialogs?. Download this free guide now to learn how to capitalize on these new channels to understand buyer intent and be where your prospects are doing research.
Building Customer Networks for Successful Word of Mouth As the ability to attract, nurture, and retain influential customers becomes a core competitive advantage for savvy organizations, this paper describes how firms can enhance their word of mouth marketing campaigns and improve their marketing results by over 100%.
2010 Enterprise Phone Systems Comparison Guide The telephony market for enterprise businesses has continued to evolve. What’s the latest and greatest? Is your current phone system still ideal for your business needs? This information-packed guide compares the top 13 enterprise phone system solutions. You’ll be able to review the key features and data points so you can decide which one makes the most sense for your business. Vendors compared include Avaya, Cisco, Shoretel, Toshiba and more.
The Technology of Innovation - Using CRM to Enable Customer-Centric Innovation This whitepaper highlights the important role technology can play in the innovation process and looks at how a customer-focused approach to innovation can be supported by flexible customer relationship management tools. It explains how businesses can use CRM to foster and implement customer-centric innovation, enhancing the customer experience and creating internal efficiencies to establish a clear competitive edge.
Five Keys to Getting Started with Interactive Online Training Online training sessions using Web-based seminars, or Webinars, represents progress in organizational effectiveness that can no longer be ignored. Download the 1080 Group research brief, Five Keys to Getting Started with Interactive Online Training, to learn how leading trainers are leveraging online tools to extend their reach, deliver more training and lower their costs.
Stealth Attack: Effectively Protecting Your Network Against the Unknown Join Martin Lee, senior software engineer with MessageLabs, as he discusses the latest threats and exploits targeting U.S. organizations and how heuristic technology offers the most effective protection from these evolving attacks.
ITs Role in the M&A Process Growth through acquisition has become a standard business strategy, largely because it provides quick access to new pools of customers. But many companies are finding their efforts at retaining those newly acquired customers are hindered by IT infrastructures that don’t support customer-friendly business processes. Manufacturing Business Technology recently surveyed more 260 executives at manufacturing companies about the challenges of managing merger and acquisition activity, and specifically the role IT plays in a merger’s eventual success or failure. Download this report to learn about successful post-acquisition strategies.
Explore Your Business at the Speed of Thought For effective decision making, your information workers require quick, easy answers to off-the-cuff questions; better understanding of the business; and fast access to relevant, quality information – and they need it with minimal training or dependency on IT. Yet the following challenges stand in the way: Traditional BI tools do not meet all information workers’ needs. With SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, your business users can access the information they need, when they need it.
Case Study: Legal Services National Technology Assistance Project Download the case study to discover how Legal Services National Technology Assistance Project (LSNTAP) - a nonporfit organization that assists 80 legal aid programs across the U.S. - improved client services through the effective use of online training and meeting technology. By adopting Citrix® GoToMeeting® with GoToWebinar®, LSNTAP was able to save tens of thousands in travel and lost productivity costs, expedite training on new legal issues and optimize internal resources in order to serve more clients.
Building A Proven Sales Process for Selling Enterprise Software Razi Imam, Founder and CEO, Landslide Technologies explains how to build a proven sales process for selling enterprise software
How to Get Found On Google Using The HubSpot Software There are over 435 million searches on Google every day* and buyers are using the internet as the first place to research new products and services. Whether you are a small business owner or a marketing executive at a medium or large organization it is imperative that your company is found on Google. The HubSpot software offers the tools and methodology to help you to create and optimize content so your company website is found online by your prospects when they are looking for your products and services.
The Top 3 Reasons CRM Initiatives (Still) Fail - And How to Avoid Them This white paper looks at the top three reasons that CRM initiatives fail to achieve their goals and provides clear, practical recommendations for ensuring that your CRM initiative avoids these pitfalls and deliver desired returns.
Tools of the Trade: Automation, Integration, and Workflow Optimization to Achieve World-Class Service Support Service support professionals know that the job of the help desk has changed. It has further reach, more robust tracking requirements, involvement in change management and is central to ITIL best practice initiatives. The modern service desk is expected to do much, often with fewer resources and higher quality standards. Its best defense is essentially an offense—tools that can extend the reach of service desk personnel.
How to Promote the Value of Online Training Within Your Organization This new white paper explores the benefits and ROI of online training and takes an in-depth look at how two innovative companies successfully implemented Web-based training. Online training enables you to: • Reduce costs and the need for travel • Improve productivity and morale • Increase learner engagement and access to information Discover how to promote the value of online training in your organization.
Not Just Words: Enforce Your Email and Web Acceptable Usage Policies Unmanaged employee use of email and the web can subject any organization to costly risks including litigation, regulatory investigations and public embarrassment. Download this guide and learn how to deploy clearly written Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs) for email and web usage, supported by employee training and enforced by proven technology solutions.
Eliminating Application Migration Headaches with VMware ThinApp Many IT organizations are bracing for a costly cycle of application migration, end users' downtime, long QA cycles and uncertainty over application conflicts. VMware® ThinApp™ agentless application virtualization helps you deliver a single executable onto a wide variety of Windows platforms. The application is completely isolated from the OS and behaves the same across platforms.
Eliminating Application Migration Headaches with VMware ThinApp Many IT organizations are bracing for a costly cycle of application migration, end users' downtime, long QA cycles and uncertainty over application conflicts. VMware® ThinApp™ agentless application virtualization helps you deliver a single executable onto a wide variety of Windows platforms. The application is completely isolated from the OS and behaves the same across platforms.
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What Is Open Storage?: The Need for a New Storage Architecture This free white paper reveals how the latest generation of open storage systems is helping businesses stay flexible and profitable. Learn how Web 2.0's massive storage requirements are pushing businesses toward storage that's affordable, reliable, and dynamic; how open source code gives you you faster innovation, wider choice, and lower costs without vendor lock-in; and how 6 organizations around the world are successfully deploying it. Download your free copy now.
Lead Scoring 101: Prioritizing Demand to Improve Conversion Rates The right lead scoring method can be the difference between a lead going cold and a hot sale. Lead scoring sends the best leads to the top so sales can focus on opportunities with the highest likelihood to close – increasing conversion rates and shortening sales cycles. Download this free white paper now to learn how best in class companies score their leads and what steps they're taking to yield higher conversion rates.
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The Superstar CFO - Optimizing an Increasingly Complex Role CFO Research, in collaboration with SAP, conducted a research study that asked 300+ senior finance executives about the ideal CFO's responsibilities. This thought leadership piece explores how CFOs should prioritize the external and company-wide mandates, as well as how they should manage the finance function itself.
Aberdeen: The Need for Branded Online Communities Report That a growing number of major consumer brands are transforming their existing static websites into interactive online communities is not only a recent trend but one that is rapidly accelerating. Aberdeen Group shares their insights and research.
Buyer's Guide: SMB Phone Systems Are you considering a new office phone system for your small business? Get all the facts geared for small businesses. This FREE comprehensive Buyer’s Guide covers all the essential facts about purchasing the right business phone system. You’ll learn about topics ranging from top product features to cost considerations.
How to Use Social Media for Lead Generation Learn how to harness the power of social media - Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other networking sites - to get found by more prospects and generate sales leads for your business. Social media can be a powerful channel to attract website visitors and leads while building thought leadership for your company.
The Deliverability "Top 5" - A Best-Practice Guide for E-mail Marketing This white paper assembles a wide range of tactics and information regarding the deliverability into five core best practices to help marketers get up to speed quickly with the constantly changing deliverability landscape and key strategies for improving results.
While You Were Sleeping: Did Your IT System Fail? During off hours, when all the changes, migrations, and patches are most likely being processed, a single unauthorized or unintended change can quickly, and frighteningly easily, bring down your company’s ability to remain in compliance or do business the next day. IT executives can continue to snooze about this issue, or wake up to the solution of enforceable change control.
Success in the New Economic Reality Discover what your best-run business needs to do to become a "clear enterprise." Learn about the importance of seeing clearly, thinking clearly, and acting clearly. Find out how SAP software and services can help your clear enterprise thrive regardless of the economic climate at any particular time.
A Download Away A non-profit organization gains support on using Lotus Symphony to run their business.
eDiscovery Best Practices: Overcoming the Challenges of Email Discovery Join compliance management expert, Nancy Flynn, for a discussion of best practices for meeting the business challenge of email discovery.
How to Successfully Build Sales Processes This concise Sales Process Builder Kit will provide you the: *Key steps to overcome the three main hurdles to implementing sales process and the best practices associated with each step. *A free Sales Process Builder tool to enable companies/teams of any size to successfully define and implement effective sales processes. *Relevant content from leading sales experts that highlight the direct value your sales team can get by following a consistent sales process.
Leadership Makes the Difference During Times of Global Financial Crisis-Optimizing Business Cycles through Technology Investment Undoubtedly, in a tough and difficult economy, executives are challenged more than ever to strike the right balance between reducing costs and making the targeted investments that will ensure future success. And the continued uncertainty in the economic forecasts makes this balancing act even more challenging.
5 Rules for Keeping Your Sales Job in a Recession Sales expert, author and founder of SalesGravy.com, Jeb Blount spells out the five rules Sales Professionals and Sales Leaders need to know to keep their job during this recession.
Protecting PII (Personally Identifiable Information): What Data is at Risk and Why The protection of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) - customer records, healthcare records, employee details - is subject to compliance with government and industry regulations. But the challenge isn't just protecting the data; first you need to know what to protect, where it is, and how it should be used. View this webcast to learn how to demystify PII and outline policies for protecting information. Sophos's data protection experts John Metzger and Nagraj Seshadri will discuss these key topics: the definition of PII, commons ways of losing PII and the consequences, finding PII inside your organization and how PII can be used.
How To Convert More Website Visitors To Leads With The HubSpot Software In order to get more leads and customers out of a website, companies need to apply inbound marketing best practices and have the tools to make rapid changes easily. Whether it is creating remarkable content, adding customized calls-to-action, or capturing leads on landing pages, learn how small businesses can leverage the HubSpot software and squeeze more conversion from the audience they already have engaged - their website visitors.
The Trends And Changing Landscape Of DDoS Threats And Protection Be one of the first to read the recently published Forrester Consulting Leadership Paper, The Trends and Changing Landscape of DDoS Threats and Protection, and learn about the state of current protection measures and their effectiveness, as well as the effect DDoS is having on business continuity.
How to Profit in a Downturn: 4 Customer-Centric Strategies for Growth in a Challenging Market In this white paper, learn how your organization can use customer-centric strategies and CRM tools to maximize the value and loyalty of your customer base, get insight into new areas of opportunity, and do more with less, not only surviving, but thriving, in a time of economic uncertainty.
How to Market Training: Four Principles of Effective Online Learning While it’s true that online training reaches more people in more places in less time, you’ve got to do more than just reach trainees – you’ve got to engage them. That means you need to provide compelling content, choose the right channel and communicate value, just like a marketer would. Download this brief to learn the four fundamental marketing principles of effective online training and see why they should be critical components of your online training strategy.
Managing Web Infrastructure Storage Cost, Complexity, and Performance Storage costs are exploding. The culprits, according to this white paper: new Web-based applications that demand more I/O throughput and higher performance than ever. So how can you handle this onslaught while keeping your cost per GB (and cost per user) reasonable? Open storage—utilizing open source software and industry standard hardware—lets you scale more easily, provide better service, stay agile, and keep costs low. Learn how—download your copy now.
The Marketer's Blueprint to Predictable Demand Creation As competition intensifies and growth expectations increase, marketers are under pressure to deliver measurable results and clearly demonstrate the impact marketing programs have on driving demand and revenue. To succeed in this new era of accountability, marketers must consistently reach the right people through the right channels with the right message. Learn how to build a predictable model for reaching and converting prospects into qualified sales opportunities.
The ROI of Marketing Events: How to Get the Most from Your Marketing Budget Do you know your numbers? If getting more high-quality leads from your marketing events spend is a top priority, then it pays to know the return on investment of your marketing events tactics. Join to explore which marketing events offer the greatest return on investment for your budget and staff. They will share survey results of marketers using different types of events and explain how you can calculate the cost of your own events with the marketing events ROI calculator.
Executive Summary: Lithium Social CRM Suite Patricia Seybold Group covers Lithium's Social CRM Suite in an in-depth report - read the Executive Summary.
Sales Forecasting’s New Paradigm “Forecasting’s New Paradigm” by Beagle Research Group discusses how conventional sales forecasting often fails to adapt to the reality of a new business environment characterized by uncertainty, volatile customer demand, irrational competition and severely constrained operations. Their recent survey found: * Only 11% of companies have good forecast predictability; * 30% of respondents cannot quantify how much revenue they leave on the table each quarter. Compare your process to the Beagle Forecasting Maturity Model.
The End of Antivirus as You Know It: A First Look at VIPRE Enterprise As part of its ongoing efforts to address the rapidly evolving malware landscape facing enterprises, Sunbelt Software introduces VIPRE Enterprise™ – a completely new solution that combines antivirus, antispyware, anti-rootkit and other technologies into a seamless, tightly-integrated product. Join Sunbelt Software for a first look at VIPRE Enterprise and learn how Sunbelt started with a blank slate to design a new, next-generation antivirus and antispyware technology to deal with today’s malware in the most comprehensive, highly efficient manner. The result is a clean, fast, and powerful anti-malware solution developed ‘by admins for admins’.
Protecting your Exchange Environment: Ecosystem Protection – Now and Forever Hear it from the source: Microsoft and Double-Take Software have teamed up to bring you this highly informative Exchange Ecosystem Protection webinar. Topics covered include: rapid recovery for lost servers, complete messaging infrastructure availability, ecosystem protection and failover, and Microsoft’s new Database Availability Groups in Exchange 2010.
Managing Risk Through Financial Processes: Embedding Governance, Risk, and Compliance Explore the performance benefits of an embedded and holistic approach to GRC. Learn how to streamline processes to minimize redundancies while increasing efficiencies, strategically place the right controls, and reduce costs through risk management.
How to Use Sales Process to Build a Sales Production System Razi Imam, Founder and CEO, Landslide Technologies explains 5 steps to building a Sales Production System that will help you increase your sales volume, value and velocity. Also hear about the great results that customers using the Sales Production System approach are seeing.
Pain-of-the-Week: The Converging Paths of SQL Server and SharePoint – Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late! SharePoint and SQL Server architecture and maintenance requirements have a lot in common. Both platforms share identical features for configuration, security and management. Join our experts in this webcast to examine the similarities in SharePoint and SQL Server administration. Learn why it’s important for you to get familiar with both platforms to streamline your day-to-day tasks.
The New Customer Service Imperative: Driving ROI with Peer-to-Peer Social Networks Learn how customer service executives are using social media to reduce expenditures on costly support channels, obtain feedback, identify emerging product issues, and improve support content from their customer networks.
Why Sales Throws Marketing Under the Bus You know the story. It's the end of the quarter and the sales numbers are below the target. The sales team is pointing fingers at marketing, because they aren't bringing in enough qualified leads. Marketing is responding by saying sales is at fault because they don't know how to follow up on a lead. Sound familiar? Download this white paper to better understand the top 7 sales frustrations, and recommendations for bringing sales and marketing closer together.
How To Create A Sales and Marketing Love Affair With The HubSpot Software It takes two to tango and like the best tango dancing duos Sales and Marketing teams require communication, coordination and compatibility to get the best results for their business. Learn how you can use the HubSpot inbound marketing system to convert more traffic and prospects into leads for your sales team, and, how our closed loop lead management system and analytics can the provide marketing vital feedback from sales about the quality of leads, campaigns and traffic sources so sales and marketing can drive better results for your business.
DDoS: A Threat You Can't Afford to Ignore In October 2008, VeriSign commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a study to understand the state of and the need for DDoS protection in enterprises. Forrester conducted in-depth qualitative interviews with 19 IT and security professionals who are responsible for networking, operations, and security for organizations with a significant online presence. Download this paper to learn what the study uncovered.
Mastering eDiscovery: The IT Manager's Guide to Preservation, Protection, & Production The ability to formally define, effectively retain, and successfully archive email and other electronic business records is one of the most important jobs facing US and Canadian organizations. Learn how to quickly and cost-effectively preserve, protect, and produce legally compliant email and other electronically stored information (ESI) in anticipation of litigation and regulatory audits in this MessageLabs white paper.
Open, Simple, and Scalable Storage at a Fraction of the Cost This white paper demonstrates how power, cooling, and real estate requirements are finally combining—to form a perfect storm for expensive, locked-in, proprietary hardware. But open storage appliances are based on industry-standard hardware and install up to 10 times faster than traditional systems, all while delivering twice the performance and capacity—and cutting power and cooling costs. To learn more, download your copy now.
Five Marketing Strategies to Help You Bounce Back From the Recession During economic downturns, far too many organizations spend time agonizing over where to cut back in order to recession-proof their business. However, recessions provide an opportunity to retool sales and marketing processes in order to emerge with an even stronger brand and share of the market . Learn the five strategies for analyzing and optimizing marketing effectiveness to ensure that your company emerges from the recession even stronger.
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Using Webinars to Engage Prospects Setting the tone for your Webinars is crucial, from initial promotion efforts all the way through delivery of content and post event follow-up. How you interact with your prospects will determine whether they advance along the sales cycle or lose interest.View this on-demand Webinar to hear Ken Molay, president of Webinar Success, share tips to help you prepare and deliver Webinars that build enthusiasm among prospects, leading to easier sales communications and higher conversion percentages.
Web Attacks: How Hackers Create and Spread Malware The web has become the key vector for online attacks and even trusted websites are no longer safe. With hackers continually changing tactics, the majority of businesses are left unprotected against modern web-based malware. Businesses can no longer get by with just protecting their email and endpoint systems. View this webcast featuring web security expert Chris McCormack, and principal researcher Fraser Howard from Sophos to learn how web threats are created and spread -- and the impact they have on your business.
How to Ensure Your Employees Will Want to Use CRM In this paper learn how, with the right CRM solution, information workers can increase productivity, improve customer service, and boost collaboration, while the business simplifies complex processes, increase sales, and reduces costs.
How Security Solutions Address Today's Evolving Malware Landscape Enterprises today face a rapidly evolving Malware landscape -- yet the vast majority of businesses are unprotected against today’s modern Malware threats. Watch this webcast to learn how next-generation security solutions address today’s Malware threats in the most comprehensive and efficient manner possible.
Lead-Management Workbook: “Everything You Need to Know About Moving Prospects Through the Pipeline.” This workbook is packed with 40 pages of expert tips and hands-on exercises to help you nurture leads through the buying cycle, develop a comprehensive lead-scoring model and deliver accurate, unbiased ROI reporting.
The DITA Maturity Model You will better understand how DITA can support your organization and how it can scale to meet your enterprise content needs by fi rst understanding the basics of DITA standardization.
Simplifying Desktop Virtualization Deployments The benefits of desktop virtualization all sound great, including significant reductions in total cost of ownership, lower power requirements to help meet green IT initiatives and a more agile IT infrastructure. But for many, this new technology seems daunting. How do you quickly come up the learning curve? How do you get started? View this webcast, where you will learn: Business benefits of desktop virtualization *How to deploy your first set of users on virtual desktops or set up a desktop virtualization lab to begin working with virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) technology *What a zero-client endpoint is and how it works *How Pano Logic and VMware View™ 3 allow for flexible user session management
5 Strategies for Building World Class Sales Organizations John Holland is co-author and co-founder of CustomerCentric Selling® discusses the characteristics and operational metrics of World Class Sales organizations and sales individuals.
The Cloud and Your Applications: What is the Impact on Application Management? Are your applications doing what they are supposed to be doing? Cloud computing, tiered applications, Software as a Service (SaaS) – all add complexity and make that question more difficult to answer. Customers are finding more business service problems. The result: customer satisfaction and retention is at risk. The good news is that despite declining budgets, you can reduce downtime, increase service levels, and improve user experience quality.
Create Actionable Sales Forecasts That Drive Sales How do manufacturing companies use their sales forecasts to improve revenue and margins? ...with advanced forecasting applications designed to drive business decisions. View this webinar to learn how Cinterion Wireless Modules dramatically drove inventory reductions and improved revenue through greater sales accountability and efficiency. Bruce Richardson of AMR Research also discusses how objective sales forecast accuracy and management is fundamental to business performance.
How to Manage Brand in Social Media Using HubSpot Most businesses are unaware that their prospects and customers in their industries are already talking about their products or services in social media. With the speed that information travels today it is critical that you respond to queries and comments on Twitter, Facebook or blog articles in a timely fashion to help you manage your brand and generate more leads and customers. How are you managing your brand in social media?
CRM: The Essential Guide - Five Principles for CRM Success This guide provides insight to help you take a more customer-centric view of your business. It walks you through how to weigh and consider your CRM options.
Avoiding the Back Button Your landing page needs to grab the attention of your visitor – instantly. In this two minute video, learn the four questions you need to ask to keep you web visitors engaged!
Making Strategy Real - by Don Tapscott How do you know what to do to protect your current business and identify areas of future growth? How do you balance opportunity with risk? This paper helps answer those essential questions.
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How to Use Social Media to Attract More Customers Businesses now have the power to leverage the Internet -- search engines, blogs, social media -- to reach customers more effectively. This includes connecting with customers where they hang out online and engaging in conversations about the topics most important to them. Social CRM (Customer Relationship Management) is all about joining the ongoing conversations our customers and prospects are already having and not trying to control them. It's realizing that people like doing business with people they like and love doing business with people they trust.
Marketing Analytics 101: How to Measure the Effectiveness of Your Website You've started a blog, signed up for twitter, and set up a Facebook Business Page - now how do you know if it's working for you? This webinar will provide all the basics of how inbound marketing-driven businesses should measure the effectiveness of their online efforts. This includes understanding what Internet marketing metrics to measure and how to leverage this data to make key business decisions and improve the effectiveness of your website.
Take 10 on Financial Services: Optimizing Performance, Building Relationships, and Increasing Conversion Discover why 36 of the top 50 financial services firms use Webtrends solutions to turn challenges into opportunities.
Tagging 101 Cover all the basics of tagging - specific examples of where and how to set a tag, metatag usage, general tagging best practices and a review of Webtrends Tagbuilder.
Best Practices in Technology: Bill Watkins Best Practices in Technology: Bill Watkins, CEO of Seagate Technology LLC
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Using Webtrends for Site Redesign Discover the many ways you can leverage insights from your Webtrends reports for an effective site redesign.
How to Improve Message Security and Lower MS Exchange Management Costs What are some of the latest, messaging-based security threats and risks to your organization? How is a server-based, security solution able to address those risks, in many cases better than a hosted or appliance-based solution? Join Osterman Research for an informative webinar that could help your company improve message security and lower MS Exchange management costs.
What is New in the Not-so-New Area of Event Management: Five Tips to Reduce Incident Resolution Costs Event management may not be the next new thing, but it is quietly making dramatic advances that can save your company both time and money. These new approaches rely on understanding up-to-date service dependencies to accelerate problem resolution. In this one-hour Webinar, you'll learn about five proven tips to reduce incident resolution costs and get the answers to these questions and more: Why should you reconsider your event and performance management strategy? What is the impact of ITIL v3 and the concept of an operations bridge on your people, processes, and tools? What innovations can help you more cost-effectively manage events?
Sales Intelligence: The Secret to Sales Nirvana This Aberdeen Group report: "Sales Intelligence: The Secret to Sales Nirvana" offers strategic insights about driving sales effectiveness 1) Learn how sales intelligence translates to more closed deals for top sales organizations 2) This survey is packed with data detailing key concrete strategies for improving sales performance 3) Gain actionable insights on incenting your sales team for improved productivity Using the Techniques Outlined, Best-in-Class Performers: o Saw improvement in rep time spent researching (81%) o Shortened sales cycles (71%) o Experienced improved conversions (51%) o Upped the percentage of reps hitting quota (54%)
Engage! How to Avoid the Seven Sins of Live, Online Presentations Webinars have become a common business practice. They reduce travel time and costs, increase geographic reach and enable greater efficiency. But to maximize the benefits, you’ve got to engage attendees. This new 1080 Group white paper explores the 7 critical mistakes made when presenting online and how to avoid them. The paper also includes a handy preparation checklist for presenters.
Enabling Growth for Large Enterprises This SAP Executive Insight explains the challenges inherent in three common growth models and describes how to implement a solid, flexible, and adaptive foundation that supports corporate growth objectives.
Sybase IQ for Rapid Reporting Hear how Sybase IQ benefits your business by streamlining and accelerating your reporting environment.
Comprehensive Risk Management Equities trading has undergone a revolution with the rise of electronic or algorithmic trading which has driven up the number of trades while the size of each trade has dropped into a few hundred share. Trades are executed in milliseconds across a large number of venues of both displayed and dark liquidity in the search for best execution. Many firms have not invested sufficiently in their data infrastructures to keep up with market developments. Execution effectiveness and transaction cost analysis are measurable. Clients will demand the best performance and firms which have achieved it can be expected to use their stats in marketing. That truism of risk and opportunity being the opposite sides of the same coin certainly holds true here. At its core, execution risk is an information management challenge which promises great rewards for the firms that get it right. This podcast identifies execution risk and explores solutions to managing it.
Lisa Hopkins, B-eye Network Podcast Lisa Hopkins, Sybase IQ Product Marketing Director, discusses the limitations of most current analytics environments and explains how Sybase IQ 15 overcomes those limitations.
Dan Lahl, Constituent Works Outlook Podcast Dan Lahl, Director of Marketing for Sybase IQ, puts the business benefits of Sybase IQ 15 in a historical context and explains how Sybase IQ 15 delivers Smarter Analytics
Bryan Whitmarsh, Constituent Works Outlook Podcast Bryan Whitmarsh, Senior Product Manager in the Enterprise Mobility Group at Sybase, describes the benefits of business process mobilization for enterprises and explains how iAnywhere Mobile Office securely enables users to complete business processes from a wide range of mobile devices.
How to Manage Virtualization Before it Manages You With more and more enterprise systems moving to virtual IT environments, it is important to take the necessary steps to safeguard the entire enterprise. Two industry experts describe how virtualization is changing the management of IT environments, and what your organization can do to successfully take advantage of this enterprise-changing technology, while remaining cost-effective, efficient, and secure.
Turbo Charging Your Web 2.0 Strategies New technologies like RSS, consumer-generated media, AJAX, and video are used in marketing every day. The standard page-to-page navigation is giving way to interactive and incredibly engaging and online experiences. But how do you measure them? See real life examples of Web 2.0 in action and learn how to leverage the power of web analytics to optimize results.
How to Use SEO, Blogs, and Social Media to Get Found Online Learn how to get found online and generate leads efficiently and effectively by leveraging search engine optimization, blogging, and social media marketing. This webinar will provide all the basics of how to use these inbound marketing techniques to attract more qualified prospects to your business
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks: Evolution, Impact, & Solutions Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks have existed since the early days of computing and have evolved into complex and overwhelming security challenges. Organizations have had to worry not just about DoS attacks, but Distributed DoS attacks (DDoS), and more recently, Distributed Reflector DoS (DRDoS) attacks, This paper outlines the evolution of DDoS attacks, discusses the current state and likely future state of the situation, and presents some ideas for more comprehensive solutions.
The Executive Guide to CRM Architecture: Why CRM Flexibility Will Impact Your Success Thie white paper explains the importance of flexible software architecture, and how the right CRM solution can support and even advance an organization's ability to evolve in lock-step with changes as they occur - enabling them to attain and maintain a competitive advantage.
Content is King Content is king. It's probably the most valuable asset you have as a marketer. How do you create, manage and keep your marketing content fresh? This quick video offers tips that will super charge your content marketing strategy.
Dave Stein/Gary Zimmerman Podcast Dave Stein and Gary Zimmerman discuss issues relating to sales training, sales process, sales talent assessment and more.
Dave Stein/LaVon Koerner Podcast Dave Stein and LaVon Koerner discuss issues relating to sales training, coaching, sales process, sales talent assessment, gain sharing, demand creation and more.
Dave Stein/Mahan Khalsa Podcast Dave Stein and Mahan Khalsa discuss sales training, coaching, sales process, demand generation, consultative selling, value propositions, sales execution and more.
The Six Worst Presentation Habits and How You Can Avoid Them Tim Wackel, founder and president of the Wackel Group gives us an informative and entertaining look at some of the worst habits that can destroy a sales pitch (and possibly a deal!). He will teach us how we can avoid these presentation pitfalls.
The Power of Customer Influence: Mobilizing and Engaging Your Customer Base Join Barnes & Noble, the Aberdeen Group, and Lithium Technologies for a lively discussion about how to leverage the power of social customer networks to proactively build stronger, deeper customer relationships , while driving millions of dollars in untapped value.
Dave Stein/Bob Schmonsees Podcast Dave Stein and Bob Schmonsees discuss sales training, coaching, sales process, demand generation, consultative selling, value propositions, sales execution and more.
Dave Stein/Steve Andersen Podcast Dave Stein and Steve Andersen discuss customer value, first line sales managers, coaching, what sales executives should do when they find themselves in trouble and more.
Dave Stein/Cam Marston Podcast Dave Stein and Cam Marston discuss how sales people can be more effective understanding and selling to people of different generations.
Dave Stein/Brian Dietmeyer Podcast Dave Stein and Brian Dietmeyer, CEO of Think! Inc., discuss a new definition of negotiation.
Julie Thomas, CEO of ValueSelling Associates Dave Stein and Julie Thomas, CEO ValueSelling Associates, discuss the challenges of helping sales people become more effective.
Ken Allred, CEO of Primary Intelligence Dave Stein and Ken Allred, Founder and CEO of Primary Intelligence, discuss competitive intelligence, win/loss analyses, and how companies can be more competitive.
Donal Daly, CEO of The TAS Group Dave Stein and Donal Daly, CEO of The TAS Group, discuss sales process, challenges for first-line sales managers, Sales 2.0 and other areas of technology support for sales effectiveness.
Jill Konrath, Author of Selling to Big Companies Dave Stein and Jill Konrath, author of Selling to Big Companies, discuss the front end of the sales cycle--what is required to gain access to decision makers, trigger events, sales enablement tools, and analysis, synthesis and evaluation.
Greg Alexander, CEO of Sales Benchmark Index Dave Stein and Greg Alexander discuss benchmarking, hiring, lead generation, Sales 2.0, the future of sales and sales leader skills
Randall K. Murphy - Founder and President of Acclivus Corporation Dave Stein and Randall Murphy discuss sales leadership, alignment among teams in selling organizations and the results of Acclivus's most recent research.
Brian Carroll, author of Lead Generation for the Complex Sale Dave Stein and Brian Carroll discuss sales and marketing alignment, the sales funnel, the marketing funnel, a case study about recuperating leads, nuturing and teleprospecting.
Tom Roth (CEO) and Ed Emde (SVP) of Wilson Learning Dave Stein, Tom Roth and Ed Emde of Wilson Learning Corporation discuss, among other things, stand-alone sales training events, human performance improvement solutions, and the criticality of sales performance measurement.
David DiStefano, CEO of Richardson Dave Stein and David DiStefano, CEO of Richardson, discuss the four pillars of Sales 2.0, differentiation, LinkedIn and preparation. This podcast is focused on sales managers and sales leaders.
Mike Rohan (President) and Bob James (Executive Instructor) of Executive Conversation Dave Stein, Mike Rohan and Bob James of Executive Conversation discuss, among other things, gaining and maintaining access to the executive suite. Worth its weight in gold is Bob's description of how he, a former C-level executive, looks at sales people, ROIs and business acumen.
2009 Gartner Magic Quadrant Report Riverbed positioned in Leaders quadrant of 2009 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers. In this report, Gartner helps organizations interested in WAN Optimization Controller capabilities truly understand their options.
2009 Gartner Magic Quadrant Report Riverbed positioned in Leaders quadrant of 2009 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers. In this report, Gartner helps organizations interested in WAN Optimization Controller capabilities truly understand their options.
Get to know IBM Sametime 8 and IBM Sametime Entry Meet the IBM Lotus Sametime 8 family from Entry to Sametime Unified Telephony. All the capabilities to get start collaborating to integrating your communications into a single client. And get a demo on Sametime Entry.
Security Update: What’s New With the Threat Landscape With all of the hype surrounding the Conficker worm and web threats on the rise, Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, will explore the 2009 threat landscape during a live Webcast. Gain insights into the latest trends in malware with Sophoslabs – where more than 20,000 new samples of malware are analyzed every day.
Proving and Improving the Performance of Your Online Marketing Programs Discover how to get a true picture of the effectiveness of your marketing. This webcast will give you an overview of the Webtrends campaign performance measurement framework, with a deep dive into the foundational elements of campaign reporting using Webtrends solutions.
Intro to Webtrends Open API Learn how to export data from Webtrends' open interface to Excel and other business tools you already own.
VMware Virtualization: The Right Investment for a Tough Economy Now more than ever, IT organizations must find a way to cut costs quickly and dramatically. In this tough economic environment, budgets are being squeezed and IT departments are expected to “do more with less.” View this webcast to learn how VMware can help you: *Consolidate your hardware infrastructure by a 15:1 ratio *Reduce power and cooling costs by 60-80 percent *Quantify potential savings with TCO and ROI calculators
Fuelling Enterprise Content Management Systems Enterprise Content Management is a revolutionary approach to extending the value of unstructured content locked inside disparate desktop applications by facilitating its reuse and interoperability. The technology powering this approach is the extensible mark-up language (XML), a language that encodes a machine-readable structure into what would previously be considered unstructured, non-machine-readable content.
9 Management Practices for Exceptional Webinars Marketing professionals continue to rate Webinars as one of the top tools for lead generation. Yet, many marketing departments still do not have a process in place to maximize Webinar results. This new white paper examines Webinar effectiveness at driving lead generation and outlines 9 best practices for using Webinars in a cohesive lead-generation campaign.
CRM Built for Marketing: The Executive Guide to Selecting CRM that Meets Marketing Needs How can a company ensure that the marketing deparment's needs are represented when choosing an enterprise-level CRM system? This white paper provides core principles companies can use to help them select a CRM system that each marketing team member feels was built just for them.
Customers Re-architect Data Protection Processes with Data Deduplication: Symantec Backup Exec and Data Domain Learning about data protection and backup planning procedures can make selecting an appropriate data protection strategy less complicated. Download this podcast to learn more about re-architecting your data protection processes with data deduplication; this podcast also highlights a solution that provides superior protection and substantial paybacks. Data De-duplication and data protection share many common threads. With respective benefits that include cost reduction, improved asset utilization, reduced management and reduction of footprint, power and cooling requirements, it's no wonder why this technology is one of the top technologies on IT Managers' lists for implementation. This podcast explores the changes in storage requirements and the efficiencies that can be achieved by deployment of new technologies as it relates to enterprise level backup and DR practices.
Ask the Experts: 3 Leading Sales Gurus Answer Your Most Pressing Sales Questions Leading Sales Experts Jill Konrath, Jonathan Farrington, and Kendra Lee field a wide range of questions about sales and sales management.
Trends in Accounts Payable Automation: A PayStream Advisors Analyst Perspective In tough economic times, finance operations have a critical requirement—a high-performance accounts payable (AP) process with better cash management, lower costs, faster cycle times, and stronger internal controls. The latest strategies for AP automation can fully equip you to meet these needs. Download this recorded webcast to hear a leading analyst's perspective on the challenges organizations face in their AP processes. Learn more about the AP solution from EMC and 170 Systems.
Determine the ROI of Your Streaming Media Networks Reduce the cost of delivering secure, dynamic media over the Internet. Read the new Forrester Consulting report, The TEI of Content Delivery Using Adobe Flash Media Server , that includes a multi-company analysis to discover how media streaming improves efficiency, effectiveness and end user-experience.
Realize the Full Power of Cost Savings with Application Virtualization and Centralized Management While many IT organizations are looking to save cost by virtualizing their infrastructure, one area for cost reduction remains in the application stack and their deployment and management to desktop and client devices. This one-hour Webinar will present the combined power of agentless application virtualization and the ability to centrally manage and deploy physical and virtual applications to desktops and client devices.
Virtual Realities: Securing Your Virtualized Environment To keep up with their expanding computing needs, more and more companies are turning to virtualization. But as they do, they find very real security concerns. Does virtualization put us more at risk to security threats? * What issues do companies tend to overlook as they secure virtualized environments? * What do you need to do to ensure both your physical and virtualized environments are safe? * And how do you find the right solution to address your needs?
Success in a Challenging Economy: Finding & Nurturing Your Ideal Prospect What do successful marketers know? Learn specific tactics to find and develop the right prospects at the right companies: • How can marketing generate more sales ready leads? • What inputs contribute most to sales effectiveness, driving lead conversion? • What are the keys to effective segmentation and campaign design? • Lead generation and management processes: getting it right • Connecting your offer with the prospect’s needs: relevance is everything in today’s B2B climate •What is the bottom-line impact of an effective lead nurture program?
How to Market and Sell Services with Webinars This new Quantum Leap Marketing white paper explores how to effectively market and sell services with Webinars so that you get even more mileage out of your services marketing budget. Discover how to cost effectively generate more sales leads, reach more prospects and competitively differentiate your organization.
Marketing Detox: How to Get Off Google AdWords PPC Crack Too often, businesses get addicted to the Google AdWords PPC Crack and forget that there are other ways to draw traffic and leads to their website. Google AdWords is a great way to get immediate search marketing results, but the optimal long-term strategy is a balanced approach to paid efforts like Google AdWords and organic, inbound efforts like SEO (search engine optimization), blogging, and social media marketing. Learn how to break your addiction to Google AdWords PPC crack and use inbound marketing to get traffic and leads online.
Q1 2009 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Report Contained within the distributed denial of service (DDoS) report for the first Quarter (Q1) of 2009 are news items regarding noteworthy cyber attacks and botnets, the Individuals or organizations responsible for their perpetration, and arrests and legal developments stemming from these particular incidents.
CRM Built for Customer Service: The Executive Guide to Selecting CRM that Meets Service Needs How can a company ensure selection of a CRM system that will be embraced by service users and deliver maximum returns in the customer service department? This white paper provides core principles companies can use to help them select a CRM system that each service user feels was built just for them.
Converting Unknown Visitors To Known Visitors How do I get unknown visitors on my website to self-identify? The answer: give them a reason to raise their hand! Easier said than done, right? Watch this two minute video and learn how to entice prospects to share more information.
Unified Communications and Collaboration IBM's unified communications and collaboration solutions make it easier for people to find, reach and collaborate with one another through a unified communications experience
Cisco 2009 Midyear Security Report The Cisco 2009 Midyear Security Report presents an overview of Cisco security intelligence, highlighting threat information and trends from the first half of 2009. The report also includes recommendations from Cisco security experts and predictions of how identified trends will evolve. As predicted in the Cisco 2008 Annual Security Report, attacks are only becoming more sophisticated and targeted as we move through 2009—and the global recession. However, while cybercrime is more pervasive, there are encouraging signs that increased collaboration among the "good guys" is making it more difficult for attacks to take root and grow.
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CRM Built for Sales: The Executive Guide to Selecting CRM that Meets Sales Needs Among all CRM user groups, the sales organization is often the most important - and challenging - to win over. So how can a company ensure selection of a CRM system that will be embraced by sales users? This white paper provides core principles companies can use to help them select a CRM system that each sales user feels was built just for them.
Brian Lambert, Director of Sales Training Drivers, ASTD Dave Stein and Brian Lambert, Director of Sales Training Drivers at ASTD, discuss the science of selling, the evolution of sales training, world-class sales organizations, buyer/seller relationships, sales process, technology, competencies, complex technology deals, measurement, turnover among sales reps and the question of whether sales people are born versus made.
Podcast on Green Storage with Nik Simpson, storage analyst for The Burton Group Nik Simpson is a senior analyst for Burton Group Data Center Strategies. He covers server platforms, data center power and cooling, and grid/cloud/HPC computing models. In this FAQ podcast, Simpson discusses trends in green storage, distinguishing industry hype from what storage managers are actually doing in the real world. At a time when everyone is talking about "going green" Simpson helps storage pros understand the potential savings in new energy-saving technologies.
Storage Manager Part 2 David Condrey goes in depth into the technical features and real world applications of Storage Manager 2.5 with the Open Audio Team. Part 2 of 2.
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Webinars The e-Learning Lingo Podcasts are created as a free service to academia and the e-Learning industry at large. Each week, the e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series discusses one or two important terms used in the e-Learning industry.
Multiple Intelligences Theory The e-Learning Lingo Podcasts are created as a free service to academia and the e-Learning industry at large. Each week, the e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series discusses one or two important terms used in the e-Learning industry.
Problem-Based Learning The e-Learning Lingo Podcasts are created as a free service to academia and the e-Learning industry at large. Each week, the e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series discusses one or two important terms used in the e-Learning industry.
Apraxia The e-Learning Lingo Podcasts are created as a free service to academia and the e-Learning industry at large. Each week, the e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series discusses one or two important terms used in the e-Learning industry.
Vector Graphics The e-Learning Lingo Podcasts are created as a free service to academia and the e-Learning industry at large. Each week, the e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series discusses one or two important terms used in the e-Learning industry.
Force Field Analysis The e-Learning Lingo Podcasts are created as a free service to academia and the e-Learning industry at large. Each week, the e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series discusses one or two important terms used in the e-Learning industry.
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Wizards The e-Learning Lingo Podcasts are created as a free service to academia and the e-Learning industry at large. Each week, the e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series discusses one or two important terms used in the e-Learning industry.
Clustered NAS emerges to address high-performance needs: Expert Podcast Traditionally, NAS systems have had limitations in throughput, connectivity, reliability and scalability. As a result, mission-critical storage tasks still required a SAN. Today, a new generation of high-performance NAS ismaking high-availability for NAS a reality. Find out what the latest trends are in clustered NAS systems and what it means for storage professionals facing increasing data storage growth.
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BlueCoat Podcast: MPLS plus Managed Services In this podcast, Agatha Poon of Yankee Analyst Group answers questions about upcoming trends and changes in WAN services. She answers questions about the important trends right now in global enterprise WAN, how the WAN landscape is changing, and how new tools are playing into the market. Listen to this podcast and find out what she has to say.
Take 10 on Travel: How to Build Customer Loyalty through Web Analytics Discover how Webtrends solutions can help travel organizations like yours build customer loyalty with every visitor to your web site.
Hidden Costs Associated with Hosted (Sass) vs. Licensed LMS/LCMS Decisions Bob Goldschneider, Director of Business Development for SyberWorks discusses the Hidden Costs Associated with Hosted (Sass) vs. Licensed LMS/LCMS Decisions.
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How to Demonstrate the Value of Social Media to Your Boss You get it. You love it. But now you need to ask for budget or permission or both to cover your social media implementation plans. You want to make sure the boss knows that other companies have done it successfully, that the learning curve is brief, that the tools are inexpensive, and that this isn't a drain on resources. Attend this free webinar to learn how to show the value of social media to your boss and how to implement it for your business.
Net neutrality in broadband stimulus rules; 10 dumbest mistakes Net neutrality advocates are cheering after learning that the federal government will require any applicants to its broadband stimulus funds to maintain nondiscriminatory networks. When you look at the worst corporate security breaches, it's clear that network managers keep making the same mistakes over and over again, and that many of these mistakes are easy to avoid.
Improving On-The-Job Training with LMS and e-Learning Tools. Mary Polley-Berte, Director of Customer Support and Training for SyberWorks discusses her article, “Improving On-The-Job Training with LMS and e-Learning Tools.”
Living in a Mobile World - Well, Not Yet A recent survey by Harris Interactive and Cloudmark shows that mobile device owners are showing growing concern over the security of their data. Jamie de Guerre, the CTO of Cloudmark, discusses these results and gives an update on mobile spam issues that continue to threaten the mobile world.
The SalesRoundup: A 90 day Sales turnaround plan - Part 2 Do you want to be successful in sales? Do you want to be a top performer? Do you know what you need to do for that to happen? If you don't know where you're going how are you going to get there? If you are starting in a new territory or just want to kick start an existing one, to ensure your success you will need to map out a 90 day plan. In part one of this three part series Joe and Mike discuss how you go about laying out the first thirty days of your 90 day sales turnaround plan.
Leadership Communication Strategies for a Multigenerational Workforce. Vicky Jarosz, Executive Vice President of i3Logic, Inc. discusses leadership communication strategies for a multigenerational workforce.
Empowered CRM What is an "Empowered CRM" system and why does it matter to your sales organization? An empowered CRM system: • Significantly improves the quality and completeness of CRM data, increasing sales efficiency • Connects companies within the same corporate family, maximizing cross-selling opportunities while reducing channel conflict • Yields analytical insights that drive strategic decision-making by putting the focus on your best prospects and customers
Fearless Change with Linda Rising This episode is once again with Linda Rising, this time on the book she coauthored with Mary Lynn Manns on introducing ideas into organizations. The talk is another one of the SE Radio Live sessions recorded at OOP 2009 - thanks to SIGS Datacom and programme chair Frances Paulisch for making this possible.
Why Keith Won't Sing 'Uptown Girl' Keith and guest co-host Neal Weinberg discuss whether IT spending or job news will ever get better, the world's stupidest hacker, and what would happen if healthy snacks ever invaded their office. Plus: The Walkman Turns 30, and Keith reveals his Walkman Tragedy Story of the '80s.
Ari Zilka on Terracotta's VMware integration On the eve of JavaOne, Terracotta Founder and CTO Ari Zilka talks with Andrew Glover about how they are integrating Terracotta with VMware, as well as cross-application data sharing and other new features in the recently released version 3 of Terracotta.
iPhone SMS bug Plus, Firefox 3.5 bugs, Chinese censorware postponed not abandoned, and more
Why Keith Won't Sing 'Uptown Girl' Keith and guest co-host Neal Weinberg discuss whether IT spending or job news will ever get better, the world's stupidest hacker, and what would happen if healthy snacks ever invaded their office. Plus: The Walkman Turns 30, and Keith reveals his Walkman Tragedy Story of the '80s.
Get a Ph.D. in Cisco: Become a Cisco Certified Architect Fred Weiller, director of marketing for Learning@Cisco, explains why Cisco created another high-level certification that combines technology know-now, architecture skills and business acumen.
SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Discusses Learning Management System (LMS) Integration with Salesforce.com Stuart Campbell, Director of Software Engineering for SyberWorks discusses his article, “Considerations when Integrating a Learning Management System (LMS) with SalesForce.com.”
Cisco won't chase Amazon in cloud; IT spending continues 2009 drop Cisco Systems won't try to compete with pay-as-you-go cloud computing providers such as Amazon, and instead will sell its infrastructure to those companies and provide its own software as a service. Also, Forrester Research said Tuesday that global IT spending would decline by nearly 11% in 2009 before vendors and end-user organizations begin to see some signs of recovery later this year and early next year.
Cloud storage and the data center cave Cloud storage and security problems raised by this new model is on the mind of John Clancy, president of Iron Mountain Digital. Clancy also discusses the unique data center Iron Mountain operates in a cave 220 feet below the Earth’s surface in Boyers, Pa.
Baldoni: What's in a Title? Some of the meanest corporate fights are over who's supposed to be doing what. In this three-minute podcast, John Baldoni explains why defining employee titles can help circumvent turf wars.
China postpones deadline to install Web filtering software Plus, Juniper puts stop to presentation on hacking ATMs, U.S. and Italy to tackle cybercrime, and more
Get a Ph.D. in Cisco: Become a Cisco Certified Architect Fred Weiller, director of marketing for Learning@Cisco, explains why Cisco created another high-level certification that combines technology know-now, architecture skills and business acumen.
SQL with Jim Melton In this episode, Arno talks to Jim Melton about the SQL programming language. In addition to covering the concepts and ideas behind SQL, Jim shares stories and insights based on his many years' experience as SQL specification lead.
Learning as a Part of Development with Allan Kelly In this episode, Allan shares his insights about how learning is a necessary part of software development. He covers the personal as well as the team and the organizational level and offers practical advice.
Performance Secrets of Winning Companies This webinar will highlight Bob Paladino & Associates, LLC groundbreaking research on human capital’s contribution to achieving company strategy. He will be discussing findings from his #1 Best Selling book "Five Key Principles of Corporate Performance Management" (John Wiley & Sons) and related case studies from award winning organizations. Content will be practitioner focused, largely told by the executives themselves.
Hidden Dangers of Spam Companies pay a steep cost if they choose to ignore targeted email attacks and spam. A report by Nucleus Research estimates the annual cost of spam to be over $ 1,930 per employee. Spam is particularly troublesome for SMBs, because they often lack the resources to implement effective countermeasures. This whitepaper discusses how SMBs can combat spam and mitigate security risks as effectively as large enterprises – while adhering to their budget constraints.
Monolith Software Single Code Base Learn ho Monolith Software is the only vendor offering a multi-tenant, single code set solution that addresses -- fault, availability, performance, correlation, discovery, mapping capped off with the industry leading, real-time dashboards and service level management
Global Reach and Massive scale: Live Event Streaming The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The 2009 Presidential Inauguration. What have we learned from delivering the world's largest live streaming events? The article "Successful Live Event Streaming" covers the essential steps involved in flawless live event delivery: identifying business requirements and user experience criteria, anticipating traffic spikes and common limitations, scoping proper signal transmission services, encoding and transcoding considerations, and protecting content from unauthorized republishing.
Secure Virtualization: Achieve and Maintain IT Security in Virtual Environments Virtualization makes it easier than ever to deploy and manage new infrastructure components, but it also makes it easier to introduce risk and security vulnerabilities outside the processes put in place to prevent them. As new virtual systems are created, used and de-provisioned – all within a very short period of time – controlling and accounting for these rapidly deployed environments becomes an enormously challenging, yet critical task. It is vital that IT organizations implement Configuration Audit and Control to mitigate risk in virtual environments. Learn how in this Tripwire whitepaper.
Event Manager A true 'manager of managers' Monolith Event Manager Suite, our cornerstone product, gives you the ability to monitor every device, system and application through a single consolidated event console. With Event Manager Suite you can strengthen your surveillance efforts, detect, diagnose and fix failures faster, and increase your operational efficiency by streamlining escalation and reducing notifications and event noise. This video gives a brief overview of the Event Manager Suite from Monolith Software
How to Be Smarter Than Your PR Agency - New Research on Creating News Releases That Work Does the social media news release really work? When you spend hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars on PR agency services and news releases, do you know if you're receiving the value you're paying for? HubSpot recently conducted a study comparing social media news releases to traditional releases across different newswire services. This webinar will discuss the findings and show how to be smart with PR and understand news releases better than your agency.
Driving Demand for your Online Events Learn how to drive prospects to your virtual doorstep. This short video discusses the four areas on which you need to focus to not only drive registration to your online events, but to drive attendance.
Apple confirms Steve Jobs back at work Plus, Japanese researchers harness brain waves for wheelchair control, IBM wins order limiting duties of executive hired by Dell, and more
Does Virtualization Put Security at Risk? The cost benefits of virtualization are so great that the current economic situation will drive IT departments to greater adoption of the technology. However, security continues to be of utmost concern, especially as virtualization is used beyond pre-production environments. This webcast discusses: *The types of virtual environments where security is at most risk *How a lack of virtual security can affect both you and your customers *Why it is important to "bake" security into deployment
Hi Tech Manufacturing & Structured Content This industry spotlight paper introduces the XMetaL® family of collaborative document reviewing applications. It explores how XMetaL can introduce new efficiencies to high-tech’s often complex, cumbersome document creation process, improving time-to-market and mitigating risk.
What Causes Webinar Attendees to Bail Webinars have become a powerful, cost-effective way for marketers to reach prospects and customers. However, many attendees exit before the Webinar’s conclusion due to easily avoidable presentation turnoffs. Download this new MarketingSherpa study to discover the leading causes for attendees to drop out of Webinars and what you can do to sharpen your presentations.
Microsoft to charge more for Windows 7 in Europe than U.S. Plus, news of Jackson's death slows down Web sites, China Telecom wants to offer BlackBerry, and more
The SalesRoundup: A 90 day Sales turnaround plan - Part 1 Do you want to be successful in sales? Do you want to be a top performer? Do you know what you need to do for that to happen? If you don't know where you're going how are you going to get there? If you are starting in a new territory or just want to kick start an existing one, to ensure your success you will need to map out a 90 day plan. In part one of this three part series Joe and Mike discuss how you go about laying out the first thirty days of your 90 day sales turnaround plan.
10 Golden Rules Internet Marketing Podcast Episode 35 David McInnis founder of PR Web introduces his new start up, Podcast of the Week JB Glossinger from Morning Coach; Ten Tips to Shake the Recession Blues, YouTube Annotations, Google Negative Keywords, Netbooks, Golden Rule #7 Trust is Golden and AuthenticatedTestimonials, 302 Redirect Links, 5 Things to do when launching a new website, Scott Wright from StreetWise Security Zone, The Real Tim Jones, Chi from Mamas Dresser, Song of the Week Kerry Politzer Love is in the Atmosphere. Call in line 206-888-6606
Google lets in more users for Google Voice Plus, EC wants countries to coordinate broadband plans, PC upgrade cycle may be around the corner, and more
Fusion-io Introduces SMLC, New Category of Enterprise Solid State Memory: SLC performance and endurance at MLC price Can enterprise-ready, high-performance solid state storage also be affordable? Fusion-io Introduces SMLC, a new price/performance standard. In this podcast, David Flynn, CTO, Fusion-io, and the architect of enterprise ready Solid State Storage, will describe how Fusion-io has made MLC flash as reliable as its SLC cousin. He will also outline how Fusion-io can now provide a cost-effective MLC-based solid state solution called SMLC with the endurance and performance of SLC, but at a much lower cost per GB. MLC flash has one big advantage over SLC flash-it is roughly 1/4 the cost on a per-GB basis. But MLC has an undeserved reputation as being fit only for consumer applications. Users are left with the impression that they must sacrifice performance, quality and reliability to get the cost savings. David will explain how Fusion-io solved the reliability challenges in its original Solid State offerings over a year ago. He will then describe this new SMLC technology that tackles the performance and endurance limitations. If you have been waiting for Solid State to make that next price/performance leap before you try, you don't want to miss this presentation.
“No-Cost” B2B Marketing Tactics That Deliver Leads B2B marketers’ jobs have never been tougher than in 2009. The economy is driving longer sales cycles, marketing budgets and staff are being frozen or reduced, and sales is demanding increased lead flow and opportunities. This Webinar provides tips and examples of how B2B marketers can increase leads at the top of the funnel through no- or low-cost activities that “pull” people to your Web site, where they engage with your content and brand. Areas covered include search engine optimization, in-house Webinars, Twitter, SlideShare, blogs, white papers, studies and surveys, Web-site resource/knowledge centers and email newsletters.
Top Tips To Keep Data Under Your Control You already know the growth and changes in government, industry and internal regulations designed to protect data is becoming harder and more expensive to manage. View this Webcast to learn about how you might simplify the task. Hosted by Moderator James Hilliard and featuring Compliance and Security Expert, John Metzger from Sophos, topics include: types of compliance, the challenges when playing "by the rules", technology tips for enforcing a compliance strategy and more.
Intel and Nokia join forces for mobile devices Plus, Guy Kawasaki's Twitter account hacked, spreads porn trojan, Samsung, Numonyx collaborate on PCM specs, and more
China stands firm on Green Dam deadline Plus, Apple employees see Jobs back at work, Japan threatens South Korea with WTO action over batteries, and more
The SalesRoundup: Selling when they’re not Buying Let’s face it times are tough. People are not buying like they used to. Times like these are very difficult for sales people. That said, there are no excuses. When the going gets tough the tough get going. Your success or failure is dependent on how you manage to get through these times. In this episode Joe and Mike discuss some of things you should be doing to persevere. To sell when they are not buying!
Steve Jobs had liver transplant Plus, Embattled Satyam changes name, Twitter grows faster than other sites, and more
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How IT Operations are Affected by Governance, Risk, And Compliance Mandates CIOs will spend more than $30 billion in 2008 on corporate governance, risk and compliance mandates in order to prevent issues that can become very public and expensive. CIOs will rely on their IT organizations to take a more holistic, strategic approach to operations, security and compliance. Because staffing remains lean, it is more important than ever for IT organizations to find the right balance of policies, processes and tools that help meet the goals of these initiatives.
Accelerate your Website Performance Incorporating rich media, interactivity, social networking , user-generated content, and self-service downloads can cause even the most dynamic website to lose viewers due to slow-loading pages. Learn how to improve website delivery performance and minimize the associated costs , complexities, and management challenges.
Thomas Jefferson would be awful at Twitter Keith and guest co-host Matt Hamblen talk about Twitter's role in Iranian unrest, whether the Palm Pre can disguise itself as an iPod, and why most of us are still behaving badly with our cell phones.
Woman hit with $1.92M fine for sharing files Plus, Microsoft's Zune HD has Tegra inside, RIM sees BlackBerry growth slow, and more
Buying Software to Manage IT Finances Can a software purchase now save money in the long run for the IT group? Denise Dubie talks with HP's Ken Cheney about the company's new IT financial management software, services and strategy.
Demystifying ROI for Managed Services for IPT (IP telephony): An Enterprise Case Study featuring Forrester and Dimension Data If you're looking to better manage your IP telephony, but don't know where to start, this podcast can help. Tune in to hear from industry experts as they examine the total economic impact and potential ROI you can achieve by adopting a new IP telephony management solution. Find out the financial impact of this solution and walk away with the tools you need to build a solid business case and get the green light. Learn more about the benefits of this solution, including: Improved efficiency of IT resources Reduced resource and training costs Predictable service costs
Google tight-lipped about co-founder's EC meeting Plus, SAP aims to help microcreditors, U.S. bill would limit broadband subscriptions based on usage, and more
Effective Ads for Long-Form Internet Video If you would like learn about the types of advertisements that are effectively generating revenue for long-form video on the Internet, this interview is for you. Our guest today is Jim Louderback who is the CEO of Revision3.com. His company is an Internet television network that creates, produces and distributes web television shows on niche topics. Some shows have achieved audience numbers equivalent to popular cult-TV shows. One example is DIGGnation in which two hosts discuss the top weeky topics on the Digg website. It gets about 200,000 – 300,000 viewers which is equivalent to the TV audience for Dog the Bounty Hunter. Just like a regular TV network, Revision3 is dependent upon advertising as the primary revenue source. One reason for interviewing Jim was to gain insight into the kinds of ads that will work in an interactive environment. Revision3 uses all types of ads including video-rolls, overlays, sponsorships, and banners. Sponsorships have been particularly effective. For example, the hosts of DIGGnation typically discuss the sponsor’s products during the show. The objective is to have a deeper “conversation” with the audience about the sponsoring brands. Ordinarily the “conversations” result in a direct or implied endorsement. The approach is actually an echo of a method effectively used on television 50 – 55 years ago. Shows such as Schlitz Playhouse 90 and The General Electric Theater had single sponsors that wanted parallel identity with the programs. For example, both put their names in the title and General Electric used a consistent host who for eight years was Ronald Reagan. As noted in our “Third Generation Television” research report released in February, long-form video will inexorably migrate to the Internet. Furthermore, consumers will exhibit a decided preference for free viewing from ad-supported websites and podcasts. As a result, it is crucial that Internet Video ads generate enough revenue to adequately compensate the program producers.
MySpace cuts 30 percent of staff Plus, IRS now wants to repeal cell phone tax, US senators to investigate exclusive handset deals, and more
MySpace cuts 30 percent of staff Plus, IRS now wants to repeal cell phone tax, US senators to investigate exclusive handset deals, and more
Data Domain board urges rejection of EMC bid Plus, Twitter plays role in Iran, Bull launches supercomputer, and more
How the University of Toledo Cut Costs and Increased Accessibility for Students with Virtual Desktops Hear from the University of Toledo in Ohio as they share their experience with VMware virtualization. You’ll learn how the university leverages virtual desktops and VMware View™ to provide students with access to university-licensed software from anywhere with an Internet connection, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Learn how VMware solutions have helped the University of Toledo to: • Minimize software upgrade glitches • Reduce energy costs by 60 percent • Use their IT budget more efficiently • Provide better customer service to students
Warrant issued for hacker in Italian probe Plus, Symantec's GoAnywhere goes nowhere, Microsoft settles antitrust case for $100M, and more
The SalesRoundup: A Sales Plan to Sell Higher in your deals A common problem with many people is getting to the right level of whatever organization you are trying to sell to. Plenty of people will tell you why you need to do it but not many people tell you how. In this episode Joe and Mike tell you how to penetrate an organization and actually provide you tips for selling higher!
10 Golden Rules Internet Marketing Podcast Episode 42 Episode 42 – Amazing Australia with Lee Hopkins and Iconic88, we discuss Twitter Tools including TweetDeck, Bit.lt, HelloTxt.com, TweetDeck, Seesmic DeskTop , HootSuite, ow.ly, Tweetlater how to Sell Social Media to the CEO, Best practices for friending in Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, Tips for Link Building, Calls from Josh Braaten, Trey Richards, Scott Wright, Song-of-the-Week Blackheart Blues by Melissa Forbes.
Five Key Considerations for Selecting a Data Loss Prevention Solution Selecting a Data Loss Prevention solution is often a challenging task for many organizations. There are two critical questions to be answered: What data should I monitor and how do I reduce the risks to that data? RSA® has identified 5 key considerations to help organizations simplify the evaluation process for selecting a DLP solution that is right for their business.
Yankee Group Mobile WAN Optimization Report Mobile work continues to evolve. Your organization must keep up with the demands of its mobile workforce. This report introduces the concept of mobile WAN optimization and provides three case studies including RCM, PRTM and Einstein that highlight how this emerging technology can help IT departments achieve what previously appeared to be conflicting goals.
Recessionary Marketing: Automation Makes It Click
Into the Wild: Managing Laptops Outside the Office Join the IT asset management specialist from a leading insurance group to learn how his department slashed costs associated with 15,000 laptops. This webinar discusses the business value of web-based management, including cost savings from inventory audits, theft recovery and reduced security and compliance risks.
Business Fitness Gets in Shape with GoToMeeting Corporate with GoToWebinar Providing exceptional service to more than 1,000 clients and wooing thousands of prospects was a costly endeavor for Business Fitness, a consulting firm specializing in business efficiency. The company desperately needed a cost-effective tool to help it educate, nurture and convert leads to happy customers without racking up frequent flyer miles. This new case study explores how Citrix® GoToMeeting® Corporate with GoToWebinar® has transformed Business Fitness’s sales and marketing efforts, enabling the company to significantly reduce costs, speed up the sales cycle and vastly improve nurturing efforts.
Client Relationship Management for Asset Managers - Build Relationship Capital Using CRM Technology This white paper describes how client relationship management (CRM) technology can help mutual fund wholesalers and institutional asset managers address these core industry challenges and effectively foster - and understand the true value of - the relationships that form the bedrock of asset management.
Data Quality: The New Black Data quality is more important than ever. In fact, the success of your campaigns depends on it. Marketers who invest the time to implement a data quality program generate 267% more leads per month. This two minute video will reveal three key things you need to get started.
Yankee Group Mobile WAN Optimization Report Mobile work continues to evolve. Your organization must keep up with the demands of its mobile workforce. This report introduces the concept of mobile WAN optimization and provides three case studies including RCM, PRTM and Einstein that highlight how this emerging technology can help IT departments achieve what previously appeared to be conflicting goals.
Rambus reaches tentative settlement with EC Plus, Microsoft to ship Windows 7 without IE in Europe, Google readies relational database, and more
Adam Smith: What's Next for Google Book Search? Google has scanned millions of books and made snippets available online through its ambitious Book Search program. The project has taken heat from authors and publishers, but Adam Smith, Google's director of product management, says it's a good thing for academe.
Former Apple exec takes helm at Palm Plus, Signs Apple nears Chinese iPhone deal, Symantec and McAfee hit with fines, and more
Has the Smartphone Gone Mainstream? With the Palm Pre, iPhone 3GS and Nokia N97 hitting the world this summer, Carla and Keith discuss whether the smartphone has gone mainstream, or if more work is needed before Suburban Sally adopts it. Plus, with better wireless networks, will people finally begin to start watching video content on their phone?
Has the Smartphone Gone Mainstream? With the Palm Pre, iPhone 3GS and Nokia N97 hitting the world this summer, Carla and Keith discuss whether the smartphone has gone mainstream, or if more work is needed before Suburban Sally adopts it. Plus, with better wireless networks, will people finally begin to start watching video content on their phone?
Sun Solutions for Boosting Web hosting Efficiency and Optimization In part I and II of "Business Benefits of Boosting Web hosting" industry pro Greg Schulz discussed the challenges and benefits of boosting your web hosting. In part III Schulz takes a closer look at the benefits and different options for boosting web hosting including: How to leverage open sourced based solutions to reduce cost Virtualization for consolidation and business agility and flexibility Issues your web infrastructure should address
DEMOcast: Has the Smartphone Gone Mainstream? With the Palm Pre, iPhone 3GS and Nokia N97 hitting the world this summer, Carla and Keith discuss whether the smartphone has gone mainstream, or if more work is needed before Suburban Sally adopts it. Plus, with better wireless networks, will people finally begin to start watching video content on their phone? (29:07)
Microsoft under antitrust investigation again Plus, Adobe patches flaws, HP launches energy-efficient servers, and more
The Advantages of Row and Rack- Oriented Cooling Architectures for Data Centers Room cooling is an ineffective approach for next-generation data centers. Latest generation high density and variable density IT equipment create conditions that room cooling was never intended to address, resulting in cooling systems that are inefficient, unpredictable, and low in power density. Row-oriented and rack-oriented cooling architectures have been developed to address these problems. This whitepaper contrasts room, row, and rack architectures and shows why row-oriented cooling will emerge as the preferred solution for most next generation data centers.
Business Success, Leadership Stupidity, and Employee Happiness Rich Moran is a partner at the venture capital firm Venrock and a social scientist, bestselling author and evangelist for organization effectiveness. He combines a unique blend of financial business savvy, understanding of human nature, and strong sense of humor to provide insights into people’s behavior and how we are often the enemies of our own success. Covering topics ranging from strategies for dealing with the economic downturn to fundamental shifts in employee attitudes, Rich’s experiences and observations are far ranging, relevant to business, and personally meaningful.
iPhone 3G S announced Spam volume down 15 percent after 3FN gets shut down, Dell to include open source software in hardware bundles for SMBs, T-Mobile confirms hack
Addressable Advertising for Television If you would like to learn about addressable television advertising, this interview is for you. Our guest today is Seth Haberman who is the Founder of Visible World. His company is a leading provider of targeted television advertising. It offers a software platform, termed intelliSpot, that enables advertisers, agencies, and media companies to target, customize and change messages to address diverse audiences, programming, and business situations. Investors include Comcast, Time Warner, Viacom, WPP, and AllianceBernstein, among others. Visible World has provided addressable advertising for television since 2004. To an important extent, the capability of its intelliSpot platform to is dependent upon the pace at which cable operators roll-out addressable infrastructure. Until the formation of Canoe Venture a year or so ago, this was largely dependent upon the policies of individual systems. Canoe Ventures is an initiative that is backed by all the major CATV operators. Its mission is to roll-out addressable standards for the entire industry thereby avoiding a Balkanization of formats among the various systems. In our analysis, Canoe and Visible World will be challenged by the rise of Internet Video. As TV shows migrate to the Net advertisers will find that technical standards on the Net are already established. This will enable innovators to try a number of different addressable options thereby enabling them to more quickly identify those that will work. In contrast, Canoe will have to roll-out standards via fiat and test formats that are agreed upon by venture members in advance. Thus, we conclude that addressable video advertising is likely to first become successful on the Net. As noted in our Third Generation Television research report released in February we believe that video will inexorably move to the Internet. Furthermore, consumers will exhibit a decided preference for free viewing from ad-supported websites and podcasts. We are currently preparing a research report entitled “Future Developments in Video Advertising” that examines how video will be used for advertising and promotion in the years ahead.
China requires Web filtering software on PCs Plus, Nvidia says packaging problems hasn't hurt its laptop GPU business, Intel invests in Japanese WiMax operator, and more
The SalesRoundup: Drive by Sales Leadership Drive by Sales management. Most of us have experienced it one time or another. Hopefully none of us are guilty of being one. So called Drive by Sales managers are managers who don’t focus on helping their sales people close business. They are too busy managing by numbers or performing tasks completely unrelated to getting deals closed. In this episode Joe and Mike discuss the pitfalls of having or being a drive by sales manager and the things you need to focus on in order to be a successful manager and drive more business.
The SalesRoundup: Drive by Sales Leadership Drive by Sales management. Most of us have experienced it one time or another. Hopefully none of us are guilty of being one. So called Drive by Sales managers are managers who don’t focus on helping their sales people close business. They are too busy managing by numbers or performing tasks completely unrelated to getting deals closed. In this episode Joe and Mike discuss the pitfalls of having or being a drive by sales manager and the things you need to focus on in order to be a successful manager and drive more business.
The New Language of Marketing: From the Four P's to the Four R's Now that consumers are listening to each other (not to marketers) and getting bombarded with too many messages, marketing is transforming from the traditional Four P's of push marketing (Product, Price, Place and Promotion) to the Four R's of consumer-centric marketing (Reveal, Reward, Respect and Retain). Watch this webcast and find out how to speak the new language of marketing. Plus, take an in-depth look at this new model through the lens of a fast-growing company, Kettle Foods.
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Adobe readies first quarterly patches Plus, Via updates Nano chip, Jobs will soon return to work, and more
Best Practices for Automating and Optimizing Your Accounts Payable Download our joint webcast to learn more about the EMC and 170 Systems Accounts Payables Solution. Our joint solution is the only proven scalable application for high volume transaction processing that delivers a rapid return on investment-with a typical payback in 7 months. View this recorded webcast to learn how AP process automation can deliver your ROI in just 7 months
Content Acceleration Strategies Whether your company is in the B2B or B2C space, you need to publish high-value and high-volume online content. At the same time, you need to distribute, manage, and monetize it efficiently. Read this paper by the Yankee Group to discover how using a CDN partner can allow you to focus your IT resources on core business issues while dynamically scaling content delivery capacity for audience growth.
Telcos get immunity from NSA lawsuits Plus, BenQ plans an Android netbook, Verizon launches Caas, and more
Business Benefits of Boosting Web hosting Efficiency and Optimization While optimizing your web hosting environment can help your organization gain a competitive advantage, it can also be difficult to do. In this podcast, IT pro Greg Schulz explains the top challenges of this task, and explains how you can leverage this approach to realize these improvements: Support new and more competitive and I/O intensive applications and services Enhance quality of service delivery for users Address power, cooling, floor-space and other management cost issues Enable transition to a more productive environment for competitive edge
Options for Boosting Web hosting Efficiency and Optimization As part II of "Benefits of Boosting Web Hosting", this podcast features industry veteran Greg Schulz, who takes a closer look at the options and benefits of boosting web hosting efficiency. Listen to this podcast to gain expert insight into: Myths and realities of efficiency and optimization Key components for enabling optimized web infrastructures Different approaches and locations for virtualization Leveraging web services middle-ware to enable efficiency
DEMOcast: The Inherent Weirdness of Facebook Carla and Keith talk about the highs and lows of Microsoft's Bing search engine, and do some more navel-gazing about some of the weirder aspects of the social networking (especially on Facebook) experience. Plus, Boston Power continues its roll as potentially the biggest DEMO success story ever. (31:33)
Microsoft to offer Vista upgrades for Win 7 Plus, Intuit buys online payroll provider, Intel looks to daylong netbook battery, and more
Astaro's Response to Firewalls and IPS Video Astaro's response to Firewalls and IPS video with Angello Comazzetto
Computex gives look at what’s next in PCs and mobile devices Intel’s unveils new ultra-low voltage processor, smartphones based on the Android platform launch, and more
Google to launch e-book service AMD unveils 6-core chips, Acer's Android phone to launch in Q4, and more
Mother May I" selling! A Sales Plan to Survive an Acquisition You're on top of your game. You're the alpha dog of your sales organization. You've got your own territory, you're bringing in sales and no-one's telling you to slow down. All of a sudden your company gets acquired by a large conglomerate and instead of being top dog you're playing a bit part and you have to ask permission from your company's account manager before you can sell into an account. Welcome to the world of "mother may I?" selling! In this episode Joe and Mike discuss what you can do to adapt and thrive in a "Mother may I" selling environment.
The SalesRoundup: A Sales Plan to Survive an Acquisition You’re on top of your game. You’re the alpha dog of your sales organization. You’ve got your own territory, you’re bringing in sales and no-one’s telling you to slow down. All of a sudden your company gets acquired by a large conglomerate and instead of being top dog you’re playing a bit part and you have to ask permission from your company’s account manager before you can sell into an account. Welcome to the world of “mother may I?” selling! In this episode Joe and Mike discuss what you can do to adapt and thrive in a “Mother may I” selling environment.
IT Assets Holding Your Organization Hostage? Every organization has fragile artifacts—servers, databases and other IT assets that when modified cause catastrophic outages and result in an endless cycle of break/fix work. These fragile artifacts are major impediments to getting planned project work completed, reliable IT service, and significantly jeopardize business objectives. In this session, we discuss strategies to help you find fragile artifacts and work around them effectively. The result? Increased system uptime, a reduction in unplanned work, and an increase in completed project work. We also set the stage for replacing fragile artifacts with stable, secure and reliable builds.
The UTM Explosion Unified Threat Management (UTM) offerings have exploded in the past years. The concept of integrating multiple security features on a single, reliable platform with one graphical user interface is gaining more support than ever before. This whitepaper explains how to sort through the various UTM offerings. It also provides evaluation information so an educated purchase of a security solution can be made.
How to Survive (and Thrive) in the Content Rich Workplace An XML-powered workfl ow marks the end of slow, labor-intensive and error-prone content creation and publishing. This business paper uses real-life stories to illustrate how non-technical executives and managers in content-rich organizations have made the shift to XML-based content creation, releasing higher-quality information with less effort, more confi dence and greater speed.
IDC White Paper: Optimizing Infrastructure Control This paper outlines the nature of infrastructure integrity, change auditing, and compliance solutions. It describes how an investment in configuration assessment and change auditing solutions can stabilize IT operations, lowering the operational costs associated with the IT infrastructure; be a force multiplier; and provide a solid foundation that increases the effectiveness of the investment in information security.
The Virtual Presenter's Series: Start Right. Design Right. Present Right. Presenting online is a completely different ballgame from presenting in person. Sure, you don't have to fret about what to wear or if you're going to trip on stage, but you do have to worry about how to engage, interact, involve and understand your audience; all while you cannot even see them! View this on-demand Webinar series with Roger Courville, Webinar expert and author of the new book, The Virtual Presenter's Handbook, for a 3-part Webinar series on how to plan, design, and present your own Web events like a pro.
Building Relationship Capital - Client Relationship Management for the Capital Markets This white paper explains the role CRM technology can play in helping capital-markets firms streamline investment-banking activities, increase brokerage trade volume, and meet compliance challenges. As a nerve center for capturing information about clients, prospects, institutions, syndicate partners, and other contracts, the right CRM system enables capital-markets firms to share intelligence, coordinate activities, and derive optimal firm-wide advantage from an integrated body of corporate knowledge and relationships.
Norton Healthcare Implements "Follow Me" Desktops with VMware View Learn how Norton Healthcare in Louisville Kentucky, fulfills its mission of superior patient care by providing healthcare providers with immediate access to virtual desktops with VMware View™. Norton shares their evaluation criteria and their virtual desktops implementation steps. The results are dramatic both in ROI and performance within six months for both end users and IT professionals. Learn how VMware View helps Norton to: *Reduce operating costs. *Streamline desktop and application management. *Provide immediate access to applications and information with always-on, "follow me" desktops for hospital staff.
Email as Teaser Marketers have to start thinking of email as a teaser. And the landing page you drive visitors to can include all the details. Here's a quick video that describes the best balance between email and landing page content.
Upgrading to VMware View 4: Planning and Considerations VMware View™ 4 adds some powerful features and functionality, such as the PC over IP protocol, support for running on VMware vSphere™4, and experimental support for Windows 7 for View desktops, just to name a few. We will discuss the following questions: * Overview of VMware View 3 to VMware View 4 upgrade process * What are the criteria before upgrade to VMware View 4? * Why upgrade to VMware vSphere 4 at the same time as VMware View 4? * What are the right perquisite steps to get started to avoid risks in upgrade?
Microsoft launches Bing Plus, Dell results flop, Google catches wave, and more
Priceline.com Capitalizes on Lean Economic Times Download this podcast to learn how virtualization has been a major key to the success of everyone's favorite discount travel site as Priceline.com has continued to grow its competitive edge in the face of lean economic times. In the current economic climate, more and more customers have been turning to Priceline.com for the best possible travel deals on the Web-meaning more traffic, increased unit volume, and all the technology challenges that come with it. These lean economic times have also meant that ROI within the organization has never been more important, which is why Priceline.com-one of the first E-commerce players to adopt virtualization-is continually seeking new ways to remain at the forefront of technology innovation while "following the money." In this podcast, Priceline.com CIO Ron Rose explains what is so innovative about Pricline.com's datacenter infrastructure and how virtualization has enabled the travel giant to not only survive, but to thrive by delivering benefits such as: 50% reduction in Total Cost of Data vs. traditional storage 50% datacenter storage footprint reduction 400% expansion in storage capacity with zero administration headcount increase Fast "On demand" delivery of servers and storage. Increased speed to market for new applications Download this podcast now to learn how your organization stands to benefit from taking a page out of Priceline.com's travel journal.
Phishing site spams contacts of Twitter users New Core i7 chips appear for sale online, IDC sees server sales drop in Q1, and more
Best-in-Class Succession Planning, The Real Scoop 73% of organizations will have succession planning in place next year. What about yours? Join Kevin Martin, Research Director HCM, Aberdeen Group and James Harvey, Product Manager, Taleo Corporation for an informative hour on succession planning. Find out what really works and see the impact at the strategy and application levels.
28 Web Conference Training Tips Mary Polley-Berte, Director of Customer Support and Training for SyberWorks discusses her article, “28 Web Conference Training Tips.”
DEMOcast: Will 2M Tweeters Follow Ashton Off the Cliff? Carla and Keith discuss the Ashton Kutcher Twitter Threat, and whether Web-only videos can make the transition to the big screen, and whether that matters in the long run when viewing habits are changing constantly. (22:21)
What You Don’t Manage Can Hurt You: An ESG Perspective on eDiscovery and Compliance During this webcast you’ll hear from Brian Babineau, Senior Analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group, as he discusses eDiscovery and compliance challenges and opportunities. Find out how the new EMC SourceOne solutions are helping to address information governance challenges, enabling you to: * electronic discovery/disclosure time and costs by up to 50 percent * Reduce time associated with high volume searches * Automate the collection and hold of unstructured content * Enable legal investigators to search, discover and hold content, reducing dependence on IT * Enforce policy, demonstrate compliance, and enable defensible deletion
90 percent of mail is spam VMware buys stake in Terremark, Greenpeace rates IBM and Sun highly for low emissions, and more
How Florida's Budget Woes Affect Faculty Members The state's top public universities face one of the nation's worst budget challenges but have largely managed to cope with the money shortages, for now.
Unbundling IE would create problems for ISVs Facebook access blocked by Iran, Chinese man jailed for extorting virtual items, and more
Speaking of Security Podcast #149 Discussion on securing personally identifiable information with Jon Oltsik, Principal Analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group.
The God's gift Syndrome Dealing with a new sales manager Did you ever work for a company who hired a new senior sales manager and both the company leaders and new manager acted as if they were god's gift to sales? They run around the organization touting how "everything is now great" and that the new manager will bring us to the promised land.
Advertising on Internet TV Shows and Movies If you would like to learn the latest from an expert about video ads for premium Internet streams such as popular TV shows and movies, this interview is for you. Our guest today is Steve Robinson who is the CEO of Panache. His company provides an ad-insertion platform that offers media and entertainment companies the infrastructure to generate advertising revenues from their video streams. Representative clients include MTV, VH1, Country Music Channel, and Nickelodeon, among others. We caught-up with Steve at the Streaming Media East conference where we could get a chance to learn his thoughts on the future of video advertising. Steve emphasized that his company is focused on premium content providers and probably accounts for about 10% – 15% of the business in his industry outside of YouTube. The advent of websites like Hulu.com and the increasing abundance of popular TV shows and movie streams on the Internet means that it is crucial that the video ads in such streams generate sufficient revenues to adequately compensate the program providers. Steve makes a number of comments to this point. First, the emergence of an accepted standard will be important because standards drive large scale adoption. For example, should the pre-roll be 15 seconds, or 30 seconds? Should it be interactive or passive? Second, although standards will help establish scale, the industry is so young that there is likely to also be a lot of innovation. For example, clickable overlays that segue into interactive games have been popular on MTV. Third, TV and movie producers are going to try and move slowly into Internet distribution because they want to be assured that the revenues generated via the Net are truly incremental. In our analysis, however, they may have to move faster than they want because consumers are connecting laptop computers to flat-panel TVs and thereby getting Internet access on the TV monitor. This is feeding demand for video content from the Net. If premium producers don’t provide it, consumers will find alternate sources. Some may even resort to piracy.
Past Present and Future of MDA with David Frankel In this episode, Dirk talks with David Frankel, resident Metamodeller and MDA expert at SAP Labs LLC, SAP's subsidiary in the Silicon Valley. Dave's extensive experience provides a big picture, from the early days of CORBA all the way to current issues that are bugging most enterprise architects' work with MDA.
The SalesRoundup: The God’s gift Syndrome - Dealing with a new sales manager Did you ever work for a company who hired a new senior sales manager and both the company leaders and new manager acted as if they were god’s gift to sales? They run around the organization touting how “everything is now great” and that the new manager will bring us to the promised land. In this episode Joe and Mike discuss how to deal with a new sales manager.
6 Tips To Stop Data Leakage From Your Organization A Dark Reading Vendor Perspectives WebCastHow can you help your company from becoming the next bad headline? Join TechWeb and compliance and security experts, John Metzger from Sophos and Nagraj Seshadri from Utimaco. Together, during a one-hour live WebCast, they will discuss how you can protect your company and customer data.
What You Don’t Manage Can Hurt You: An IT Perspective on the Operational Benefits of EMC SourceOne During this webcast you’ll hear from EMC experts, as they explain the IT challenges of managing e-mail and other information for archiving, eDiscovery/eDisclosure and compliance. Find out how the new EMC SourceOne information governance solutions enables you to: * Cut primary storage requirements and associated backup windows by 60 percent, while improving operational efficiencies * Reduce electronic discovery/disclosure time and costs by up to 50 percent * Mitigate risk associated with industry and other regulations * Enable proactive e-mail and information management, allowing the central management of multiple content types
Ron Nutter's Help Desk Tool Chest Troubleshooting wired and wireless networks
The Cost-Based Business Case for Data Loss Prevention This Aberdeen Group Report illustrates that Data Loss Prevention technologies can in fact be deployed in a cost effective manner. Based on Aberdeen customer research, this paper provides the criteria you will need to make the business case for deploying a data loss prevention solution in your enterprise. This paper also showcases a mini-case study focused on the TCO of an RSA DLP customer.
Electrical Efficiency Measurement for Data Centers Data center electrical efficiency is rarely planned or managed. The unfortunate result is that most data centers waste substantial amounts of electricity. Today it is both possible and prudent to plan, measure, and improve data center efficiency. In addition to reducing electrical consumption, efficiency improvements can gain users higher IT power densities and the ability to install more IT equipment in a given installation. This whitepaper explains how data center efficiency can be measured, evaluated and modeled, including a comparison of the benefits of periodic assessment versus continuous monitoring.
The Secret to Effective, No-Hassle Performance Reviews Use this eGuide to create your roadmap for implementing an easier, more effective employee performance review process at your organization.
Controlling Virtualization Security Risks: Tips from the Experts The need for increased computing agility, coupled with the increasing cost and complexity of IT systems, has driven the rapid adoption of virtualization technologies. While virtualization has operational and economic rewards, the reality is that when information security controls are improperly implemented or neglected in virtualized environments, real security risks and exposures can be created faster than ever. The good news is that information security can take some practical steps right away to limit operational and security risks. This webcast discusses: *The types of virtual environments where security is at most risk *How a lack of virtual security can affect both you and your customers *Why it is important to "bake" security into deployment
Security and Controls for Virtual Servers in Production Environments Tripwire surveyed IT professionals to learn how virtualization is expanding and if security, change controls and compliance requirements are keeping pace. Read this white paper to learn more about the state of virtualization today and why most of the respondents agree that a dedicated configuration tool is needed and are in the process of evaluating or planning to acquire such a tool.
DDoS: Threat Overview & How VeriSign Stops DDoS Attacks Watch this 2 part demo to understand how Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks happen, and how the VeriSign Internet Defense Network's in-the-cloud DDoS mitigation platform helps companies stay online during an attack with minimal infrastructure investment.
Microsoft cancels EU antitrust hearing Twitter hit by phishing attacks, Mulcahy steps down at Xerox, and more
Agile Warehouse Management: Increase Productivity and Reduce Expenses In today's warehousing and distribution centers, everyone is looking for better ROI. Some of the best ways to increase productivity and save expenses are to analyze your operations and implement Warehouse Management Systems (WMS). TAKE Supply Chain and Foxfire teamed up to provide an agile WMS that gives you visibility and control over materials moving through your warehouse while improving accuracy to nearly 100%. Attend a complimentary Webcast to learn how TAKE Supply Chain’s SRM solution can help you: •Improve inventory accuracy to nearly 100% •Achieve increased productivity and save on labor •Virtually eliminate receiving, picking and shipping errors •Significantly improve customer service and satisfaction •Train employees more quickly and enhance job satisfaction Unlike traditional warehouse management solutions that are difficult and time-consuming to implement and costly to maintain, the TAKE Supply Chain/Foxfire solution delivers robust functionality that can be implemented quickly, cost effectively, and complements TAKE Supply Chain's existing supply chain applications. Foxfire's seamless integration with major ERP vendors such as Oracle® and SAP® paired with TAKE Supply Chain's deep supply chain expertise will help you fully leverage your IT investment. Presented by: Dustin Caudell, Senior Vice President, Foxfire Jason Howton, Director of Product Management, TAKE Supply Chain
NetApp buys Data Domain for $1.5 billion Conficker still on the loose, VMWare makes VSphere available, and more
HP revenue drops Appeals court investigates conflict of interest in Pirate Bay case, Sun plans Java app store, and more
Get Compliant, Stay Compliant - Automatically Compliance is no longer a one-time event, nor is it the means to an end. It now has much more significance than merely passing an audit. Why? A single failed configuration that goes unnoticed can possibly snowball into an entire data center being non-compliant. In today's complex environment, it is necessary to maintain continuous compliance. This requires a proven method for automating the compliance process, one that not only satisfies the auditor's checklist but that also alerts IT to non-compliant configurations before they can create serious events.
China toughens cybercrime rules Twitter seeks revenue, Microsoft opens MyPhone beta, and more
What Microsoft's Extended Support for XP means to IT Also, Amazon.com blames glitch on a cataloging error, Oracle highlights software maintenance revenue in its earnings call, and more
The Record Label Business If you would like to know how the Internet transformed the record label business, this interview is for you. Our guest today is Steve Knopper who is the author of Appetite for Self-Destruction. Steve’s book is a chronicle and analysis of the spectacular crash of the record industry in the Digital Age. He is a Rolling Stone contributing editor who has covered the business since 2002. Among our conclusions are the following: First, record label industry leaders during the past 30 years are “larger than life” characters whose stories may be colorful enough to merit retelling as a made-for-TV movie. Technological innovation was far down the list of the skills that made them successful. Second, the industry has almost always fought against technological change. For example, they resisted the adoption of CDs during the 1980s even though the format provided two great benefits from a financial viewpoint. First, the labels were able to sell CDs at a price premium relative to the LP and also simultaneously charge artists an associated technology adoption fee as an offset to royalty payments. Second, widespread acceptance of the CD led consumers to not only purchase new releases in the format but to often also replace their existing LP library selections with CDs as well. Third, the Internet has forever changed the record labels. It simply may not be possible for the industry to adapt in a way that enables it to retain its historical prominence. Its situation may be similar to the encyclopedia or newspapers businesses. For example, no matter what changes Encyclopedia Britannica made, the company simply could not retain its leadership after the advent of the Wikipedia. Similarly, it appears that newspapers could not have avoided losing prominence in classified advertising once Craig’s List gained traction. Fourth, record labels could be the “canaries in the coal mine” for the video entertainment business. Both industries are characterized by high profile leaders who are unaccustomed to adapting to changes driven by external forces. The labels were impacted first because of the lower bandwidth requirements of audio. But it has been ten years since Shawn Fanning launched Napster and the day of reckoning for entertainment video is fast approaching.
Successful Virtual Desktop Deployments with VMware: Where to Start and Proven Best Practices Architecture and product selection are critical elements of successful virtual desktop deployments that directly impact the virtual desktop infrastructure’s ability to realize a return on investment (ROI) and ensure user acceptance. This session focuses on the necessary virtual infrastructure, server, storage, network and security architectural decisions that can make or break desktop virtualization projects. View this live webcast and find out how virtualization: Optimizes existing IT infrastructure; Reduces IT power, space and cooling consumption; Avoids redundant infrastructure costs; Increases availability and business continuity; Improves desktop manageability and security
Dell uses Via Nano laptop chips in servers Established domains host malware, DRAM slump continues, and more
Save Money, Save the Environment - How to do both Learn what can be done to reduce costs, while supporting green computing to reduce technology carbon footprints. This webcast explores ways in which we can make cost saving adjustments on a personal level, as well as on departmental and corporate levels. Attend this educational webcast to look at ways to begin making a difference.
We'll make it up on volume!... Keeping the cost of sales down is important to the health of any organization. It can also be important to a sales person's compensation that is based on net profit as opposed to gross revenue. So how do you keep your cost of sales down? In this episode Joe and Mike discuss techniques and approaches to reduce the cost of sales.
Is SaaS the Future of Enterprise Security? In this podcast, security expert Gerhard Eschelbeck analyzes the benefits and drawbacks of security SaaS. The exponential growth of malware variants is overwhelming traditional defenses. Threats are now more sophisticated, and the Web has become a primary attack vector most businesses are not yet prepared for. Compliance and data leakage are a growing concern, and the economic downturn is causing every organization to re-evaluate its spending on personnel and IT resources. These factors and others leave security experts questioning the practicality of current endpoint and managed service security applications. Download this podcast to learn: How the threat landscape and defense mechanisms have evolved Advantages and trade-offs of deploying a SaaS solution Value of Security SaaS for small, mid-sized and enterprise businesses How SaaS differs from cloud computing What assurances customers should expect from providers Details of a typical SaaS deployment What's on the horizon for SaaS and security
The SalesRoundup: Reducing the cost of sales Keeping the cost of sales down is important to the health of any organization. It can also be important to a sales person’s compensation that is based on net profit as opposed to gross revenue. So how do you keep your cost of sales down? In this episode Joe and Mike discuss techniques and approaches to reduce the cost of sales.
Richard D. Legon: Staying Strategic During the Recession The recession is presenting college governing boards with big challenges, says Richard D. Legon, president of the Association of Governing Boards of Colleges and Universities. In a conversation with The Chronicle, Mr. Legon describes how boards can be strategic in tackling financial-planning problems.
Introduction to Software Configuration Management with Petri Ahonen In this episode Michael interviews one of our regular listeners: Petri Ahonen. Petri introduces Software Configuration Management by defining key terms and describing relevant concepts.
EU ruling on Intel could launch civil suits HP recalls laptop batteries, Google blames routing error for outage, and more
Podcast #21 - Secret Techniques for Creating Compelling Demos So your prospect is interested in what your company provides. You've qualified them as a great potential customer. They've requested a demo. Now what? In this episode of The Innovative Marketer, I speak to Peter Cohan, founder of the Second Derivative, a company focused on teaching people to deliver relevant, compelling, interesting demonstrations. Peter also has a blog that's packed with information on making your demo a successful one.
How Cloud Computing Pays for Itself Thousands of small and midsize businesses are boosting sales with a hassle-free CRM solution that pays for itself from day 1. Watch a Webinar to hear Forrester Analyst Bill Band explain how Salesforce CRM lets you: *Get quick results with no upfront costs *Route leads faster and close more deals *Make the most of your marketing dollars
What’s New in QlikView 9 QlikView 9 represents the most significant release to date of the powerful analytics and reporting software - building on its history of groundbreaking features with each product release. The enhancements in QlikView 9 build on the product’s reputation of powerful, yet simple analytics enabling end-users to make smarter business decisions – faster.
Astaro Security Gateway: Intelligent All-Round Protection for your Network. Astaro Security Gateway integrates complete Network, Web and Mail Security through an intuitive browser-based user interface. The Astaro Unified Threat Management appliance is the most easy-to-use and cost-effective "all-in-one" solution available, working to effectively shield businesses from internet based threats everyday.
The Strength of CIS Benchmarks The Center for Internet Security (CIS) brings together security professionals, vendors and independent organizations, such as Tripwire, to determine best practices, benchmarks and processes for hardening IT systems. Find out what it means for your organization from Sean Sherman, Tripwire's Sr. Compliance Architect and Policy Program Manager.
Web Security - An All in One Approach To combat the problems associated with web access, many small- to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are recognizing the advantages of an all-in-one solution as implemented in a secure web gateway. This whitepaper describes the advantages of a centrally managed approach enabled by an all-in-one security gateway that can also enhance and complement existing measures. This whitepaper also discusses the benefits of consolidating web security mechanisms in an easily deployable hardware appliance or a convenient, self-contained virtual appliance.
Improving Marketing Measurements, Operations, & ROI Struggling to determine the impact of your lead-generation efforts? Making blind marketing decisions and hoping for the best? Cross your fingers no more! View this Webinar archive Jim Lenskold, author of the recent MarketingProfs ROI study, to discover what sets the top tier of “highly effective and efficient” marketing organizations apart from others. Lenskold will explain what your organization can do today to improve current performance – even on a tight budget.
VeriSign Internet Defense Network Overview The increasing frequency and severity of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks is rapidly changing the face of network security. Driven by financially, politically, or technologically-motivated criminals, these attacks routinely exceed the largest events of only a few years ago.
Essentials of CRM for Commercial Banking - Build Relationships You Can Bank On In this white paper, learn how commercial banks can use client relationship management (CRM) strategies and technology to maximize client value, become trusted advisors, and streamline operations, contributing to top-line and bottom-line revenues and gaining insight they can "take to the bank."
Exploring Social Media for Demand Generation Everyone is talking about social media. But how does it apply to your marketing efforts? In this ten minute roundtable discussion, find out how you can extend the value of your existing marketing tactics by ‘joining the conversation’.
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Ballmer says innovation key to recovery Jobs not expected to appear at Apple's WWDC, Intel says EU testing antitrust law limits, and more
DEMOcast: Peeking Behind the DEMO Curtain Carla and Keith take a break from analyzing the news to discuss the processes that occur in vetting companies for the next DEMO show. Find out how companies for the show are chosen, what works and what doesn't. (19:00)
EU hits Intel with $1.44 billion antitrust fine Windows 7 to be released by year end, Intel says Oracle's Sun acquisition creates opportunity for Itanium, and more
Customer Spotlight: City of San Diego Uses Virtualization for Consolidation and Application Deployment Learn how the City of San Diego, California is using VMware virtualization solutions to consolidate servers and make application deployment easier while increasing productivity and easing the IT budget. View this live webcast and find out how virtualization: Optimizes existing IT infrastructure; Reduces IT power, space and cooling consumption; Avoids redundant infrastructure costs; Increases availability and business continuity; Improves desktop manageability and security
Windows 7 out by holidays SAP kicks off Sapphire, AMD gains on Intel, and more
Training For Internet Advertising If you would like to learn how advertising agencies, media buyers and other media professionals learn their ways around new media, this interview is for you. Our guest today is Leslie Laredo who is the President of The Laredo Group . Her company is a leading training and consulting firm concentrating in online advertising buying and selling, search engine marketing, and site optimization. The Laredo Group provides general sales training for companies and individuals, media training for buyers and sellers, and custom consulting services for traditional, online, and cross-platform sales and marketing activities. The client list of The Laredo Group includes many of the world’s largest and most successful companies as well as smaller firms, start-ups and many industry associations. Examples include ABC, AOL, Google, Fox, NBC, NFL, Time, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today, among others. Among her staff are published authors of industry-relevant books and articles. All instructors have real-world, hands-on experience in their fields. As noted in our Third Generation Television research report released in February we believe that video will inexorably migrate to the Internet. Furthermore, consumers will exhibit a decided preference for free viewing from ad-supported websites and podcasts. As a result, it is crucial that Internet Video ads generate enough revenue to adequately compensate the program producers. Laredo Group training can help advertising agencies, media buyers, and other advertising professionals learn how to be more effective in new media.
No Business as Usual: The New Economics of IT The world and economy are changing. Corporate budgets and belts everywhere are tightening as company executives do their best to ride out the storm of these financially uncertain times. Smart CIOs everywhere are reevaluating how budget dollars are allocated, searching for ways to reduce existing IT cost models, and break free from the handcuffs of single-vendor solutions. By replacing proprietary software solutions with commercial open source alternatives, you can significantly reduce operational and capital expenditures. Read this whitepaper to learn more.
Speaking of Security Podcast #147 A lively conversation with Shannon Kellogg, Director of Information Security Policy for EMC's Office of Government Relations on security related activity in Washington, DC.
Speaking of Security Podcast #148 This week's Speaking of Security podcast features a topical discussion on business continuity planning. Recent global concerns regarding a potential Swine Flu pandemic have organizations looking at possible operational and business disruptions. Sam Curry, VP of Product Management for RSA is our guest.
Getting a Sales Job! Perfecting The Interview Process. Part 3 of a 3 part series In this economy its very tough to find a good sales job. With companies downsizing there are a lot more candidates than there are jobs to fill. That's why if you are looking for a sales job its more important now than ever to use a deliberate, strategic approach to getting it. In part three of this three part series on getting a sales job Joe and Mike discuss how to prepare for the interview process.
EU to hit Intel with antitrust fine on Wednesday Sun shareholders sue to block Oracle takeover, Microsoft to test Windows 7 update mechanism, and more
Cooling Strategies for IT Wiring Closets and Small Rooms Cooling for IT wiring closets is rarely planned and typically only implemented after failures or overheating occur. Historically, no clear standard exists for specifying sufficient cooling to achieve predictable behavior within wiring closets. An appropriate specification for cooling IT wiring closets should assure compatibility with anticipated loads, provide unambiguous instruction for design and installation of cooling equipment, prevent oversizing, maximize electrical efficiency, and be flexible enough to work in various shapes and types of closets. This paper describes the science and practical application of an improved method for the specification of cooling for wiring closets.
Raising the Bar on Performance Management- Best Practices to Optimize Performance Reviews and Goal Management This whitepaper provides concrete guidelines and practical steps that can be used to improve the performance management processes at your organization. It also includes 10 best practices for optimizing performance reviews and goal management.
Selling in Tough Economic Markets In this podcast, EOS Editor Leah Rust interviews Mike Brooks (aka Mr. Inside Sales). The two discuss challenges that face salespeople today and strategies for building rapport with prospects.
GE to invest $6 billion in health IT Oracle will stay in hardware business after Sun acquisition, Dell working on Android-powered netbooks, and more
Brian C. Rosenberg: Can Liberal-Arts Colleges Survive? Residential liberal-arts colleges are expensive to run, so the flagging economy has forced them to take a close look at how they do business. Brian C. Rosenberg, president of Macalester College, describes which liberal-arts institutions will survive and thrive in a newly cost-conscious era.
Java Posse #248 - Interview with John Ferguson Smart Interview with John Ferguson Smart
AMD reorganizes, combines CPU and GPU groups Cisco sees revenue drop sharply, Symantec hurt by lower security sales, and more
10 Golden Rules Internet Marketing Podcast Episode 41 Episode 41 Author and Affiliate Advocate from AffiliateTip and AffiliateSummit.com Shawn Collins, Ten Strategies to Manage a Successful Affiliate Program, Internet News Ping, Google Wave, Facebook Usernames, an amazing Commissioner Podcast of the Week, K7.Net, GoToMeeting, Callers @ColderIce, @ShashiB, @RealtyLee, @RichardStanton, @MariSmith, @RohithBhargava, @WarrenCorpus, Eric Wolf from The Art of Storytelling for Children on 3 Types of Entertainment: Fear, Mystery and Sexual Overtones, Ralph Mucci, Theron McCulloch from www.PeoplePond.com , The Wedding Planning Audiocast Song of the Week Have you Googled Yourself Today from ConSoultant.
About DEMOcast: Catching up with Adapx In this Special Edition of DEMOcast (Carla and Keith are on assignment), Christina Butkiewicus talks with Ken Schneider, CEO and Chairman of Adapx, a DEMOfall 08 company focused on making enterprise software for mobile field users to help them digitize their pen and paper workflows. Find out how the company has been able to raise money in a tough economy (they recently secured $9M in Series B funding), how they launched four products over the past six months, and what advice Schneider has for entrepreneurs in today's market. (6:52)
What You Don’t Manage Can Hurt You: A Customer Perspective on Doing More with EMC = SourceOne During this webcast you’ll hear from Gary Reardon, Principal Infrastructure Solutions Architect for International Computerware, Inc., as he discusses his business challenges and how the new EMC SourceOne information governance solutions are helping to address them. Find out how to: * Reduce IT, storage and eDiscovery/eDisclosure costs * Mitigate risk associated with industry and other regulations
Microsoft lays off more workers South Korea and Google face off over YouTube, Swedish man arrested for stealing Cisco source code, and more
Getting a Sales Job! Assessing your qualifications and resume building. Part 2 of a 3 part series In this economy it’s very tough to find a good sales job. With companies downsizing there are a lot more candidates than there are jobs to fill. That’s why if you are looking for a sales job it’s more important now than ever to use a deliberate, strategic approach to getting it. In part one of this three part series on getting a sales job Joe and Mike discuss how to go about assessing your qualifications and building a resume.
Release It with Michael Nygard This episode is a discussion with Michael Nygard about his book "Release It" which covers aspects of software architecture you often don't think of initially when starting to build a system. Some of the points we discussed were capacity planning, recovery as well as making the system suitable for operation in a data center.
Mid-Year Checkpoint: Security Threats in 2009 In spite of the economic recession, security continues to be a dominant IT priority in 2009. There are too many threats and vulnerabilities creating a perpetual increase in IT risk. In this webcast, security experts discuss: Current security challenges and threats; Preparing for new risks with less money and fewer people; Cost-effective threat prevention; How to make IT Security = Business Security
Improving Healthcare Systems and Services with VMware, MEDITECH and Perot Systems MEDITECH healthcare organizations recognize the value of their technology investment and its long-term impact on every aspect of their organization throughout the continuum of care. The technology solutions available from the MEDITECH Solutions Group within Perot Systems are designed to optimize and extend the value of MEDITECH systems throughout their lifetimes. In this webcast, Perot Systems discusses how their partnership and deep experience with MEDITECH and VMware provides hospital systems with the most robust and cost-effective, virtualized solutions for managing healthcare information systems (HIS) and electronic medical records (EMR) systems.
Google service pushes Gmail, calendar items to BlackBerry devices Amazon working on a Kindle reader for newspapers and magazines, RIM opens its BlackBerry push technology to third-party developers, and more
8 Integrations for GroupWise 8— Bringing CRM to GroupWise Do you have any customers who have a CRM system and GroupWise? Trevor from Omni tells us about their Riva Integration Server for GroupWise that allows you to deliver advanced, server-side integrations for the most popular CRM applications and GroupWise 8 and 7.
FreeWheel.tv - Ads for Online Video f you would like to learn about a company that aims to become the DoubleClick of Internet Video advertising, this interview is for you. Our guest today is Doug Knopper who is a Co-Founder of FreeWheel.tv. His company offers a system to account for the monetization rights of online video syndication. Though it may be a bit of an oversimplification, FreeWheel hopes to become the DoubleClick of Internet Video. Doug and his two other Co-Founders worked at DoubleClick prior to organizing FreeWheel.tv in 2007.The FreeWheel service provides four functions. First, it identifies sales rights. That means that it determines what companies have the right to sell a piece of content. It assures content owners that their ads are not pre-empted by ads sold by others. Second, it pinpoints the right ad to run. Given a number of ad sellers, CPM rates, and display platforms, FreeWheel pinpoints the ads that will drive the highest possible yield. All this happens in milliseconds. Third, it serves the ad. The FreeWheel ad server can accommodate any video format and works with any video player. Fourth, it automates the financial accounting. Content owners, distributors, and third-party sellers are automatically assigned their rightful share of ad revenue.
Strategies to Mitigate Information Risk: Data Loss Prevention and Enterprise Rights Management As data breaches continue to plague organizations worldwide businesses must consider every weapon available to combat information threats. Enterprise Management Associates highlights the complementary values of Data Loss Prevention and Enterprise Rights Management as a strategic approach to information risk control.
Case Study: LeanLogistics Learn how LeanLogistics achieved a 25% response rate on its thought-leadership nurturing campaigns and evolved its sales process from 100% cold calling to a focus on warm leads.
Madness? Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures Human beings take risks. In business, one of the riskiest moves company stakeholders can take is to acquire and merge with another company or to divest part of what they have. Despite the best initial intentions, fully half of all mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures fail. Whether your objective is acquiring new markets, realizing cost synergies, or obtaining new technologies, beware of the dangers, know what to anticipate, and, above all, be prepared. Enable a common path to success. Discover how you can keep your sanity and avoid the maddening side of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures — for free.
Java Posse #247 - Roundup 09 - Design and Engineering Roundup 09 - Design and Engineering
10 Golden Rules Internet Marketing Podcast Episode 40 Episode 40. The World’s First Quantcast? SOFIE AWARD!, Featuring a conversation with Richard Binhammer from Dell Computers, Leading Edge Social Media Customer Service, Twitter Search, Blog Monitoring, The 3 E’s of Social Media, Calls from Social Media Swami Shashi Bellamkonda from Network Solutions, @Iconic88, New Media Photographer Rosh Sillars and Staffing Co-Operative Everett Reiss, Song of the Week Stereophile from Australia’s Douglas Fir.
SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Looks at Using an LMS to Supplement On-The-Job Training Programs Using an LMS to Supplement On-The-Job Training Programs
Toshiba refreshes its netbooks Fujitsu launches a laptop that runs on wind power, Sharp laptop replaces the trackpad with an LCD panel that has an embedded optical sensor, and more
Q&A with Gene Kim and Hal Pomeranz: Bringing Security and Operations into Sync Transforming the typically adversarial relationship between Information Security and IT Operations is not easy, but it is necessary to ensure that systems, networks and data remain secure. But how do these two groups mend the fence and begin working as a cohesive team? That's what inquiring attendees wanted to know of Gene Kim and Hal Pomeranz in this Q&A session that is a follow-up to a webcast called Ditching the InfoSec
File Integrity Monitoring: Secure Your Virtual and Physical IT Environments Looking for a File Integrity Monitoring Solution? With the numerous servers, devices and applications organizations rely on to support their everyday business, outages and security breaches due to poor IT configurations are unacceptable. In addition, many organizations must now prove compliance with standards like PCI DSS designed to protect systems and sensitive data. File integrity monitoring solutions minimize security risk resulting from undesirable configuration change by monitoring, detecting, and reconciling changes to key files throughout the virtual and physical IT infrastructures.
Essentials of CRM for Wealth Management - Empower Advisors with Client-Centric Tools In this white paper, learn how wealth management firms can use client relationship management (CRM) strategies and technology to build relationships as trusted advisors, maximize share of wallet, and increase productivity, contributing to top-line and bottom-line revenues while also gaining a wealth of usable insight.
Four Copywriting Tips Your email and landing page copy is intended to get your prospects to convert. How do you create relevant and compelling copy so that your messages are not ignored. This video offers four quick tips for writing stellar copy.
What’s New with VMware View 4? The latest release of VMware View™ 4, enables you to streamline virtual desktop and application management, reduce costs and improve data security. This session features VMware product management and professional services discussing the technology advancements in the solution. Download this podcast to learn more about what’s new in this release, hear some important implementation and planning considerations, and get a sneak peek into the VMware View 3 to VMware View 4 upgrade process.
Tivoli Storage Manager 6.1 – Next Gen Management for Today’s Data Centers From its inception, Tivoli Storage Manager was designed to be a highly scalable and available data protection solution. However, Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 takes data protection scalability to the next level with a new relational database, based on IBM DB2 technology, designed to store many more objects and manage more data. Greater availability is delivered through enhancements such as online, automated database reorganization. Download this whitepaper to learn about the new features of TSM 6.1 that ease management issues and increase performance.
Windows XP will still be available after Windows 7 release Oracle sued for alleged patent infringement by i2, court case pitting RealNetworks against Hollywood studios will resume next week, and more
10 Golden Rules Internet Marketing Podcast Episode 39 Episode 39 Video Podcast Featuring the Thought Leaders Webinar Recorded April 30th, 2009. Join your host Jay Berkowitz, CEO of TenGoldenRules.com and an all-star internet marketing panel including web semantics expert Richard Stanton, CEO of Bintro.com, Facebook Goddess Mari Smith, Rohit Bhargava, author of, “Personality Not Included” discusses Mystery, web coach Jim Kukral discusses mobile web, David McInnis, founder of PR Web and People Pond explains personal SEO , Maria Harrison breaks down web video marketing and search marketer Joe Laratro discusses social media monitoring.
How Smaller Businesses Can Lower Messaging This year IT departments in all organizations, but especially those with fewer than 1,000 people, are under pressure to deliver a better messaging system at a lower cost. How can your IT organization save money while still delivering the same benefits your current email system offers (or perhaps even adding features and functions)? What are the compelling arguments to consider alternative technologies to Microsoft Exchange and other leading email systems? Join Osterman Research and Ipswitch on April 30, 2009 at 1:00pm EDT / 10:00am PDT for an interactive Webinar about one of the hottest topics in messaging today: delivering more functionality at lower cost, and how organizations are benefiting from alternative messaging technologies in 2009. Michael Osterman, President of Osterman Research and Brad Senter, Product Marketing Manager for Ipswitch iMailServer v11 will share their perspectives on the return-on-investment case for alternatives to Exchange, and how others are saving on their overall IT budget with this technology. You will also learn about recent improvements in the newly released iMailServer v11 that offer enhanced security, ease of use and administration, and support for mobile users. In this interactive Webinar you will get answers to questions like: How can you deliver better security, lower administration costs, and more mobile functionality to your users? What are the common challenges and frustrations that smaller organizations face in keeping up with resource constraints and demands from users? What are the lessons and implications from a new messaging cost-model for smaller organizations? And, you will be able to hear some recent case study successes with iMailServer, and have a chance to get your questions answered by the experts in an interactive Question and Answer session.
Office 2007 Service Pack 2 supports ODF AMD pulls dual-core server processors from its lineup and cuts prices, RealNetworks' CEO takes the stand to defend his company's DVD-copying software, and more
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DEMOcast: Catching up with Fusion-io In this Special Edition DEMOcast, Christina Butkiewicus catches up with Rick White, co-founder of Fusion-io and asks him about the OEM relationship with HP, the addition of Steve Wozniak as the Chief Scientific Officer, new CEO David Bradford and the company’s latest funding round of $47.5 million. (16:17)
5 Ways to Simplify Your Network Security (and save money) Learn 5 ways in which IT departments can reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and do more with their security budget. Hosted by moderator James Hilliard and featuring compliance and security expert, John Metzger from Sophos, this live Webcast will focus on how to manage the increasing pressure and security requirements businesses face with stretched IT budgets and resources.
Internet Video Advertising If you would like to learn what kind of Internet Video ads work best, this interview is for you. Our guest today is Waikit Lau who is the President and Co-Founder of ScanScout.com. His four-year old company serves ads, such as pre-rolls, mid-rolls, post-rolls, and overlays, to Internet Video websites. Earlier Waikit worked at Scientific-Atlanta and Bessemer Ventures. He holds a BSEE from MIT and a MBA from Harvard. Waikit slices-and-dices the Internet Video advertising market in multiple ways. He shares his thoughts on the merits and applicability video ad types. Additionally we get a tutorial on the approaches to branding versus transaction advertising. We discuss the likely trends that will emerge once Internet Video gets to be more common on the TV. We also examine the ad characteristics that work best for mobile devices such as the iPhone. Waikit describes how targeting and accountability is actually implemented. He clears away the “smoke and mirrors” about how it is done and how it can be done even better in the future. We examine the limitations of the Internet and discuss where improvements are needed. He shares his knowledge of click-through percentages by ad type and describes the trends in CPM rates. Issues are addressed from a variety of perspectives including those of the publisher, advertiser, ad agency, media buyer, and consumer. As noted in our Third Generation Television research report released in February we believe that video will inexorably migrate to the Internet. Furthermore, consumers will exhibit a decided preference for free viewing from ad-supported websites and podcasts. As a result, it is crucial that Internet Video ads generate enough revenue to adequately compensate the program producers.
DMTF forms open cloud incubator Also, Apple gets sued after pressuring open source iTunes project, U.S. president Obama says 3 percent of GDP will go toward R&D, and more
Speaking of Security Podcast #146 Forrester's Rob Koplowitz talk about the growth of Microsoft SharePoint in enterprises and the importance of putting governance around SharePoint as the platform becomes more strategic to companies.
Getting a Sales Job! Assessing your qualifications and resume building. Part 1 of a 3 part series In this economy it’s very tough to find a good sales job. With companies downsizing there are a lot more candidates than there are jobs to fill. That’s why if you are looking for a sales job it’s more important now than ever to use a deliberate, strategic approach to getting it. In part one of this three part series on getting a sales job Joe and Mike discuss how to go about assessing your qualifications and building a resume.
Continuous Integration with Chris Read In this episode Markus discusses with Chris Read basics and some advanced topics in the space of continuous integration. We cover concepts, some tools, as well as a number of best practices.
QlikView for SAP Companies have spent millions automating their business processes, but many still lack the ability to fully leverage their wealth of data contained in SAP. QlikView in-memory analysis, with the specially-designed QlikView Connector powered by SAP NetWeaver®, enables SAP users to perform quick, flexible, visual, ad-hoc analysis and reporting, which can include combining data from external non-SAP sources.
Oracle buys Sun Also, the Pirate Bay Four are found guilty, Panasonic Eco House claims to be carbon neutral, and more
U. of California President Says Public Colleges Can't Go On Like This Mark G. Yudof, president of the University of California, believes the budget structures of public universities are unsustainable. He talks about how federal and state governments could change their approach to financing higher education and the shifts colleges themselves should consider in how they operate.
Under the Radar 2009 Live Presentation by Jonti McLaren, President & Founder of Symplified, on April 24, 2009.
VMware to embed RSA security into vSphere 4 Also, a U.S. judge will extend Microsoft's antitrust consent decree, a gang of six criminals has built a botnet of 1.9 million hacked computers, and more
Java Posse #246 - Newscast for April 23rd 2009 Newscast for April 23rd 2009
DEMOcast: When the cool kids take over... Carla and Keith talk about The Oprah Effect and celebrities on Twitter, and whether startups pay attention to large technology company mergers (such as Oracle / Sun). Plus, Keith describes how the Oracle / Sun / IBM dance is like the Hand Jive dance from the movie Grease. (26:06)
VMware vSphere 4 Unveiled: Get Ready for the Next Generation of IT Services VMware vSphere™ 4, the next generation of products from VMware®, is poised to transform datacenters into efficient, shared, resilient cloud infrastructures and enable IT organizations to deliver the next generation of flexible and reliable IT services. Join this webcast to get an overview of how VMware vSphere dramatically reduces capital and operating costs and increases control over delivery of IT services while preserving the flexibility to choose between any type of OS, application and hardware, hosted in-house or using external resources.
Cheaper virtualization becoming a reality Also, AMD reports bigger quarterly loss than last year, Mozilla plugs 12 holes in Firefox, and more
Episode 26: Interview with Brooke White, Training Manager for LANDesk Software, Incorporated Brooke White, Training Manager for Avocet’s LANDesk Division discusses their use of the SyberWorks Hosted Learning Management System to provide customer, employee and partner training.
HawaiiUSA Federal Credit Union How HawaiiUSA Federal Credit Union uses SuccessFactors' Performance Management solution to set and communicate goals and measure employee performance to achieve strategic corporate objectives.
Ron Nutter's Help Desk Tool Chest Preparing Financially for a Layoff
Internet TV: Consumer Attitudes If you would like to learn the latest thinking from Parks Associates about Internet-Video-to-the-TV, this interview is for you. Our guest today is Kurt Scherf who is a Vice President and Principal Analyst at Parks Associates. He narrates a PowerPoint summarizing his latest white paper “From Boob Tube to YouTube”. It is available for free at his website. We found three of Kurt’s conclusions of particular interest. First, the two most popular items jacked-into TVs and also connected to the Internet are (1) console video game players and (2) computers. In the United States, about 13 million consoles and 7.5 million computers are thus connected. Inside Digital Media concludes that most of the computers are used for providing unrestricted Internet access to the TV whereas only a minority of the game consoles are accessing Internet Video. Moreover, most of the game consoles are getting videos either via rental or purchase as opposed to free ad-supported web sites. Consoles are primarily connected in order to enable multiplayer gaming. Second, Parks surveys conclude that consumers are frustrated by the user interfaces presently available. In our analysis, those using hand-held remotes are more confusing than the familiar web browser that a computer-to-TV connection provides. This is one reason that future TVs may become browser-centric. Third, consumers want more than mere access to web videos on Internet-connected TVs. In point of fact, Parks surveys reveal that they want (on the TV) email, search, and gaming, more than Internet Video, per se. This is Third Generation Television.
Is Java as we know it doomed? Also, VMware unveils its vSphere cloud OS, Pirate Bay defendants appeal the guilty verdict, and more
Seven steps for weathering the economic storm Steve Goldman, director of enterprise architecture at CME Group, talks about how IT can buckle down during the down economy while still planning for the future. Goldman's talk was the keynote address at IT Roadmap Chicago.
Speaking of Security Podcast #145 The Speaking of Security Podcast is providing extensive coverage of RSA news during RSA Conference week. We will be presenting two podcasts. The first is an overview of all the product and solution announcements made by RSA this week. The second (featured here) is a podcast discussing an addition to the authentcation solution portfolio.
Storage Area Network (SAN) Technology and Management Implementing a storage area network (SAN) isn't what it was 4 years ago. The technology has improved and the cost per port has declined. If you are thinking about updating your SAN infrastructure, spend an hour attending this educational webcast to make your technology decision easier.
Oracle buys Sun Microsystems Also, Adobe unwraps a new version of Flash, Gartner says India is losing outsourcing lead, and more
Java Posse #245 - OSGi Interview OSGi Interview
Speaking of Security Podcast #144 The Speaking of Security Podcast is providing extensive coverage of RSA news during RSA Conference week. We will be presenting two podcasts. The first (featured here) is an overview of all the product and solution announcements made by RSA this week. The second is a podcast discussing an addition to the authentcation solution portfolio.
Cloud Slam 2009: On Demand Identity for the Cloud Darren Platt, CTO at Symplified, presents live at the Cloud Slam Conference. Platt was Securant's 1st VP of Engineering joining in 1996. Darren managed the first 3 releases of ClearTrust through 2000. He grew the engineering team to 40 people under tight bootstrap budgets in the hyper-competitive dot-com hiring boom. Darren co-authored AuthXML and represented Securant on the standards bodies. With the sale of Securant, Darren managed the transition of ClearTrust into RSA's product portfolio and continued to represent RSA on the standards bodies. In 2002, Darren joined Ping Identity as one of its 1st 3 employees leading Ping's technology strategy and its transition into enterprise software. At Ping, Darren was given product, development and team management responsibility for Ping's conformance services and led the entire lifecycle of Ping's SOA security product, PingTrust.
Proactively Reduce Risk and Improve IT Security in Physical and Virtual Environments Learn more about the security risks and vulnerabilities faced by organizations, and the elements of a proactive security approach. Then find out how Tripwire helps organizations attain and maintain a good security posture using industry-leading configuration assessment and change auditing to harden systems against security breaches, automate compliance with security standards and policies, identify configuration changes, and resolve vulnerabilities.
Sun launches new servers Also, Sanyo unveils laser projector, Sony intros new Walkman, Honda shows off two motion assistance devices, and more
Java Posse #244 - Newscast for April 16th 2009 Newscast for April 16th 2009
Cisco joins with NetApp to pull storage into Unified Computing System Also, PC shipments fall less than expected, Yahoo plans another round of layoffs, and more
Metered Pricing for Internet Access If you would like to learn about efforts by Time Warner Cable and other broadband ISPs to test metered-use pricing of Internet service in selected markets, this interview is for you. Our guest today is Timothy Karr who is the Campaign Director at FreePress.net. His organization is about six years old and is focused on policy issues relating to media. It is funded by various private foundations and individuals and does not take donations from corporations. Few, if any, achievements exceed Newton’s Three Laws of Physics. But Newton was also a believer in the occult. Similarly, few contributions to electronic networking surpass Bob Metcalf’s invention of Ethernet. But, Metcalf also predicted the impending collapse on the Internet in 1996 owing to characteristic exponential traffic growth. Metcalfe was wrong and modified his prediction to forecast a brownout. He was wrong about that too. Now Time Warner Cable has updated Metcalfe’s rear-view mirror look and predicts dire consequences if it is not permitted to charge Internet customers a metered rate based upon bandwidth consumed. Their plans to test market a new tariff have sparked a heated debate. Time Warner and allies argue on one side that higher rates are needed to encourage investment in new facilities. On the other side are those who argue that the move is nothing less than a disguised effort to strangle Internet Video in the cradle and thereby preserve the CATV business model. They note that exponential traffic growth has always been characteristic of the Internet and that adding capacity is not nearly as expensive as Time Warner implies. In our analysis, the natural evolution of the Internet is toward intelligence at the endpoints. It enables an abundance of future Cloud Computing applications ranging telepresence to routine video phone calls and others that cannot even be predicted. In totality they are likely to become nearly indispensable to consumers and businesses alike. Steps that block such evolution will irreparably damage the United States economy.
DEMOcast: State of the Startup: Half-full or half-empty? Carla and Keith talk about whether less VC funding is necessarily a bad thing, or if it's a sign that smart investing will benefit good startups. Also, they debate whether Skype and StumbleUpon leaving the eBay nest is a signal that startups will be looking more long term as independent companies instead of going for quick acquisitions. (24:47)
DEMOcast: State of the Startup: Half-full or half-empty? Carla and Keith talk about whether less VC funding is necessarily a bad thing, or if it's a sign that smart investing will benefit good startups. Also, they debate whether Skype and StumbleUpon leaving the eBay nest is a signal that startups will be looking more long term as independent companies instead of going for quick acquisitions. (24:47)
Making Your CMDB System Deployment Count: Who is Winning the Battle to Show Value and Why This EMA Webinar will teach you: How IT organizations are beginning to shift their priorities in investment, architecture, politics and process towards more flexible, federated models for CMDB Systems *The most significant governing factors in providing real financial benefits, and what types of business benefits are most likely to accrue to phase 1 and 2 CMDBS deployments *What technologies are providing higher satisfaction levels, which aren’t, and how smart adopters are coping with these deltas in 2009 *What to look for from the industry to support the CMDBS imperative in 2010 and beyond.
How spam is killing the environment Also, eBay plans to spin Skype off with an IPO, Intel reports a sharp drop in profit and revenue, and more
Episode 90: Multiple Intelligences Theory Episode 90: Multiple Intelligences Theory
Achieve Aberdeen “Best in Class” -- Automate Accounts Payable An Aberdeen research study evaluated 160 enterprises and identified “best in class” A/P strategies and tactics. This webcast discusses how to achieve “best in class” performance with Accounts Payable Automation, and obtain benefits such as: (a) More granular perspective on operations, (b) Better visibility and control to finance management, and (c) Improved cash management.
3 Steps for Getting Started Using Salesforce CRM Learn how to get immediate, quantifiable results with Salesforce CRM—in days, not weeks or months. Watch this 30-minute Webinar, hear about TFC’s rapid success, and see how to: *Bring your data into Salesforce CRM in no time *Make the application yours with quick, easy customization *Drive record-breaking user adoption
Managing Quotes, Contracts, and Pricing for Higher Profites - A Guide for Manufacturers This white paper addresses the challenges manufacturers face in managing quotes, contracts, and pricing and discusses how customer relationship management (CRM) software can assist you in running your business productively, efficiently, and profitability, capitalizing on all revenue opportunities.
Four Lead Scoring Tips In reality, almost every organisation scores leads, and has for years... Now, technology has enabled us to take a more sophisticated, unbiased approach to scoring leads. This quick video covers four lead scoring "must dos".
Java Posse #243 - Interview with AMD Java Labs Interview with AMD Java Labs
Google outlines API deprecation policies Also, speculation swirls that Microsoft could be designing hardware and software for parallel computing, both Microsoft and Oracle will release security patches Tuesday, and more
How much is it? The fundamentals of pricing what you sell. If you’re fortunate enough to sell something that allows you the flexibility to negotiate price, it is important to maximize the deal while making it more attractive to the buyer. In this episode Joe and Mike discuss various aspects of pricing products and services that you should consider before preparing your next sales proposal.
Google outlines API deprecation policies Google outlines API deprecation policies
The SalesRoundup: How much is it? - The fundamentals of pricing what you sell If you’re fortunate enough to sell something that allows you the flexibility to negotiate price, it is important to maximize the deal while making it more attractive to the buyer. In this episode Joe and Mike discuss various aspects of pricing products and services that you should consider before preparing your next sales proposal.
Java Posse #242 - Inteview: Adobe Flex, Flash and AIR Inteview: Adobe Flex, Flash and AIR
Java Posse #241 - Roundup 09 - Design 101 Java Posse Episode 241 - Roundup 09 - Design 101
The week in review: IBM and Sun merger talks break down Also, Acer launches 20 new products, Mousegrip helps you exercise while checking e-mail, Nanotouch solves the fat finger problem, JAXA unveils a new supercomputer, Skype helps marriages, GM and Segway unveil the PUMA, and more
Top 10 Architecture Mistakes with Eoin Woods This is a discussion with Eoin Woods about his collection of top 10 software architecture mistakes. Looking at things that don't work is always a good way to learn what you should actually do.
The week in review: IBM and Sun merger talks break down Also, Acer launches 20 new products, Mousegrip helps you exercise while checking e-mail, Nanotouch solves the fat finger problem, JAXA unveils a new supercomputer, Skype helps marriages, GM and Segway unveil the PUMA, and more
Wide Open West The CEO of Wide Open West discusses how they use SuccessFactors' Performance Management solution to increase their ability to efficiently execute on the company vision.
Macs in the Enterprise Macs are making an increasingly large impression on corporate environments, bringing with them the need to effectively manage them alongside their Windows counterparts. In this podcast from Inside Mac Radio, host Scott Sheppard discusses with Lubos Parobek, VP of Product Management at KACE, how KACE Systems Management appliances can assist systems administrators to automate such tasks as software distribution, patching and help desk using an integrated cross platform approach, one that eliminates time consuming desk visits and gets Mac and PC support staff working collaboratively.
Conficker gets bold update Also, Microsoft found guilty of patent infringement, a handful of companies make offers for Nortel, and more
SOA comes back quietly SOA gets realistic
Opinion Surveys vs. Direct Experience How do opinion surveys of the uninitiated compare to the knowledge of those with direct experience? There’s a lot to be said for direct experience. While looking for an advantageous way to attack the Confederates in the Spring of 1862 the commander of the Federal army in Virginia and his staff approached the Chickahominy River. Stopping at the bank, they pondered whether it was too deep for troops to cross. As the group discussed the matter, one of the youngest staff members rode his horse down the bank and into the river. From his dry saddle at midstream he turned around and shouted back, “This is how deep it is General.” * The officer with wet boots was George Custer, who later became the youngest Brigadier General in the Union army. Years later along the banks of a Montana river incongruously named Little Big Horn he would achieve even greater notoriety. But that’s another story, and a good one. Getting Internet Video on the television is a similar. Those who have experience unlimited Internet access quickly comprehend the future as though they had a vision on the road to Damascus. For such users the television evolves into a dual function device. In one context it remains a conventional television, but in a second it becomes a giant window into the Internet Cloud. After 10 – 15 years of surfing the Net on their computers, they’ll never be satisfied with a Walled Garden of Internet content on the TV. No matter how beautiful, it will always be perceived as a Walled Prison. Thus, survey results from conventional TV watchers revealing they want YouTube on their TVs overlooks two bigger points. First, if they are constrained to limit their response to YouTube or other discrete items per se, they are unable to express a desire for unlimited access. But the second point is even more significant. Specifically, many users cannot realize how much they want something until they have experienced it. That’s why auto dealers want you to test drive a car. It’s also why 15 years ago many of us thought the Internet was for geeks only. In our analysis, unrestricted Internet access at the TV is even a more applicable example.
IT Executives Driving Business Growth in Today's Economy During this special 30-minute webinar, Intellinet CEO, Hardin Byars, will share case studies exhibiting how IT executives have leveraged technology — including cloud computing, BI, and more — to drive bottom-line growth and save millions in operational costs.
Google pours Java into App Engine Also, Intel unveils Jasper Forest, Microsoft warns of fake security software, and more
The IBM BladeCenter HS22 with the new Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series
Intro to Virtualization Virtualization is a proven software technology that is rapidly transforming the IT landscape and fundamentally changing the way people compute. You may ask yourself, who should use virtualization? Why should you use it? How does it work? What does it do? Why do more than 100,000 IT organizations worldwide rely on VMware technology to solve complex business challenges? This webcast provides a basic overview to virtualization solutions from VMware and explains the technology that enables virtualizations, as well as the features and benefits of VMware solutions.
Two surveys paint bleak IT job landscape Also, earthquake victims in Italy turn to technology, VMware guarantees 50 percent savings, and more
Speaking of Security Podcast #143 This week's Speaking of Security podcast features Part Two of a discussion on the latest online fraud trends.
Project Remus on Xen; 5nine Software on Microsoft Hyper-V Project Remus sets out to solve high availability for Xen-based hypervisor technology, while 5nine Software has announced a new P2V planner solution for Microsoft's Hyper-V.
Microsoft limits Office 2003 support Merger talks between IBM and Sun break down, U.S. FBI raids Dallas ISP, and more
Netbooks Accelerate Internet-Video-to-the-TV Adoption How will Internet-Video-to-the-TV be impacted if inexpensive “netbooks” take market share away from conventional laptop computers? By way of background, netbooks are pint-sized laptop computers. Typically they have nine-inch screens as compared to fifteen-inches (or bigger) for a conventional laptop. Also netbooks have less powerful processors, smaller memories, and less sophisticated software. Gartner estimates that they could account for 10% of laptop computer sales by the end of this year. Netbooks could have a big impact on the streaming video market for three reasons. First, despite their lower price they are capable of processing streaming video just fine as this video demonstrates. Moreover, the netbooks can be attached to most flat-panel TVs. While few netbooks currently provide the HDMI sockets that would simplify such connections, nearly all offer alternative receptacles such as VGA for video and audio-out jacks for audio. Second, netbook prices compare favorably to dedicated appliances designed to get Internet Video to the TV. Current units are priced at $200 - $400 and models slated for delivery in a few months are priced even lower. By comparison, the Apple TV is priced at $230 and only permits users to access content from the iTunes store whereas netbooks can stream video from anywhere on the Web. In Atlanta AT&T is testing a special promotion offering netbooks for $50 to new Internet subscribers. The company may spread the promotion to other cities once the Atlanta test is completed. In short, netbooks could become commonly available for $100 or less if ISPs subsidize the purchase price like the cellular operators do for cell-phones. Third, as netbooks gain market share they’ll put pricing pressure on laptops. That means that laptop buyers will be able to get units with HDMI sockets that will more easily attach to flat-panel TVs and also accommodate High Definition video. Such units are available for $400 presently and could drop to $300 by year end.
Microsoft limits Office 2003 support Merger talks between IBM and Sun break down, U.S. FBI raids Dallas ISP, and more
BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights #39 We are pleased to distribute through our podcast feed the lastest edition of Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect: Analyst Insights podcast.
Java Posse #240 - Google Collections Library and Glazed Lists Interview Google Collections Library and Glazed Lists Interview
Adrenaline Junkies with DeMarco and Hruschka This episode is an interview with Tom DeMarco and Peter Hruschka about the new book of the Altantic Systems Guild: Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior.
10 Golden Rules Internet Marketing Podcast Episode 38 Episode 38 Internet Superstars Month Continues as we sit down with Twitter Superstar Chris Brogan, How to select your Internet Guru, Joke-of-the-Week is back, Google Chrome 3D browsing, Ratings and Reviews, Back-up Solutions, nephews Micheal and Philip, Guy Kawasaki, Rubin Quinones, Ann Taylor, Song-of-the-Week Beat Goes On featuring Madonna, Kanye West and Pharrell
Virtualization: Optimized Power and Cooling to Maximize Benefits 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. This whitepaper discusses why row-based cooling, correctly sized power and cooling, and real-time capacity management are essential elements in realizing virtualization’s full potential in cost reduction, efficiency, and reliability.
Mobile wares debut at CTIA Plus, Canada looks to recycle more e-waste, Intel launches new processors, and more
Java Posse #239 - Newscast for April 2nd 2009 Newscast for April 2nd 2009
Conficker may be more widespread than security experts anticipated Plus, Rackable buys once-major player Silicon Graphics, and more
Parallels Workstation Extreme and the hosted virtual desktop Pass-through video helps make the case for desktop virtualization's impending popularity
CEO Mark Taber on Gartner BPM Summit, the BPMS market and ActiveVOS in Q1 In our latest podcast, I sat down for a quick chat with Active Endpoints’ CEO Mark Taber to recap our recent attendance at Gartner’s BPM Summit and the company’s approach to the BPMS marketplace. Mark detailed the reasons for the success ActiveVOS BPM had in Q1, despite these challenging economic times. Note to competitors (yes, we know you’re listening (-: ): you will squirm more than a little as Mark details how customers are able to get into production with ActiveVOS BPM with only modest levels of professional services billings. And a special treat: I got Mark to spill the beans about some of the future plans for ActiveVOS. A must-listen podcast for anyone interested in using BPM to improve their business results.
The Case for Email Archiving in a Recession Why are many organizations adopting new Email Archiving technologies during the current recession? With a tight IT budget, what are some of the primary cost savings you can achieve with this technology? What are the primary benefits of today’s leading email archiving solutions? Join Osterman Research and Trend Micro on April 2, 2009 at 2:00pm EDT / 11:00am PDT for an interactive webinar about one of the hottest topics in messaging today, Email Archiving, and how organizations are benefiting from this technology during the current recession. Michael Osterman, President of Osterman Research, and Chris Taylor, Product Marketing Manager of Trend Micro, will share their perspectives on the return-on-investment case of archiving, and how others are saving on their overall IT budget with this technology. You will also learn about recent e-discovery judgements and news, and hear insights that will help IT avoid liability and costs, and lower e-discovery costs. In this interactive Webinar you will learn answers to questions like: How can you archive to reduce storage costs, gain compliance, and lower e-discovery costs? What are the common challenges and best practices for Email Archiving on a tighter budget? What are the lessons and implications from recent e-discovery cases in the news? And, you will be able to hear some recent case study successes with Email Archiving, and have a chance to get your questions answered by the experts in an interactive Question and Answer session.
DEMOcast: Catching Up With Dimdim Carla is on special assignment, so this week Keith catches up with DD Ganguly, CEO of Dimdim, to get an update on how the company has fared since DEMOfall 07, why startups should always be raising money, and what's new in Version 5 of their, free and open Web collaboration platform (13:11).
Microsoft asks President Obama for bailout funding -- really? Plus, Confickr worm past but researchers insist we're not in the clear yet, HP tests Google Android for netbooks, and more
3rd Party Widgets for Verizon FiOS TV What if Verizon FiOS offered a video-centric “apps store” for its television set-top box analogous to the one that Apple has for the iPhone? The answer depends upon the restrictions that Verizon might impose on third-party developers. For example, if sites like Hulu, TV.com, and Joost are allowed to develop widgets enabling FiOS subscribers to visit the websites to watch TV shows over the Internet, then it would be significant. However, if Verizon moves slowly, or only permits a few applications from those not affiliated with current programmers providing shows for FiOS IPTV service, then it may be relatively inconsequential for two reasons. First, if they move slowly the Third Generation Television revolution will leave them choking in the dust. It is estimated that over 5 million consumers have already attached laptop computers to flat-panel TVs thereby transforming the TV into a giant window into the Internet Cloud. To such users a Walled Garden of Verizon Widgets will look more like a Walled Prison. Second, if platform access is limited to content partners then it is likely that a mere handful of widgets will get developed and the pace of introduction will only slightly exceed continental drift. Basically, existing content partners have far less incentive to innovate. The established order is almost always more comfortable with the status quo. However, you are able to judge for yourself by listening to our interview with Joe Ambeault who is the Director of Interactive TV Applications at Verizon. In point of fact, his company has decided to move forward by permitting third parties to develop applications for the Verizon FiOS set-top box. Initially it shall be limited to existing content providers. Also, as Joe notes, Verizon itself will be developing more widgets to add to the weather and traffic ones provided to date. This is Third Generation Television.
Loraine Lawson interview Loraine Lawson interview
Episode 89: Webinars Episode 89: Webinars
Speaking of Security Podcast #142 This week's Speaking of Security podcast features a discussion of the latest online fraud issues and trends.
Is Your Industrial/Manufacturing Website Really Winning You Business? This white paper focuses on the best practices and stumbling blocks associated with leading industrial/manufacturing website design as it relates to effective prospect engagement and lead generation.
How to Generate Leads for Small Business Learn how small businesses can level the playing field and generate leads efficiently by leveraging inbound Internet marketing strategies and tools. This free webinar will cover all the basics of search engine optimization, business blogging, social media marketing, and more to get found by more prospects and generate leads online for your business. Topics: How to leverage inbound marketing to generate leads efficiently for your business; How to use SEO, blogs, and social media to drive more website traffic and leads; How to capture more leads with customized calls to action and landing pages; What to measure in your lead generation efforts
QlikView for Business Answers QlikView makes the powerful simple, and enables users to slice and dice their data without limits. With QlikView, there’s no more waiting for outdated reports or lengthy deployment hassles. For the first time, the power of real-time business answers is in the hands of all users – so they can make better decisions and take action now.
Case Study: The Sant Corporation Learn how LeanLogistics achieved a 25% response rate on its thought-leadership nurturing campaigns and evolved its sales process from 100% cold calling to a focus on warm leads.
How the Economic Crisis Will Affect IT Security The global economic downturn may affect IT departments more than just having to manage under decreased budgets. Sudden acquisitions and mergers that require quick IT integration, opportunistic attacks and phishing, additional and potentially more severe regulations, and the impact of these factors on critical priorities, all place greater emphasis on IT security.
Automated Compliance: Making the Case and Reaping the Rewards Regulatory compliance is the priority that never goes away for banking institutions. In this podcast, Dwayne Melancon, Tripwire's VP of Corporate and Business Development, discusses the five core competencies of regulatory compliance and covers regulatory compliance trends to watch for in 2009.
Sustaining SOX Compliance: Best Practices to Mitigate Risk, Automate Compliance, and Reduce Costs To successfully sustain SOX compliance, organizations must implement best practices to ensure IT systems not only achieve a known and trusted state but they also maintain that state. Management must be more accountable and aware of the need for a continuous and proactive operational risk management environment that recognizes the links between its technology infrastructure, business processes, reputation, compliance, and internal controls. It is vital that Tripwire configuration audit and control solutions are used as an integral element of sustained compliance initiatives.
VeriSign Internet Defense Network FAQs Find the answers to all your questions on Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks in the VeriSign Internet Defense Network's Frequently Asked Questions document including everything from What is a DDoS attack to How does VeriSign work with the encrypted data to find source of an attack.
Six Ways to Segment Relevance drives conversion! How relevant your messages are will determine how prospects respond. Lack of relevancy is the number one reason why prospects unsubscribe or opt-out. Watch this short video and learn how to stay highly relevant to drive conversion and avoid erosion.
Why VMware View 4 and Not Citrix or Microsoft? With the release of VMware View™ 4, we will discuss several new features, including PCoIP and integration with VMware vSphere™4 for desktops. PCoIP enables a quality experience on the LAN that matches or exceeds what is offered by other solution providers. We will compare and highlight areas where VMware View 4 outperformed other products in deployment simplicity, speed, efficient image and storage management.
U.S. high-tech industry gains jobs, creating optimism Plus, Sun confirms layoffs this week, Intel touts 17 new Nehalem chips, and more
Internet TV: The Empire Strikes Back! What if popular TV shows are only permitted to be viewed over-the-Net by subscribers to conventional CATV, Satellite, and IPTV services? Such a plan seems to be gaining momentum among companies such as Time Warner, Direct TV, and Verizon. They want to discourage subscribers from “cutting the cord” to conventional TV and alternately watching the shows via broadband ISP service at websites like Hulu, Joost, and TV.com. Simultaneously they reason the plan provides added value to conventional subscribers because it gives viewers an alternate way to watch the shows. The answer to “what would happen?” depends upon a number of contingencies. The two most important are (1) whether it would be free or involve yet another monthly charge and (2) whether the broadcast networks would co-operate.” As to the first point, it appears that a number of popular cable programmers want to be paid an additional fee thereby requiring the operators to pass along the costs to subscribers. Alternately the operators could “eat” the expense themselves, but there’s not a Saint’s chance at a political convention that they would do that. Secondly, the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC) are likely to be less co-operative because they generally don’t collect carriage fees from the operators as do the cable networks like ESPN. However, system operators may be able to “buy” broadcast network co-operation by paying them fees similar to those paid to the cable networks. The broadcast networks would argue, as a matter of parity with the cable networks, that such fees should be based upon the 80 million conventional TV subscribers instead of the nascent subscribers to a restricted “over-the-top” video service. In short, it appears that getting everyone to agree is like herding cats. Furthermore, the incentives needed for such co-operation may require the operators to pass along the expense in the form of an incremental monthly subscriber fee.
Java Posse #238 - Interview with Rod Johnson Interview with Rod Johnson
Java Posse #237 - Roundup 09 - Java Plugin Architectures Roundup 09 - Java Plugin Architectures
DEMOcast: Crowd wisdom or mob mentality? Carla and Keith discuss whether peer pressure caused Facebook's about-face on its redesign, whether some industries are not suited for social networking, and why Keith can't find a good pair of blue jeans. (20:49)
Red Hat CEO questions relevance of desktop Linux Plus, Google adds semantic technology to search engine, Intel's touts forthcoming Xeon chips, and more
Internet via Set-Top Box: Fool’s Errand? Companies developing ways to access Internet Video via a cable set-top box may be on a Fool’s Errand. Eventually consumers will demand unlimited Internet access on their televisions. But such a scenario is contrary to the perceived interests of CATV operators. They have two concerns. First is that unrestricted access might lead consumers to watch more Internet Video and less conventional television. Second, they want to collect an incremental fee (beyond ISP service) when consumers watch Internet Video on the TV. Instead CATV operators want the future Internet-Video-to-the-TV circumstances to encompass two characteristics. First, they would like to restrict the Internet content that can be accessed by the TV. Basically, they want to offer a Walled Garden. Second, they want an incremental monthly fee for access to the Garden. It is similar to the strategy taken by wireless carries prior to the advent of the iPhone. Put another way, the CATV industry wants to isolate ISP service to computers and manage Internet-Video-on-the-TV as a separate offering. Thus, vendors attempting to provide Internet-Video-to-the-TV via a cable set-top box will discover that operators will enforce such a distinction. However, the attempted restraints are a Fool’s Errand because they will be circumvented. Inevitably the flat-panel TV shall become a dual function device. In one context it will be a TV as we have always known it. In a second context, it will be a giant monitor for a laptop computer or, later, a browser-centric TV. As illustrated in our March 19th video, it can be easier to connect a laptop computer to a flat-panel TV than to attach a cable-set top box. This enables the laptop to function as an Internet Gateway for the TV. It is also a forcing-factor leading TV set manufactures to eventually make browser-centric units. If they fail to do so Apple may well take the lead in a future “smart television” market by selling units embedded with iTunes and offering an apps platform for free video websites like YouTube and Hulu. This is Third Generation television.
Episode 88: Nutshelling Episode 88: Nutshelling
Leadership Communication Strategies for a Multigenerational Workforce. Vicky Jarosz, Executive Vice President of i3Logic, Inc. discusses leadership communication strategies for a multigenerational workforce.
Transfer Volumes: Accelerating files, email and backup with fewer resources More data? Traveling further distances over the WAN? With data and server consolidation stressing WAN’s to the limit and new initiatives coming down the pipe, it’s hard to deliver key applications reliably. Learn how to solve your organization’s unique latency and performance challenges – without simply writing blank checks. Discover optimization solutions that keep costs down.
Salesforce.com weaves Service Cloud and Twitter together Plus, Apple in talks to sell iPhone in China, IBM lawyers are examining Sun contracts, and more
New Realities About Advertising If you would like to know how the Internet is changing the characteristics of advertising, this audio program is for you. Businesses are learning that conventional media advertising is not generating the sales leads like it did in the 20th century. For example, the telephone Yellow Pages cannot be relied upon as the primary lead source for small local businesses. Similarly, larger businesses have noted a sharp decline in the effectiveness of newspaper, radio, and television advertising. Despite this, most businesses appreciate the value of a media relationship with their clients. As companies augment their websites there is an almost unintended change in the nature of that relationship. Whereas corporate websites were initially brochure-ware they are evolving into media and transactional properties facilitating direct connections to the customer and prospect. When such websites provides blogs, news items, and videos germane to their customers’ interests, they become a media resource hitting the bulls-eye of a targeted audience. In short, they are bypassing traditional media. The trend has several implications. First, companies regard their website development expenses as advertising expenditures even if their traditional media channels, like newspaper, radio, and television, do not. Thus, a company’s overall “advertising” budget can grow even as it’s spending on outside advertising drops. Second, TV has proven the value of video as a media tool and corporate websites are likely to increasingly employ it. Third, as Internet Video gets to the TV the value of a video-enabled website increases exponentially. Essentially, each video-centric website can become a specialized channel on our TVs. Fourth, in order to establish direct ties to a targeted audience companies are likely to invest an ever-growing percentage of their marketing dollars into media-and-transaction-centric websites. This is Third Generation Television.
SOA Research Project from LSU's Matt Levy SOA Research Project from LSU's Matt Levy
Java Posse #236 - Steve Harris of Oracle Interview Oracle at Java Interview
Cisco and the UCS Channel Ken Presti reports on his discussion with Cisco senior director John Growdon, looking at the go-to-market elements associated with the vendor's data center announcement.
10 Golden Rules Internet Marketing Podcast Episode 36 Social Media Superstars Month Featuring Facebook Goddess Mari Smith and an exclusive interview with Michael Stelzner as he and Jay dissect the Social Media Marketing Industry Report, Content, Web Optimized Press Releases, Canonicalization, Song-of the-Week Blake Morgan featuring Lenny Kravitz
Aberdeen Survey Results: CFOs' View of Accounts Payable Aberdeen conducted a research study evaluating 160 enterprises in January 2009, and identified “Best in Class” companies that based on their A/P strategies and performance. This white paper shares the results of this survey, and provides recommendations on how companies can achieve similar “Best in Class” performance from their accounts payable departments.
Java Posse #235 - Newscast for March 19th 2009 Java Posse #235 - Newscast for March 19th 2009
Top Hyper-V Deployment Scenarios While many consider VMware ESXi to be a more dynamic solution than Hyper-V, there are certain scenarios in which organizations can benefit from using Microsoft's hypervisor technology. In this podcast, senior enterprise IT architect Nelson Ruest breaks down some of these scenarios, with details on how Hyper-V can provide benefits in test and development situations and business continuity. You'll also find details on OS licensing with Hyper-V, including how licensing differs based on the edition of Windows Server 2008 being used. Other topics covered include: How Hyper-V fits in the dynamic data center A breakdown of Windows Server workload licensing Why small and medium-sized businesses will be attracted to Hyper-V
Best of Breed Virtualization Scenarios and Hyper-V Features In this podcast, senior enterprise IT architect Nelson Ruest breaks down the seven different layers of the server virtualization architecture, and explains the role the hypervisor plays in the success of that infrastructure.
Microsoft Hyper-V vs. Market Leaders Given the youth and feature set of Microsoft Hyper-V, the question is, how does it rate when compared to more seasoned hypervisors from VMware and Citrix? In this podcast, senior enterprise IT architect Nelson Ruest breaks down VMware ESX Server, Citrix XenServer and Hyper-V, providing details on what each product has to offer. You'll also learn more about what you can and can't do with Hyper-V, with insight into some of the key memory management features that Microsoft's technology does not yet support.
The week that was: A flying car, IBM in talks to buy Sun Plus, Google updates Mars maps, Nokia's new phone, and more
Five Catalysts for Internet TV - This Year! If you would like to learn about the five catalysts driving Internet-Video-to-the-TV adoption in 2009, this video is for you. First Catalyst. The abundance of connection sockets in flat-panel televisions enables a multitude of devices to connect to the TV. Many such units also connect to the Internet. The surprise leader is the laptop computer which has on-board WiFi and is dropping so rapidly in price that it is a more economical selection than many appliances targeted at “Over-the-Top” Video. Given a remote mouse and keyboard the consumer gets a lean-back viewing experience 15 – 20 feet distant from the TV screen. Over one-third of domestic homes have flat panel TVs now, and the percentage is forecast to rise to nearly 90% by 2011. Second Catalyst. A large number of popular TV shows and movies are legitimately available for free viewing at a growing number of ad-supported websites. Hulu.com has shows from NBC, Fox, and Comedy Central, as well as many movies. Many ABC shows are available at the network’s website and CBS recently launched a Hulu competitor named TV.com. Viewers accustomed to such websites soon come to appreciate that they never have to remember to “TiVo” any programs. Third Catalyst. The Long-Tail stretches to near infinity. YouTube is sending more than 6 billion streams per month, and not all of it is amateur. Examples of serious, or professional, programming include out-of-syndication TV shows, older documentaries, personality interviews, and instructional videos, among others. Fourth Catalyst. Once users get Internet-Video-to-the-TV it becomes a multimedia experience. For example, by adjusting the font size, they’ll be reading newspapers online in a lean-back posture. Newspapers providing online video are as likely to be watched as TV news. Fifth Catalyst. A growing number of appliances are either being enhanced to accommodate Internet-Video-to-the-TV or are specifically designed for it. One example is Microsoft’s Xbox Video Game Console of which there are over 11 million in use domestically. This is Third Generation Television.
BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights #38: Cutting IT Costs We are pleased to present the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights podcast with Dana Gardner and a distinguished panel of industry analysts who offer their suggestions to help IT reduce costs during the economic downturn we are experiencing today.
DEMOcast: Innovation goes beyond the Valley For the first time in DEMO's 19-year history, there were as many companies launching products from outside Silicon Valley as in it. Is it just the economy, or has the democratization of Web 2.0 caused innovation to spread out beyond the Valley? Carla and Keith debate this issue and share some other trends that emerged from DEMO 09. (30:43)
The Top 5 Security Concerns Keeping One IT Director Up at Night Today’s targeted threats in and outside of the business network take advantage of the new technologies that support an increasingly mobile workforce. Learn about the top 5 concerns of one real-life IT director, and how he protects a manufacturing business with over 1000 employees. Dave Berardinelli of H.H. Brown will discuss how he addresses today’s security concerns, such as managing the internal threat, controlling internet access, and satisfying industry compliance.
Microsoft releases IE8 while Google puts Chrome back in beta Plus, Oracle reports falling software license revenue, Microsoft blames Azure outage on OS upgrade, and more
How Quicken Loans is Getting More From Their Online Channel Are you properly investing in your online channel to take full advantage of the customers already coming to your site to do business with you? Watch and listen as Matt Cardwell, Director of eCommerce Marketing for Quicken Loans’, shares the best practices and strategies that enables Quicken Loans to have a deeper understanding of their online customers and make the most of every online customer interaction. Specifically the webcast covers: Quicken Loans’ case study of how they deliver on the promise of a superior web experience. Low and No-Cost strategies to get more insights on your online customers. Best Practices to prioritize which areas of your site are critical to optimize and which can be put on the backburner.
Episode 87: Bluetooth Episode 87: Bluetooth
Cisco shakes up IT's hardware buying ways Plus, Dell expected to launch luxury laptop, SAP holds more layoffs, and more
Thinking the Unthinkable About Video If you would like to learn how even primary market research can mislead, this video is for you. Instinctively we tend credit consumer surveys with validity because they are based upon “primary research”. Our instincts are good, but if the questionnaire ignores reality the results can be worse that valueless. For example a recent survey found that a third of broadband respondents want cable set-top boxes to provide Internet content. Furthermore it found that over half of such respondents wanted the connection so they could watch premium content. In our analysis, such points are misleading because they overlook the point that consumers basically want unlimited Internet access on the TV. Moreover, unrestricted access trumps a Walled Garden of premium content because the Walled Garden would merely be a subset of unlimited access. If given a choice between unrestricted access and the Walled Garden, the 50% interest level likely drops to zero by comparison. When surveys are commissioned by industries that choose to ignore reality, then the research results are misleading. Clary Shirky cogently makes the point in Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable. Like the record labels, newspapers saw the Internet coming 10 years ago. But they could not permit themselves to “think the unthinkable” by recognizing that it would be nearly impossible to retain their prominence. The question the industry’s researchers should have investigated was “How is news going to be distributed post-Internet and how can we fit within such a context?” Instead they essentially asked, “How can we transplant our product to the Net?” A similar question should be posed by video distributors. Specifically, the question is “How are post-Internet consumers going to employ network endpoints (e.g. televisions) and how should we function within that context in order to provide value?” For CATV operators, the answer might imply that they concentrate on providing ultra-high-speed ISP service thereby permitting the consumer to optimize the endpoints for communications or entertainment depending upon his ephemeral needs. In short, when reality is ignored even primary research is worse than valueless because it can lead to false conclusions. This is Third Generation Television.
Speaking of Security Podcast #141 This week's Speaking of Security podcast features an update from Washington, DC on cyber security issues and pending legislation.
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CA unwraps new storage software for cutting IT costs and complexity Plus, U.S. government office denies a Freedom of Information Act request concerning anti-counterfeiting trade agreement, Microsoft's share of Web searches hits 12-month low, and more
Aligning Your Industrial/Manufacturing Internet Marketing with Your Business Plan The internet is central to your industrial/manufacturing marketing. However, a majority of manufacturing companies don't think their websites are the strategic marketing resources they should be. This white paper discusses the latest trends, challenges and practical advice on how to approach aligning industrial/manufacturing marketing efforts in an interactive world.
Data Leakage For Dummies©: Don't become a data loss headline All too often the loss of data results from well-meaning employees making innocent mistakes. But these mistakes can lead to infringement of data protection laws and ultimately damage to your reputation and brand. View this webcast, featuring security expert Jonathan Tait from Sophos, to learn how to significantly reduce your risk of sensitive data loss with a series of practical steps.
Marketing in a Recession In a recession, marketing budgets are often the first to get slashed. For many that means cutting programs, cutting spending and cutting staff in order to make it through the economic downturn. But marketing in a recession isn't about marketing less, it's about marketing better and smarter. This webinar will share techniques for marketing more efficiently and effectively, particularly on a tight budget.
Relationship Mapping Are you aligned? Or, are you behind? Identify where the perceived gaps are in the sales and marketing relationship. Open the lines of communication and prioritise areas where sales and marketing can work better together. Watch this two-minute video and learn how to align your team culturally and economically.
You've executed a great online event. Now what? Congratulations on holding a successful online event! Now's the time to watch Eloqua best practice director, Rhonda Wunderlin, as she offers some winning strategies for following up on the event.
Java Posse #234 - Roundup 09 - Project Coin Java Posse #234 - Roundup 09 - Project Coin
Why YouTube is Important to You If you would like to know why YouTube is important to you, this video is for you. If you have video that could lead customers to buy more, or convert prospects into customers, then consider placing it on YouTube. Furthermore, it may be advisable to have your own channel on YouTube, as we do. This enables viewers to subscriber to all of your posts, much like TiVo records weekly television shows. Many people looking for videos go first to YouTube and use the Website’s search function to find what they are looking for. They are basically treating YouTube as the entire universe of available videos. If your video is not within the universe, then pragmatically speaking it does not exist. It is particularly important for instructional, educational, and informative videos to be on YouTube. For example, we posted our “How to Connect PC-to-TV (HDMI)” video at YouTube. It enables us to pick-up additional audience from viewers who are not podcast subscribers and don’t even know of the existence of Inside Digital Media. We invite you to inspect the video and vote (5 stars is best) for it as well. BTW, there’s a huge demand for instructional videos about how to connect computers to the TV. Although none are provided by computer makers, TV-set manufacturers, or software suppliers it is likely that such companies could significantly improve product sales if they chose to offer them. Please comment on our blog if you can tell us why they don’t. As Internet Video moves to the TV it will become even more important for businesses to have content on YouTube. Traditional TV has demonstrated how powerful video can be as an advertising medium. The combination of YouTube and emergent Internet-Video-to-the-TV enables you to get your videos into the family living-room at no cost. Why wait? This is Third Generation Television.
Deliver on Your Marketing ROI Objectives The CMO is under more pressure than ever, especially facing the prospect of slowing economic conditions. This pressure is directly connected to an inability to show business relevancy and a return on marketing investments. EMC Interactive Marketing Solutions enable marketing organizations to effectively manage their brand assets and marketing content. As a result, campaigns have more impact, costs are reduced, and ROI is maximized.
Episode 25: Interview with Robert Whitcomb, Director of Human Resources & Organizational Development for Alaska’s Chilkoot Indian Association Robert Whitcomb, Director of Human Resources & Organizational Development for Alaska’s Chilkoot Indian Association discusses their use of the SyberWorks Hosted Learning Management System to provide leadership training and job skills training to prepare native members for management roles in tribal government and to obtain jobs in the local community.
Episode 86: Instant Messaging Episode 86: Instant Messaging
Strategic Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting Streamlined With PerformancePoint Server 2007 Organizations are significantly streamlining their strategic planning processes to accelerate Performance Management using a single application - Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007.
U. of Alaska Just Says No to Earmarks Mark R. Hamilton, president of the University of Alaska Statewide System since 1998, has dramatically reduced the number of FEDERAL earmarks the system receives. Mr. Hamilton, a retired Major General in the U.S. Army, explains why in this interview.
Connect HDMI PC-to-TV If you would like to learn how to connect a HDMI laptop computer to a flat-panel television, this video is for you. Seeing is believing. Too many of the uninitiated assume that connecting a laptop computer to a flat-panel television is “geeky” and complex. Our instructional video today shows you how I did it with a HDMI-equipped laptop. Not only does the video demonstrate that it only requires a single cable, but also convincingly documents that connecting-up the cable set-top box and TiVo is far more complex than connecting the laptop to the TV. After searching the Internet we discovered that most of the instructional videos about computer-to-television connectivity are indeed “geeky”. One reason is that most focus on the use of older connection technologies that require multiple cables. The beauty of HDMI is that a single cable transports both High Definition audio and video. It also has built-in piracy protection thereby enjoying endorsement from copyright holders. This is Third Generation Television.
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KACE Talks Virtual Kontainers Virtual Strategy Magazine interviews KACE on its release of KACE Virtual Kontainers. The interview starts with a quick discussion around KACE’s history in the area of virtualization, then goes on to cover what Virtual Kontainers are and how they can benefit customers. Learn how this new solution stands out from its competitors as well as some hints as to what is planned for the future.
Three Myths About Internet TV If you would like to identify three myths about Internet-Video-to-the-TV, this audio is for you. First Myth. Although some consumers are connecting laptop computers to their TVs in order to get Internet Video on the sets, the phenomenon is inconsequential to the mass market. This is a myth for two reasons. First, the application is not as “geeky” as the uninitiated might suppose as evidenced by this video. Second, the practice provides an irrevocable transcendent experience. Specifically, users become accustomed to having unlimited Internet access on the TV. Eventually, they conceptualize the TV as a dual-function device. In one context it is a traditional television and in another it is a giant monitor into the Internet Cloud. As such, it is a forcing-factor that will ultimately lead TV-set manufactures to provide browser-centric televisions. Second Myth. The laptop-as-TV-Media-Controller application requires a lengthy cable from the TV to the living-room sofa where the user holds the laptop. This is a myth because LogiTech fails to advertise that a wireless mouse and keyboard eliminates the cable. Third Myth. Consumers won’t use the laptop-as-TV-Media-Controller application because they are intimidated by the appearance of a browser on the TV screen. This is a myth because we’ve been surfing the Net for 10 -15 years. The browser is probably the most familiar software we use and most of use it daily. This video also demonstrates the familiar use of a browser on the TV. This is Third Generation Television. To learn more click here where you can purchase a copy or our research report or download a free Prospectus. Free Webinar: Five Catalysts for Internet TV We will soon be offering a free 30 minute online Webinar to discuss the Five Catalysts that will drive Internet-Video-to-the-TV this year. Please email me if you are interested in attending. My email is phil(at)insidedigitalmedia.com
Speaking of Security Podcast #140 The week's Speaking of Security podcast discusses the release of RSA enVision 4.0, the premier platform for Secuity Information and Event Management/Log Management.
10 Golden Rules Internet Marketing Podcast Episode 35 David McInnis founder of PR Web introduces his new start up, Podcast of the Week JB Glossinger from Morning Coach; Ten Tips to Shake the Recession Blues, YouTube Annotations, Google Negative Keywords, Netbooks, Golden Rule #7 Trust is Golden and AuthenticatedTestimonials, 302 Redirect Links, 5 Things to do when launching a new website, Scott Wright from StreetWise Security Zone, The Real Tim Jones, Chi from Mamas Dresser, Song of the Week Kerry Politzer Love is in the Atmosphere.
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Internet TV - Video or Mixed Media? Getting Internet connectivity at the TV is not merely about Internet Video. It’s about getting mixed media on the television. It’s a common mistake to think of Internet access at the TV as being “all about” getting Internet Video. Confessedly, that’s a big part of it, but it’s not the whole story. Once the TV is connected to the Internet users will want unlimited access so that they can consume a wide mix of media including video, text, graphics, audio, podcasts, and animation. For example, sometimes they might choose to visit the New York Times Website. As today’s video demonstrates, once there they can read articles, watch videos, listen to podcasts, contribute comments to news articles, and write letters-to-the-editor. Furthermore they can do this from the comfort of their living-room sofa with the use of a wireless mouse and keyboard. While the uninitiated may suppose that reading a newspaper on the TV screen from the living-room sofa is too cumbersome, they forget that most of us are familiar with how to increase the text size in a browser. After all, we’ve been surfing the Internet for 10 – 15 years and the browser is the most common software we use. In such a setting, newspapers providing videos with associated articles are likely to be the first place readers will see a video about the subject news item, even before they watch it on conventional television. Evidence of the demand for mixed media is illustrated by the graph below that shows the traffic leadership of the multimedia-centric New York Times website in comparison to those of other newspapers. As noted repeatedly during the past month or so, consumers are discovering that they can connect their laptop computers to flat-panel TVs thereby using the TVs as giant monitors for the laptop. This gives them unlimited Internet access on the TV and the use of mixed media becomes a natural part of their experience. Vendors providing only a Walled Garden of Internet content to the TV screen will discover that consumers will be dissatisfied with the limitations. They will demand unrestricted access. While the laptop-as-TV-Media-Controller is not the “end game” it is a forcing-factor that will ultimately lead factory-made browser-centric TVs. This is Third Generation Television.
Leverage Web Experience Management to Create a Dynamic Next-Generation Website The fundamental shift in how consumers interact online—and their resulting high expectations—has not only influenced site design and design, but also redefined what makes an appealing and effective website. Marketers are now looking at web management technologies to capitalize on new revenue channels. EMC Documentum Web Experience Management simplifies the execution of your next-generation website by focusing on the tools that combine traditional publishing approaches with new and innovative web practices.
What Does Green Really Mean? Learn how environmental resource constraints for the first time are placing limitations on corporations' ability to cope with growing demands. See how important it is to balance capacity, performance and reliability demands with space and energy limitations.
Creating Order from Chaos in Data Centers and Server Rooms Data center professionals can rid themselves of messy racks, sub-standard under floor air distribution, and cable sprawl with a minimum of heartache and expense. Whether the data center mess is created over years of mismanagement or whether the cable-choked data center is inherited, solutions for both quick fixes and longer term evolutionary changes exist. This whitepaper outlines several innovative approaches for dealing with the symptoms of the chaos and eliminating the root causes of disorder.
Is Napsterization of Video at Hand? If you are curious to know whether the video industry is at the threshold of “Napsterization” much like the record label business was ten years ago, this video is for you. It is hard to believe that it was fully ten years ago that Shawn Fanning unleashed Napster P2P software that forever changed the record label business. Napster demonstrated beyond any doubt that the Internet was going to become the natural distribution platform for all Digital Media files. In order to prosper, or even survive, the established business models would have to adapt. It was obvious that the record label industry was the “canary in the coal mine” and that ultimately there would be a day of reckoning for the video producer as well. That day of reckoning has arrived for two reasons. First, pirated Websites are now available that offer movies and TV shows as streams instead of downloads. That means that anyone who can master the simple skills needed to watch a video at YouTube or Hulu can watch pirated video from streaming media websites. There is no requirement to download files, locate them on the computer, and then select them for playback. Streaming sites offer click-and-watch simplicity. Comscore’s January tabulation of video sites reveals that one such website in China has entered the list of top-ten. Users of the site spend twice as much time monthly watching video there as does the average YouTube user. Moreover, the site’s year-over-year traffic growth is 500%.
BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights #37: BPEL4People: Human Tasks in Business Process Applications Active Endpoints’ own Michael Rowley joins Dana Gardner’s analyst round table for an update on the BPEL4People standard and the results of the recent activities that are guiding the development of this standard.
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The Cost Cutting Conundrum Greg Tennyson, Salesforce.com Chief Procurement Officer, and Dave Stephens, Coupa Co-Founder and Chief Evangelist, have successfully implemented procurement technologies and processes at organizations known for their operational excellence, scalability and growth. Watch this webinar and discover how you can a) Confront current economic challenges head-on with easy-to-use, affordable, and fast-to-deploy technology b) Establish a strong technology, process and cultural foundation from which to launch corporate cost-savings initiatives c) Develop a procurement baseline and measurement strategy that ensures you are focusing on what works.
Is Your Support Solution Smart Enough? As an IT provider, you can certainly imagine this scenario: your CEO calls from the road because his BlackBerry is down – and he can’t receive critical email. Pivotal moment here. Is your support solution smart enough to quickly solve the issue? Luckily, there’s an on-demand remote support solution that is. Find out more in this must-read white paper for enterprise IT.
Prime Visibility Founder on Domain Names for eCommerce Businesses The use of domain names to enhance an ecommerce "footprint" is growing in popularity. We've asked Andrew Hazen, the founder and CEO of Prime Visibility, a Long Island, NY-based Internet marketing firm, to explain domain-name strategies to us. Hazen is an Internet pioneer, having founded Prime Visibility in the late 1990s. The firm specializes in search engine optimization and pay-per-click ad management, and its clients include Fox News, Lauren Hutton, Adelphi University, among others. Hazen joins Practical eCommerce's Kerry Murdock.
To Reach Obama's Goal, Colleges Should Get Billions From U.S., Cal State Chief Says Charles B. Reed, chancellor of the California State University system, wants the federal government to provide direct aid to four-year colleges based on the number of students they enroll who are eligible for Pell Grants or who are from underrepresented minority groups. He says that such a program, which he estimates would cost $12-billion to $14-billion, would help institutions meet President Obama's goal for the United States to have the world's highest proportion of college graduates by 2020. It would do so by covering some costs of remediation and other support services for students who need extra help to remain in college and earn a degree.
Browser-Centric TV Sets If you would like to learn about a company that makes browser-centric semiconductor chips enabling televisions to visit any Website and display any Internet Video, this interview is for you. Our guest today is Gordie Campbell who is the CEO of Personal Web Systems. During a 30-year career he pioneered many technological innovations including the first Ethernet chip, the first electronically erasable microcomputer, the first PC-on-a-chip, and the invention of the chipset upon which today’s PCs are based. During the past month we repeatedly noted that consumers are discovering that they can get Internet Video to TVs by connecting a laptop computer to the TV. Essentially the TV acts as a giant monitor for the laptop which gets to the Internet via on-board WiFi. However, we also noted that the laptop-as-TV-Media-Controller is merely a “forcing factor” that will eventually result in televisions being factory-equipped to connect directly into the Internet. Ultimately the TV-set becomes a dual-purpose device that can function as either a display for conventional TV or a giant monitor into the Internet. Personal Web Systems (PWS) is a fabless semiconductor supplier of chips that enable such a scenario. Since the company originated in India, the first product will be marketed in that country within a month or so. It is an appliance about the size of a paperback book that permits TV-sets to jack directly into the Internet. A similar product is expected to be offered in the United States by the end of the year. Eventually the company hopes to sell chips to set manufactures directly so that TVs come-off the factory floor as browser-centric displays. In our analysis, set-makers would be well advised to consider offering browser-centric TVs promptly for two reasons.
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How the Economic Crisis Will Affect IT Security The global economic downturn may affect IT departments more than just having to manage under decreased budgets. Sudden acquisitions and mergers that require quick IT integration, opportunistic attacks and phishing, additional and potentially more severe regulations, and the impact of these factors on critical priorities, all place greater emphasis on IT security. In this webcast featuring a security expert from EMA, you will hear about: The challenges and opportunities in IT security and risk management; How to contain costs even as security needs rise; The biggest risk now facing IT departments; Ways that Tripwire helps ease security worries.
Are You Headed for a Data Center Disaster? Today's technology is placing demands on the physical infrastructure of data centers like never before. Learn what the experts have to say about how this is changing the world as we know it and how you can best prepare yourself for a Data Center Disaster. Sponsored by APC.
Marketing Tips for Small- to Medium-Sized Businesses Marketers at small to medium sized businesses have big challenges due to lack of resources and time. This video has some quick and easy ways to punch up your online marketing effectiveness without investing a lot of time.
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The iDeal iPod Suppose the iPod Touch had a fully functioning browser along with Bluetooth connectivity. Such a device could connect to a flat-panel TV and display HD video on the TV screen. The on-board WiFi of the Touch would connect to the home network and thence to the Internet. Thus users could watch any Internet Video instead of only those at websites providing applications at the Apps Store. Bluetooth would enable a remote keyboard and mouse to provide a lean-back viewing experience 15 – 20 feet distant from the TV screen. While today’s iPod Touch has Apple’s Safari browser it will not play Flash content. Thus, watching YouTube via the Touch requires the use of the YouTube app. A fully functioning browser with the Flash plug-in would enable videos from nearly all websites including Hulu, YouTube, and Inside Digital Media. Apple already provides High Definition cables to connect the Touch to a flat-panel TV. The kit includes a power supply so that the Touch can be powered from wall sockets when displaying video on the TV. However, the experience would be better if an HDMI socket were included on the Touch. Additionally, today