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Live Webcast: How to Avoid Virtualization Gotchas 2006-11-11 01:00:15 Acronis

Server virtualization is hot, and for good reason. Virtualization enables computers to run multiple operating systems and applications on the same physical server. The benefits to IT managers are compelling. However, there are a number of hidden "gotchas" that can thwart IT's efforts to migrate existing applications to a virtual environment and can threaten the stability of mission-critical applications.

Join this live TechRepublic Webcast, hosted by James Hilliard and featuring Walter Scott, CEO of Acronis Software, to learn how:

Hardware resources can be consolidated onto fewer servers

IT organizations can scale their server resources

IT staff resources can be deployed more efficiently

Legacy applications can be redeployed to virtual machines, extending application life and increasing performance

Security can be improved when the operating system doesn't communicate directly with the host

Gartner calls virtualization a "megatrend" and International Data Corp. forecasts that spending for virtualization will reach $15 billion by 2009. So join this TechRepublic Webcast, sponsored by Acronis and featuring live Q&A, to learn how you can avoid a variety of virtualization "gotchas." Pre-register today!

Note: This TechRepublic Webcast will be recorded and made available on an on-demand basis following the live event. So pre-register today--even if you're not sure you can attend on November 21st--and we'll notify you by e-mail when the on-demand version is available.

Streamline to Success: The Real Mid-Market Experience: Industrial/Manufacturing 2006-09-26 01:00:16 IBM

Manufacturers of all types are faced with challenges on many fronts. Globalization has reshaped our view of supply and demand. Customer expectations continue to increase while customer loyalty can be lost with just one misstep. As a result, manufacturers develop and execute various strategies to win in the marketplace. A key step to meeting these challenges is to select IT solutions that work well together and support both the processes and the strategies that drive success for the company.

Streamline to Success: The Real Mid-Market Experience: Retail 2006-09-26 01:00:16 IBM

From self-scan checkouts at grocery stores to information kiosks at retail chains, businesses are realizing the benefits of technology on the overall shopping experience. Next generation "super shoppers" have become empowered by their ability to access data online. This ability translates into an extremely knowledgeable consumer base, with specific customer service needs. As customers seek out more productive shopping experiences, retailers will have to tailor to the needs of individual consumers and supply greater convenience, lower prices, and easy-to-use technologies. But technology for technology's sake is not enough. In-store technologies must provide clear benefits....and they do.

Offshore Software Test Automation: A Strategic Approach to Cost and Speed Effectiveness 0000-00-00 LogiGear

This LogiGear white paper presents an innovative approach to integrating global resourcing with automated software testingan approach that can help today's development organizations better meet their exacting time-to-market, cost containment, and quality goals. The paper explains how Action Based Testing (ABT), a structured methodology that underlies automated software testing, can help ISVs and other software developers speed their products' time-to-marketwithout sacrificing quality. It's a must-read resource, especially if you're considering whether or not to outsource your critical code testing functions to an offshore vendor.

ING DIRECT Banks on Sprint to Deliver Continuously Reliable, Secure Service 2006-09-09 01:00:12 Sprint

This case study discusses how Sprint, powered by Cisco Systems, provides a secure and reliable solution for Wide Area Networking for INC Direct Bank, which primarily does business over the Internet and remotely over the phone in a 24x7 mode. Any service outages severely affect ING Bank's business model, so their requirement was to find a highly responsive and trusted partner with a network that was IP based, isolated from the public Internet, and highly reliable but would provide business continuity in case of natural disasters or external events affecting the network. With Sprint, ING Bank found a consultant and partner with a private IP network that provides the high level of responsiveness, integrity, and security they required. Also Sprint provided value-added managed security services at affordable cost, which allowed them to keep their own operational costs low--and pass savings on to their customers.

Sprint MPLS VPN, Cisco Avvid/IP Contact Center Offer an Integrated Solution for MTM 2006-09-09 01:00:12 Sprint

Medical Transportation Management (MTM) provides non-emergency transportation services for state and local governments and private healthcare through a network of 350 partners--serving 12 million recipients annually in 12 states. MTM needed an integrated voice and data networking solution, so by partnering with Sprint and Cisco, used Sprint Global MPLS VPN, powered by Cisco Systems, as a wide area networking solution to tie five U.S. call centers and patients together. In doing so, it achieved a customer satisfaction rate of 98 percent, while dramatically decreasing costs. This is a fully integrated solution for MTM, leading to putting their voice and data on a single network.

Global Healthcare Crises: How Information Technology can Address Pandemics and Disasters 2006-08-12 01:00:09 IBM

The global march of the bird flu has heightened the sense of urgency in the international community for strategies to effectively prevent and respond to health-related crises. This IBM white paper presents an information and communication technology framework for the prevention of and response to pandemics such as the bird flu and the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). It provides keen insights into the technology challenges that governments and healthcare organizations face in coordinating their response to pandemics and other health crises.

How One Organization Conquered the Audit Challenge 2006-10-28 11:15:39 Qualys

The Marine Corps Community Services (MCCS) manages a global network that serves Marines and their families. With thousands of nodes spread throughout the world, security is a real concern. MCCS chose a managed service to conduct comprehensive vulnerability assessments and prioritize patches and fixes. The service has saved time and money while contributing to peace of mind. MCCS manager of network services Randy Harris talks about the project in part three of this four-part Podcast series.

Listen to these other parts:
--There's a Hole in Your Network - Vulnerability Management Is No Mystery

--Don't Dread that Network Audit - Compliance with Government Regulation and Industry Standards

--On-demand Vulnerability Management

A Study of Real-Time Query Expansion Effectiveness 2006-09-05 01:00:13 Microsoft

This paper describes the study of an interface technique that provides a list of suggested additional query terms as a searcher types a search query, in effect offering Interactive Query Expansion (IQE) options while the query is formulated. Analysis of the results shows that offering IQE during query formulation leads to better quality initial queries, and an increased uptake of query expansion. These findings have implications for how IQE should be offered in retrieval interfaces.

Service Level Management (SLM) 101: A Primer for Enterprise IT Professionals 2006-12-05 12:57:34 Enterprise Management Associates

For enterprise IT professionals, close scrutiny is the word of the day--of IT expenditures, use of those expenditures, and IT's ability to demonstrate real business value. The ability to maintain competitive, consistent levels of business and IT service is no longer a potential advantage�it is a business imperative. Service Level Management (SLM) helps enterprises make sure that the key targets for service success--such as performance, quality, or number of transactions--are being met.

In this educational white paper by top industry analyst Lisa Erickson-Harris, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) helps enterprise IT professionals develop a better understanding of what SLM can do for their organization�and how to make it happen. Topics discussed include:

What is SLM?

The Core Constituencies for SLM

SLM Concepts and Terminology

Key Industry Standards Relevant to SLM

Weighing SLM Benefits vs. SLM Costs

5 Essential Steps to a Successful SLM Program

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Title	Date Added	Company
Live Webcast: How to Avoid Virtualization Gotchas	2006-11-11 01:00:15	Acronis
Server virtualization is hot, and for good reason. Virtualization enables computers to run multiple operating systems and applications on the same physical server. The benefits to IT managers are compelling. However, there are a number of hidden "gotchas" that can thwart IT's efforts to migrate existing applications to a virtual environment and can threaten the stability of mission-critical applications. Join this live TechRepublic Webcast, hosted by James Hilliard and featuring Walter Scott, CEO of Acronis Software, to learn how: Hardware resources can be consolidated onto fewer servers IT organizations can scale their server resources IT staff resources can be deployed more efficiently Legacy applications can be redeployed to virtual machines, extending application life and increasing performance Security can be improved when the operating system doesn't communicate directly with the host Gartner calls virtualization a "megatrend" and International Data Corp. forecasts that spending for virtualization will reach $15 billion by 2009. So join this TechRepublic Webcast, sponsored by Acronis and featuring live Q&A, to learn how you can avoid a variety of virtualization "gotchas." Pre-register today! Note: This TechRepublic Webcast will be recorded and made available on an on-demand basis following the live event. So pre-register today--even if you're not sure you can attend on November 21st--and we'll notify you by e-mail when the on-demand version is available.
Streamline to Success: The Real Mid-Market Experience: Industrial/Manufacturing	2006-09-26 01:00:16	IBM
Manufacturers of all types are faced with challenges on many fronts. Globalization has reshaped our view of supply and demand. Customer expectations continue to increase while customer loyalty can be lost with just one misstep. As a result, manufacturers develop and execute various strategies to win in the marketplace. A key step to meeting these challenges is to select IT solutions that work well together and support both the processes and the strategies that drive success for the company.
Streamline to Success: The Real Mid-Market Experience: Retail	2006-09-26 01:00:16	IBM
From self-scan checkouts at grocery stores to information kiosks at retail chains, businesses are realizing the benefits of technology on the overall shopping experience. Next generation "super shoppers" have become empowered by their ability to access data online. This ability translates into an extremely knowledgeable consumer base, with specific customer service needs. As customers seek out more productive shopping experiences, retailers will have to tailor to the needs of individual consumers and supply greater convenience, lower prices, and easy-to-use technologies. But technology for technology's sake is not enough. In-store technologies must provide clear benefits....and they do.
Offshore Software Test Automation: A Strategic Approach to Cost and Speed Effectiveness	0000-00-00	LogiGear
This LogiGear white paper presents an innovative approach to integrating global resourcing with automated software testingan approach that can help today's development organizations better meet their exacting time-to-market, cost containment, and quality goals. The paper explains how Action Based Testing (ABT), a structured methodology that underlies automated software testing, can help ISVs and other software developers speed their products' time-to-marketwithout sacrificing quality. It's a must-read resource, especially if you're considering whether or not to outsource your critical code testing functions to an offshore vendor.
ING DIRECT Banks on Sprint to Deliver Continuously Reliable, Secure Service	2006-09-09 01:00:12	Sprint
This case study discusses how Sprint, powered by Cisco Systems, provides a secure and reliable solution for Wide Area Networking for INC Direct Bank, which primarily does business over the Internet and remotely over the phone in a 24x7 mode. Any service outages severely affect ING Bank's business model, so their requirement was to find a highly responsive and trusted partner with a network that was IP based, isolated from the public Internet, and highly reliable but would provide business continuity in case of natural disasters or external events affecting the network. With Sprint, ING Bank found a consultant and partner with a private IP network that provides the high level of responsiveness, integrity, and security they required. Also Sprint provided value-added managed security services at affordable cost, which allowed them to keep their own operational costs low--and pass savings on to their customers.
Sprint MPLS VPN, Cisco Avvid/IP Contact Center Offer an Integrated Solution for MTM	2006-09-09 01:00:12	Sprint
Medical Transportation Management (MTM) provides non-emergency transportation services for state and local governments and private healthcare through a network of 350 partners--serving 12 million recipients annually in 12 states. MTM needed an integrated voice and data networking solution, so by partnering with Sprint and Cisco, used Sprint Global MPLS VPN, powered by Cisco Systems, as a wide area networking solution to tie five U.S. call centers and patients together. In doing so, it achieved a customer satisfaction rate of 98 percent, while dramatically decreasing costs. This is a fully integrated solution for MTM, leading to putting their voice and data on a single network.
Global Healthcare Crises: How Information Technology can Address Pandemics and Disasters	2006-08-12 01:00:09	IBM
The global march of the bird flu has heightened the sense of urgency in the international community for strategies to effectively prevent and respond to health-related crises. This IBM white paper presents an information and communication technology framework for the prevention of and response to pandemics such as the bird flu and the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). It provides keen insights into the technology challenges that governments and healthcare organizations face in coordinating their response to pandemics and other health crises.
How One Organization Conquered the Audit Challenge	2006-10-28 11:15:39	Qualys
The Marine Corps Community Services (MCCS) manages a global network that serves Marines and their families. With thousands of nodes spread throughout the world, security is a real concern. MCCS chose a managed service to conduct comprehensive vulnerability assessments and prioritize patches and fixes. The service has saved time and money while contributing to peace of mind. MCCS manager of network services Randy Harris talks about the project in part three of this four-part Podcast series. Listen to these other parts: --There's a Hole in Your Network - Vulnerability Management Is No Mystery --Don't Dread that Network Audit - Compliance with Government Regulation and Industry Standards --On-demand Vulnerability Management
A Study of Real-Time Query Expansion Effectiveness	2006-09-05 01:00:13	Microsoft
This paper describes the study of an interface technique that provides a list of suggested additional query terms as a searcher types a search query, in effect offering Interactive Query Expansion (IQE) options while the query is formulated. Analysis of the results shows that offering IQE during query formulation leads to better quality initial queries, and an increased uptake of query expansion. These findings have implications for how IQE should be offered in retrieval interfaces.
Service Level Management (SLM) 101: A Primer for Enterprise IT Professionals	2006-12-05 12:57:34	Enterprise Management Associates
For enterprise IT professionals, close scrutiny is the word of the day--of IT expenditures, use of those expenditures, and IT's ability to demonstrate real business value. The ability to maintain competitive, consistent levels of business and IT service is no longer a potential advantage�it is a business imperative. Service Level Management (SLM) helps enterprises make sure that the key targets for service success--such as performance, quality, or number of transactions--are being met. In this educational white paper by top industry analyst Lisa Erickson-Harris, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) helps enterprise IT professionals develop a better understanding of what SLM can do for their organization�and how to make it happen. Topics discussed include: What is SLM? The Core Constituencies for SLM SLM Concepts and Terminology Key Industry Standards Relevant to SLM Weighing SLM Benefits vs. SLM Costs 5 Essential Steps to a Successful SLM Program