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In part three of this videocast series Pete Lindstrom, Senior Analyst for Burton Group discusses the tools and techniques needed to control data leakage. Do you cringe when you read about a lost laptop? Are you nervous that your Internet connection might be a giant intellectual-property sieve? Despite widespread regulatory and contractual stipulations for data protection, chances are that your organization hasn't developed a wholly effective architecture for thwarting...

In part two of this data protection video series Pete Lindstrom, Senior Analyst for Burton Group discusses the steps to take in order to ensure your data is properly secured. Data protection has and always will be a top concern for organizations in today's enterprise. As more and more companies continue to grace news headlines with data breach incidents, the need to properly secure company and customer data is at an all time high. In part two of this data protection video series, Pete...

In part one of this data protection video series Pete Lindstrom, Senior Analyst for Burton Group discusses the tools and techniques needed to protect against data leakage. Information can escape from your organization through every end point and device, and it's your job to make sure that data doesn't get into the wrong hands that could cause your company's trade secrets to become public knowledge. Even worse, your customer's data could leak out and next thing you know, you are facing...

Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware Edition (ASM/VE) is a unique and innovative data protection feature of the Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series iSCSI SAN that enables fast online backups and quick restores of VMware virtual machines and VMFS file systems. Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware Edition (ASM/VE) is a unique and innovative data protection feature of the Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series iSCSI SAN that enables fast online backups and quick restores of VMware virtual machines and VMFS file...

In this podcast, network technology expert Jim Metzler quantifies the factors that impact application performance and management and identifies the emerging set of issues that networking pros will need to respond to. Today it's accepted that networking professionals are responsible, at least in part, for the performance of the applications traversing the network. But being proactive about delivering consistent applications requires a comprehensive view and plan of...

View this Webcast to hear a discussion about the process, project requirements and available technology needed for an effective operational improvement support system. Hear Jeanne Moreno, CIO of Snap-on Corporation, discuss Snap-on's experience in delivering timely, relevant metrics to decision makers to help them improve operational effectiveness. This discussion topic is typically referred to as Enterprise Performance Management, Corporate Performance Management...

Attend this webcast to learn how with Inbound and Outbound Interactive Voice Response (IVR) solutions, Angel.com combines the power of the telephone, your data and the web to generate information-driven communications and transactions. With Inbound and Outbound IVR solutions, Angel.com combines the power of the telephone, your data and the web to generate information-driven communications and transactions – whether they are inbound callers, or outbound dialing campaigns. Our...

Learn how you can benefit from a solution to simplify the process of integrating business processes no matter what integration technology, industry standards, or communication protocols are being used. Companies have been working to implement a consolidated integration strategy that will achieve shorter production times, faster order fulfillment, reduced inventory on hand, and tighter control over financial processes. Over the past decade, companies were focused on...

SEEBURGER's B2B Gateway handles business integration for SEGA, due to which SEGA has reduced time to load orders to less than 4 minutes and reduced administrative personnel training from three months to three weeks. SEGA of America needed to comply with Wal-Mart customer mandates, streamline its order process and create greater visibility into inventory. Uploading new orders via modem to its 10-year old B2B/EDI system took hours. With SEEBURGER performing B2B/EDI duties, SEGA...

Read how with the introduction of SAP NetWeaver XI/SAP NetWeaver PI, SAP has brought internal (EAI) and external (B2B/EDI) integration and collaboration into its core functionality. With the introduction of SAP NetWeaver XI/SAP NetWeaver PI, SAP has brought internal (EAI) and external (B2B/EDI) integration and collaboration into its core functionality. SEEBURGER has partnered with SAP to provide both B2B/EDI solutions and industry expertise. • Consolidation – Organization can reduce...

B2B integration technology, offers powerful and complementary tools and services for seamless business integration and meeting the challenges of global collaboration. A vital B2B process, purchase to pay involves numerous steps: purchase orders arrive, triggering a series of interconnected events and processes that conclude with the shipment of goods, the generation of an invoice, and the receipt of payment on that invoice. The speed and accuracy of the entire cycle...

Read how SEEBURGER's B2B Gateway and SAP Connector reduced time to market and development costs for both the ConAgra IT integration and subsequent projects through its ability to eliminate hard coding within SAP as well as handle B2B and EAI design. SEEBURGER's B2B Gateway and SAP Connector reduced time to market and development costs for both the ConAgra IT integration and subsequent projects through its ability to eliminate hard coding within SAP as well as handle B2B and...

The Sun StorageTek T1000KB tape drive delivers the industry's highest capacity, making it ideal for 24x7 datacenter operations requiring high duty cycle data storage and retrieval. The Sun StorageTek T1000KB tape drive delivers the industry's highest capacity, making it ideal for 24x7 datacenter operations requiring high duty cycle data storage and retrieval...

Watch this videocast to learn how the access-centric StorageTek T-series tape drives provide you with the industry's fastest access to data (T9840D) and industry-leading capacity (T10000B) tape drive utilizing earlier generation media. Watch this videocast to learn how the access-centric StorageTek T-series tape drives provide you with the industry's fastest access to data (T9840D) and industry-leading capacity (T10000B) tape drive utilizing earlier generation media...

This session of Get Schooled features Mike O'Malley, Director, External Marketing and he covers everything from the basic building blocks of QoS to its importance in high bandwidth applications. This session of Get Schooled features Mike O'Malley, Director, External Marketing and covers everything from the basic building blocks of QoS to its importance in high bandwidth applications such as IPTV, Video on Demand (VoD) and Business Ethernet services...

This white paper includes an overview of the technical building blocks of VPLS, including a review of the MPLS features that help enable the creation of secure customer networks within a shared packet infrastructure. This white paper includes an overview of the technical building blocks of VPLS, including a review of the MPLS features that help enable the creation of secure customer networks within a shared packet infrastructure. The concept of pseudowires (PW) is covered...

This new podcast series focuses on how businesses can leverage Directory Servers for a more secure and intelligent messaging infrastructure. This new podcast series focuses on how businesses can leverage Directory Servers for a more secure and intelligent messaging infrastructure. Expert Michael Donnelly provides an overview about directory servers, defining the terms "directory" and "Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)". Learn how directories benefit...

Effective email management solutions provide a holistic approach that encompasses the related issues of archiving, business continuity, and security. Faced with increasing regulatory, continuity, and legal requirements, as well as an onslaught of spam and malware, organizations need to take a more comprehensive approach to messaging solutions, particularly in regard to email management. Specifically, organizations need to adopt a more holistic approach to email...

ITIL is emerging as the standard way of managing IT service delivery; the latest Version 3 has extended this, aligning service design, development, and delivery more closely with business goals. ITIL is emerging as the standard way of managing IT service delivery; the latest Version 3 has extended this, aligning service design, development, and delivery more closely with business goals. Organizations implementing ITIL usually get good results, in terms of service design...

This paper describes the business context out of which grew the need for a service oriented approach, and the Microsoft approach to achieving successful SOA implementations. The ability to readily change and optimize business processes is the key to organizational competitiveness and growth. Organizational agility can be compromised when supporting IT assets can not flexibly respond to changing business needs. Unlocking IT resources from their application silos and...

This white paper presents the Microsoft Corporation vision for service orientation and service-oriented architecture in enterprise computing. Service-orientation is a means for building distributed systems. At its most abstract, service-orientation views everything from the mainframe application to the printer to the shipping dock clerk to the overnight delivery company as a service provider. Service providers expose capabilities through interfaces. Service...

Read how BI delivers information that, when linked with BPM, gives people the input they require to improve business processes. Business Process Management (BPM) is a methodology to ensure that all the processes support a common set of goals and objectives. It involves automating and/or improving the effectiveness of process activities, tasks and outcomes to accomplish particular business purposes. Its goals include not only efficiency and productivity but, beyond them...

Read how Microsoft delivers People-Ready Processes through key Business Process Management (BPM) products and solutions and how they enhance strategic business process efficiencies, reducing costs and promoting organizational agility and growth. We’re now entering the third generation of process solutions, something Microsoft calls ―People-Ready Processes. A People-Ready Process approach encompasses both the human and system centric process types of prior...

Service-orientation, with the advent of Web services, is the latest technology solution put forward to automate business activities. Service-orientation, with the advent of Web services, is the latest technology solution put forward to automate business activities. The concepts embodied by service-orientation evolved out of long-standing efforts to modularize and distribute complex computer systems that reflect and support the reality of the distributed business world...

For more than a decade, Hummingbird has been delivering data integration solutions to companies worldwide. This document shows the value that Hummingbird’s Genio offers its users, drawing on scenarios that demonstrate its significance. Data integration tools provide a foundation for corporations that aspire to be more nimble, competitive, and adaptive to quickly to changing market conditions. While ETL tools were originally developed to help move and transform data from...