Today, virtually any app developer who uses the browser-based approach to develop a mobile app is deploying the app using HTML5—the next-generation of the coding language that’s been running Web pages for about two decades. The motivation to use HTML5 on mobile is simple: adaptability. This white paper presents five primary reasons on why the consumer or customer may not necessarily reap the benefits of this approach.
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If you currently use cron to schedule jobs on your UNIX servers, you may have noticed that your job schedule requires a higher degree of flexibility than cron can provide. Or, your IT department is required to comply with specific regulations. If this is the case, Skybot Scheduler, the enterprise scheduler for your Windows, UNIX, and Linux servers, may be the solution. Read about some of the advantages of Skybot Scheduler.
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Enterprise service buses (ESBs) make information and interactive services accessible to a wide range of distributed applications and users. They handle information routing, permission management, version control, and resource allocation. The movement of data through an ESB is handled by messaging technology. Download this white paper to learn about a messaging infrastructure for any enterprise-class ESB.
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Over the past several years, the priorities of IT teams have shifted. IT staff used to focus on building an integrated enterprise to optimize business processes. Today, an additional priority is extending the enterprise and improving engagement with customers, partners, and suppliers to maximize efficiency and take advantage of new opportunities. See how innovations in IT have allowed market leaders to extend their reach.
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Business data is growing at an unprecedented speed, and organizations of all sizes, across all industries, have to face the challenge of scaling up their data infrastructure to meet this new pressure. Advances in server hardware and application design have led to a potential solution: in-memory computing. Read Aberdeen's Analyst Insight report and see how in-memory computing can address two of the "three Vs" of big data.
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BlackBerry® Enterprise Service 10 is a next-generation enterprise mobility management (EMM) platform for all your organization’s devices, including BlackBerry devices, as well as iOS and Android™ smartphones and tablets. Download this paper for an overview for migrating to BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10. You’ll get 10 tips that will help your information technology (IT) department migrate to BlackBerry 10.
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The global ERP market has been seeing an average of about 10% growth year on year since 2006, and while the current global economic slowdown is bound to cause a dip in this growth pattern, it is a safe bet that the overall trend will sustain. Read this white paper to get a deep understanding of the ERP market space and its development, the key ERP vendors, and the factors you need to consider when selecting an ERP system.
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While most industries are rapidly adopting social media to engage with customers, the life sciences companies remain typically balk at extending social presence in a highly regulated environment. In view of recent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines on the responsibilities of life sciences companies monitoring social media, this paper intends to assist life sciences companies in determining the scope and potential impact of creating a social media engagement program.
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Banks are facing high levels of scrutiny from their customers and find themselves under great pressure to create value, win back lost customers, and maintain existing relationships as well as lower customer attrition levels. Three seemingly disparate trends—need for savings, growth in mobile usage and advent of coupon aggregators—together offer banks a way to create a sticky service. This paper discusses the idea of banks partnering with retailers to leverage their superior customer understanding to provide mobile coupons to their customers.
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This white paper discusses the importance of information technology (IT) security for enterprises dealing with changing business conditions. Any breach of security or intrusion into data can be damaging for companies, leading to financial losses and diminished reputation. Most companies today require the implementation of a holistic security program, and a partner who is aware of the most relevant technology and service for their kind of business.
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With the consumerization of information technology (IT), employees are bringing insights and experiences into the workplace, sharing pioneering technology, and driving business innovation. This report based on a survey of 100 global C-level executives delves into various aspects of the consumer IT revolution. The study findings indicate that it is having a positive impact on both businesses (employers) and internal consumers (employees).
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While mobility has been a key factor behind the consumerization of IT in the enterprise, it has created a new set of security challenges in the workplace. Read this research with IT decision makers from the various departments across the UK public sector to understand the challenges they are encountering in the face of compliance, control, cost, and consumerization, and to gain best-practice lessons in mobile enterprise management.
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The rapid development and adoption of real-time, push-based web technologies is driving requirements for many more real-time data applications running within browsers and on mobile devices. Many of these applications have large and unpredictable data volumes, user counts, or both, putting stress on many software-based web streaming solutions. This white paper examines Solace's high-performance messaging solution to support the streaming of real-time data over the internet to browsers and mobile devices.
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Driven by increasing business demands and the availability of technologies like in-memory databases, change data capture software, big data storage systems, and complex event processing engines, some organizations are looking to enterprise data grids to accelerate, optimize, and scale their IT infrastructure. Managing big data scale transactional and event stream information is about more than just storing massive amounts of data; it requires the intelligent collection, filtration, sharing and exposure of information via enterprise apps connected by LANs, WANs and cloud/grid environments.
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Multicast-based messaging systems are limited in use to point applications under very controlled conditions due to their tight coupling to the Layer 2 network, lack of management and control, and lack of robustness. This white paper explores the key disadvantages of multicast, and explains the benefits of a hardware-based solution with embedded support for point-to-point ‘unicast’ distribution and message routing.
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Three kinds of messaging need to be supported in Single Dealer Platforms (SDPs) in investment banking: real-time for quote distribution, persistent for order flow, and streaming over the web to rich internet applications. It has historically taken three separate messaging products to meet these needs, but the implementation and integration of these systems introduces many challenges, including the complexity and fragility of the system and scalability issues. This white paper shows how an integrated messaging platform that handles all of the messaging requirements for SDPs reduces these challenges while increasing flexibility and robustness.
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The increasing volume of orders, pervasiveness of algorithmic trading systems and customer demand for lower latency are outpacing the capabilities of the software- and server-based systems sell-side firms use to do process trades in financial markets globally. This is causing many of these firms to experience lower trading performance, dissatisfied customers and high operational complexity and costs. This white paper looks at the disadvantages of traditional approaches to achieving the guaranteed messaging requirements of order execution and explains the benefits of solutions that perform message routing entirely in hardware.
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The proliferation of process automation, sensor networks, user-generated content, machine-to-machine connections, and mobile computing is driving the far-reaching trend referred to as “big data.” It takes new tools and techniques to collect, process, and distribute this enormous amount of information. Download this white paper and know how to overcome six of the challenges you’ll face as you strive to capitalize on big data.
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As the amount of information we generate grows and our relationship with it gets more complex, we must innovate new products and services to help us harness it, manage it, and tap into it more easily. These innovations allow us to connect more simply and effectively, when and how we like. This paper discusses these dynamics and explains how you can leverage technology to better capitalize on information in the context of your business.
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Today's IT infrastructure is more complex than ever. There are more applications, more servers both physical and virtual, larger global networks, and more data; all of which needs to be managed. Businesses can't afford to solve this problem by continually adding to headcount. They have to find a way to manage it all more efficiently. This white paper explains the top ten reasons why businesses are adopting IT process automation.
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“Green” server and datacenter design requires a focus on environmental sustainability. Prior studies have focused on operational energy consumption as a proxy for sustainability, but this metric only captures part of the environmental impact. Understanding the total impact requires examining the entire lifecycle of the system, beyond operational energy, to also include material use and manufacturing. See how one methodology can do that.
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For many IT organizations, 2012 is about getting back on track to fulfilling pre-recession goals. Providing a remote desktop protocol (RDP) end-user experience that closely matches a PC-like experience, from anywhere and from any device, is not a nice to have but rather a necessity. This white paper identifies some of the RDP performance challenges facing organizations, as well as their potential causes and cures. Read more.
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Today's educators and school IT staff face a dynamic environment of exploding content sources and education applications. This white paper examines the challenges that IT professionals face in academic environments and discusses the ways in which Chromebooks directly address those challenges. It also presents a case study of one of the school districts that have begun transitioning from PCs to Chromebooks. Read more.
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BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) represents a sea change not only in the IT industry but in the wider business world, revolutionizing the way organizations operate and how employees work. While BYOD presents some challenges, it is effectively ushering in a new era of flexibility and efficiency that far outweighs the short-term logistical issues. Read this white paper and know how to reap the benefits of BYOD for your organization.
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The task of maintaining network and data security is one of an IT administrator's greatest challenges. In recent years, this already difficult task has been further complicated by the proliferation of mobile devices connecting to the network. This white paper discusses some of the challenges involved in delivering secure mobile access to organizational IT resources while also allowing for the use of mobile devices.
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The demand for and implementation of virtualization technologies internally within organizations in the last few years has revealed significant savings and reduced risk for many businesses. Cloud is the next logical step beyond internal virtualization. This QlikView technology white paper discusses a variety of cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) options—and provides a deeper look at two significant cloud services.
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This tutorial presents a framework and financial methodology for deciding whether an enterprise should replace its current “status quo” tape storage solution with a new “proposed” solution, and the economics related to that decision. Read this white paper for an analysis of the value drivers that contribute to the cost of the status quo and proposed tape storage solutions using an illustrative business case, and much more.
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Enterprise applications require fast access to large volumes of information, and are pushing the performance limits of traditional storage architectures. Although it's easy to add storage capacity by adding more disk drives and arrays, it's not so easy to scale storage I/O performance. See how hybrid storage pools enable a new approach to storage architectures--increasing performance, reducing costs, and simplifying management.
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Increasingly sophisticated threats and the push toward data consolidation and cloud computing are in part why a defense-in-depth approach to security is critical to safeguarding data. Data breach investigations have shown that security controls must be multi-layered to protect against threats, and the ever changing regulatory landscape and focus on privacy demonstrate the need for solutions to be transparent and cost effective. Read this white paper for more.
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New versions of database software and operating systems (OSs) come out regularly. In the past, upgrading the database and OS for individual environments has been very expensive and a never-ending job—by the time all the business systems are upgraded, it’s time to start again. This white paper discusses Oracle Database 11g Release 2, which reduces the cost and risk associated with making these changes.
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This white paper provides an overview of the various feature sets available within the Oracle Database family of products. Built using a reliable database architecture, these products provide the necessary foundation to successfully deliver more information with higher quality of service and efficiently manage change within the environment to deliver better value.
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E-mail is mission critical with corporate knowledge locked inside maiboxes. E-mail archiving solutions help organizations track e-mail transactions, restore inadvertently deleted messages, ensure compliance, and reduce storage demands. E-mail archiving software provides IT with the ability to manage data retention and enable ediscovery. Read this white paper to explore the issues of e-mail archiving and e-mail management.
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While mobile malware still accounts for a mere fraction of the millions of threats targeting personal computers, the past year has seen the explosive growth of malicious code. What’s worse is that 50 percent of employees currently use their mobile devices at work. Early recognition of mobile security threats is a company’s best line of defense. Here are today’s top 5 mobile security threats and how to stop them in their tracks.
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Unified communications (UC) has been making its way into the enterprise for years, but uptake has been slower in the SMB space. Many SMBs are concerned that UC is too expensive, too difficult to set up and maintain—or, worse, they are simply baffled by UC and its benefits. This white paper demystifies UC so that SMBs can gain a competitive advantage and differentiate themselves in a marketplace once dominated by large enterprises.
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In this age of mobility, organizations increasingly use mobile device management (MDM) software to secure, monitor, manage, and support their mobile device usage. The goal is to optimize the functionality and security of a mobile communications network while minimizing costs. If your organization is looking for MDM software, look at this MDM product comparison guide for the key features of some of today’s leading MDM solutions.
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For many organizations, IT is split between two groups. The data center facility is provided and managed by facilities management, while the IT equipment within the facility is provisioned and managed by the IT department. This can lead to problems—and an outsourced solution can allow a business to concentrate on its strategy, rather than on “keeping the lights on.” This white paper discusses the importance of a holistic approach between a data center facility and the equipment within it.
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Many organizations are turning to managed print services (MPS) and benefitting from greater expertise, lower costs, and reduced IT burden. However, some MPS engagements are falling short in delivering the expected service quality. This white paper shows how by ensuring governance is an essential part of any MPS contract, both parties can better set appropriate expectations and increase their chances of creating an effective and successful MPS relationship.
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This white paper details a breakthrough in enterprise server architecture. The enclosure and its components incorporate the latest advances in power, cooling, I/O, and management technologies. These technologies are packed into a highly available rack-dense package that integrates into standard 1000mm-depth racks. This enterprise-class server design is optimized to maximize flexibility and longevity while lowering your total cost of ownership.
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The increased use of mobile devices has led some organizations to undertake a corporate mobile strategy to reap the benefits of mobility. Download this report to learn why you should too. Find out what the complete mobile framework encompasses, along with three key considerations for enhancing your corporate mobility return on investment (ROI).
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The successful and timely implementation of a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution is not a process to be taken lightly. A highly-skilled team of application specialists has gathered together in this whitepaper key advice and best practices for your implementation process. Learn how to keep your implementation on time and on budget from specialists who triumph every day on the implementation front lines.
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For most organizations, mission-critical business processes require an underlying IT infrastructure that provides flexibility and agility while delivering high-quality system performance and reliability. At the same time, most enterprises must reduce costs associated with ongoing operations. For most organizations, addressing these issues internally poses a significant challenge, especially in light of limited resources in today's economic environment. Use this interactive tool developed by IDC to learn how your organization can realize the true business value of your IT landscape.
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Striving for employees to be able to collect, update, and access data anytime anywhere, organizations are leveraging smartphones and tablets to extend HR data and processes, creating new thresholds of efficiency, decision-making, and competitive advantage. Read this research report for new insights and examples on how mobility is impacting enterprise applications, data and processes, with a particular focus on HR applications.
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By 2016, smartphones and tablets will put power in the pockets of a billion global consumers. Mobile is not simply another device for IT to support with a shrunken Web site. Rather, mobile is the manifestation of a much broader shift to new systems of engagement. Download this paper and know how such systems of engagement will help firms empower their customers, partners, and employees with context-aware apps and smart products.
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Data drives business today, as IT managers and security executives face enormous pressure to use data effectively and securely. They require quick, agile transmission of data via a wide number of communication channels and devices, with smartphones and tablets being an increasingly prevalent data consumption device. Read this report and know the mobile challenges, as well as the elements for securing your corporate mobile strategy.
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With the latest versions of Intel vPro technology, KACE Appliances offer remote management capabilities for systems that are better than ever—even when the KACE agents are not running, or the system is blue-screened, or has hardware or startup issues. This paper details how Dell KACE Appliances can be integrated with the Intel vPro technology to offer effective remote system management and recovery.
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Given the complexity of today’s dynamic IT infrastructures and the broad range of management disciplines necessary to support them, choosing a lifecycle management solution can be a difficult and bewildering project. Simplify your project by downloading this side-by-side functional and financial comparison of solution suites from four of the leading vendors in this market space: Dell KACE, LANDesk, Microsoft, and Symantec.
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JurInnov’s director of information systems and security provides a detailed analysis of why development of a security-oriented corporate culture is imperative for companies wishing to keep their electronically stored information secure.
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