The Role of the x86 Processors in the Virtualized, Energy-Contstrained Datacentre

This IDC White Paper analyzes the latest technology and market developments in the x86 server space, which has been significantly impacted by the spread of virtualization solutions and the rise...

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• Amd,
• Mainframes,
• Analyzes,
• Core

Is Now the Time to Migrate to IP Telephony? Re-evaluating the Risks and Rewards

If your business finds itself with one or more aging digital PBXs, you are facing the challenge of deciding when a migration to a new telephony environment makes sense for...

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• Migration,
• VoIP - IP Telephony,
• Delay,
• Risks

Balancing Security Against Productivity

What makes for great security? Is it about keeping the bad guys out or letting the good guys in? About defending attacks or preventing them? When IDG Research Services queried...

Vmware-Making your Business Disaster Ready with Virtual Infrastructure

Using virtualization for disaster recovery allows companies to extend the disaster coverage to more applications while reducing the recovery time and making the process more reliable. To learn more about...

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• Recovery,
• Disaster,
• Disaster Recovery,
• Coverage

Identity and Security Management and Strong Information Technology Goverance

A total identity and access management (IAM) – driven goverance, risk and compliance (GRC) solution should ensure foolproof and accurate measurements of policies and practises across the enterprise. This IDC...

• Tags:
• Compliance,
• Identity,
• White Paper,
• Examines

Creating a Value Driven Change Capability for Executing Organisational Strategy

Investment in change is in an attempt to create a 'better tomorrow' for the organisation. This free article looks at how organisations enhance their capability for executing the business strategy....

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• Finance,
• Article,
• Emphasis,
• Creating

IDC reports on Novell's Secure Desktop Solution: A Modern-Day Marriage of Business Benefit and Risk Reduction

The increasing mobility of the modern workforce and the competitive requirement to optimise that workforce with mobile communications has greatly increased the complexity of IT security. This IDC whitepaper examines...

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• Infrastructure Management,
• Workforce,
• Assets,
• Complexity

An examination of server consolidation: the trends that can drive efficiencies and help businesses gain a competitive edge

This white paper provides a starting point for organizations contemplating server consolidation. It includes an overview of server consolidation concepts and techniques and provides guidance on methodologies. It also looks...

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• Organizations,
• Data Center,
• Consolidation,
• Server Consolidation

IDC Executive Brief: The Rising Concerns Over Endpoint Security

Today's IT environment is increasingly vulnerable to threats and attacks, both from within and without. The most vulnerable node in the enterprise network is the endpoint. This IDC executive brief...

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• Infrastructure Management,
• Examines,
• Threats,
• Protection

The new information agenda: do you have one?

An information agenda serves as both strategy and tactical roadmap, bringing together the people, processes and technology necessary for a CIO to transform information into a trusted business asset.Read this...

• Tags:
• Strategic Planning,
• White Paper,
• Asset,
• Strategy

Green IT: Reducing your Carbon Footprint with Citrix

Going green has become an imperative, not an option, for companies facing the new reality of balancing business objectives with dwindling environmental resources. Limited energy supply and skyrocketing costs are...

• Tags:
• Energy,
• Objectives,
• Infrastructure Management,
• Citrix

Novell Zenworks Endpoint Security Management: Total Control from a Single Console

Still super gluing your USB ports shut? Unauthorized access to networks, lost or stolen laptops and other mobile hardware, and theft of proprietary information or intellectual property accounted for more...

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• Novell Zenworks,
• Laptops,
• Assess,
• Intellectual

Converged Service Delivery: The missing link in achieving business flexibility - Forrester Report

Converged Service Delivery is one of the emerging trends in Service Delivery. Understand from leading industry analysts, Forrester Research, how this model can benefit your business by reading their...

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• Delivery,
• Outsourcing,
• Service Delivery,
• Benefit

Secure Desktop On-Demand Webcast

The desktop or endpoint is one of the most vulnerable parts of your environment. Threats are everywhere. You have users who love to experiment with device settings (only to wonder...

ITIL - Service Approach for Siemens Enterprise Communications

The structure of ITIL is evolving from Version 2 to Version 3; understand how the adoption and application of the ITIL framework can add value to your enterprise, and how...

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• Itil,
• Outsourcing,
• Adoption,
• Delivery

Virtualised Web Hosting featuring the Quad Core AMD Opteron Processor

This short video profiles the role that AMD plays within Rackspace's 40,000 servers across the globe, with virtualised web hosting that delivers energy savings and flexible, scalable ease-of-use.

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• Mainframes,
• Savings,
• Energy,
• Hosting

The Benefits of Intel? Centrino? with vPro? Technology in the Enterprise

PCs are essential in today's enterprises, yet managing a PC fleet can consume a significant portion of IT's time and budget. Finding ways to keep employees productive with powerful notebook...

• Tags:
• Processor,
• Notebook,
• Complexity,
• Pcs