IT Management

BACKUP ISN’T JUST A COPY IN THE CLOUD. IT’S THE ANTIDOTE TO EVERYTHING. Be it user error, natural disaster, hardware failure, malware, theft or litigation—there’s a countermeasure to restore your business to normal. Skeptical? Click through the eBook to ?nd out how backup makes the enterprise impervious.

Whether in search of better managers, higher pay or more recognition, people are changing careers faster than ever. The average tenure of wage and salary employees is 4.6 years. With more and more employees working exclusively with corporate data, higher attrition translates to higher levels of data loss. Many employees feel entitled to the work they’ve created and ignore security policies, simply taking the data they want. While some of this pilfered data is innocuous or already in the public realm, some of it is classified, such as customer and employee information, payment data and intellectual property. Code42 provides enterprise organizations with a way to view, manage and protect data from walking out the door. Download the white paper to learn how.

Today’s organizations face a ballooning data management and risk problem. The use of laptops, tablets, workstations, servers and smartphones in the enterprise to create and store critical data is growing at an alarming rate. Many companies still rely on a legacy, platform-specific data backup solution, even though it doesn’t provide consistent backup across the enterprise. This outdated approach becomes especially risky when IT faces a data migration initiative. Whether migrating to a new version or brand new hardware on the client or server—organizations risk immense data loss and an expensive, intensive disaster recovery undertaking if they launch a data migration effort without first properly securing their data. Continuous, real-time data backup is the only viable solution for protecting all enterprise data while providing for a seamless migration process. But how do you achieve it?

Read this white paper to learn how the common approaches to e-Discovery miss the mark and how endpoint backup can streamline the collection and preservation of electronically stored information.

This Tech Target research report summarizes a new survey of IT and security professionals that identifies what organizations are doing to combat advanced targeted attacks, and how they feel about their current preparedness to handle both detection and remediation of endpoint breaches due to these attacks.

Wondering how to decode vendor hype as you evaluate your next endpoint protection platform? Gartner analysts Peter Firstbrook and Neil MacDonald have created a comprehensive buyer’s guide for endpoint protection: what to look for, what to avoid, and why.

Research by third-party analyst Aberdeen Group reveals the true cost of "Free" endpoint security solutions.

As organizations try to simplify vendor management, many are asking if consolidating on a single endpoint security vendor makes sense. This white paper examines the questions IT executives should ask themselves and their security technology partners.

This guides provides insight into the various benefits and challenges associated with VDI implementation and ultimately culminates in an overview of the many use cases for VDI in healthcare. VDI is not the solution for all practices, but for many it is enabling higher efficiency and faster innovation.

See how using Pure’s all flash storage in a healthcare environment can literally pay for itself in as little as 9 months! Forrester Research’s Total Economic Impact (TEI) study on how Healthcare organizations are seeing huge cost savings and increased clinician productivity using Pure Storage in their environments. This commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Pure Storage covers: • Forrester Research TEI framework and methodology • Analysis of key drivers for healthcare providers and their quantified impact • Summary impact of Pure Storage on these provider environments

View this infographic and see how new technology can help you be more innovative and enhance care experience.

Pure Storage provides meaningful advantage—by radically simplifying every aspect of healthcare storage. Learn how by downloading the full data sheet.

Forrester Research quantified the benefits and costs associated with Pure Storage for the composite Organization. Each benefit has been risk-adjusted downward in order to present a more conservative financial result.

Network readiness is an important factor in any new IT project at companies both large and small. New applications seem to require more bandwidth than the applications that they replace. These applications can also bring in new users, sometimes by the thousands. In some cases, the network services and/or capacity are not ready for these changes, and the IT rollout suffers. This guide covers the following topics: bandwidth, wireless, firewalls, content filtering, proxy servers, and others.

Higher education has come under increasing scrutiny as never before due to rising costs, changes in future job requirements, and new forms of learning opportunities offered by non-traditional companies and institutions. Students and parents are rightfully questioning the value of higher education based on perceived outcomes as well as staggering student loans that in some cases could take a lifetime to pay back. While the value equation debate rages on, there is another phenomenon taking place. It is nothing short of a revolution regarding the advances in technology and how institutions of higher learning along with nontraditional organizations are utilizing these powerful new tools. These new tools include new mobile devices, enhanced and feature-rich learning management systems, data-feeding sensors, 3D printers, smart classrooms, smart buildings, and collaboration tools allowing students and faculty to collaborate just about anywhere face-to-face, virtually.

This white paper will discuss the challenges currently facing local educational entities, describe 10 exemplary local alliances that enabled connection to CalREN in California, and finish with a set of recommendations for other local entities wishing to create a successful local consortium that could duplicate this success for themselves and for their local educational ecosystems.

The idea of bring your own device (BYOD) for connectivity has been well recognized in most networking environments. Yet some corporations are still struggling to understand its potential impacts. For them, the concept of users attaching privately owned and managed smartphones, tablets or laptops to their secure networks is a relatively new and worrisome concept. However, it is a challenge that customers in higher education have been dealing with for years as students have increasingly turned to easy-to-connect and affordable laptops as study aids.

The importance of IT has never been greater. Companies are transforming their business models with digital technologies, leveraging emerging mobile and social platforms, and increasingly operating online. All of these developments are powered by IT innovation, while IT departments face challenges meeting the increasing demands of the business. Complexity in the data center has soared, causing IT administrative costs to skyrocket.

Learn how to build your next-generation data center in a flash by breaking down silos and simplifying IT. VCE™ CI Starter Kits make it even faster and easier for new customers to take advantage of market-leading Converged Infrastructure at a special promotional price. These all-flash Vblock® Systems based on XtremIO storage will give you the foundation to make your IT environment more agile, reliable, and cost-effective:

In order for enterprises and IT organizations to truly innovate and offer differentiated value to customers, you need an IT infrastructure based on the latest advancements in computing, networking, and storage. Considering an investment in flash storage or converged infrastructure? Read this brochure to learn more about the Vblock® System 540, the industry’s first all-flash Converged Infrastructure System for high-performance mixed workloads and emerging 3rd platform applications—built on best of breed technology components including EMC XtremIO all-flash storage. All of this with the VCE™ Experience of unmatched management and one-call support.

Need some assistance with the creation of your vendor security risk assessment? This eBook contains vital questions you should be incorporating into your vendor risk management program.

Why does the cyber security performance of several industries differ? Download the latest BitSight Industry Benchmarking report to find out.

Is Illegal File Sharing Occurring Within Your or Your Vendors’ Cyber Ecosystem? Learn about the risks posed by peer-to-peer file sharing and why you should be monitoring this activity.

Many manufacturers are pursuing the immense business benefits available from digitizing and connecting their factories. Major gains in overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), reduced downtime, and manufacturing flexibility can be achieved with a factory that is digitized and connected. By providing visibility to machines and processes, manufacturers can anticipate issues that create unplanned downtime. By putting in place a secure, converged and wireless-ready network, manufacturers can have a platform that enables the agility to quickly start up new machines, cells, and lines, and rapidly deliver new products.

In a climate of digital disruption and global market pressures, many manufacturers want to differentiate with new service-oriented revenue models, especially those that rely on connected machines and machineas-a-service. In a Cisco survey of more than 600 senior executives in 13 countries—from both industrial machine builders and end-user manufacturers—86 percent said the transition from product-centric to service-oriented revenue models is a core part of their growth strategies.