Whitepapers
User Provisioning: The Business Imperative
By: CA
Categories: Management
The challenges facing those who manage and support IT users have never been greater than they are in the current business environment. Today’s IT manager needs to consider that organisations have employees joining and leaving at a rapid rate, and that current employees rarely remain in one position within the organisation for any extended period of time. They continually are changing roles and responsibilities and working cross- functionally within the organisation, and as such, entitlements need to be provisioned, updated and documented in a dynamic manner that reflects the new realities. Similarly, a constantly changing cast of “non-employee users”—business partners, suppliers, vendors and customers—regularly need to access and utilise an organisation’s data and resources. Making the job even more difficult is the looming specter of regulatory and organisation-mandated compliance and reporting protocols.
IT Security Management as a Business Enabler
By: CA
Categories: Security , Management
IT security organisations must manage risk, meet regulatory compliance requirements and fulfill user needs, all the while working to constantly reduce costs. But IT security can do much more than “keep the bad guys out”; IT security can “securely let the good guys in,” thereby helping to enable critical business initiatives.
The Role of Security Management in Achieving "Continuous Compliance"
By: CA
Categories: Security , Management
There’s a tremendous focus today on regulatory compliance involving financial reporting, security and data privacy. But there are also tremendous business performance opportunities that can be fueled by the new requirements. Achieving compliance alone is simply meeting the requirements of the law. But improving business performance, in the context of compliance, involves using the process and technology changes brought on by compliance to help increase the efficiency of the business itself. This is where the real benefits of compliance are achieved.
5 Keys to a Successful Identity and Access Management Implementation
By: CA
Categories: Security
Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a core element of any sound security programME. But IAM is also difficult to implement because it touches virtually every end user, numerous business processes as well as every IT application and infrastructure component. As such, successful projects require input and cooperation from many internal groups, an effort that can be difficult to organise.
Adopting Server Virtualisation for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
By: CA
Categories: Virtualisation
CA ARCserve Backup and CA XOsoft Replication and High Availability Software with Hyper-V™ Technology — A powerful combination.
MindTree's IMTS Managed Services
By: MindTree / MindTree
Categories: Management
This paper analyses the model of 'Managed Services for IT Operations', real business drivers, types of managed service solutions, and other key factors. This information is a documentation of our research in the interests of large enterprises and SMBs and should serve to reduce operations costs, optimise capital spending, focus on growing existing business, and create new market opportunities. It is also intended to assist in sourcing right managed services partners through evaluation of business segment understanding, skills, and resources.
Rethink Storage with Sun Storage 7000 Systems
By: Sun Microsystems
Categories: Storage
Open storage systems combine industry-standard hardware with open-source software, and are supported by a community of thousands who have a passion to create better storage solutions. This powerful combination helps spur innovation and drives better storage economics. Developers can leverage volume servers and disk drives as well as an open storage software stack to speed storage innovation.
Open Storage Adoption
By: Sun Microsystems
Categories: Storage
There are several new business opportunities that require vast amounts of inexpensive storage—and these opportunities cannot be realised with today’s traditional, closed storage architectures. Sun believes that open storage products and services will emerge to meet these new opportunities and will represent just under 12% of the total storage market by 2011.
5 Best Practices for Smartphone Support
By: LogMeIn
Categories: Mobile
This paper features real-world examples from US enterprises on how the benefits of keeping mobile devices functioning without interruption are felt on every level of business: customers receive the service they expect; end-users can work efficiently, enjoying the promised benefits of mobility; IT has its burden lightened, freeing up time for proactive work; and the CFO can look forward to the results of effective mobility and a low TCO.
Maximising the cost and efficiency benefits of a virtual server environment
By: computacenter
Categories: Virtualisation
Find out how automated processes, robust technology and centralised management can help your organisation realise the full potential of virtualisation
