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Delivering a Greener Data Center

Source: Extreme Networks

This paper covers power utilization, intelligent power management and industry best practices for energy efficiency. Extreme Networks® takes a lifecycle approach to power efficiency, management and recycling, offering savings to our customers and promoting a greener world.

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Cloud-Scale Networks Using Open Fabric Architectures

Source: Extreme Networks

Virtualization and cloud are driving new requirements for data center network performance, VM support, automation and simplified orchestration. This paper outlines Extreme Networks® open fabric approach to high speed, low latency networks for modern data centers.

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Mobility in the Network: A Phased Technology Approach

Source: Extreme Networks

The evolution of the network to provide the intelligence needed to address user, device and application mobility is underway. In this white paper, Extreme Networks® outlines the five phases required to bring mobility into the network.

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Smarter Commerce is redefining value chain visibility

Source: IBM

Smarter Commerce is redefining the value chain in the age of the customer. It starts with putting the customer at the center of your operations - which of itself is not a new idea - however, truly operationalizing this strategy is not easy. It requires synchronizing your entire value chain to deliver consistent and predictable outcomes and necessitates improved collaboration and visibility for your customers and partners.
IBM Global Business Services, through the IBM Institute for Business Value, develops fact-based strategic insights for senior executives around critical public and private sector issues. This executive report is based on an in-depth study by the Institute's research team. It is part of an ongoing commitment by IBM Global Business Services to provide analysis and viewpoints that help companies realize business value.

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Digital Transformation: Creating New Business Models Where Digital Meets Physical

Source: IBM

Individuals and businesses alike are embracing the digital revolution. Social networks and digital devices are being used to engage government, businesses and civil society, as well as friends and family. People are using mobile, interactive tools to determine who to trust, where to go and what to buy. At the same time, businesses are undertaking their own digital transformations, rethinking what customers value most and creating operating models that take advantage of what's newly possible for competitive differentiation. The challenge for business is how fast and how far to go on the path to digital transformation.

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IBM Synchronizes its Commerce 2.0 Strategy with 'Smarter Commerce' Initiative

Source: IBM

In this paper, IDC Insight highlights the important elements of the IBM Smarter Commerce announcement and looks at the implications of the announcement in the context of a powerful movement that is occurring in the commerce solutions marketplace, both business to business (B2B) and business to consumer (B2C).

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Identity Governance: The Business Imperatives

Source: CA Technologies

Security and compliance pressures continue to draw increased attention to Identity Governance issues regarding who has access to which sensitive resources.

This white paper describes the business challenges and opportunities that are driving interest in Identity Governance while discussing considerations your organization should make to help achieve project success.

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CA Technology Brief: CA Point of View: Content Aware Identity & Access Management

Source: CA Technologies

Content aware IAM is an innovative approach to protecting sensitive corporate systems, applications, and information.  It goes beyond traditional IAM solutions because it not only enables you to control user identities and their access, but also their use of information.  Information is protected based on use policies associated with each identity, and user access is controlled based not only on the user's role and entitlements, but also on the sensitivity of the information.  This paper explores the concept of content-aware IAM, describes the integrated architecture for this new approach, and highlights the benefits that this approach provides.

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Enterprise Strategy Group: The Case for a New Data-centric DLP White Paper

Source: McAfee

With increasing data growth, comes increased need for data security.  The existing DLP model, with a focus on compliance/enforcement is not sufficient as the data discovery and classification capabilities are not granular enough.

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The Enterprise Data Center Recipe

80% of the IT budget is consumed by mundane keeping the lights on activities. This tech dossier examines the components of a truly efficient data center with expert guidance on how to standardize, simplify and automate. Learn how you can free more budget for innovation and strategic projects.

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Improve Service Levels while Cutting Costs

Identification of underperforming processes for databases, operations, systems, storage and capacity management is the first step to service optimization. But where do you start? This paper will help you identify the areas for improvement and explains how IT workload automation can significantly reduce complexity and IT staff inefficiencies.

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Reduce Windows 7 Costs by 60%

Getting ready for a Windows 7 upgrade requires careful planning. To start, youll need to ensure application and hardware compatibility, give careful consideration to VDI and learn the advantages of new tools to automate the migration process. This tech dossier provides expert advice on deployment best practices and highlights experiences of early adopters.

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The Mobile Computing Conundrum

In this Webcast you will learn how a convertible PC delivers the tablet experience without sacrificing necessary laptop capabilities, including light weight, seamless wireless connectivity - and the ability to run Windows applications.  View Now »

 

Are your employees asking "When can I get Windows 7?" Learn how a mid-size, global company Enterasys is Upgrading to Windows 7 Enterprise

Keep costs down. Support a sophisticated, mobile workforce. Increase productivity. Streamline PC management. That's just the start of the to-do list for Enterasys Networks' IT department. The maker of enterprise wired and wireless network infrastructure and security solutions turned to Windows 7 desktop operating system from Microsoft to meet those and other, more ambitious goals. Join us to learn why Enterasys employees were tracking down IT staff in the cafeteria to ask "When can I get Windows 7?  View Now »

 

Virtualization and Cloud: Keeping Pace with the Evolving Data Center

As virtualization's role evolves in the data center, savvy IT leaders are beginning to focus on a complementary technology to drive data center agility-cloud computing. Learn how a cloud delivery model will move virtualization in the data center to the next level, driving standardization within infrastructures, improving efficiencies, increasing business value and lowering TCO.  View Now »