Finding Trusted Providers Is Critical for Cloud Adopton

Finding us in your spam mailbox? Please add us to your address book! Trouble viewing this email? View in Browser  Manage my subscriptions Leveraging Enterprise Software March 27, 2012 Five Cloud Application Adoption Trends Results from a survey conducted by Dell Cloud Business Applications and Techaisle show adoption of cloud business applications is on the rise among small and medium businesses. The SMB Cloud Application Trends Survey measured the benefits and challenges faced in migrating applications to the cloud and found IT decision makers have critical roles in the success of cloud application decisions and implementations, and in choosing the right IT vendor. Read more > Featured White Papers APM Tools Falling Behind? Get Ahead with an APM Platform This white paper discusses the selection requirements and benefits for a common APM platform to be used for proactive lifecycle-based performance management across development, testing, and production. •  Five Tips to Avoid IT Audit Stress •  Distributed Caching: A Predictable Approach to Meet Web Demand •  Data Governance — Objection-Busting Strategies in Depth Five Tips for Creating a World-Class Employment Reference List Are your references really that important in the hiring process? In a word — absolutely. Unfortunately, professional references are perhaps the most overlooked and underutilized tool in most people's employment arsenal. Mobile Application Development: A Work in Progress A survey of 2,173 developers shows that mobile application development strategies are still a work in progress, which means that at this point it's still pretty much anybody's game to win or lose. Download: Protecting DNS Servers from Denial of Service Threats Distributed denial of server (DDoS) using spoofed recursive DNS requests are on the rise. These recommendations can help prevent DNS-based attacks, as well as cache poisoning. Latest White Papers Application Integration: Why NOT to Buy Into the SOA Stack Managing Mobility: A New eBook for Dummies Compare Virtualization Platforms for Your Data Center The Truth About Tape — Common Myths to Reconsider See IBM change the game. Live. Collapse IT timelines. Expand business horizons. Introducing the world's first family of systems with integrated expertise. Register now for the live virtual broadcast on April 11th > "... the damage of handing over your social media site password could go beyond the privacy of a job seeker's private Facebook messages and photos. Because users tend to use the same password on multiple sites ... the interviewer could also have access to data for the job seeker's current or past employers' networks if there is any kind of overlap on password use." Excerpt from Sue Marquette Poremba Data Security Blogs Arthur Cole Infrastructure iPad + PC = The Collaborative Enterprise Loraine Lawson Integration Love the Data Standard You're With Carl Weinschenk Data and Telecom M2M Will Be a Big Star, Any Way You Look at It Redefining Server Performance Benchmarks   Check out this resource center to a high-performance, low-cost application solution for your data center needs. Go there now > This e-mail is sent by: IT Business Edge, property of QuinStreet, Inc. Attn: Newsletter Subscription Dept. 950 Tower Lane, 6th Floor Foster City, CA 94404 Copyright © 2012 QuinStreet, Inc. All rights reserved. E-mail Reports Sign up for these additional e-mail reports to get the best return on your company's technology and talent: •  Aligning IT & Business Goals    •  Optimizing Infrastructure    •  Integrating the Enterprise    •  Maximizing IT Investments    •  Business Tools & Templates •  IT Careers •  Leveraging Enterprise Software •  Managing Compliance Standards •  Mobile and Telecom •  Fortifying Network Security •  Daily Edge Privacy Policy     Manage Subscriptions     Unsubscribe     Contact Us     How to Advertise

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Study: You Can Thank Your Employees for Data Breach Headaches

Finding us in your spam mailbox? Please add us to your address book! Trouble viewing this email? View in Browser  Manage my subscriptions Daily Edge March 27, 2012 Negligent Employees Top Cause of Data Breaches Symantec and the Ponemon Institute recently released the findings of the 2011 Cost of Data Breach Study: United States, which reveals negligent insiders are the top cause of data breaches while malicious attacks are 25 percent more costly than other types. The study also found organizations that employ a chief information security officer (CISO) with enterprise-wide responsibility for data protection can reduce the cost of a data breach by 35 percent per compromised record. Read more > Get the Security RSS Feed   Database Consolidation Models — Benefits of the Private Cloud This white paper describes how to successfully consolidate your database onto a private cloud through several deployment models. Download now > Blogs Sue Marquette Poremba Data Security Having a CISO on Staff Can Cut Down Data Breach Costs Mike Vizard IT Unmasked Fixing a Broken Unified Communications Model Carl Weinschenk Data and Telecom In Terms of Security, Is Android the New Windows? Extend Your Skills to DB2 Anytime   This online learning option gives you access to this self-paced workshop anytime, so you can learn on your own schedule. Access now > How to 'Catch' and 'Keep' Tech-Savvy Consumers Retailers must respond to technology-savvy consumers by creating digitally rich, easy-to-use, technology-based experiences in the store to expand basket size and increase margins. BYOD Faces Many Challenges BYOD is a fact of life, not a go/no-go decision made by the IT department or upper management. Whether IT likes it or not, the ultimate decision is made by the employee. Download: Password Security, Protection and Management Strong passwords are crucial because cyber criminals can assemble the information you share online and use it to inflict harm on your finances, reputation and career. Featured White Papers Mining Big Value: Key Requirements to Build a Big Data Infrastructure Learn about a data management appliance that can help you acquire and organize diverse data types and analyze them alongside your existing data. •  Data Quality Problems: Top Ten Root Causes (and How to Fix Them) •  Improve Security and Reduce Costs with an Active Directory Bridge Solution •  Tape Fallacies Exposed — The Future of Tape Is Still Bright "As a communications and collaborative tool, the tablet rocks. However, as a production device, it is a little unwieldy, particularly for long-form work. I would log on to a group project and make changes with a tablet, but I wouldn't write an article (or a blog post) on one unless I had no other choice." Excerpt from Arthur Cole Infrastructure Latest White Papers How a Database Breach Compromises 75% of Your Records Compare Virtualization Platforms for Your Data Center Effective Storage Management Design for the Cloud Managing Mobility: A New eBook for Dummies This e-mail is sent by: IT Business Edge, property of QuinStreet, Inc. Attn: Newsletter Subscription Dept. 950 Tower Lane, 6th Floor Foster City, CA 94404 Copyright © 2012 QuinStreet, Inc. All rights reserved. E-mail Reports Sign up for these additional e-mail reports to get the best return on your company's technology and talent: •  Aligning IT & Business Goals    •  Optimizing Infrastructure    •  Integrating the Enterprise    •  Maximizing IT Investments    •  Business Tools & Templates •  IT Careers •  Leveraging Enterprise Software •  Managing Compliance Standards •  Mobile and Telecom •  Fortifying Network Security •  Daily Edge Privacy Policy     Manage Subscriptions     Unsubscribe     Contact Us     How to Advertise

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Tracking Key Performance Indicators

Finding us in your spam mailbox? Please add us to your address book! Trouble viewing this email? View in Browser  Manage my subscriptions Maximizing IT Investments March 26, 2012 Top Five Tips To Keep Your Customer Happy — Network Performance To better understand customer experience, it is important to track certain key performance indicators (KPIs). By closely monitoring these KPIs in real time, companies can spot service degradations and possibly preempt their impact on customers. This slideshow features the top five KPIs to watch, as identified by Empirix. Read more > Get Archiving for Dummies Oracle Edition The smartest IT departments rely on Dummies! Learn how you can more efficiently and cost effectively manage and archive your organization's most critical data and records. Understand the challenges, get the best archive solutions. > Blogs Arthur Cole Infrastructure iPad + PC = The Collaborative Enterprise Mike Vizard IT Unmasked Application Modernization Needs to Get Mobile and Social Paul Mah SMB Tech The Impact of the New iPad on Your SMB Redefining Server Performance Benchmarks   Check out this resource center to a high-performance, low-cost application solution for your data center needs. Go there now > Prepare for BYOD or Get Caught Flat-Footed In this new era of users owning multiple Internet-connected devices, the combination of mobility, cloud services and social networks is creating blurred boundaries between personal computing and corporate resources. RFID Helps Reduce Risk of Inventory Theft If you run a large organization, then you know that equipment loss and theft are inevitable. Especially when assets are highly mobile or have a high probability to be stolen. How One Traditional B2B Integration Company Found Growth in the Cloud Trisha Gross explains to IT Business Edge's Loraine Lawson what Hubspan's seen in terms of cloud, enterprise application integration (EAI) and B2B integration. Featured White Papers Caveat Emptor — What to Look for Before Choosing a VoIP Vendor This white paper discusses the ten biggest concerns surrounding any VoIP business telephone purchase, and suggests ways in which you can deal with them. •  Using Storage to Extend the Benefits of Virtualization •  Virtualization Changes Everything: The Era of the vWOC •  Virtualization: The No-Brainer Catalyst for Enterprise-wide Benefits "M2M communications already is big, whether it gets top billing or quietly provides backup. All indications are that it will grow rapidly during the next decade." Excerpt from Carl Weinschenk Data and Telecom Latest White Papers Compare Virtualization Platforms for Your Data Center Managing Mobility: A New eBook for Dummies The Truth About Tape — Common Myths to Reconsider Time for a Data Center Refresh: Proof that Consolidation Works This e-mail is sent by: IT Business Edge, property of QuinStreet, Inc. Attn: Newsletter Subscription Dept. 950 Tower Lane, 6th Floor Foster City, CA 94404 Copyright © 2012 QuinStreet, Inc. All rights reserved. E-mail Reports Sign up for these additional e-mail reports to get the best return on your company's technology and talent: •  Aligning IT & Business Goals    •  Optimizing Infrastructure    •  Integrating the Enterprise    •  Maximizing IT Investments    •  Business Tools & Templates •  IT Careers •  Leveraging Enterprise Software •  Managing Compliance Standards •  Mobile and Telecom •  Fortifying Network Security •  Daily Edge Privacy Policy     Manage Subscriptions     Unsubscribe     Contact Us     How to Advertise

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Squash These SharePoint Performance Killers

Finding us in your spam mailbox? Please add us to your address book! Trouble viewing this email? View in Browser  Manage my subscriptions Daily Edge March 26, 2012 Five SharePoint Storage Performance Killers and How to Fix Them Rapid user adoption is positive for any organization leveraging SharePoint for content collaboration and version control. As user adoption increases, however, so does the amount of data that must be stored in SharePoint. Content overload can wreak havoc on SharePoint infrastructure, and can become a leading cause of poor performance, not to mention the corresponding management headaches. Read more > Get the Infrastructure RSS Feed   Database Consolidation Models — Benefits of the Private Cloud This white paper describes how to successfully consolidate your database onto a private cloud through several deployment models. Download now > Blogs Susan Hall Charting Your IT Career Seven Keys to Becoming a Data Integration Expert Arthur Cole Infrastructure Virtualization, the New Nexus of IT Carl Weinschenk Data and Telecom In Terms of Security, Is Android the New Windows? Extend Your Skills to DB2 Anytime   This online learning option gives you access to this self-paced workshop anytime, so you can learn on your own schedule. Access now > Top 10 iPad Travel Apps There's an app for almost everything, and for iPad owners in the know, traveling has never been easier. BYOD Faces Many Challenges BYOD is a fact of life, not a go/no-go decision made by the IT department or upper management. Whether IT likes it or not, the ultimate decision is made by the employee. Download: Eleven Reasons IT Projects Fail Project failure has an enormous impact on government and private sector business alike, costing billions of dollars every year. Identify and remedy the warning signs before failure occurs using this checklist, compiled by the editors of IT Business Edge. Feel free to share this PDF with your coworkers or employees. Featured White Papers Mining Big Value: Key Requirements to Build a Big Data Infrastructure Learn about a data management appliance that can help you acquire and organize diverse data types and analyze them alongside your existing data. •  Data Quality Problems: Top Ten Root Causes (and How to Fix Them) •  Improve Security and Reduce Costs with an Active Directory Bridge Solution •  Tape Fallacies Exposed — The Future of Tape Is Still Bright "While the hero CEO who makes all the decisions, ala the late Steve Jobs, is the exception rather than the rule, companies that have a truly collaborative approach to decision making are just as rare." Excerpt from Mike Vizard IT Unmasked Latest White Papers How a Database Breach Compromises 75% of Your Records Compare Virtualization Platforms for Your Data Center Effective Storage Management Design for the Cloud Managing Mobility: A New eBook for Dummies This e-mail is sent by: IT Business Edge, property of QuinStreet, Inc. Attn: Newsletter Subscription Dept. 950 Tower Lane, 6th Floor Foster City, CA 94404 Copyright © 2012 QuinStreet, Inc. All rights reserved. E-mail Reports Sign up for these additional e-mail reports to get the best return on your company's technology and talent: •  Aligning IT & Business Goals    •  Optimizing Infrastructure    •  Integrating the Enterprise    •  Maximizing IT Investments    •  Business Tools & Templates •  IT Careers •  Leveraging Enterprise Software •  Managing Compliance Standards •  Mobile and Telecom •  Fortifying Network Security •  Daily Edge Privacy Policy     Manage Subscriptions     Unsubscribe     Contact Us     How to Advertise

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