As of 2010, there are nearly three million unique forms of known malicious code, and thousands of new ones are discovered daily. The risk of being infected is greater than ever. The following are 10 common ways malicious code reach your private network that you need to be aware of. 

While data warehouses are important for many types of analytical systems, they aren’t always necessary. Building a data warehouse can dramatically increase the cost of a BI project. This paper describes data warehouses, along with many other options for placing relevant, timely information in the hands of business users. 

Tape remains the most cost effective, energy efficient and reliable program technology for storing large amounts of inactive, off-line or near-line data while complimenting disk-based data protection and retention solutions. Read this paper and find out why. 

This paper covers many of the complications and complexities of managing a call center. It explores the various solutions available and offers pros and cons to each of the options. It shows the positive financial impact picking the right choice can have. 

This paper discusses first contact resolution and the offerings for measuring success with FCR. 

This white paper contains some tips and shortcuts showing you how the addition of parameters to these Cisco IOS commands will make your life easier. 

Each month many companies, big or small, well known or unknown, experience a data security loss with the potential exposure of thousands to millions of sensitive customer or employee records. This brief examines cryptographic methods, specifically tape data encryption, to combat such security losses. 

The definition of a mobile payment is often open to interpretation and can differ from source to source.    Juniper Research has a simple definition of a mobile payment as “payment for goods or services with a mobile device such as a phone, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), or other such device.” 

Over time, the information security/risk management profession has developed a variety of methods for assessing risk within an organization. 

Find out on May 31st at 12:30 p.m. EDT how to leverage native PL/SQL support and the SQL compatibility features of the all new IBM DB2 10. The IBM architect for these highly successful features will present the current set of capabilities and recent enhancements. There also will be code level customer examples, customer results and more. 

<p>Application portfolio management (APM) can help your organization in its quest to trim unwanted applications and modernize its portfolio. Read this paper now and learn about the need for an APM solution, including examples on how it can help your business optimize its IT investments.</p>