This paper highlights both positive developments and challenges the industry faces in the year ahead. More technological and advanced thinking in terms of PCI scope is clearly welcome news for merchants, and the hope is that it can begin to help merchants tackle the ever-increasing PCI compliance budget challenges they face. 

Cyber-criminals are leveraging relatively simple application exploits to gain access to sensitive information for fun and profit. It’s more important than ever to implement secure application strategies to effectively protect your business. Read this guide to learn more. 

In this paper you'll read that cybercrime is on the rise, not only in terms of the number of perpetrators and the volume of crimes committed, but also in terms of the range of techniques employed to carry them out. 

To help mitigate the negative impacts of ID theft problems, Massachusetts passed a new law that requires any organization that "owns, licenses, stores, or maintains personal information about a resident of the Commonwealth" to follow a comprehensive set of information security requirements. Read this white paper to learn more. 

In this podcast, Ray Wang, a partner with Altimeter Group and former vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, shares his five tips for negotiating better maintenance contracts, and discusses the types of deals SAP customers are getting and why some are opting for third-party maintenance. 

Security solutions that are truly integrated can bring clear benefits in terms of reducing management costs and improving overall security, even when using multiple vendors. But not every solution that claims to be integrated actually is. Read this paper to learn more about integrated security solutions and how to cut through the marketing hype. 

This white paper examines the five key characteristics of software that can meet these challenges successfully, and specifically considers the capability of Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer software to meet these challenges. 

To an application owner, storage can be a black box. Achieving high performance at low cost is difficult and knowing which data to allocate to which tier requires deep knowledge about the value of the data. Precise for Storage Tiering gives customers the information they need to map their enterprise application data to the “right” storage solution. 

This white paper will provide a review of the core causes and costs of both planned and unplanned downtime and will then provide a detailed discussion of current options for High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions. 

Read this paper to learn the complexity of managing WAN traffic is increasing, organizations need more capabilities for optimizing application performance than just WAN acceleration. 

In this document, we analyze the lifetime cost of ownership for a typical on-premises SME business management system and compare it to the cost of an equivalent SAP Business ByDesign implementation. 

Rising data and query volumes take a toll on data warehouse hardware, software and administration. To maintain service levels, IT must perform constant tweaking or commit more of the IT budget to adding more storage. Read this paper to find out how SAP NetWeaver BW optimizes for both cost and performance, while reducing the administrative load.