Before investing in an event management solution, you’ll want to know how the product will fit within your overall event-to-incident and problem management processes, including workflow, escalation and integration with service desk tools. Gartner assesses the vendor landscape in their latest Magic Quadrant for IT Event Correlation and Analysis. 

This white paper is intended to help support center managers self-assess their center's primary functions and maturity level in order to choose an incident management system that best fits their needs without wasting money on features that will not be used. 

The email security market is maturing, but speed and breadth of spam detection, and management and reporting capabilities, continue to differentiate vendors. This paper will discuss what you need to know about spam filtering, outbound content filtering, and available email security solutions in various delivery models. 

Read this paper for an in-depth discussion of malware identification, naming and classification and an exploration of the most useful ways for administrators to detect and analyze threats. 

Secure Web gateway solutions protect Web-surfing PCs from infection and enforce company policies. Incumbant providers have been slow to respond to changing demands, while new vendors are struggling to get the right product mix and prove their mettle in the demanding enterprise market. 

In this tutorial on cloud backup, you will learn the pros and cons cloud backup, how cloud storage is changing data protection and disaster recovery and the differences in the cost of cloud backup vs. traditional backup. 

This paper explores the problems IT operations can encounter in coordinating the activities of application and infrastructure specialist teams, and it proposes an approach-- consolidated operations-- designed to get incidents to the right person with the right information fast so problems can be resolved quickly, with no duplication of effort. 

Read this case study to learn how the leading technology total solutions provider for the long-term care industry, VCPI, selected and implemented CDW solutions, resulting in increased speed and effectiveness of network defenses as well as improved incident response time. 

actiTIME is a time-tracking application for small and medium size teams. It helps improve business process, analyze performance and reduce costs. It provides an easy way to track time, manage job assignments, generate reports and prepare billing data. 

Listen to this Webcast to learn how to manage your company's assets. Also discussed is a solution that can help your organization address its IT asset management process issues through audit, auto-discovery and process tracking. 

This webinar will show you how Numara FootPrints 9 provides practical, rapid ITIL v3 enablement for the vital processes that support the demands of your customers and focuses on providing the best possible experience to your customers. 

Data--Protect critical information anywhere it goes. Implementing data protection products and processes can be daunting. Make the right decisions by exploring what is available and what makes sense for your organization. Use this simple guide to evaluate different vendor offerings. 

Most analysts, including Enterprise Strategy Group, agree that performing only a periodic backup leaves data at risk, and they find that this is a major concern among the IT professionals they survey. The answer to this concern is Cisco Small Business Network Storage Systems (NSS) and Cisco Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for Files software.