This study looks at what senior executives think about the value of corporate data protection efforts within their organizations. It is important for those individuals charged with managing a data protection program to understand how key decision makers in organizations perceive the importance of safeguarding sensitive and confidential information. 

Because their IT department couldn’t guarantee prompt, efficient data restores, Kerzner International centralize backups by combining SyncSort with NetApp storage. The result was quicker and more efficient restores. 

In this audio excerpt from his video presentation "Inside the cloud: Key security factors when considering managed services,"Jeff Reich discusses a few of the key technical risk factors involved with cloud computing. 

Online communities, social networks, and global sharing of rich media are just a few of the new beyond-traditional extranet technologies being adopted today. This paper shows how to implement greater security for new social media enabled extranets, and how in-the-cloud services combined with mobile credentials enable two-factor authentication. 

When it was time to refresh the headquarters' IT infrastructure, the Earth Rangers IT group knew that any new computer systems had to meet their own high environmental standards. In this case study, you'll learn why they decided to create a virtualized server infrastructure using solutions from Dell and VMware and the benefits achieved. 

Over the past decade, a powerful new approach to development - open source software - has risen to prominence, dramatically increasing the opportunity to re-use existing software. This report describes a set of seven best practices whose objective is to encourage development based on component re-use and software assembly. 

This whitepaper is about enterprise architecture as it pertains to finding and maximizing the business value in greener operations. Higher energy efficiency and a smaller carbon footprint are obvious areas of interest for any business, but how do you balance these goals with productivity, customer service, and all your other business concerns? 

In this special video presentation, Burton Group's point person for authentication, Senior Analyst Mark Diodati, drills into the new organizational needs and evaluates the current crop of authentication technologies. 

In the traditional IT approach, every new software application required a new server. This added costs to every project and deployment took days to weeks. This also drove server sprawl. Watch this demo for an animated explanation of how virtualization addresses common data center challenges. 

It is important for the IT Manager to know the basics of formalized project management. Why? Because every organization needs to be able to implement change and almost all important changes are defined or implemented through project teams. 

This white paper will outline the major organizational, cultural, and project considerations that are critical to a successful Agile adoption. 

How long could your company survive if email suddenly stopped? This webcast presents how Iron Mountain's Total Email Management Suit can give you more control over corporate email, while cutting costs and complexity and reducing risks. 

J.J. Barnicke's sales people needed instant access to corporate property information to better serve clients and speed up sales cycles. They also needed wireless access to CRM data This case study explains how J.J. Barnicke is using BlackBerry and the sales force solution to access CRM information about clients.