The term "financial close" describes a corporation's ability to complete its accounting cycles and produce financial statements for internal management and external legal reporting. This paper identifies solutions to help organizations improve and sustain their close times and address the challenges associated with automating internal controls 

IT administrators estimate that close to half of all corporate data is held on employee laptops. However, data on laptops are normally the least protected corporate asset. To solve this, PeerSync provides centralized IT control for laptop backup. Download this trial software to experience this data solution. 

This report highlights the challenges associated with endpoint data protection and management, how the problems are being addressed today, the advantages and disadvantages of these different data protection approaches, and the considerations for selecting the most effective solution for your organization. 

Securing corporate data is a top IT imperative and with more employees working from alternative locations, the mobile security challenge has become a critical focus for IT.  Read this white paper to understand how local virtual desktops based on Citrix XenClient should be a part of your security strategy. 

In this white paper, learn how the right financial consolidation solution can help you replace silos of inconsistent data with the information and analytic capabilities you need for actionable insight. 

Desktop virtualization is not a one-size-fits-all proposition: businesses have to be ready to arm themselves with various deployment models that match the specific requirements of the end-user community. This report examines the role that Citrix XenClient plays in desktop transformation via its bare-metal virtualization. 

Somewhere between our in-depth consultants’ guides and our short AnalystNotes that discuss specific aspects of IT careers, there is a need for an up-to-dateoverview of IT career structures. This is it. 

Companies that use IBM Cognos software are able to improve productivity, reduce or avoid headcount, reduce financing costs, and increase profitability.  These benefits are achieved because when employees can rapidly access and analyze data in consistent ways, they are better able to make business changes that both lower costs and increase revenues. 

Massachusetts businesses facing down MA 201 CMR 17.00 can meet the challenge with preparation and execution. Read this e-book to learn more about important topics such as identity theft, data breach prevention, mandatory encryption, and getting ahead of the game where Massachusetts data protection law is concerned. 

Read this white paper to learn about how to intelligently manage and protect data and information across locations, heterogeneous applications, hypervisors, operating systems and infrastructure from a single console. 

Register for the SolveForward 2012 virtual event to learn how to centralize management and expedite protection, recovery, access and discovery of Remote/Branch Office and Desktop/Laptop Data. 

Protecting networks from malware can seem like an insurmountable challenge. In this 30-day free trial download, see how Lumension's Sanctuary Device and Application Control enable only authorized applications to run and only authorized devices to connect to a laptop or desktop, removing the risk of data leakage and malware. 

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is a powerful inventory, assessment, and reporting tool that can securely inventory small or large IT environments without requiring the installation of any agent software. This paper explains how to utilize it to "map" your infrastructure for Windows 7 and Server 2008.