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In this paper, IDC Insight highlights the important elements of the IBM Smarter Commerce announcement and looks at the implications of the announcement in the context of a powerful movement that is occurring in the commerce solutions marketplace, both business to business (B2B) and business to consumer (B2C).
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Individuals and businesses alike are embracing the digital revolution. Social networks and digital devices are being used to engage government, businesses and civil society, as well as friends and family. People are using mobile, interactive tools to determine who to trust, where to go and what to buy. At the same time, businesses are undertaking their own digital transformations, rethinking what customers value most and creating operating models that take advantage of what's newly possible for competitive differentiation. The challenge for business is how fast and how far to go on the path to digital transformation.
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Smarter Commerce is redefining the value chain in the age of the customer. It starts with putting the customer at the center of your operations - which of itself is not a new idea - however, truly operationalizing this strategy is not easy. It requires synchronizing your entire value chain to deliver consistent and predictable outcomes and necessitates improved collaboration and visibility for your customers and partners. IBM Global Business Services, through the IBM Institute for Business Value, develops fact-based strategic insights for senior executives around critical public and private sector issues. This executive report is based on an in-depth study by the Institute's research team. It is part of an ongoing commitment by IBM Global Business Services to provide analysis and viewpoints that help companies realize business value.
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The evolution of the network to provide the intelligence needed to address user, device and application mobility is underway. In this white paper, Extreme Networks® outlines the five phases required to bring mobility into the network.
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This paper covers power utilization, intelligent power management and industry best practices for energy efficiency. Extreme Networks® takes a lifecycle approach to power efficiency, management and recycling, offering savings to our customers and promoting a greener world.
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Virtualization and cloud are driving new requirements for data center network performance, VM support, automation and simplified orchestration. This paper outlines Extreme Networks® open fabric approach to high speed, low latency networks for modern data centers.
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Cloud computing and virtualization trends are expected to change the face of the enterprise network in the next decade. Upgrading or redesigning traditional network infrastructures to take full advantage of the cloud and support enhanced automation, orchestration and provisioning can be challenging and costly. Join guest speaker, Rohit Mehra, IDC Director of Enterprise Communications Infrastructure, to explore current trends, discuss best practices for optimizing Data Center and enterprise campus network infrastructures for the Cloud, and identify ways to better allocate network resources, reduce operating costs and improve application performance. You'll also hear from Ahmad Zamer, Sr. Product Marketing Manager with HP, who will discuss how to architect your network to meet the stringent performance, security and agility demands of cloud computing while reducing network complexity.
Register now and get the white paper "Building Cloud-Optimized Data Center Networks."
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Virtualizing business-critical applications has become a key focus for organizations as they move along their virtualization journey. With the launch of VMware vSphere® 5, VMware is helping customers accelerate the deployment of business-critical applications, including Exchange, SQL, SAP and Oracle.
Attend this webcast to learn about: - New capabilities in vSphere 5 to virtualize business-critical applications - Customer stories of successful virtualization of Oracle and SQL - How vSphere 5 provides simplified disaster recovery, efficient automated operations and app security
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Have you been looking to hear about customer's experiences with the new VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager product? View this webcast to learn about VMware customer, Navicure, and their experiences testing and evaluating the recovery manager, their progress in implementing it in their environment and their advice other customers considering using vCenter.
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Download this webcast to learn the virtual hardware design considerations for Exchange 2010, deployment using the building block approach, options for high-availability and disaster recovery and support considerations.
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Download this webcast to learn about the design considerations for virtualizing SQL workloads, performance and scalability information and high-availability options, as well as support considerations
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Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 10:00am PST
Data centers everywhere are undergoing dramatic change, thanks to virtualization, cloud computing and the need to manage "big" data. Very often, the networks that support these data centers aren't keeping up with the complexity and scale, pushing the very limits of legacy network architectures and IT Operations.
Help is on the way, however, from a radically new model called Software Defined Networking, or SDN. A key path to SDN is the OpenFlow protocol, which uses software to virtualize and program networks, similar to how hypervisors enable server virtualization.
Cindy Borovick, Program Vice-President for Enterprise and Data Networks at International Data Corporation, will reveal research that explains the forces data centers are confronting and what should be done to improve network performance. She'll be joined by Don Clark, Director of Business Development at NEC and Stewart Raphael, Business Development Executive at IBM, System Networking division, in an interactive webcast hosted by Stan Gibson, award-winning technology journalist and Senior Managing Editor with the IDG Enterprise Custom Solutions Group. They will focus on how enterprises are deploying OpenFlow and using Software Defined Networking today to eliminate network complexity, increase business agility and maximize the return on their network and IT investment.
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This research, conducted by the Ponemon Institute, focuses on issues relating to the use of data protection solutions such as endpoint encryption and data loss prevention within the workplace.
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This report, by Jon Oltsik from Enterprise Strategy Group, examines the need for a new business-centric approach to DLP in order to align business and security requirements.
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This paper breaks down attack sources into four categories: external, malicious insiders, accidental insiders, and unknown. Breach categories are limited to areas that are most directly associated with data centers.
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