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Big data is less about the terabytes and more about the query tools and business intelligence needed to make sense of massive amounts of data. This guide dives into the impact big data will have on government, highlighting how legacy business models and systems will be disrupted and the methodical steps agencies can take to create an effective strategy.
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Today's Business Intelligence (BI) tools provide a new way to think about data with self-service capabilities and user-friendly analytics that can be used by nearly everyone. This white paper offers a primer on BI, from understanding how it compares to analytics and the tools required for effective BI, to overcoming common barriers to success.
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80% of self-service business intelligence (BI) applications offer more flexibility than traditional BI tools. Learn the key selection criteria required to provide your organization with the capability to address structured data, unstructured data and mobile demands so that employees can view and manipulate data on their own, from virtually any location.
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Incumbent carriers dominate the competitive landscape. However, competitive carriers are fast emerging as key challengers. Level 3, in particular, has been making inroads into the enterprise market through a combination of organic and inorganic growth strategies. In this SPIE, IDC evaluates Level 3's Ethernet strategy and how it is helping the company transform from a leading wholesale service provider to a key contender in the global enterprise communication services market.
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Ethernet supports many connectivity options: public, private, switched, metro, intercity, point-to-point or multipoint-to-multipoint solutions. With all these choices, the challenge is not finding an Ethernet service, it's determining which solution works best for your application. This whitepaper examines three key Ethernet characteristics influencing your decision: topology, switching and transparency. It also and includes a detailed matrix on how Ethernet technologies compare and contrast.
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Increasing dependence on Cloud-based applications hosted in distant data centers makes the quality of backbone networks connecting them increasingly critical. Network quality between Cloud providers and end-users in fact widely varies, and threatens application performance. In this whitepaper, the technical issues faced by enterprises moving to Cloud-delivered applications and steps network providers can take to optimize use, and minimize connectivity costs, of those applications are discussed.
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Enterprises are expanding geographically through growth and acquisitions at an unprecedented rate. Simultaneously, they're forced to comply with increasingly stringent government regulations. Consolidating business information into connected data centers can reduce costs, enhance security, and simplify management. It also can enable the infrastructure to address mandates. In this whitepaper, Level 3 discusses 5 common datacenter networking challenges and how to solve for those issues.
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When it comes to making a wide area network (WAN) purchase decision, you should consider more than just price per bit. Modern applications demand low latency, availability and scalability. In addition, preparing for future applications without paying too much is the key to developing a Smart WAN - an intelligent, cost efficient, elastic and adaptable network environment. In this guide, we provide a list of questions you can use to evaluate the merits of providers and make a thoughtful decision.
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WAN consumption patterns have evolved from predictable, point-to-point transactions to bandwidth-hungry, always-on, many-to-many interactions. Unfortunately, very few organizations have taken a holistic, systems-based approach to the WAN. IDC believes that as the content and data become bigger, the WAN must include active/active architectures supporting continuity, high performance to facilitate real time file distribution and network intelligence to meet capacity and quality-of-service demands.
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IT Leaders See security as barrier to enabling employees. However with new Business assurance technology you are able to give Continuity, Agility, and Governance.
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For decades, fear has dominated the discussion of cyber security. Every magazine article, presentation or blog about the topic seems to start the same way: trying to scare the living daylights out of you with horror stories, alarming statistics, and doomsday scenarios. The result is that most IT shops and security vendors think security is only about what you prevent. They think it's about blocking, prohibiting, controlling, constraining, excluding, outlawing, and forbidding. Hence IT's reputation as the "Department of No."
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Several years ago, a transformation in IT began to take place; a transformation from an IT-centric view of technology to a business-centric view of technology that Forrester refers to as business technology (BT). This transformation has a profound impact on the role of the CIO. The CIO must now view himself or herself as a business enabler. He or she must focus on continuously aligning with business objectives, improving delivery capability to support business processes that bring new products and services to market more quickly, fostering innovation, and reducing costs through improved performance. In this custom Technology Adoption Profile (TAP), the data confirms this trend. In Q4 2012, when Forrester asked IT execs to identify their top technology initiatives for the next 12 months, 72% reported "improve IT project delivery performance" as a critical or high priority, and 67% reported "develop new skills to better support emerging technologies and business innovation" as a critical or high priority
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From the Era Before security to this current era of empowerment this infographic from Blue coat provides a timeline navigates the rise of web commerce and the rise in securities which protect us. Starting with when web commerce began to grow and hackers took notice to now when Web Security is able to empower businesses.
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The challenges of consumer-facing identity management, access management, and authentication differ in ways subtle and dramatic from those of the employee-facing variety. In fact, several vendors in the space have begun using a unique moniker for it: "user management." Forrester fields many client inquiries from CISOs, security architects, other IT pros, and marketing professionals seeking to maximize security and facilitate a great user experience in identity-enabled customer interactions. This report summarizes the five topics representing the most frequently asked client inquiries, along with our responses.
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Download this white paper for IT professionals to learn about a DFA solution that enables any financial organization to harness existing IT investments to deliver a seamless, adaptable solution that can meet and exceed the demanding requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act or any other regulatory policy that requires extensive transaction-centric recordkeeping of diverse data types.
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