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As the reliability, availability and integrity of corporate data becomes more and more essential to the viability of the enterprise, executives are turning an interested eye to the topic of information security. While this increased interest can mean information security projects get more attention - and hopefully more funding - it also means that security professionals need to be prepared. Successful security strategies today require not only the right planning, talent and solutions, but also the ability to inform, educate and demonstrate to executives how valuable corporate data is being protected.
In this eGuide, CIO along with sister publications Network World, InfoWorld and CSO, cover the pertinent information security topics of today. Read on to learn how to deal with threats, build effective security strategies and prepare for increased scrutiny.
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IT departments must be able to support the needs of business and deliver capacity as needed. A big part of that need is leveraging public clouds. But public cloud usage within most enterprises today is a far cry from what's needed, or wanted, by the enterprise CIO.
HP CloudSystem offers an answer. With HP CloudSystem, you can safely burst workloads to cloud resources when you need additional computational headroom or you want to take advantage of additional capabilities. Read this white paper sponsored by HP and Intel® to learn how bursting can bring your business users and IT back into strategic alignment, as you jointly exploit new business opportunities enabled by private, public, and hybrid clouds.
Intel, and the Intel logo, are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.
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In recent years, cloud computing has been as visible as any topic in IT. Its front-page news status has been accelerated by Amazon, Salesforce.com, Yahoo, and Microsoft®, among other firms, aggressively vying for leadership in providing cloud infrastructure or services. However, this race for mindshare has obscured cloud computing facts. Many admit to the haze surrounding cloud computing.
This white paper sponsored by HP and Intel® separates fact from fiction, reality from myth, and, in doing so, will aide senior IT executives as they make decisions around cloud computing. While dispelling cloud computing myths, we will answer tough questions: How hard is it to adopt a private or hybrid cloud? How difficult is it to maintain and secure a cloud? How will the cloud transform my business? Do I have the right skill sets in place? What are some of my cost considerations? HP and Intel are committing extensive resources to helping customers with all of their questions and concerns around cloud computing.
Intel, and the Intel logo, are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.
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Given the constant pace of change in infrastructures, IT Operations must be forever on their toes when it comes to ensuring that the best management tools, technologies, and practices are being followed. Nowhere is this more true than in the network layer, given that networks are becoming increasingly critical as the means of delivering the applications and services upon which IT end users, and the businesses and organizations they drive, so heavily depend. The time has never been better for evaluating current management strategies and considering the efficiency and effectiveness improvements possible through integrated, multi-function, multi-vendor network management solutions. This whitepaper examines seven core network management requirements deserving of special attention in today's operating environments, and evaluates how one multi-vendor, multi-function integrated management solution, HP's Intelligent Management Center, measures up.
Intel, and the Intel logo, are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.
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It is becoming increasingly difficult for IT professionals to manage the substantial amount of information their enterprises are generating today. This white paper discusses how to combat this challenge with a converged infrastructure. Discover a system that can help you leverage this strategy and review the benefits it offers.
Intel, and the Intel logo, are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.
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The access and convenience of mobile apps and devices shifts more power to individuals than did the PC or the Web. This Forrester reports examines the dramatic impact mobility will have on CIOs and explains how and why CIOs must step up and work with other executives to establish an "office of the chief mobility officer" to implement an enterprise wide mobile strategy.
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Bring your own device (BYOD) presents an opportunity for organizations to cost-effectively extend the benefits of mobile technology. This policy guidebook was created to assist SAP customers in their BYOD implementation. It is intended to steer you through the questions to ask and provide some best practices to consider when establishing your own policies.
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Most companies have embraced mobility to some degree, but few have established means to correctly measure the success or failure of mobility deployments or mission-critical app extensions. Achieving a concrete ROI should be mandatory given the significant effort required to make mobile solutions work. This white paper, by J. Gold Associates, focuses on ways enterprises can create guidelines for success and measurement criteria to determine ROI for all mobile projects.
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Mobile provides an unprecedented way for enterprises to establish and strengthen customer relationships. Download this playbook, sponsored by SAP, and learn how to navigate this new world of mobile customer engagement and commerce.
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Mobile device proliferation across the globe is astonishing. This Harvard Business Review report highlights research on how mobile is being deployed in developing countries. Learn about use of cutting-edge applications, ranging from location-based services and mobile payments to machine-to-machine communications and augmented reality.
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Poor application performance can cost more than you think. In fact, Enterprise Management Associates reports that it can exceed $1 million per hour in large enterprises. Taking a pragmatic, phased approach to improve application performance is frequently the most successful IT strategy. Discover six steps you can take to optimize application performance and efficiency.
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Data center commissioning can deliver an unbiased evaluation of whether a newly constructed data center will be an operational success or a failure. Proper execution of the commissioning process is a critical step in determining how the data center operates as an integrated system.
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Simple and rapid deployment of self-contained, high-density pods within an existing or new low-density data center is possible with today's power and cooling technology. The independence of these high-density pods allow for predictable and reliable operation of high-density equipment without a negative impact on the performance of existing low-density power and cooling infrastructure. A side benefit is that these high-density pods operate at much higher electrical efficiency than conventional designs. Guidance on planning design, implementation, and predictable operation of high-density pods is provided.
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The trend of increasing heat densities in data centers has held consistent with advances in computing technology for many years. As power density increased, it became evident that the degree of difficulty in cooling these higher power loads was also increasing. In recent years, traditional cooling system design has proven inadequate to remove concentrated heat loads (20 kW per rack and higher). This has driven an architectural shift in data center cooling. The advent of a newer cooling architecture designed for these higher densities has brought with it increased efficiencies for the data center. This article discusses the efficiency benefits of row-based cooling compared to two other common cooling architectures.
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Are complicated software and instrumentation needed to measure and allocate energy costs and carbon to IT users? Or can we get by with simple, low cost methods for energy cost and carbon allocation? How precise do we need to be? This paper provides an overview of energy cost and carbon allocation strategies and their precision. We show that it is both easy and inexpensive for any data center, large or small, new or old, to get started allocating costs and carbon, but the expense and complexity escalate and ROI declines when excessive precision is specified.
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