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October 30, 2006
The Essential Guide to Disaster Recovery: How to Ensure IT and Business Continuity Help ensure business continuity and survival with four essential steps—from understanding the concepts of disaster recovery and information availability to calculating the business impact of downtime and selecting the right solution. IT managers have been tasked to find ways to mitigate, eliminate or minimize, as cost-effectively as possible, the risks and effects of unplanned outages on the business. Download this PODCAST now to learn how. October 26, 2006
Survey Report: The Current State of SOA Governance As organizations begin to adopt service-oriented architectures (SOA), the topic of SOA governance -- the articulation and enforcement of policies related to Web-service lifecycles, implementation protocols, service access, information protection and service-level agreements -- is receiving an increasing amount of attention. SOA Business Breakout: An Insider's Guide to ESB Success A July 2006 InfoWorld survey showed that more than 40% surveyed are planning an SOA deployment in the next 6-12 months, and a critical technology for this is the Enterprise Service Bus. Given the importance of the ESB to SOA implementation, companies are using ESB to drive innovative business strategies and use best practices to cut costs, make money and make customers happy. Get Up to Speed on Event Stream Processing - Architectural Foundations Whether to support fraud detection, logistics, risk management, or any other real-time business operation, your organization needs the most reliable, mature, flexible and robust event processing solution available. This webcast explores key criteria for deciding on a strategic event processing platform (ESP). You will learn: Whatever stage you're at — gathering information, conducting a needs analysis, or researching and evaluating specific solutions — this webcast will provide you with the information you need to make the right decision. October 25, 2006
CPM: Bridging the Gap Between Financial Control and Strategic Opportunity In this whitepaper, learn how successful corporations are using CPM to make the right decisions, based on one financial "truth" that enables them to spend more time analyzing, planning and strategizing how to accelerate business performance and extend competitive advantage. Transforming Finance: The Path to Effective Corporate Performance Management What are the strategic implications of manual, error prone processes? This free white paper explains how best-in-class finance departments can transform finance with CPM. Event Stream Processing and Event Driven Architectures As business requirements continue to demand real-time insight into the heartbeat of SOAs, effective event driven architecture (EDA) will be a key foundation upon which real-time applications are built. Enterprise service busses (ESBs) are the first, critical step in achieving a flexible infrastructure. Learn how event stream processing (ESP) provides the next critical step -- the ability to express and identify causal and temporal relationships within streaming data, to visualize and act on those patterns, access existing static data, and to store the event data associated with event driven applications. This white paper describes the motivation for EDA, introduces ESP, and describes how ESP technology fits neatly within the ESB/SOA model. October 24, 2006
What You Can't See Can Hurt You: Ensuring Application Availability through Enterprise-Wide Visibility How can you ensure application availability without visibility into what you have and how it's used? Learn how Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) systems provide real-time visibility into the behavior of systems, users, and applications inside the network. Drive Sustainable and Efficient Compliance and Governance Today's IT groups face increased focus on compliance. Many companies achieve compliance, but are finding critical gaps in their efforts. Learn how Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) Systems can help. This white paper describes how Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) systems can improve application compliance and governance through a five-step process:
SMB Finance offers guidance for financial executives in small and midsized businesses SMB Finance is dedicated to providing the strategic how-to knowledge and practical, actionable information that financial executives need to drive their businesses, offering critical news and resources specifically for small and midsized businesses. October 23, 2006
Free Trial Software: Test Drive MIMIX Learn how MIMIX can protect your mission critical data and applications against costly IT downtime. Test Drive our software and utilize tools to learn how easy it is to install and protect your application environment. October 20, 2006
Circuitnet searches for industry news, so you don't need to. The editors of Circuitnet dig through the unending stream of news, articles, features, and discussions on electronics manufacturing to deliver only the most relevant news and information to you. These important news stories are packaged neatly in a concise email newsletter and delivered to you every business day. Understanding Data Grids & SOA When choosing an SOA strategy, corporations must rely on solutions that ensure data availability, reliability, performance, and scalability while avoiding "weak link" vulnerabilities that can sabotage SOA strategies. This white paper looks at the challenges in selecting an SOA strategy, how an SOA can improve data availability and reliability, and how Data Grids can improve SOA performance and ensure scalability for large-scale transaction volumes. Why Now: IT Management and Governance IT management and governance systems have entered the mainstream, with leading Global 2000 enterprises in a wide variety of industries implementing them. This leads to two questions:
The Backbone System of IT Management and Governance IT, so long perceived as a natural engine of progress, emerged from the recent spending bubble caught between a rock and a hard place: its budget has been reduced, often dramatically, while expectations for its contribution remain undiminished. This paper describes:
Puzzled by SOA? Ensuring Resiliency for Your Service Oriented Architecture A services-oriented architecture is a powerful, cost-effective way to leverage all of your IT systems to make your organization more agile and competitive. However, because an SOA creates high-level business services that rely on many different technologies, it also poses new risks to your business continuity. October 19, 2006
Calculating the Return on Investment for Clustered Caching and Data Grid Solutions Improving information systems performance through Clustered Caching and Data Grid Solutions can have a considerable impact on an organization's bottom line. But how do you quantify this impact and demonstrate the ROI required to actually justify the use of these solutions? October 18, 2006
Fitness Management Fitness Management Magazine, the magazine for professionals in adult physical fitness, publishes 12 issues per year, plus an annual Products & Services Directory issue. Editorial content emphasizes preventive health care and management and is directed to owners, managers and program directors in adult physical fitness facilities. October 17, 2006
How to Build Interactive Scorecards, Dashboards and Business Reports with MicroStrategy Learn about a revolutionary business intelligence platform solution for reaching all business users with the information they need. MicroStrategy delivers a complete enterprise reporting solution that easily produces operational reports as well as scorecards and dashboards from a single platform. Download this paper to find out more. October 13, 2006
CE Pro magazine is the key resource for custom electronics professionals CE Pro helps dealers and installers stay current on products, understand technology, and run profitable electronics businesses. Each issue contains articles to help your business grow, adding insight to home networking, whole-house automation, digital media, distributed audio and video, home theater, lighting control, structured wiring, energy management and security. October 12, 2006
Secure Messaging for Exchange Environments Have you considered what would happen if a new virus didn't get filtered by your single AV engine? Protect yourself with multiple AV engines with Sunbelt Messaging Ninja. Ensure that you have two different levels of virus protection — one at the Exchange server and another at the desktop. Try the 30-day evaluation of Messaging Ninja to see this all-in-one, policy-based, plug-in messaging security product in action! Context Adaptive Scanning Engine: Protecting Against the Broadest Range of Blended Threats This incisive white paper reveals how traditional Internet threats are merging and mutating, resulting in even more serious IT concerns. In it, you'll read about IronPort's Context Adaptive Scanning Engine™ (CASE)—a uniquely advanced scanning technology that emulates human logic—and how you can use it to fight back. Find out why ordinary, and even Bayesian filters, aren't enough to provide adequate malware defense at the network perimeter. Download now. IronPort Email Security Appliance Overview Many companies observe that 90 percent of their email consists of invalid messages like spam and viruses -- and that their total number of incoming messages seems to be doubling every year, even though their number of employees stays constant. To learn how you can combat this growing threat with an all-in-one appliance that combines a purpose-built MTA with both preventive and reactive security, as well as system control, download this comprehensive white paper now. October 09, 2006
Smart Meetings Smart Meetings magazine examines the meetings industry with a sole focus on the West. Each issue features the latest in meeting industry trends, emerging technology, personality profiles, and updates on the best venues and destinations throughout the Western U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Smart Meetings is committed to providing meeting professionals useful information in an easy-to-access, attractive, and engaging format. Abacus: The accountant-centric magazine. Abacus focuses on small to mid-size accounting firms and provides stimulating and provocative articles from a perspective you won't find in any trade magazine. Read insightful case studies of how real accountants are solving real world problems using innovative solutions and techniques. Find practical tips to advance your practice. WorkLife Excel Employee Newsletter Inspire your entire workforce with this monthly work-life productivity newsletter that helps organizations as much as it helps employees and their families. WorkLife Excel Employee Newsletter helps employees and the company with productivity tips, information, and news articles on health and wellness, stress management, team building, injury prevention, improving customer relationships, resolving conflict, managing difficult people, and more. Includes paper and electronic PDF sent monthly for organization-wide use. Embedded Computing Design: The Engineer's Source for Embedded Systems Information Embedded Computing Design is the engineer's source for embedded systems information. With 8 print issues a year and monthly E-newsletters; coverage spans a wide range of electronics technology and applications in embedded computing. Staff-written features plus contributed articles from leading companies and standards consortia provide insightful perspectives on current methods, trends, and tools in the industry. Book Business magazine covers the book publishing industry Book Business magazine is published seven times a year and covers the people, the technologies, the market and business trends making a difference in the book publishing industry. Each issue presents bottom-line oriented case studies and news for business management, marketing, distribution & fulfillment and content management professionals. October 06, 2006
Medical Electronics Manufacturing Medical Electronics Manufacturing is a semiannual magazine written exclusively for engineers and designers of medical electronic devices. The goal of Medical Electronics Manufacturing is to help industry professionals develop, design, and manufacture medical products that comply with complex and demanding regulations and market requirements. Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News, the packaging magazine for the healthcare industry, focuses exclusively on medical and pharmaceutical packaging. Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News is a comprehensive resource for medical and pharmaceutical manufacturing professionals who need focused, reliable, and timely information to make intelligent packaging decisions. Research Report: Magic Quadrant for E-Mail Security Boundary, 2006 The email security boundary market continues to be a crowded one. Spam and virus filtering are becoming commodities, and buyers must look at high-end features to find significant differentiation. Download this free paper to understand how MessageLabs' investment in its channel and its data center infrastructure can help you protect your business. October 04, 2006
Free report: Contact Center Outlook on IP Technology This global research study of 500 contact center technology managers was commissioned by Genesys in order to develop an understanding of what is driving IPT in the contact center environment and assess what managers have planned for the technology. With its promise of cost savings, simplified management and greater business agility, Internet Protocol Telephony - (IPT) also known as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) - has quickly become one of the most important technology considerations for contact centers. This study reveals that IPT adoption is increasing quickly in contact centers. While IPT seems to be inevitable for the majority of contact centers, it is evident that this is a technology decision with profound business implications. This study briefly explores some of the key considerations. GoToWebinar Sneak Peak for Training Professionals Learn how to conduct large customer and partner trainings easily. As the latest product from Citrix Online (the company behind the award-winning remote access solutions GoToMyPC®, GoToMeeting™ and GoToAssist™), GoToWebinar lets you hold unlimited Web events with up to 1,000 attendees each - all for one flat fee.
Training on a Shoestring Budget There's a better way to train customers and employees all over the world without breaking your bank. Web collaboration technology has launched a new breed of e-learning alternatives that encourage interactive communication with live and on-demand training groups. Learn about how to integrate this technology while avoiding high fixed costs with GoToMeeting™ Corporate. GoToMeeting Corporate now includes the new GoToWebinar™ for large Web events and GoToMeeting for smaller, more interactive meetings.
Top Tips for Remote Demos Don't let your remote demonstration audience hide behind their monitors - grab their attention and make them part of the presentation! Join Citrix for a Webcast to hear Peter Cohan (founder of The Second Derivative consulting firm and author of the book Great Demo!) share the top tips and the latest success practices for delivering crisp, compelling and effective demonstrations to audiences that you can't see. The Strategic Role of Product Management You're a product manager. But are you the janitor or the president of your product? Join Citrix for a Webcast to hear how to run your product like a business rather than just clean up after everyone else. If you've already attended Pragmatic Marketing's "Practical Product Management" seminar, this will be an energizing refresher - you might even want to invite your boss to join you. If you haven't had an opportunity to attend one of Pragmatic Marketing's courses, this will give you an introduction to what you've been missing. GoToWebinar Sneak Peak for Sales and Marketing Professionals As the latest product from Citrix Online (the company behind the award-winning remote access solutions GoToMyPC®, GoToMeeting™ and GoToAssist™), GoToWebinar lets you hold unlimited Web events with up to 1,000 attendees each - all for one flat fee.
Design Professional Charts in PowerPoint If you have attended any presentation incorporating PowerPoint®, you know how annoying those poorly made charts can be (you know, the ones where you can't make immediate sense out of the bars and numbers). But you can easily avoid these built-in presentation flaws by becoming aware of a few basic "information design" guidelines that help make the numbers talk and keep the fluff from confusing your audience. Join Citrix for a Webcast to start learning these PowerPoint fundamentals. Watch as Communication design expert Robin Good, connecting from Rome, showcases 10 information design guidelines that you can immediately put to use to improve the legibility and effectiveness of your Powerpoint graphs and charts. Delivering Online Training to Cut Costs and Improve Support How do organizations cut costs while providing frequent assistance and updates to employees and customers? Many use Web conferencing or e-learning technology for its immediate cost savings and measurable results. However, traditional products impose complicated pricing models that prevent companies from realizing the true potential of online training. Plus, these products are difficult to use and sometimes unbearably slow.
Delivering Engaging Presentations for Workplace Learning and Performance Great online classes don't just happen. They are carefully planned out in advance. This Webinar will examine recent trends in eLearning, based on findings from an eLearning Guild publication: "Report on Experiences and Preferences of Synchronous e-Learning." Accelerating Sales and Marketing through Effective Web Collaboration Join Citrix for a Webcast to learn how to use Web collaboration to your best advantage.
Create and Deliver Surprisingly Compelling Software Demonstrations Software demonstrations aren't known for their entertainment value, but they don't have to be boring. Great Demos! can show you how to put the "Wow!" into your demos, making the experience effective, crisp and compelling. Register for the Great Demos! Webcast to learn how to turn your dull demonstration into a winner. Malicious Email Intrusion Techniques Email intrusions can be malicious and dangerous, affecting the performance of individual PCs and networks, threatening corporate and personal information. This white paper reviews the latest techniques used by malware creators - Rootkits, Bots, Trojan Horses and Remote Access Trojans (RATs) and the methods they use to take control of machines, steal information and reduce productivity. Ensuring Email Security: The benefits of using a perimeter-based managed service to protect your email network There are hundreds of anti-spam products on the market. This white paper reviews the fundamentals of email security and demonstrates how businesses can increase network security by using a managed service that protects at the perimeter. Email Defense Requirements for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Email threats can be particularly harmful to SMBs, but many SMBs simply do not have the dedicated internal IT resources to manage, update, and maintain email threat protection on a full-time basis. This whitepaper guides SMBs in the search for a solution that is affordable, easy to deploy, easy to use, and still powerful. October 02, 2006
Adding Network Access Control - Build or Buy? You've decided to add network access control to your network or automate your current manual NAC processes. Do you task your IT team to create an in-house solution leveraging tools like NetReg or have them select and implement a commercially available product? FREE ePolicy Guidebook: Reduce the risks of uncontrolled email and web usage The ePolicy Institute and MessageLabs combine to bring you this best-practice guide to implementing, updating, and enforcing your email and web acceptable usage policy. Businesses Beware - New Battlefront in Email and Web Email and the Web offer colossal productivity benefits. But they also pose areas of risk that can threaten productivity, system uptime, and the reputation of your organization. New external threats like phishing and spyware need more than traditional anti-virus defenses. Learn how to protect your organization. Information Management for Midsize Companies This white paper by Ventana Research outlines options for getting business information faster and more reliably. Advances in technology reduce the cost and complexity of increasing the scope of information available for managing your business. On-Demand Software for BPM: Now Ready for Enterprise Adoption Whether a company is large or small, the same challenges exist when it comes to automating internal processes. Budgeting is a costly, error-prone, and often faulty process. Forecasting doesn't draw on a wide enough range of databases in an organization. And reporting is still limited to fairly standard line by line layouts. These processes - budgeting, forecasting and reporting - are some of the key elements of BPM. Unified Business Performance Management: How to Streamline Budgeting, Reporting, Analysis and Forecasting Business Performance Management (BPM) allows companies to optimize performance by setting goals, monitoring progress, and reacting quickly. This whitepaper details the benefits of a unified approach to integrated financial management. Best Practices for Budgeting, Forecasting and Reporting Companies that address budgeting obstacles will be rewarded with accurate budgets, timely re-forecasts and improved decision-making. This white paper outlines the best practices and related technologies used by leading companies. Vulnerability Management and Policy Compliance Overview Take a multimedia tour of QualysGuard, the Web-based Vulnerability Management and Policy Compliance solution that pinpoints network vulnerabilities before hackers have a chance to exploit them. This web based demo introduces you to Qualys' award-winning, on-demand vulnerability management platform, illustrating the solution's unique capabilities for handling each of these vital security auditing functions:
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