Sponsor: Dell-EMC

Security leaders have been in front of boards and executive committees long enough to know that security metrics that simply portray statistics from monitoring tools, or count the number of malware attacks, add relatively little value to strategy and budget decisions. Protecting sensitive customer and company data shouldn’t be just a compliance obligation, it should be a business imperative. This is exactly why the right technology partners will help push security, risk, and compliance objectives forward.

In a digital business, processes are rarely, if ever, confined to the infrastructure of the company. Customers and employees engage across numerous digital channels and dozens of third-party relationships critical to operations. IT leaders must rapidly evolve to protect their firms’ brands, strengthen their reputations, and build customer trust. To do so, security and productivity should go hand-in-hand, and that means a well-defined policy framework, metrics that demonstrate business value, and a business-aligned strategy that ties all this together.

For years, workstations were used only for very specialized applications that required ultra-high performance and carried a high-value work product that justified a hefty price tag. But while performance demands have intensified, you may be surprised to learn that your budget can, in fact, support workstation investments. Read this paper to learn why you need performance that goes beyond even today’s highest-end personal computers and how to make the business case for workstations that are more affordable than ever.

Security and risk management is the top priority for state CIOs in 2018.1 As state and local governments transform their IT environment and workforce, they’re finding that the right security approach is critical to their success. Moving systems to the cloud, introducing mobile devices into the workforce, investing in smart city projects and undergoing other modernization efforts can introduce risk if agencies can’t sufficiently protect their data.

According to a recent survey, 92 percent of government respondents will use sensitive data in an advanced technology within the year, yet 96 percent consider themselves “vulnerable".

For years, workstations were used only for very specialized applications that required ultra-high performance and carried a high-value work product that justified a hefty price tag. But while performance demands have intensified, you may be surprised to learn that your budget can, in fact, support workstation investments. Read this paper to learn why you need performance that goes beyond even today’s highest-end personal computers and how to make the business case for workstations that are more affordable than ever.

Technology is a critical element of every business, and IT departments are working hard to keep users in relevant technology.

View “Accelerate Workforce Transformation with PC as a Service,” a 5-minute webinar to learn about PC-as-a-Service—a flexible consumption model for desktop PCs that combines hardware, software and lifecycle services as well as financing.

Discover how PC-as-a-Service can:

• Reduce routine IT tasks
• Keep employees in up-to-date technology
• Let you pay a single, predictable price

IDC predicts that 20% of the global PC market will be purchased through this service model by 2020. Take 5 minutes to learn how to simplify desktop administration and let you focus on strategic work. Watch the webinar.

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Would you like to spend less time, money and resources managing desktop PCs at your organization? Then you know that the key to keeping PCs up and running and users productive is a good systems management. Watch “Simplified Systems Management: Save Time Money, Money and Resources Across your PC,” a 5-minute webinar that explores how modern systems management can end the days of labor-intensive, time-consuming work of managing desktop systems.

Discover how to easily:

• Deploy PCs with the right policies and applications.
• Monitor and track PCs to know which systems need attention.
• Update PCs to keep running at peak efficiency.

Take 5 minutes to learn how you can simplify PC administration. Explore ways to streamline and automate systems management, and simplify the deployment, configuration, monitoring and updating of your PCs. Watch the webinar.

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When buying a workstation, price-performance matters. But it’s not the only consideration. Also important is aligning features and capabilities with user software applications and workloads. So are system optimization, expandability, reliability and support. While many buyers—especially for graphics, video and multimedia fields—might consider Apple’s iMac, iMac Pro and MacBook Pro models, they may be selling themselves short in many ways. This paper provides a checklist for buyers to compare Apple’s newest high-end offerings with the latest Dell Precision workstations.

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It’s a dilemma: Your organization has a small IT team, but you can’t ignore the technology challenges facing your growing business today. You are expected to drive digital transformation, address the needs of a changing workforce and increase business agility. This whitepaper discusses the benefits IT decision-makers at midmarket organizations can achieve by transitioning to a professional support service model that helps them choose the right devices to maximize workforce productivity—and then manage those devices throughout their lifecycle.

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The cyber-threat landscape continues to get more treacherous, and evolving attacks demand constant investment in more sophisticated countermeasures. This reality strains organizations of all sizes, but in many ways, it hits medium businesses the hardest. While large enough to be attractive targets to cyber-criminals, these companies often are “protected” by security based on a collection of point solutions without a central strategy. Read this executive brief to discover an as a service-based suite of solutions and ongoing services to protect your IT infrastructure, from endpoints to the data center to the cloud.

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In nearly all midmarket businesses, staff costs are the single biggest expense – meaning that productivity gains have a substantial and lasting impact on the bottom line. Which technologies deliver the fatest, clearest productivity benefits to midmarket businesses?

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What strategic framework will be most effective, and which technologies will help achieve results more quickly?

For mid-market organizations, budgets are typically smaller than their enterprise counterparts, and they may have less capacity to scale out core technologies. However, they are finding a way, and the adoption of technology can help mitigate these risks and uncertainties.

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Cyber-security continues to get more complicated, with an escalating arms race between businesses and their potential attackers. As IT security teams work to build sophisticated defenses against increasingly complex threats, they also struggle against the inherent tension between security and productivity. The measures they put in place can too easily become stumbling blocks to the very business operations they are trying to protect.

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Tremendous challenges arise for IT organizations as they come to grips with exponential growth in corporate data. In addition to traditional data stores associated with business processes, such as databases and CRM systems, new data sources continue to emerge. Growing far faster than traditional business information, human-generated data from origins such as social media has redefined the landscape of business data. The addition of billions of IoT devices in the coming years will create a dramatic further acceleration in data growth.

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Dell and its partners provide a range of solutions that enable their customers to transform the capabilities of the workforce. Dell commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential benefits and costs enterprises may realize by deploying three key Workforce Enablement Solutions.

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