Use Case: Distributing Confidential Documents
Two thirds of employees use unsanctioned tools to share enterprise data. Learn how one company used Globalscape EFT with Workspaces to share confidential documents easily and securely.
Virtual Backup Strategies: Using Storage Snapshots for Backups
Effective data protection is a mandatory element in the modern IT environment. Historically, backup strategies were confined to the last few chapters in an
administrator’s manual and treated like an afterthought. Now they sit firmly at the forefront of every CIO’s mind. The ability to continue business operations after a system failure and the need to fulfill stringent compliance requirements have made backup a necessity—not only for business continuity, but also for business survival. The question organizations need to ask about data protection is not whether to backup their data, but how to backup their data.
Veeam Data Center Availability Report 2014
The Veeam Data Center Availability Report 2014 investigates the increasing demands organizations face to provide an ‘Always-On Business’, what actions they are taking to meet those demands, and how successful their actions are. Following on from previous Veeam Data Protection Reports, this report investigates whether existing solutions can provide the always-on availability that businesses demand in the 21st Century.
Software-defined Storage sorgt für Datensicherheit
Der Begriff „Software-defined“ ist inzwischen auch in der Speicherwelt angekommen. Kaum ein großer Anbieter, der dieses Schlagwort nicht für
die Beschreibung seiner Produkte nutzt. Doch was verbirgt sich hinter diesem Konzept, welche Vorteile entstehen Unternehmen durch dessen
Umsetzung und wann lohnt es sich, über Software-defined Storage nachzudenken?
Software-defined Storage vereinfacht das Management
Doch worum geht es bei SDS eigentlich genau? Eine erste Orientierungshilfe leistet die Erklärung der Analysten von IDC, die unter softwaredefiniertem Storage „einen
auf gängigen Ressourcen (x86-Hardware, Hypervisoren oder der Cloud) oder handelsüblicher Rechnerhardware installierten Stack an Storage-Software“ verstehen.
Dieser legt das Fundament dafür, dass sich „bestehende Storage-Ressourcen bündeln, besser auslasten und eine servicebasierte Infrastruktur aufbauen lässt.“
Software-defined Storage löst Performanceprobleme
Doch worum geht es bei SDS eigentlich genau? Eine erste Orientierungshilfe leistet die Erklärung der Analysten von IDC, die unter softwaredefiniertem Storage „einen
auf gängigen Ressourcen (x86-Hardware, Hypervisoren oder der Cloud) oder handelsüblicher Rechnerhardware installierten Stack an Storage-Software“ verstehen. Dieser legt das Fundament dafür, dass sich „bestehende Storage-Ressourcen bündeln, besser auslasten und eine servicebasierte Infrastruktur aufbauen lässt.“
5 OAuth Essentials for API Access Control
OAuth puts the user in control of delegating access to an API. This allows one service to integrate with another service on behalf of that user. The same social Web providers who popularized the pattern of exposing an API to enable third-party developers to enrich their platforms were the first ones to apply such delegated authorization mechanisms. OAuth was defined in 2006, to standardize mechanisms of this kind.
It’s All About the App: Mobile Security That Helps Enable the Business
Mobility is taking today’s world by storm. By 2017, mobile apps will be downloaded more than 268 billion times, generating revenue of more than $77 billion — making apps one of the most popular computing tools for users across the globe. Understandably, the pressure to deliver diverse apps to external and internal audiences is felt universally across every enterprise.
Transforming Digital Business with APIs
The app, in many digital forms, mobile, cloud and the Internet of Things, has created the opportunity for enterprises to optimize interaction with employees, customers and business partners in fundamentally new ways. Choosing the right digital platform can be the difference between success and failure.
5 Pillars of API Management
Across industry sectors, the boundaries of the traditional enterprise are blurring, as organizations open up their on-premise data and application functionality to partner organizations, the Web, mobile apps, smart devices and the cloud. APIs (application programming interfaces) form the foundation of this new open enterprise, allowing enterprises to reuse their existing information assets
across organizational boundaries.
A How-to Guide to OAuth & API Security
OAuth is an emerging Web standard for authorizing limited access to applications and data. It is designed so that users can grant restricted access to resources they own—such as pictures residing on a site like Flickr or SmugMug—to a third-party client like a photo printing site. In the past, it was common to ask the user to share their username and password with the client, a deceptively simple request masking unacceptable security risk. In contrast to this, OAuth promotes a least privilege model, allowing a user to grant limited access to their applications and data by issuing a token with limited capability.
What is a Process-Based Application?
Companies today need to move from a functional model to a process‐oriented model, allowing them to be more flexible and proactive to changes in their environment. Current information systems and processes rarely correspond to a transparent, cross border organization. On the contrary, these information systems replicate and reinforce the classical and functional organizational structure, where each business unit has its own applications and data silos. This of course leads to inefficiencies due to redundancy of data in different systems.
Common Pitfalls in Process Optimization
Process optimization is “the discipline of adjusting a process so as to optimize some specified set of parameters without violating some constraint” and should always links back to the heart of the business strategy. The optimization efforts should strengthen the reason of existence of a company, and lead to cost minimization, output maximization, or both.
There are 5 common pitfalls to avoid when engaging in process optimization:
1. Unclear start and finish of the process optimization project
2. Using the wrong key performance indicators
3. Lack of ownership and support throughout the organization
4. Not embedding process changes
5. Lack of execution Edition.
Develop a 1st Business Process Application with Bonita BPM 6
Whether you are wondering how BPMN can significantly improve the efficiency of your daily operations or whether you are wondering how to turn an existing process into an optimized dynamic application, this paper addresses these challenges through a concrete business example: the modeling and the automation of an employee leave management procedure. We have put ourselves in the shoes of a project team engaged in the development of its first BPMN implementation.
The example application is developed with Bonita BPM 6 Teamwork Subscription Edition. This paper also gives some pointers to develop it with Bonita BPM 6 Community Edition.
The Ultimate Guide to BPMN2
We realize that many people and organizations who could benefit from BPMN have yet to give it a try. It may be that you’ve been putting it off under the mistaken assumption that you need to be an expert to use BPMN. Or it may be because the standard itself, and many of the things written about BPMN, are bit unwieldy and hard to dissect.