What Would CIOs do to Redefine IT?

Have you ever wondered what CIOs would do if they could start their IT departments from scratch? CenturyLink posed that very question to a group of IT leaders at a CIO roundtable it sponsored in the UK. The answers varied and were often surprising. However, unlike past CIOs, their answers were not about building infrastructure and the ownership of the underlying IT assets. Discover the top 5 priorities these leaders say are key in today’s business environment. Read this engaging whitepaper to get a glimpse of what these strategic IT and business leaders would do. It offers insights that will help you redefine your IT strategy and deliver the technology leadership your business demands.
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Move IT from the Back Room to the Boardroom

Business Strategy, more than ever, depends on the execution and delivery of smart technology enabled services. IT management is being challenged to align their capabilities to that strategy and lead the technology charge. Often however, there exists a gap between the capabilities IT departments possess and the demands of the business. These gaps generally fall into 3 categories: lack of qualified staff, lack of essential tools, and lack of necessary skills. This informative interactive eBook will help you understand the gaps that are holding your IT department back and provide insights into how best to address them. Only by quickly aligning its capabilities to the needs of the business will IT deliver the technology leadership the business and markets demand.
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Enterprise Mobility Management 101

Enterprise mobility management safeguards an organization’s data and network security, while supporting employee productivity. Minimize organizational risks by implementing a BYOD policy and using supporting technologies to enable employee productivity.
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Build Exceptional Customer Experiences with IT Agility

It’s clear that digital plays a significant role in shaping how customers engage with brands – but barriers exist that prevent organizations from delivering best-in-class digital experiences to their customers. A recent Forrester Consulting survey of CIOs and CMOs revealed that IT organizations focusing on infrastructure operations and “keeping the lights on” are a barrier to achieving business success, and organizations must collaborate with marketing in order to deliver IT agility. Learn how IT organizations can pivot from infrastructure maintenance to business innovation by downloading this Forrester survey report.
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Profiting from the Transition to Physical + Digital Solutions

Technology trends impacting network equipment providers include increasing software intellectual property (IP) component in physical products, mainstreaming of virtualization technology, the ability to decouple software from hardware and an increasing desire for service providers and enterprises to transition from using custom hardware to generic, commercial off the shelf (COTS) hardware powered by software.
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Optimizing for Innovation: How Hybrid IT Outsourcing Shifts IT Focus to Innovation

Download the CenturyLink executive brief "Optimizing for Innovation: How Hybrid IT Outsourcing Shifts IT Focus to Innovation” and explore how cost efficiencies can be achieved via the different elements of a Hybrid IT infrastructure outsource approach, allowing IT groups to apply more of the IT budget to innovation.

Learn how even a small percentage reduction in IT infrastructure costs can dramatically increase the funding available for innovating new applications or other initiatives critical to business success.

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IDC Technology Spotlight, New Strategies for a New World – Are you Ready?

This Technology Spotlight discusses the benefits of HP's Technology Services and how IT environments can take advantage of these services to help increase efficiency, decrease the time IT needs to delivery services to the business, increase uptime and SLA's, and improve business application performance. In addition, this paper explores how HP services can help organizations ease the deployment challenges associated with rolling out infrastructure that helps improve optimization levels that drive business performance.

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Enterprise Strategy Group: “Transforming the Enterprise with a Dynamic IT Infrastructure”

Imagine an environment where business decisions drive application choices of policy, with no regard for infrastucture, where best practives are implemented based soley on business requirements - and a "guaranteed service level" means just that. The IT of the future will be an elaborate business operation unencumbered by past technology decisions, one capable of providing exact service levels to multiple constituencies while continually optimizing costs. In this environment, IT will evolve into an even more valuable "weapon" for the business, with the ability to react quickly and cost-effectively, to deliver seamless user experience and become a true digital enterprise that leverages digital technology as a competitive advantage.

*Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.*

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Development Testing for C# Applications

Static analysis shouldn’t be about finding loads of coding style or standard issues. It should be focused on finding the most critical defects. Although traditional byte code analysis solutions such as FxCop are useful, they can miss critical, crash causing defects - plus produce a large set of coding style issues, which can slow down the development team. Learn how the Coverity Development Testing Platform can help you:

• Find and fix resource leaks, concurrency problems and null references within Visual Studio

• Eliminate defects such as inconsistent indention issues and copy paste errors that can only be found by understanding the intent of the programmer through source code analysis

• Understand the impact of change to better prioritize and focus your automated testing efforts

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ITIL Service Strategy Best Practice Guide

ITIL® has emerged as one of the best-known and widely practiced approaches for IT Service Management (ITSM). ITIL v3 established a set of five core principles that help IT organizations deliver and manage IT services to the business – Service Strategy, Service Design, Service Transition, Service Operation, and Continual improvement.

This guide provides a primer on the essentials of the Service Strategy framework and highlights the key elements and important concepts from BMC Software ITIL experts.
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Fixing XSS

This guide exposes the most common remediations to use when developing a web application in order to fix XSS. Discover the 13 common locations where dynamic data can appear in a web page.
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