Forrester: Business Applications Take Innovation Beyond The Cloud

As the shift to the cloud broadens across more business application types, application development and delivery, professionals are torn between maintaining key operational systems and making investments in innovative platforms that drive better customer experiences and business process innovation.

This report highlights five key predictions for 2015 in the context of your applications budget, portfolio mix, selection criteria, and the evolving vendor landscape.
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Accelerate Market Responsiveness With Forrester’s Holistic Cloud Strategy

Cloud computing has reached an inflection point for enterprises — a comprehensive strategy for broad adoption and use is now required. Until now, most companies had adopted public cloud services in an ad hoc fashion, driven mostly by business leaders and developers creating new customer-facing systems that corporate IT could not deliver quickly enough. These initial experiences prove that cloud applications, platforms, and business services are now ready to be strategic resources in your business technology portfolio. Only CIOs can help the business strike the right balance between the agility, efficiency, security, compliance, and integration that’s required for a successful cloud strategy. This report describes how to execute an enterprise cloud strategy from vision to implementation to ongoing optimization.
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How UC Can Give Businesses the Benefits of a Mobile Workplace

With the move to the cloud comes a broader push among companies of all sizes toward increased mobility. Suddenly, organizations whose business was once limited to specific geographical sectors can enjoy a far vaster scope of operations. A mobile workforce enables workers to use the technology at their disposal in order to work anytime, from anywhere.

This whitepaper discusses:
  • The changing nature of the workplace
  • How the deployment of UC spurs mobility
  • Changes your business can expect when it becomes mobile
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Big Data – Why Transaction Data is Mission Critical to Success

Analyst Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies writes about the enhanced role of transactional DBMS systems in today's world of Big Data. Learn more about how Big Data provides richer transactional data and how that data is captured and analyzed to meet tomorrow’s business needs. Register to access the report now.
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Rapid Insight With Results: Harnessing Analytics in the Cloud

Today’s data-driven organization is faced with magnified urgency around data volume, user needs and compressed decision time frames. In order to address these challenges while maintaining an effective analytical culture, many organizations are exploring cloud-based environments coupled with powerful business intelligence (BI) and analytical technology to accelerate decisions and enhance business performance. Register to access the report now.
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Is Your Database Ready for the Era of Big Data?

You need a database designed to control both the infrastructure and personnel costs that form the IT budget. The next generation of IBM DB2 helps organizations get more value from their big data to improve their IT economics. Major innovations provide out-of-the-box performance gains that go beyond the limitations of in-memory-only systems to support decision making at the speed of business.
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Security for Virtualization Getting the Balance Right

Virtualization promises cost savings, improved productivity, and the ability to transform your business. But too often security can either detract from the performance gains that virtualization promises, or just not give you the protection you need. Getting the balance right is critical.

Download Kaspersky Lab’s Security for Virtualization: Getting the Balance Right to answer your most pressing questions:

• What security options are available for a virtual environment?
• How can the wrong security hurt your virtualization project?
• What are the benefits of choosing the right protection?

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Practical Guide to IT Security Breach Prevention Part II: Reducing Mobile, Web, and Social Media Risks

A staggering 1/3 of businesses have experienced lost or stolen staff mobile devices and, of those, ¼ have lost data as a result. With users connecting to unsecured public networks and social media platforms on both company-owned and personal devices, sensitive data can now be accessed--and lost--from more endpoints than ever before.

Kaspersky Lab has created a set of IT & Data Security Breach Prevention Practical Guides to simplify this seemingly daunting task. Download Part II: Reducing Mobile, Web, and Social Media Risks to learn:

• How to protect employees wherever they’re working
• How to close the door to mobile malware
• How to balance freedom and control with employee internet

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Practical Guide to IT Security Breach Prevention Part I: Reducing Employee and Application Risks

Did you know 59% of people fail to store their passwords securely? With users connecting to unsecured public networks and running multiple applications from both company and personal devices, sensitive corporate data is more vulnerable than ever before. For your security policies to be effective, they need to bring all devices and applications under IT control and regulate user behavior.

Kaspersky Lab has created a set of IT & Data Security Breach Prevention Practical Guides to simplify this seemingly daunting task. Download Part I: Reducing Employee and Application Risks to read:

• Practical tips for setting password policies
• Advice to help employees avoid falling for phishing schemes
• Best practices for setting up automatic application patches and updates

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