Four Key Trends Impacting Mobile Infrastructure Strategy

As mobile technology evolves, it’s bringing rapid change to enterprises everywhere, so it’s essential to know the latest trends and how to build on them to create real business benefits. IDC believes third-party mobility service providers will play a key role in helping you do just that. Read the analyst report to get expert insight into how you can benefit from key mobile trends.
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Preparing Your Network for the Mobile Onslaught

Building a mobile collaboration or bring-your-own-device solution requires three things: mobile applications, the mobile devices themselves and the network that underpins them both. Often, the network and its capabilities take a back seat to applications and devices—which can ultimately lead to poor performance or an inflexible infrastructure. Find out how to develop the type of network that truly supports mobile devices, applications and unified communications programs, thereby establishing the foundation for stronger mobile solutions.
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Redefining Networks for Cloud, Analytics, Mobile, Social and Security

New technologies such as cloud, big data and analytics, mobile and social are transforming IT and business and bringing networks to the breaking point. In this white paper, IBM explores the impact of technology forces on data center and enterprise networks, and reveals the changes you’ll need to make to keep your network healthy. Read the white paper to learn how IBM can help you transform your network to meet the challenges of today’s technologies
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Server Managed Services – Integrated Managed Infrastructure

Around the globe, organizations are struggling to manage their increasingly complex IT infrastructures, putting them at risk of downtime, lost revenues and a damaged brand reputation. Read the service profile to learn how IBM’s Server Managed Services—integrated managed infrastructure offers an array of server management support, from single tasks to end-to-end management that can help you drive down infrastructure management costs, rapidly respond to changing business requirements, improve availability while keeping your assets within your premises and enable you to choose and pay for only the services you need.
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Optimized Sourcing in Hybrid IT Environments

Smart companies today are rethinking how they source and manage IT - and even starting from scratch - in order to reduce complexity, mitigate risk, and manage costs of increasingly hybridized IT environments. These companies are turning more and more to experienced service providers to deal with the scope and pace of change. Read the report to learn how and why hybrid IT is developing and accelerating and how to find the best qualified providers to help you “optimize by outsourcing.”
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Chartis RiskTech100® 2014 Report

Researched and compiled independently by Chartis, the RiskTech100® evaluates and ranks the world’s most influential risk technology providers based on a range of criteria. The Chartis report is acknowledged globally as one of the most comprehensive and prestigious studies of risk technology vendors. The report also tracks key trends and developments in the risk technology marketplace. Read the report to learn how IBM can support your risk and compliance efforts to drive business performance and better outcomes.
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IBM Resiliency Services: Always There, in an Always-On World

In this new era of always-on operations, you have to put your business out there and stay out there. And that requires the strategies, technology and resources to take business continuity beyond traditional disaster recovery to always-on resiliency. That’s why many organizations need a trusted advisor that can provide guidance and solutions to help them thrive in this new era of resiliency. Read this booklet to discover five IBM solutions for always-on business operations.
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The Big Bang – How Cloud is Changing the Face of Resiliency

This Forbes Insights analyst report explores whether cloud computing is the “silver lining” for business resilience today. It covers topics such as how the cloud is changing resilience in the expanding universe of digital data; what cloud can do for you when it comes to recovery, security and compliance; and how to design a cloud strategy to improve your resilience. Read the report to find out how IBM can help you better address today’s complex threat landscape and speed recovery from unplanned outages.
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Managed Services Marketing Report

Taking the plunge into the managed service market. Irrespective of all the issues around cloud, security and state actor data access in the past year, the managed services and hosted cloud services market is mushrooming, regardless of the geography you’re in.

This report looks at MSPs that have already made the transition to a managed services model, what lessons they have learned, and what they would do differently if they had the chance again. It has also asked them what advice they would give those starting out on the MSP journey.

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ESG-Webroot Research

The Endpoint Security Paradox

With the endpoint security ecosystem in a profound state of change, ESG surveyed 340 IT and information security professionals representing large midmarket (500 to 999 employees) and enterprise-class (1,000 employees or more) organizations in North America. T he objective of this research was to assess how these organizations are changing their endpoint security strategies in response to new types of threats and cyber-attack techniques.

This report goes into detail the findings of this survey.

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A Smarter Solution to Malware Prevention

Traditional endpoint security has failed to keep up with today’s threats and is exposing organizations to unacceptable levels of risk. It’s time for smarter, next-generation malware prevention to replace or supplement traditional defenses. New approaches to malware can wrest back control and give security administrators greater visibility and control over their endpoints at a lower cost than traditional solutions.

This paper looks at the endpoint threats organizations are facing, the means to combat those threats, and why next-generation, cloud-driven protection offers the smartest way to prevent endpoint malware infections.

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SWOT Assessment: Flexera Software, FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises 2014

In today's economic climate, there is significant pressure on CIOs to control costs and reduce risks while finding ways to fund new business initiatives. Software is a strategic asset that is typically under-managed in most organizations. It should therefore be a priority for CIOs to find ways to automate and optimize software asset management in order to uncover cost savings and minimize license liability risk.
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Software License Audits: Costs & Risks to Enterprises

Software vendors are aggressively auditing their customers. The largest organizations are being targeted the hardest.

Software vendors are continuing their aggressive practices of auditing their customers for software license compliance. 63% of respondents report having been audited in the last 18-24 months. This high level of auditing is a continuation of existing practices reported in last year’s Key Trends in Software Pricing and Licensing Report on this topic, at which times 64% of respondents reported having been audited.

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Software Budgets, Waste & Shifts in Software Licensing

The 2013-14 Key trends in Software Pricing and Licensing survey was conducted by Flexera Software with input from IDC’s Software Pricing and Licensing Research division under the direction of Amy Konary, research vice president - software licensing and provisioning at IDC. This annual research project looks at software licensing, pricing and enforcement trends and best practices. The survey reaches out to executives at application producers (Software vendors and intelligent device manufacturers) and enterprises who use and manage software and devices. Now in its ninth year, the survey is made available to the industry at large each year.
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