IDC MaturityScape: Software License Optimization

Managing the software licensing landscape within most companies is a complex task, which is made more complicated by the sheer number of contracts to be managed (hundreds, if not thousands) as well as the different types of licenses that must be administered.
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Rewriting the rules of patch management

IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager combines the separate pieces of the patch management puzzle into an intelligent, simplified solution that streamlines and optimizes the process of researching, assessing, remediating, confirming, enforcing and reporting on patches.
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Reducing the cost and complexity of endpoint management

IBM now offers simpler, more affordable solutions for improving endpoint security, patch compliance, lifecycle management and power management within midsized organizations - helping provide continuous visibility, control and compliance while reducing costs and the burden on IT staffs.
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Mobile Development for 2015: Challenges Enterprises Must Solve Now

A recent survey conducted by Slashdot Media asked mobile developers four key questions that look into the most pressing challenges they face today, how their development approach is changing, which mobile platforms are taking the forefront in the coming years, and how they are ensuring that their apps will meet the quality standards that users demand. Register now to see the results of the survey.
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Capitalize on Big Data in Financial Services

The shift in the data landscape brings an enormous opportunity—but only to enterprises who can harness insight from all their data. This white paper looks at the opportunities and provides real-life examples where by financial services organizations are employing Big Data today. It describes how HP HAVEn, the industry’s leading Big Data platform, can help you securely capture, analyze, and act upon 100 percent of the data available to you.
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Harvest Your Big Data: Transforming CSPs’ Big Data to Knowledge and Revenue

This white paper analyzes the complete value chain that can transform CSPs’ data to knowledge and revenue. It covers the sources of information, the data collection tools, the analytic platforms providing quick data access, and finally the business intelligence use cases with the presentation and visualization of the results and predictions. The HP HAVEn platform brings together everything you need to profit from Big Data. Encompassing hardware, software, services, and business transformation consulting, HAVEn helps organizations make the critical business transformation to connected intelligence and analytics-driven decision making.
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See the Big Picture in Big Data

Security breaches can happen anywhere in an organization, and having the ability to analyze any form of data can give you the edge against fraud, theft, and infiltration by pinpointing abnormal behavior patterns. Read this white paper to learn how HAVEn can help you:

• Perform lightning-fast analysis on lots of structured data
• Derive meaning from unstructured information, including images and voice data

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Building a Better Network Security Strategy

In today's global, always-on world, network security is crucial. Enterprises need to ensure that employees accessing their networks are secure at all times. A comprehensive network security solution needs to include a number of factors, including network reliability, resources for managing the network, network features and functions, and full integration. This Slashdot Pulse offers insight into IT professionals who currently manage network security, giving readers a glimpse into real-word security plans and tactics.
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Network World QuickPulse: SECURITY

A new survey from IDG Research Services tells the story: most organizations lack confidence in the ability of their security defenses to keep them safe. In fact, more than half said 100% security is a pipe dream. This summary by Network World lays out the facts but also presents an approach to detect malware and prevent it from spreading throughout the network. Read the summary to learn:

• How respondents view their security measures
• Why a layered approach to security is now necessary
• How HP TippingPoint Advanced Threat Appliance "detonates" suspicious files or malware in a safe sandbox environment to stop it before it can spread

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Network Security Intelligence Selection Buying Guide

The security industry has thousands of researchers looking for vulnerabilities in the software you use—HP Security Research alone has more than 3000. But how do you apply the security intelligence they develop to the job of protecting your network?

The Activate “Network Security Intelligence Selection Buying Guide" tells you what you need to know about security intelligence. Read it to learn:

<p<• Who finds more Microsoft vulnerabilities than anyone else in the industry
• How next-generation firewalls (NGFW) and next-generation intrusion prevention systems (NGIPS) work
• How HP TippingPoint NGFW and NGIPS combine industry-leading security research with ultra-fast hardware to spot and block cyber attacks

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8 Ways to Better Monitor Network Security Threats in the Age of BYOD

Today's workforce is highly mobile. They don't just work on laptops, they also use smartphones, tablets and other devices, many of which they brought into the enterprise themselves. In addition, these workers don't stay put. While many work from the office, most access corporate networks and data from a variety of locations, including home offices, airports, hotels, and wide area networks, often using any or all of the aforementioned devices. Identifying and managing network security risks in this environment is a non-stop, 24/7 challenge for even the most seasoned IT security professionals.

This white paper offers unique insight and analysis into how network security professionals can better identify, manage, and contain the leading network security risk factors that arise from a mobile, always-on workforce. Read it and learn what you need to better manage and mitigate these network security risks, giving them actionable tips they can put into practice today.

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Three guiding principles for data security and compliance

IBM solutions for data security and privacy are designed to support this holistic approach and incorporate intelligence to proactively address IT threats and enterprise risks. Read three guiding principles that will help organizations achieve better security and compliance without impacting production systems or straining already-tight budgets:

• Understand and Define
• Secure and Protect
• Monitor and Audit

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Governance Moves Big Data from Hype to Confidence

Organizations that want to focus on analyzing data are instead spending their time and resources finding data and defending their analysis, according to a 2014 study conducted by Unisphere Research and sponsored by IBM. The study found that while the percentage of organizations with big data projects in production was expected to triple within 18 months, business managers have less confidence in data from new sources than in traditional, structured data from within the enterprise.

Despite interest in cloud, mobile and other technologies, organizations face obstacles to innovation. Review the survey results to learn what is keeping companies from launching initiatives based on new technologies and how information governance initiatives are faring when they compete with other priorities for scarce resources.

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