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Market Trends: Key Trends in Unified Communications Technology, Adoption and Delivery

Organizations' UC adoption and use correlates to their size and internal factors, such as skills, budgets and structure. To formulate effective UC product and solution road maps and go-to-market strategies, providers' product planners should understand organizations' behavioral and adoption trends. Download the Gartner Report to understand which UC solution best fits your needs.

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

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.

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.

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.

Harvard Research Group Database Assessment: IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration

The Harvard research assessment reports findings from three customer interviews and addresses the four most common use cases for databases serving Big Data requirements. Access the report to learn how IBM DB2 addresses: General analytics and reporting; Mixed workload environments; SAP BW environments and Cognos ROLAP dynamic cube type applications.

ITG analyst report – Value of Database Resilience

This report compares the three-year cost of downtime for mission-critical transaction processing systems for IBM DB2 10.5 and Microsoft SQL Server 2014 showing distinct IBM advantages.

Five steps to successful application consolidation and retirement

This eBook explores five critical steps that will help organizations to streamline their application infrastructure, reduce infrastructure costs, and transform enterprise data into a trusted, high-value resource by successfully consolidating and retiring their applications.

IBM InfoSphere Information Server for Data Integration

This e-book outlines the components of IBM InfoSphere Information Server for Data Integration, and describes how its combination of tools and expertise provides an exceptionally deep and feature-rich platform upon which your organization can transform and deliver its data.

Seven principles for achieving high performance and scalability for information integration

To meet the business imperative for enterprise integration and stay competitive, companies must manage the increasing variety, volume and velocity of new data pouring into their systems from an ever-expanding number of sources. Read this new whitepaper to learn about the seven essential elements needed to achieve the highest performance.

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?

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

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

Virtualization Security Options: Choose Wisely

For virtualization security, there’s no one size fits all solution…and trying to fit your organization’s specific needs into the wrong security product can be a costly mistake. Do you know how to pick the right option for your organization?

A new whitepaper from Kaspersky Lab, Virtualization Security Options: Choose Wisely, outlines:

• Different virtualization security solution options--conventional agent-based; agentless; and Light Agent

• Possible scenarios for aligning the right security approach to your organization’s virtual environment

Top 10 Tips for Educating Employees about Cybersecurity

Do you know the most common risk factor for corporate cybercrime? Employees. Download Kaspersky Lab’s Top 10 Tips for Educating Employees about Cybersecurity to learn:

• Why and how to develop an effective security policy
• Examples of common threats to employees and your business
• Tools to reduce risk and cybercrime