IT Optimization America - Business Technology Publication

Upcoming Webinar Thursday, July 23, 2009 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM EDT
	Managing Through the Exponential Growth of Malicious Code Today's security organizations face exponential growth in malicious code threats that may obsolete current defenses and security processes. Just what are these threats and how can Chief Security Officers address them effectively without breaking the bank? Raimund Genes, CTO, Trend Micro, and Jon Oltsik, Principal Analyst at the ESG will converse about topics including malicious code growth, blended threats, the limitations of current security defenses and some possible solutions.
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Upcoming Webinar Tuesday, July 21, 2009 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM EDT
	Information Risk Control: A Strategy Approach Scott Crawford, Managing Research Director, Security & Risk Management with Enterprise Management Associates, joins RSA to discuss the information risk challenge, and how taking a strategic approach can help organizations to take maximum advantage of the full set of tools at their disposal. The integration of DLP and ERM is highlighted as a key example, along with the support of tools that can balance privacy with the visibility required to maintain awareness of information risks.
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TechExcel Gives Premier a Service Desk Plus So Much More
Case Study: Premier Incorporated. Discover why Premier Incorporated chose ServiceWise over Remedy & Siebel during a quest to bring process consolidation and automation to its IT services team.

What Cloud Computing Can Do For Your Enterprise: Lessons from the Second Generation of Cloud Adopters
Cloud computing is seen by many organizations as a less costly, more agile alternative to installing, running and maintaining their own servers and software. But it often feels like a huge leap of faith for those that have traditionally operated computing on their own premises.

Business Service Management - Strategies for Success
Business Services Management (BSM) is all about improving business performance through business-aligned IT services and IT service management processes. While this conveys some of the value BSM can provide, it leaves many questions unanswered.

Reducing the Costs of IT: Tesco Boosts Mainframe Performance to Handle Christmas Peak
Tesco is the world's third largest grocery retailer with operations in 13 international markets. The Company prides itself on providing increasing choice to its customers through its expanding international presence, innovative retail services and its growing non-food offering.

ESG - Why SharePoint Needs Riverbed WAN Optimization
Many SharePoint implementations are mission critical, yet access to these sites is often thwarted by poor network performance. In this analyst report from ESG, you'll discover how, much like Microsoft Exchange and other collaboration applications, companies deploying SharePoint can benefit from WAN optimization solutions, ensuring that they make the most of its productivity and information sharing capabilities.

Hidden Cash: Maximizing the Value of Surplus Technology in a Down Economy
In today's tightened economy, all major technology purchases are being carefully scrutinized to ensure that each new piece of hardware and software can produce a rapid return on investment (ROI).

Turning Straw into Gold
Today's economic pressures are impacting IT budgets and priorities need to be identified. Enterprises are increasingly turning to mobility solutions, yet one of the challenges is to truly quantify the value of a solution.

On the Offensive: How Do You Achieve Service Value Management?
Michele Hudnall, Product Marketing Manager at Axios Systems, explains how your IT department should be seen as a business value driver and not just a utility.

New IT Spending Data Suggests Things May Not Be All Bad
As you already know, most IT budgets are flat, but to what degree varies widely depending on what mode of spending each organization is in.

Desktop Virtualization: Best Bet for a Dwindling IT Budget? Where are the Actual Savings?
Download this white paper from Quest Software to find out where the areas of greatest return are for Desktop Virtualization projects.

How Can Everyday People Do Extraordinary Things?
Improving the customer experience used to mean your IT department would have to maintain a complicated process of integrating communication hardware and software from multiple vendors.

IT Service Management: Aligning IT and Business Goals for the High-Performance Hospital
Like the patients they serve, hospitals and health systems need regular monitoring of their vital signs-namely, their IT system performance. This paper examines how IT Service Management technology can make a big impact on quality of care.

Upcoming Webinar Thursday, July 16, 2009 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST
	Migrating 10,000+ Users to Google Apps: A First-Hand Account of JohnsonDiversey's Rapid Migration to Google Apps Join Kiran Vedak, JohnsonDiversey, Joe Koziol, Google, Carl Krupitzer, Appirio, as we talk about our experience migrating 10,000+ users to Google Apps from Lotus Notes in less than 5 months. We will discuss how migration to Google Apps helps JohnsonDiversey achieve their corporate goals of environmental leadership and fiscal responsibility, how we jointly made it happen so quickly, and what we learned along the way about migrating large enterprises.
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A Step by Step Guide to Self-Service
TechExcel service products stand at the forefront of the rapidly changing market for web-based tools intended for self-service. The Help Desk Institute estimates that each first level incident will cost about $25. Therefore, if support centers are able to detect just ten calls per day to a Self-Service Portal, the company will stand to save around $60,000 per year!

Capgemini's Technovision: Survival Tool for the Downturn
Capgemini's TechnoVision provides a proven, yet simple approach to align the needs of the business with the power of emerging technology solutions.

The 2009 Handbook of Application Delivery
Ensuring acceptable application delivery will become even more difficult over the next few years. As a result, IT organizations need to ensure that the approach that they take to resolving the current application delivery challenges can scale to support the emerging challenges.

NetApp and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Storage Best Practices
NetApp has been providing advanced storage features to VMware ESX solutions since the product began shipping in 2001. During that time, NetApp has developed operational guidelines for the FAS systems and ESX Server.

CIOs Discuss the Accelerated Solutions Environment
Investing time with business peers, executives get months of work done in a day's time with ASE.

Your Network at Half the Price: Slash Network Hardware Costs With Pre-Owned Equipment
Pre-owned networking equipment is certainly less expensive than the new variety, but IT managers are often challenged to know when and how to best use this alternate procurement channel.

Cloud-Client Enterprise Security Impact Report Increased Protection at a Lower Cost
Malware, spam, and other Web threats are a clear and present danger to organizations of every size and industry. The consequences of malware infecting an organization are numerous and include a wide variety of problems, ranging from minor annoyances to the destruction of data.

Anti-Spam Solutions
West Coast Labs performed a comparison test on a range of email solutions (appliances, software, and hosted service solutions) to measure their relative spam detection rates over a series of at least 100,000 genuine spam emails using West Coast Labs real-time spam feed.

Is Your Data Center Running Out of Power or Cooling?
Is your data center running out of power or cooling? Seven ways to extend the value of what you have and optimize the plan for what you need. To keep pace with business demands, data centers pack in more power-hungry, heat generating IT systems than ever.

Desktop Virtualization Offers Economic Stimulus Package: Where is the ROI of VDI?
In today's economic times, IT departments are dealing with pressures to reduce costs while maintaining service level agreements on shoe-string budgets. Chris Wolf, Burton Group and Paul Ghostine, Quest Software, outline savings and efficiency gains.

Measuring Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Initiatives Based on Business Value
Enterprises today need to enhance security and achieve regulatory compliance while keeping the total cost of ownership low. Join Derek Brink, Aberdeen Group for a discussion of recent benchmark research in the area of Data Loss Prevention.

SOA in Healthcare - A Conceptual Overview
Healthcare organizations today are challenged to manage a growing portfolio of systems. The cost of acquiring, integrating, and maintaining these systems are rising, while the demands of system users are increasing. Organizations must address evolving clinical requirements as well as support revenue cycle and administration business functions.

Business Transformation Framework: an Effective Solution to Today's Ever-Changing Business Environment
The ability of a company to respond rapidly in today's culture is directly related to its ability to grow and prosper in the most competitive environments.

A Quiet Revolution: Storage Efficiency in Hard Times
During the year-long pressure for efficiency and cost reduction, a quiet revolution was taking place in storage systems. The opportunities brought by this revolution, position organizations for improved storage expense efficiency.

The Case for Investing in Business Analytics Technology - Part 1: All Constituents
Find out how you can extend business analytics capabilities to all key constituents in your organization, from executives and customer-facing employees to partners and suppliers. Making business analytics functions more accessible to all decision makers is one of the key trends in the market today.

Is Your Data Center Ready for Virtualization? Important Power Considerations for Virtualized IT Environments
Virtualization can deliver dramatic benefits for data centers, but it can also stress the underlying support infrastructure. Power and cooling systems - which may have been quite sufficient for pre-virtualization needs - could easily become inadequate when data center performance patterns are radically altered.

Active Power's Continuous Power System - PowerHouse
Enterprises that manage mission critical facilities are striving for improved efficiencies at a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) without compromising reliability. To meet this challenge, Active Power is offering its PowerHouse solution, a containerized power protection system. These systems can contain diesel generators, Active Power's CleanSource UPS systems, switchgear, power distribution units and more.

Analytics: A Requirement for High Performance - Mastering the Art and Science of Smart Decision Making
More than ever, companies need timely, in-depth insights if they are to remain competitive globally. But those insights can only come from better ways of accessing, organizing and interpreting information - in effect, from a whole business approach to analytics. Here's how Accenture helps business leaders to master that approach.

Innovating with Analytics for High Performance
High-performance businesses are twice as likely to make strategic use of analytics. Learn why from Royce Bell, CEO, Accenture Information Management Services and Jeanne Harris, executive research fellow and director of research at Accenture's Institute for High Performance Business and co-author of Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning.

Chalk Talk - Cost Savings with IT Consolidation
Riverbed can help save you money by enabling IT consolidation. Why not move the entire infrastructure from the branches to the data center? With Riverbed's Steelhead products the problem of the WAN is eliminated by accelerating the performance of applications over the WAN.

Highly Productive, Scalable Actuarial Modeling
Throughout the entire financial services industry, there is increasing demand for rapid and accurate analyses of the risk associated with investments and financial positions. In the life insurance sector, in particular, the combination of new and pending regulatory requirements and intense competition are forcing companies to create highly detailed models that must be simulated using thousands of scenarios.

Performance Analytics in the Enterprise
Royce Bell, CEO, Accenture Information Management Services, discusses the role of performance analytics and how organizations are implementing successful information strategies to drive business in tough times.

Under the Microscope- Enterprise Security System: A Good Investment for Financial Institutions
These days, every organization is under the microscope when it comes to protecting sensitive information. Few industries, however, are subject to as much worldwide scrutiny as financial services. By Tom Corn, VP Product Marketing, RSA.

Cloud Computing Your Apps Anywhere
William Shelton, Director Cloud Computing and Virtual Appliances, VMware on Enterprise-Class Cloud Computing

Innovation in IT and the Business
Catherine Brune, SVP & CIO, Allstate Insurance: Discusses IT Innovation within the Business.