Data Protection

As databases continue to grow in size, complexity and importance, enterprises struggle to identify the most appropriate controls regarding their use and misuse. The most effective database security implementations will leverage controls across administrative, preventive and detective controls. The report identifies best practices, including: Implementing database activity monitoring to mitigate the high levels of risk from database vulnerabilities, and address audit findings in areas such as database segregation of duties and change management; using data security measures, such as data masking and data encryption; and monitoring privileged-user access and access to critical data. Gartner Inc., Jeffrey Wheatman, 29 November 2011.

In the Forrester article Putting Together the SharePoint ECM Puzzle: Find the Best Way for SharePoint and ECM Vendors to Coexist, Alan Weintraub guides you through these issues.

Featured in SharePoint Pro magazine online, the OpenText white paper Extending SharePoint Across Your Information Architecture, by leading SharePoint consultant Colin Spence, offers valuable insights and best practices for integrating SharePoint with your full enterprise application environment.

Read When Good Backups Go Bad: Data Recovery Failures and What to Do About Them to understand backup challenges, impacts, and solutions. Don't let your business fall victim to downtime because of a computer or system failure.

Powerful backup and flexible deployment options, including enhanced software, backup appliances, and backup solutions in the cloud, offer flexibility and choice in how you manage backup, allowing you to deploy a modern infrastructure that best suits your IT requirements, business needs, and environment. But how do you know which backup strategy is right for your business? Read this whitepaper to better understand which deployment option could best suit your needs.

The Symantec 2012 Endpoint Security Best Practices Survey reveals that organizations employing best practices are enjoying dramatically better outcomes when it comes to endpoint protection, and many of these best practices can-and should-be leveraged by SMBs.

In the never-ending race to stay ahead of the competition, companies are developing advanced capabilities to store, process, and analyze vast amounts of data from social networks, sensors, IT systems, and other sources to improve business intelligence and decisioning capabilities.This report will help security and risk professionals understand how to control and properly protect sensitive information in this era of big data.

Have you considered the suitability of spreadsheets for business planning and more importantly, the danger they pose to the security and competitiveness of your organization? If not, here are six questions you should ask yourself.

With real storage virtualization, according to the report, you can improve operational efficiency and drive down costs. And you can do this without sacrificing - or while even improving flexibility - giving you the ability to "continuously migrate" applications as a part of normal business operations

iS3, creator of the award winning anti-spyware technology STOPzilla and other solutions, needed a more nimble and efficient way to support prospects and customers. Download this case study to read how iS3 utilized an innovative chat solution to streamline its customer service, reduce response time and increase productivity - all at a more than 70% savings to their previous solution in the first year alone.

Overcome Citrix VDI implementations challenges to deliver the highest end-user quality, most secure access to virtual desktop, while simplifying your IT infrastructure. Learn how global companies maximize their Citrix investment to increase availability, security, and performance.

Join us on May 23(May 24 in Asia-Pacific regions) from the comfort of your desk and hear about IBM Cognos Insight, the newest addition to the IBM Cognos family. See for yourself how this extremely affordable and breakthrough solution empowers all users to independently explore data, build scenario models and share insights for better business outcomes.

This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to assess capabilities of vendors to support complex process improvement scenarios using BPM software.

This white paper describes how to successfully consolidate your database onto a private cloud through several deployment models.

Today's enterprise networking environment is characterized by international coverage, a single end-to-end network protocol and a wide variety of network topologies, network carriers and access services. Enterprises look to Virtual Private Networks (or VPNs) to provide the same capabilities that private leased lines traditionally delivered, but with cost savings enabled by using a shared network. Read to find out more.

This white paper provides valuable insight on how to build an HR strategy that produces results in any economy.

An organization cannot sustain long-term success without managing its information effectively... Building a foundation for information governance is your next step.

To create a successful workforce management deployment, the first step is to evaluate your WFM product and determine how you'll use it along with the processes and best practices that support it. Next, consider how your ACD is configured, what type of forecasting and scheduling practices you'll use and goals for various metrics including schedule adherence. For more insights, read how to get the most out of workforce management.

Richard Snow at Ventana Research and Jason Alley of Interactive Intelligence provide insight into the issue of control for those considering moving their contact center to the cloud.

Read how Oracle provides a defense-in-depth database security architecture that enables organizations to add a new layer of security around data.

This document focuses on key Oracle Database 11g capabilities that help IT departments better optimize their storage infrastructure.

Advanced Compression with Database 11g Release 2 helps you manage more data in a cost-effective manner. With data volumes, on average, tripling every two years, Oracle Advanced Compression delivers compression rates of 2-4x across all types of data and applications. Read this white paper to learn more about how Oracle Advanced Compression can help you reduce the disk space and costs of managing large data volumes.

This white paper examines how the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server allows companies to accelerate database performance, handle change and growth in scalable and incremental steps, and deliver mission-critical data availability and protection.

Addressing regulatory compliance requirements and protecting against insider threats in a global economy requires a defense-in-depth approach to security. Auditing is a critical component of the defense-in-depth architecture, enforcing the trust but verify principle.

In this white paper, Solar Winds outlines the differences between VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V as well as introduces key features in the products and expose the feature deltas that may exist.