IT Service Monitoring

Profitable new product and service development in today's market depends on maximizing resources and minimizing time to market. Successful enterprises prudently invest the right resources in the right projects to advance their strategies -- while completing quality work on schedule and within budget. To accomplish this objective launching successful products to the market requires robust...

Profitable new product and service development in today's market depends on maximizing resources and minimizing time to market. Successful enterprises prudently invest the right resources in the right projects to advance their strategies -- while completing quality work on schedule and within budget. To accomplish this objective launching successful products to the market requires robust...

Increasingly, IT decision makers view cloud computing as an attractive technology for recovering servers after a disruption or disaster. They look to cloud-based Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) for its reliability, scalability and ability to dramatically reduce recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs).In this interview, IBM SmartCloud Virtualized Server...

A recent study by the Aberdeen Group indicates that, depending on the maturity of their recovery operations, organizations can experience up to 4.4 business disruptions per year, with restore times ranging from one hour to more than nine hours. The business cost of this downtime averages $138,000 per hour. The brand damage is equally significant: service disruption can harm an organization’s...

Self-service BI platforms do more than just provide critical information on demand; they can alleviate the bottleneck of requests that often bog down IT and create unnecessary waiting for business users. TechTalk introduces you to IBM Cognos® Insight software and explains why Forrester says it "offers the broadest and the most balanced set of self-service features." Users can pull...

With four out of five Americans now using social networks, the era of social networking clearly has arrived, creating significant implications for enterprises. Today, there are compelling rewards for embracing social networks - and potentially severe penalties for putting it off any longer. This whitepaper outlines four key ground rules for engaging with social networks in order to maximize...

Self-service BI platforms do more than just provide critical information on demand; they can alleviate the bottleneck of requests that often bog down IT and create unnecessary waiting for business users. TechTalk introduces you to IBM Cognos® Insight software and explains why Forrester says it "offers the broadest and the most balanced set of self-service features." Users can pull...

The beauty of the cloud is that you can get up and running fast. The following e-book will provide you a greater insight into Oracle HCM Cloud Services that are a new generation of cloud-based juman capital management applications from the global leader in HR management software. Oracle HCM Cloud Services offer many powerful features and capabilities to accelerate your time to value.

With the exponential growth in data volumes ('Big Data') &#59; rising adoption of Cloud services and use of remote data centres driving unprecedented movement of data throughout networks, data in motion is under increasing threat. Of all reported fraud, electronic information theft is now the most common at 27%. How and why is data theft on the rise, and which information is most...

With the exponential growth in data volumes ('Big Data') &#59; rising adoption of Cloud services and use of remote data centres driving unprecedented movement of data throughout networks, data in motion is under increasing threat. Of all reported fraud, electronic information theft is now the most common at 27%. How and why is data theft on the rise, and which information is most...

Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Managed Security Services Providers (MSSP), North America 2012 helps validate IBM's position as a dominant player in the Managed Security Services (MSS) space.Gartner evaluated 20 vendors on their ability to execute and completeness of vision. IBM was placed in the leadership quadrant with the following strengths cited:- IBM's capabilities are often known to...

IBM Managed Security Services (MSS) monitors tens of billions of events per day for more than 3,700 clients in more than 130 countries, 24 hours a day, and 365 days a year. While analyzing threats is critically important, it is only part of the story. This report is intended to ask the follow-up questions. How many attacks turn into incidents? What measures could have stopped them? And how do...

In an around-the clock business world, you need nearly instantaneous failover and failback of your critical applications. Otherwise, you risk business losses and brand damage in the event of disruption or disaster. But how can you improve your existing disaster recovery operations? Read this brochure to learn how the power of cloud technologies can help you increase recovery speed, reliability...

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SharePoint is the go-to collaboration suite for most professional services firms. Find out why the SaaS-based Huddle might be a more expedient and user-friendly client extranet option.

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Warning bells should go off in your head if you spot any of these items indicating managed services are not a priority at a prospective client's site.

As software vendors like Adobe push customers to cloud subscriptions and SaaS becomes more prevalent, old compatibility barriers break down for enterprise Mac use.

Cloud computing is a widespread phenomenon that promises economic advantages, speed, agility, flexibility, scalability and innovation. By 2014, IT organizations in 30% of Global 1000 companies will integrate and customize two or more cloud services for internal and external users. The solution adopted by many companies is a hybrid cloud model. Despite the many advantages provided by the cloud...

While a handful of countries have had commercial 4G LTE networks up and running for several years, for most of the world, fourth-generation mobile services are still a relatively new phenomena. And, thanks to the vagaries of spectrum auctions, geographically there's not much in the way of consistency. The importance of the growth of 4G, particularly for business users, is the support that it...