The Critical Importance of Archiving in the Financial Services Industry
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BPM for Dummies
[ Source: IBM ]
December 2011-
Unleash the power of technology as a competitive advantage! Learn how your entire enterprise can become far more agile, helping you meet your goals with Business Process Management (BPM). <br><br>
Download Business Process Management For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition, now and learn how BPM creates value through growth, improved performance, better productivity, higher staff effectiveness, and better customer service. <br><br>
You discover why changing to ...
How To Build a Mission-Critical Data Center
[ Source: HP ]
May 2012-
Infrastructures must be able to quickly and cost-effectively adapt to evolving needs. Unfortunately, many companies cannot achieve this response with their current data center network architectures. The traditional three-tier model of access, aggregation, and core switching is an operational nightmare.<br><br>
This white paper unveils a solution that streamlines the design of next-generation data centers to ensure the superior resiliency, performance, and agility that enterprise networks now require.<br&...
Avoiding the 8 Common Mistakes of Windows 7 Migration
[ Source: Dell/Microsoft ]
September 2011-
The recession put important things on hold for many organizations, like upgrading to new client systems. Now organizations such as yours are ready to upgrade and gain from better performance and efficiency by purchasing new laptops and notebooks with Windows 7 factory-installed.<br><br>
Before you move dozens - or hundreds - of important business applications into a new environment, find out how other organizations tackled this challenge. <br><...
Accountable Care and the Cloud: The Future of Medical IT
[ Source: Siemens ]
July 2011-
In this podcast, Dan Emig and David M. Hamilton of Siemens Medical explain how the cloud can help healthcare providers significantly improve business performance by shifting allocation of their limited budget and human resources away from lower-value back-office operations in favor of higher-value clinical and patient-facing services.<br><br>
The cloud does this by 1) allowing healthcare IT organizations to leverage the economies of scale offered by shared, on-demand infrastructure and 2) providing ...
Advanced Malware Exposed
[ Source: FireEye ]
May 2011-
This handbook shines a light on the dark corners of advanced malware, both to educate as well as to spark renewed efforts against these stealthy and persistent threats. By understanding the tools being used by criminals, we can better defend our nations, our critical infrastructures and our citizens. The "Operation Aurora" incident represents an example of how the threats have escalated, revealing how advanced malware is being used in a systematic, coordinated fashion ...
Creating a Timeline for Deploying Windows 7 and Eliminating Windows XP
[ Source: Dell/Microsoft ]
February 2012-
Windows XP support ends April 8, 2014. Therefore, organizations must decide when to begin their migration to Windows 7, set a target date to have Windows XP out and define the scope of the project.<br><br>
This research paper reviews Gartner's key findings and recommendations for deploying Windows 7.
CISO Guide to Next Generation Threats
[ Source: FireEye ]
May 2011-
Over 95% of businesses unknowingly host compromised endpoints, despite their use of firewalls, intrusion prevention systems (IPS), antivirus and web gateways. This situation-the new status quo-results from criminals leveraging multiple zero-day vulnerabilities, commercial-quality toolkits and social media to perpetrate next-generation threats. These threats move "low and slow" and use several stages and channels to duck traditional defenses and find vulnerable systems and sensitive data. <br><br>
Read this paper and ...
8 Things That Could Affect Your Business IT Security In The Next Two Hours
[ Source: NETGEAR ]
August 2011-
Discover the secrets over-priced security consultants don't want you to know. Network security is not just about preventing a breach, it's about making every working day as productive as possible by preventing external threats. <br><br>
Where should you start? Download this security brief and NETGEAR will show you the 8 things to do to improve your security posture right now.
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise LAN
[ Source: HP ]
May 2011-
Major LAN purchases and upgrades should not take place without a full competitive review. This Gartner Magic Quadrant reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the major players; including, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Cisco, Extreme Networks, HP and Juniper Networks.
Open Solutions Canada - Mitigating Risk with INETCO Insight
[ Source: INETCO Systems Ltd. ]
June 2009-
Open Solutions Inc. provides cutting-edge banking technologies and payment transaction processing solutions that help customers compete in the international financial services marketplace. As Open Solutions' service offerings expand, they have identified the need to track financial
transactions from beginning to end, so that any service problems or potential cost-saving efficiencies could be proactively detected. They need to monitor financial transaction quality in a passive way
that required little service disruption for their customers and does ...
The Forrester Wave™: Complex Event Processing (CEP) Platforms, Q3 2009
[ Source: Progress Software ]
September 2009-
Forrester Research, Inc. has named the Progress® Apama® complex event processing (CEP) platform as a standout leader in "The Forrester Wave™: Complex Event Processing Platforms, Q3 2009"(August 2009) Report. In this detailed review of products, the Apama platform received the top score in current offering and market presence.
According to the report: "Progress Apama earned high marks for its event processing features, its development tools, and its business end-user tools, propelling it into its ...
Next Generation Datacenter Transformation Strategy
[ Source: Adaptivity Inc. ]
October 2008-
Today’s IT organizations face a dual challenge of "keeping the lights on" while providing "new services" at unprecedented rates with reduced investment support from the business. At the same time the very business model of IT is changing —how applications, content, information, and infrastructure are delivered.
These demands and changes must account for the fact that external facing customer experience and corporate branding, as well as internal operational systems, depends heavily on ...
Automating the Virtual IT Lifecycle: Delivering Compliance, Command and Control with Process Automation
[ Source: Enigmatec ]
September 2008-
There is a shift occurring in the way many organizations view their IT operations. The new focus is on the customer's perspective of IT's contribution to the business, whether the customer is a development team, internal business unit, or external customer or partner. This shift is significant for IT organizations, as it forces them to think of themselves more as service providers than support teams. This discipline is termed IT Service Management (ITSM), and it's ...
DR Capacity Harvesting Strategy
[ Source: Adaptivity Inc. ]
October 2008-
Every day IT is being challenged to do more with less. IT needs to eliminate waste wherever it is identified so precious resources can be invested into developing revenue streams and not merely supporting standard operations. To accomplish this, every ounce of compute power needs to be wrung from existing infrastructure.
The largest area of untapped potential remains off limits for exploitation; the resources set aside for Disaster Recover (DR). Entire datacenters filled with equipment, ...
How's Your Data Health?
[ Source: GoldenSource ]
April 2008-
Using the analogy of a health check to determine the good working order of the body, this paper discusses how data metrics can play a key role in raising awareness among senior executives of the direct correlation between poor quality data and data processes and the financial performance. Understanding the detrimental impact of data helps ensure that the momentum for data management projects is maintained and sustained.
Trading Ecosystems: Meeting the Challenges of Today’s Fragmented Liquidity Markets
[ Source: Savvis ]
May 2010-
Trading “ecosystems” offer an attractive solution to the challenges raised by liquidity fragmentation, regulatory change and technology innovation. Such ecosystems bring together liquidity points, content, services, and IT infrastructure to enable successful execution of the entire trading lifecycle. They allow trading firms to shift the burden of technology acquisition, maintenance, and management over to specialists, while supporting critical pre-trade, trade execution, and post-trade activities so they can focus on their core businesses, improve operational efficiencies ...
Enterprise Technology Strategies for an Increasingly Dynamic Market Data Management Environment
[ Source: Bloomberg ]
March 2011-
There is increasing demand for enterprise market data management services that integrate real-time data sets, open technology, and a robust and proven network and data delivery infrastructure. Bloomberg is committed to provide a market infrastructure that can seamlessly integrate with clients' systems. Bloomberg has created a modular set of offerings that allow clients to execute on the vision of integrated, enterprise-wide market data management architecture.
This paper explores how clients can leverage these ...
Counterparty Risk: Are We Leveraging Our Tools?
[ Source: Sybase ]
April 2012-
Counterparty risk has long been a source of concern for risk managers. However, the financial crisis brought new urgency to counterparty risk management for risk practitioners, regulators and financial firms alike, as exposure to collapsing giants left the industry reeling. That urgency has been punctuated by the global economy's current struggles, as firms grapple with new regulations, the European debt crisis and fears of a double-dip recession. <br><br>
The failure ...
IT Complexity: Measure, Model, Master
[ Source: CAPCO ]
April 2012-
IT complexity: A new metric to evaluate the impact of change <br><br>
What if complexity was a discreet, measurable metric rather than a discretionary, ambiguous term? Could a complexity metric reshape the decisions and activities of a CIO? <br><br>
The information technology field is filled with quotes and anecdotes about organizations trying to contain, explain and manage complexity. Often these words reflect an inclination to ...
The Cloud Ready Data Center
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2011-
Successful consolidation in the data center means introducing a high performance two-layer L2 switching mesh that is resilient, low latency, low power and follows an application fluent approach with automated controls for high quality application delivery. Support for future convergence of data and storage networks with loss-less Ethernets and FCoE is also a must. Hear about how this can be achieved while including a true services-based architecture enabling seamless private and public cloud application delivery ...
Enterprise Technology Strategies for an Increasingly Dynamic Market Data Management Environment
[ Source: Bloomberg ]
March 2011-
There is increasing demand for enterprise market data management services that integrate real-time data sets, open technology, and a robust and proven network and data delivery infrastructure. Bloomberg is committed to provide a market infrastructure that can seamlessly integrate with clients' systems. Bloomberg has created a modular set of offerings that allow clients to execute on the vision of integrated, enterprise-wide market data management architecture.
This paper explores how clients can leverage these ...
Extreme Performance Storage for Financial Applications
[ Source: Kaminario ]
January 2011-
Financial institutions deploy multiple business critical applications in order to be competitive and meet the informational demands of their internal users and customer base. These applications are either online (OLTP) or batch processing for next business day. Customer relationship management (CRM), risk management, tax liability business intelligence, and data warehousing are just a few examples of applications that are storage I/O intensive. Unfortunately, today's storage technologies have not kept up with the sophistication or ...
Text Terminals, Thin Clients or PCs? Six Arguments in Favor of Choosing Text Terminals When Adding or Replacing Desktops
[ Source: Boundless Technologies ]
August 2010-
The text terminal is alive and well in thriving organizations –- from giant banks to local credit unions. As these businesses grow and expand, they frequently need to add desktops to support more users. IT managers may be asked to justify their decision to stay with text terminals rather than “upgrading” to thin clients or personal computers with terminal emulation. This justification is simple when one looks at the significant advantages that text terminals offer: ...
Travelex - Proactive Approach to Managing a Growing Payment Processing Environment with INETCO Insight
[ Source: INETCO Systems Ltd. ]
March 2010-
Travelex is also the world’s largest non-bank provider of international money transfer and remittance programs. Every year, it processes payments around the world for over 35,000 businesses to approximately 1 million beneficiaries. More than 750 financial institutions currently use Travelex as their outsourced international payment platform.
In February 2010, Travelex and Visa announced the launch of the first Visa Money Transfer service in Australia. The Travelex Visa Money Transfer service taps into Visa’s global network, which connects ...
Winning the Future: The Business Case for Rapid Transformation
[ Source: Progress Software ]
June 2010-
This e-book includes interviews with Susan McNeice, Global Program Manager, OSS/BSS Competitive Strategies, Stratecast, and John Wilmes, Chief Technical Architect, Communications Sector, Progress Software. The e-book also explores:
• The business case for why data transformation is critical for competing in the applications business, and how data modeling is critical to enabling the integration needed to make transformation happen.
• What NGOSS is and where the TM Forum is trying to take their standards ...
Trading Ecosystems: Meeting the Challenges of Today’s Fragmented Liquidity Markets
[ Source: Savvis ]
May 2010-
Trading “ecosystems” offer an attractive solution to the challenges raised by liquidity fragmentation, regulatory change and technology innovation. Such ecosystems bring together liquidity points, content, services, and IT infrastructure to enable successful execution of the entire trading lifecycle. They allow trading firms to shift the burden of technology acquisition, maintenance, and management over to specialists, while supporting critical pre-trade, trade execution, and post-trade activities so they can focus on their core businesses, improve operational efficiencies ...
SunGard Consulting Services' Global Delivery Overview
[ Source: SunGard Consulting Services ]
January 2010-
SunGard Consulting Services’ global delivery capabilities leverage a proven, scalable global delivery model that provides onshore and offshore resources, leading methodologies, and deep industry and technical knowledge to assist companies in financial services, energy and other industries.
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