The Critical Importance of Archiving in the Financial Services Industry
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BPM for Dummies
[ Source: IBM ]
August 2012-
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).
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.
You discover why changing to BPM now makes sense for your organization, how ...
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.
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.
Sponsored by:<...
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.
Before you move dozens - or hundreds - of important business applications into a new environment, find out how other organizations tackled this challenge.
Download "Avoiding the 8 common mistakes of ...
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.
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 turnkey access to state-of-the-art ...
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 to achieve ...
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.
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.
Read this paper and learn how to regain the upper ...
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.
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.
High-Performance Grid Computing for Financial Services: Get the advantages of grid computing the easy way with Infrastructure-as-a-Service
[ Source: Savvis ]
November 2012-
In the financial services industry, success often depends on timely reaction to market shifts and minimizing the time to assess current positions and make decisions. High Performance Computing (aka Grid Computing) delivers computing power and speed, helping financial institutions to accelerate innovation and improve business success by delivering fast transactions and analyses, even when those involve processing large data volumes.
This white paper discusses the benefits of leveraging a specialized Infrastructure as a ...
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 ...
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 ...
Considerations for Using Solid-State Storage as an Intelligent Cache to Accelerate Applications
[ Source: LSI ]
May 2013-
Solid-state disk (SSD) technologies are top of mind in most discussions of enterprise storage infrastructure today-but there are still IT planners who have postponed the adoption of flash memory-based storage due to questions about acquisition cost or early adoption risk. Learn the four critical questions to ask before adopting flash technology in your data center.
Lessons Learned from a Successful, Business-Focused Data Center Strategy
[ Source: Nlyte Software ]
December 2012-
A new report from Gartner Research tells the real-life story of a large enterprise that needed to improve its data center availability and continuity. It was a major undertaking, and there are lessons to be learned from all aspects of the project -- from setting the objectives, to formulating the strategy, all the way through to implementing the project.
In this report, you will learn:
Who was responsible for data center ...
High-Performance Grid Computing for Financial Services: Get the advantages of grid computing the easy way with Infrastructure-as-a-Service
[ Source: Savvis ]
November 2012-
In the financial services industry, success often depends on timely reaction to market shifts and minimizing the time to assess current positions and make decisions. High Performance Computing (aka Grid Computing) delivers computing power and speed, helping financial institutions to accelerate innovation and improve business success by delivering fast transactions and analyses, even when those involve processing large data volumes.
This white paper discusses the benefits of leveraging a specialized Infrastructure as a ...
Managing the Explosion of Medical Data
[ Source: HP ]
October 2012-
Healthcare providers are beginning to leverage big data as an increasingly important asset. But the explosion of data, fueled in large part by the growth of electronic medical records (EMRs), is presenting significant challenges for healthcare IT organizations, including how to manage and store all of this data and siloed storage infrastructures that make it difficult for institutions to share medical records across various departments. Fortunately, solutions are available to help healthcare organizations better manage ...
IDC: Real-time Compression Advances Storage Optimization
[ Source: IBM ]
September 2012-
It should come as no surprise that storage budgets are constantly under pressure from opposing forces: On one hand, economic forces are pushing budgets to either stay flat or, in many cases, shrink as a percentage of a company's revenue.
On the other hand, the infrastructure struggles to keep up with the pace of data growth, pressured by many variables, both social and economic. Businesses have no choice but to acclimate their storage ...
How Blade Servers Impact Data Center Management & Agility
[ Source: HP/Intel® ]
September 2012-
This Technology Adoption Profile (TAP) examines enterprise adoption of blade servers in the US, the UK, and China; the benefits of blade server use; and the connection between enterprise data center management and agility goals and blade server use.
The profile reveals that blades are highly associated with core infrastructure consolidation and optimization efforts and offer high value to users as a virtualization platform and means of reducing opex in the data center.<...
Building Virtualization-Optimized Data Center Networks
[ Source: HP/Intel® ]
November 2012-
Server virtualization initiatives are reshaping data center traffic flows, increasing bandwidth densities at the server edge and pushing conventional data center networks to the brink. Hierarchical data center networks designed to support traditional client-server software deployment models can't meet the performance and scalability requirements of the new virtualized data center. Enterprises must implement flatter, simpler networks to support high-volume server-to-server traffic flows, and they must adopt new management systems and security practices to administer virtual ...
Building Cloud-Optimized Data Center Networks
[ Source: HP/Intel® ]
September 2012-
This white paper reviews the impact of cloud computing on data center networks and describes HP's approach to building simpler, more secure and automated networks that fully meet the stringent performance, security, reliability and agility demands of the new data center in the Cloud.
Sponsored by:
Leverage the Value Locked Up in "Big Data"
[ Source: Savvis ]
April 2012-
Financial services firms are increasingly facing the challenge of "Big Data": unprecedented quantities of structured and unstructured data stored in a variety of systems and formats. Though "big" might mean different things to different firms, all companies report that more data is coming in all the time from disparate systems.
Several issues stand in the way of financial services firms making optimal use of the data they gather - e.g. regulatory requirements, ...
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.
The failure of MF Global in ...
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