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IT execs: Get the facts on delivering rapid ROI with remote DBA and gain a competitive advantage by streamlining your IT processes. Remote Managed Services are expected to remain the #1 IT investment strategy through 2010 for SMBs. Learn how mid-market companies in this economic climate are taking advantage of this strategy to cut costs and increase operational efficiency. This white paper instructs businesses how to:
  • Leverage remote DBA
  • Streamline IT budgets
  • Optimize IT operations
  • Deliver rapid ROI
Also learn how Heineken USA utilizes remote DBA to realize ROI and true 24x7 database monitoring. Download Bluewolf's newest insight now.

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Date Published: Nov 24, 2009 - 6:20 pm

Receive this FREE “HR Information Systems” Buyer's Guide along with complimentary, no obligation price quotes from multiple quality & independent HR Information Systems providers.

This HR Information Systems Buyer's Guide will explain:
  • Assess your HRIS needs
  • Understand which features to look for
  • Determine how to choose among multiple providers
  • Know how much you can expect to pay


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Date Published: Nov 24, 2009 - 4:20 pm

Receive their FREE “HR Outsourcing” Buyer's Guide along with complimentary, no obligation price quotes from multiple quality & independent HR Outsourcing providers.

Whether you have five employees or 500, an HRO (Human Resources Outsourcing) provider can supply experienced professionals to handle your company's staff management needs from payroll and employee recruitment to benefits and policy manuals. This HR Outsourcing Buyer's Guide will explain the full range of solutions HRO providers offer, how to find the right vendor, and the various costs involved.

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Date Published: Nov 24, 2009 - 3:20 pm
Blacklisting undesirable applications still has its uses. However, with today's more dynamic computing environments, rapidly evolving threat landscape, and rigorous compliance mandates, blacklisting has reached its limits. Its heavy signature requirements make it unwieldy, the need for systems to regularly call home for signature updates make it inconvenient. Not to mention, it's also reactive: Blacklisting requires having advanced knowledge of the application (signature) and an unbeatable sensory method for reading signs of malicious activity.

Because of these inconveniences, application whitelisting (allowing only approved applications to run and blocking all others) is making its way into IT organizations to achieve compliance and protect systems from malicious applications executing on them.

This white paper defines why application whitelisting is important, differentiates the two approaches to application control (whitelist vs. blacklist), and discusses where the adoption of application whitelisting is most applicable. It discusses the applicability of application whitelisting on dedicated systems and in enterprise cases, while examining compliance implications and offering best practices.

Written by: SANS Institute

Sponsored by: McAfee

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Date Published: Nov 24, 2009 - 11:20 am
Companies often have a difficult time preventing endpoints and servers from deviating from corporate standards. Users may install unauthorized applications while on or off the corporate network that may introduce malware, present support issues, or create software licensing risks. With its industry-leading whitelisting technology, McAfee® Application Control ensures that only trusted applications run on servers and endpoints while permitting software updates from authorized sources. This provides IT with the greatest degree of visibility and control over endpoints and also helps enforce software license compliance. Additionally, as companies strive to extend the viability of fixed function systems (Microsoft Windows NT legacy or low footprint), Application Control also extends an extra layer of protection without impacting system performance.

Learn how to achieve:
  • Greater visibility and control of applications on endpoints and servers
  • Extends the business viability of fixed function systems
  • Low cost of ownership because dynamic whitelisting eliminates manual effort of maintaining databases, rules, and updates
  • Low overhead software solution that runs transparently on endpoints
  • Increased business availability and continuity
  • Well suited for point-of-sale terminals in retail environments, imaging devices in healthcare, and legacy, fixed-function Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 2000 systems


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Date Published: Nov 24, 2009 - 11:20 am
Most IT organizations today recognize the centrality of change to their operational effectiveness. Many have invested in process automation tools such as a Change Management system or a Service Desk. Yet, a gap persists between actual change activity and the documented Change Management process. This change control gap results in manual activity by IT departments to control and minimize the costs of change. Change Control bridges this gap by adding control to change management. This is accomplished by providing customers with real-time detection of changes being made, accountability to validate change activity and real-time change prevention to block unwanted changes. Change Control easily automates PCI and SOX controls for compliance reporting, locks down critical systems to ensure only trusted applications run, and prevents change-related outages for improved service availability and accelerated ITIL adoption.

Change Control is an operational-friendly, low-touch and low overhead software that can be deployed on a wide range of hardware platforms. Change Control provides change control on servers, network devices (including switches, routers and firewalls), and databases.

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Date Published: Nov 24, 2009 - 11:20 am
No longer the province of global giants, business intelligence is now both accessible and affordable even for nontechnical people who can use it to improve overall performance.

SAP is the world's leading provider of business software. More than 43,400 customers in more than 120 countries run SAP(r) applications - addressing the needs of small businesses and midsize companies to suite offerings for global organizations.

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Date Published: Nov 23, 2009 - 4:44 pm
Most companies have a well-defined strategy that is intended to align the actions of all individuals, teams, and business units to achieve corporate goals. But when it comes time to execute, they can run into trouble. To close the gap between strategy and execution, companies need to align business strategy with actual initiatives, projects, and daily activities across the organization.

Best practices include:
  • Define strategy & align initiatives with corporate goals
  • Clearly communicate strategies and plans
  • Use incentives to drive employee behaviors needed to meet objectives
  • Measure performance using key performance indicators


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Date Published: Nov 23, 2009 - 4:44 pm
To gain greater business insight and transparency, organizations require a new generation of business intelligence tools that will allow cross-enterprise, inter-enterprise and external data to be integrated and analyzed. Companies that are able to harness the copious amounts of information IT systems generate will have the inside track on the competition: gaining better understanding of customer needs, identifying trends earlier, and using the resulting lead time to capitalize on opportunities. In the years to come, actionable business intelligence promises to deliver a formidable competitive advantage to firms that leverage its power.

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Date Published: Nov 23, 2009 - 4:44 pm
When choosing between proprietary and open source security solutions, many organizations are misled by open source myths. As a result, they ask the wrong questions when evaluating their options and unnecessarily limit their IT solutions. Is it risky to trust mission-critical infrastructure to open source software? Why should we pay an open source vendor when open source is supposed to be free? Will a shift to open source add complexity to our IT infrastructure? These questions all arise from open source myths that this Spanish language white paper will explain and dispel, allowing IT decision makers to focus on more important organizational issues: return-on-investment, ease-of-use, agility, reliability, and control.

Special Note: This paper is presented in Spanish

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Date Published: Nov 23, 2009 - 11:50 am
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