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Accelerating Insurance Process AutomationInsurance & Technology in conjunction with IBM, present this forward-looking video series analyzing the FUTURE OF INSURANCE and the profound changes taking place in the industry. These exclusive video reports take a deep-dive approach into exploring the technologies, trends and players that are shaping the future direction of the INSURANCE industry. Analytics Report: 2008 InformationWeek Strategic Security SurveyToday's corporate security strategies must be all-encompassing, as much policy- and process-driven as they are technology-dependent. Organizations need to take a higher-level approach to protecting their critical infrastructure and assets in order to reduce their potential vulnerability to new and more aggressive threats, and ensure adherence to compliance mandates. This site is a collaboration between TechWeb and Symantec. bMighty.com - IT Power for Small and Mid-Size BusinessA new website devoted to filling the information needs of IT professionals working in small to midsize businesses (SMBs). Coverage includes: wireless technologies, hardware and software, networking, emerging technologies, security, IT services, and e-business. Subscribe to our free newsletter to stay informed daily. Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Resource CenterDiscover best practices for business process outsourcing (BPO) for the banking, financial, insurance, healthcare, retail, telecom, manufacturing and transportation industries. Read blog entries for each subject posted by industry experts. Learn about webinars and live events. Business Continuity Planning Checklist: The Top 10 Best PracticesYou may not be as prepared as you think for an event that interrupts your organization's operations. Here are the 10 business continuity planning best practices most essential to survival. Business Innovation: Using IT as a Catalyst to SucceedCMP's Business Innovation website views the customer experience from inception of a business vision to setting an infrastructure strategy to determining the right business development platform and working with the right solution providers. Each phase is reflected in the site's editorial features which resonate with the unique audiences at each phase of the business decision. Business Intelligence: Integrating the DataToday's corporate performance initiatives require greater visibility into all corners of the enterprise. Business intelligence has become a central element to every part of the business. Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Analytics ReportMore than seven out of 10 companies are forging ahead with Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) initiatives, even as a large minority expresses dissatisfaction with current BPO results. As they look to expand or maintain BPO efforts, these companies' biggest concerns relate to data security and the overall management difficulty with BPO, finds our InformationWeek Analytics survey of business technology decision makers. For most companies, however, the financial benefits of outsourcing continue to be compelling enough to proceed, with tactical goals of cost savings and efficiency improvements still being the dominant reasons companies use BPO. Download the full report here. Configuration Audit Briefing Center: Sponsored by Tripwire and TechwebDiscover a wealth of resources to get you on your way to a smart change policy for your organization. Change is a part of life. But when it comes to IT, unexpected or unplanned changes can lead to outages, security breaches, falling out of compliance, and a long and drawn out audit process. But change can be done right, and when you’ve controlled and maintained the integrity of IT configurations your business benefits. The Data Center of the FutureGet the latest news and information about data center virtualization, design, energy efficiency, switching, and more from our Data Center of the Future concierge site, brought to you by Cisco and TechWeb. DB2 Magazine and DB2mag.comDB2 Magazine is a solutions-oriented magazine that gives IT professionals the strategic and technical information they need to work successfully in the IBM Data Management environment. Each issue contains a variety of features on technical and business-level topics for the DB2 community, plus tips and techniques in columns on data mining, programming, system administration, content management, and more. DB2mag.com offers a complete archive of DB2 Magazine articles, plus Web-only features, a monthly email newsletter, and links to other DB2 resources. EcoTech: Green IT Strategies for Financial ServicesLearn green IT strategies that will help your financial services organization reduce costs, resource consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, all while increasing customer loyalty. Enhance Scalability, Performance and Energy EfficiencyExplore the site to find information on Intel’s embedded and communications platforms, technologies, virtual labs, webinars and products. Learn how these technologies can help with scalability, energy efficiency and performance solutions. Email Messaging Security and Compliance Research from Google and TechWebE-mail is a mission-critical application for many businesses, but the growing sophistication of spam and attacks, coupled with fast-growing messaging retention requirements, means that businesses need a different approach. Businesses of all sizes are turning to cloud computing solutions for messaging security, web security and e-mail compliance, so they can get back to business. Explore the state of e-mail security and the benefits of emerging in-the-cloud services in this site brought to you by Google and TechWeb. Forecasting the Future of Cloud ComputingCloud computing is moving past experimentation into production as enterprises realize the benefits of the cloud over in-sourced solutions. New innovations are popping up across the cloud computing landscape every day. Get a better understanding of what cloud computing really is and how it is reshaping the way enterprises leverage their IT resources. Google Enterprise Search Applications and AppliancesGive your users real-time access to information and content across the enterprise with a single, integrated, secure set of search results. This is the promise of the Google Enterprise Search Appliance. Help Desk Edge: Creating a Scalable Service DeskThe Scalable Service Desk is your online resource for automating and streamlining help desk systems to optimize business productivity, reduce costs and improve the quality of customer support. InformationWeek ReportsInformationWeek Reports is an easy-to-navigate resource center that helps you analyze and make purchase decisions for today's technology solutions. At this site, you have exclusive access to the original InformationWeek reports in an easy-to-read format. You'll get the latest information you need on infrastructure, security, wireless, storage & servers, messaging & collaboration, application & data integration, network & systems management, and IP communications. Imaging How-To CenterNew site on bMighty.com discusses the practical information about the role of imaging -- particularly document imaging -- in your business and how to make it work for your small- to medium-sized business. Improving TCO with Server Consolidation and AllocationWhile many see server consolidation as simply a way to reduce the enterprise server count, in fact it offers a great deal more when it's regarded as a resouce optimization strategy. ITIL v3 Knowledge AcceleratorThe Information Technology Infrastructure Library is the go-to reference for best practices in IT service management. With its emphasis on creating a common language for IT processes and standardizing IT practices, organizations find they can better manage and optimize the cost and quality of IT. At this Briefing Center, IT and corporate managers will find valuable resources to improve IT service to the business and cut IT costs. InformationWeek Analytics: Virtualization ReportVirtualization is certain to become ubiquitous in the data center and on enterprise desktop deployments. But the road to comprehensive, smoothly managed environments will be bumpy. Fortunately, all virtualization vendors offer step-by-step planning guides for transitioning to a virtualized data center--as well they should given the stakes. This InformationWeek Analytics Virtualization report assesses the current state of virtualization management from the perspective of business technology professionals. Use this Special Report to plan or evaluate virtualization at your organization. InformationWeek Analytics: Mobile Device ManagementAs mobile devices become more prevalent and deeply ingrained in employees' work lives, the question of how to deploy, secure, and manage them has become an increasingly pressing problem for enterprise IT departments. Based on a survey of more than 300 IT managers, this report examines the needs and attitudes of enterprise IT departments around the procurement, deployment, securing, and provisioning of mobile devices. It provides insight into many of the questions facing IT managers today, as well as baselines for constructing a mobile device management strategy and choosing a solution. Internet Evolution: News & Anaysis on the Future of the InternetAt Internet Evolution we believe that the next huge leap forward in the history of the Internet is happening now – and the goal of our site is to gauge its likely impact on every aspect of life as we know it. This site provides news, analysis, commentary, video, and reports on what we might expect from the Internet in years to come. Mobile Security and Connectivity: The New Fundamentals of BusinessWith the advance of mobility fast becoming the defining marketplace dynamic of our time, two business-critical considerations have emerged as priorities: Security & Connectivity. And not just as inevitable challenges to be overcome in the march towards the perfect mobile network, but as key strategic tools for business growth. Next Generation Load BalancingDiscover two groundbreaking whitepapers that will help you advance the sophistication of server performance. Learn about three keys for the successful delivery of advanced web applications and the eight things you need to know for balancing the load of today’s high-volume network traffic. Network Access Control (NAC) Survey ReportIn our third annual overview of the network access control market, a slowing of sales combined with a vendor field poised for consolidation reveals that NAC is finally maturing from gee-whiz tech to a tool with well-understood parameters. Discover trends in controlling enterprise network access. Oracle Database Management, Development and DeploymentThis site provides answers to the top information-management challenges facing today's CIOs, whether you're working to contain IT costs, striving to meet demanding service level agreements, managing information lifecycles, or complying with stringent regulatory requirements. PDF Conversion Software SolutionsWhy PDF Conversion? Every organization needs to distribute and share documents, and PDF has long been the preferred standard. But creating and sharing PDF docs has not been without its challenge, and users are frequently stymied by cumbersome processes. This PDF Conversion Briefing Center is your resource for learning how to fully exploit the benefits of distributing and using PDF documents. Saving Money with VirtualizationCorporations are rapidly embracing virtualization to cut costs and increase efficiency. Unfortunately some may fail to consider the potential performance trade-offs. Luckily, new tools and techniques for optimizing application performance over a WAN are coming to the forefront, allowing companies to reap the full benefits of virtualization without compromising performance. SAAS Security for Small to Mid-Sized CompaniesThe SaaS Security Briefing Center is your online guide to remote security services offered to companies that typically can't afford their own specialized, sophisticated staffs. Delve into the latest white papers, research, news and more courtesy of Webroot and TechWeb. Securing Your Virtual EnvironmentA $499 value Free. Stay on top of the state of VMWare when you read this special research report FREE. For this report we interviewed security experts from VMsafe partner vendors and polled 423 business technology professionals to assess concerns over, and security strategies in place for, virtualized environments in real world organizations. Server How-To CenterSpecial site on bMighty.com that covers the nuts and bolts info you need to choose and install a server for your business. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Performance Resource CenterWhether you are just considering SOA or are fully committed to SOA as a strategic enterprise-wide initiative, this resource center can help you understand and manage the evolving and increasingly complex SOA and non-SOA environment. Smart Enterprise MagazineSmart Enterprise Magazine, the result of a unique alliance between CMP Technology and CA, is dedicated to helping CIOs and other business-technology executives become transformational figures in their organizations, thanks to the latest thought-leading reporting, insights and perspectives from IT industry experts. Stay On Top of Blade-Server TechnologyThis site covers centralized systems for consolidation and virtualization of mission-critical applications at the database tier, the application tier, and the network edge with details on how you can take advantage of the industry's first embedded virtualization solution. Small Biz Resource: Tools, Tips, Dollars and Sense for Small BusinessesSmall Biz Resource is an online community for people working in small businesses and "SoHo" small/home offices, providing useful how-to's, guides, tutorials, webcasts, advice and exclusive interviews on topics like IT, equipment purchases, marketing, finances, expansion, security and much more. Small Enterprise Technology Innovation through Mobility, Connectivity, and CommunicationsHow will the right mobility strategy impact your small to medium-sized business? What can Wi-FI really mean to your business? What are the right connectivity options for your business? Get the answers as well access to the latest white papers, research, case studies, news and more at bForward.com, Technology Innovation for the Small Enterprise, courtesy of AT&T Onward Small Biz and bMighty.com. Symantec Optimized Backup and RecoveryThe Optimized Backup and Recovery Briefing Center is a unique resource for small and midsize companies looking to protect their valuable data from all manner of disasters, threats, errors, and interruptions. This resource is brought to you by bMighty and Symantec, who has the expertise to optimize its backup and recovery solutions to meet the special needs of small and midsize companies, not just large enterprises. That means not just keeping your company’s data safe and easy to recover, but making the entire backup and recovery process fast, simple and easy-to-manage, every step of the way. Smart Enterprise Exchange: Peer Strategies and Resources for IT ExecutivesLeveraging the expert perspective of Smart Enterprise Magazine, Smart Enterprise Exchange is a peer-to-peer membership program that operates at no charge to qualified senior IT executives. Smart Enterprise Exchange is focused on providing you with the highest quality resources along with select opportunities to connect with your peers. It is not a social network, where you are constantly asked to stay linked to people or sites of very little value, but a membership of equals who share your concerns, needs and business interests. Members are sent monthly emails, flagging the latest site postings and upcoming events. You’ll be able to visit the Web site or attend an event at your convenience, contribute content and ask for advice on specific challenges. TechWeb Digital LibraryThe TechWeb Digital Library is one of the largest and most comprehensive multimedia resources targeting the business technology market. Here you will find thousands of white papers, case studies, webcasts, and research reports providing the in-depth market coverage you've come to expect from the TechWeb Network. Search by IT category, industry or keyword for immediate access to the information and perspective you need to deliver maximum value to your projects and to your customers. Time to Give Your Enterprise Software the Boot?Based on a survey of 471 business technology professionals, this report examines attitudes and experiences with various types of software, including what's stopping businesses from making changes when they're unhappy with their software. Armed with this knowledge, IT and business managers can make better decisions about what to expect from a software transition, reexamine their choices, and check their perceptions of various options against the experiences of those using them. Toshiba's Document and Print Management Solutions - Color Printing and MFP TrendsLearn more about Toshiba's document and print management solutions to reduce costs, increase productivity, and manage assets more efficiently in the Enterprise. Also read up on MFP compliance and security concerns. Winning Data Strategies for Wall Street TechnologistsWall Street & Technology joins Sybase to discuss the challenges that capital markets firms face in keeping up with the velocity and volume of market data. The visibility and accessibility of data to applications is increasingly important in gaining a complete perspective for both historical and real time decisions and in supporting cross-asset trading, risk management and compliance efforts. Each video in this three-part series provides insights on how to formulate a winning data strategy for the ultimate competitive edge. Web 2.0 and Workplace Productivity | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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