IT Management

It’s not easy being today’s CISO or CIO. With the advent of cloud computing, Shadow IT, and mobility, the risk surface area for enterprises has increased dramatically, while IT budgets have shrunk and skilled cyber security talent is virtually impossible to find. Thankfully, the CIS Top 20 Critical Controls provides a pragmatic approach, offering prioritized guidance on the important steps for implementing basic cyber hygiene practices. With the CIS Top 20 Critical Security Controls, CISOs now have a blueprint for reducing risk and managing compliance. By automating each of these controls, CISOs enable their information security teams to do much more with less, essentially operationalizing good cyber hygiene.

This assessment helps organizations identify sensitive or regulated content and develop a best practices approach to separate that content or workloads, and subsequently migrate appropriate content to the cloud.

While many who invest in Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software benefit greatly, some do not. Research has revealed a number of pitfalls that end users should avoid when evaluating and implementing DCIM solutions. Choosing an inappropriate solution, relying on inadequate processes, and a lack of commitment / ownership / knowledge can each undermine a chosen toolset’s ability to deliver the value it was designed to provide. This paper describes these common pitfalls and provides practical guidance on how to avoid them.

IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager helps organizations to securely manage and track the activities of privileged users, thereby reducing the risk of breaches, improving compliance and ensuring accountability. The IBM white paper explains how IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager provides enhanced security across various IT environments by centralizing and controlling the use of privileged identities.

Mobility is no longer an IT trend: It is the new reality for how technology is deployed for business benefit. Research and consulting firm Forrester refers to this tidal wave of change as the “mobile mind shift” and emphasizes that it is more important than ever for enterprises to get it right the first time. But getting it right means more than just launching a customer app, implementing enterprise mobile policies, improving mobile device security or creating campus-wide hot spots. It means developing and continuously delivering mobile applications that truly make a difference for employees, business partners and customers. Increasingly, that means adopting new ways of thinking about how best to develop and manage mobile applications.

This document discusses the results that more comprehensive datacenter virtualization delivers, and it lays out both the promises and the potential pitfalls of the journey through successive stages of datacenter virtualization.

This document from IDC discusses the results that more comprehensive datacenter virtualization delivers, and it lays out both the promises and the potential pitfalls of the journey through successive stages of datacenter virtualization.

This ebook presents an overview of the B2B integraiton landscape: its challenges, its opportunities, and the approaches that leading organizations follow in developing a robust and scalable EDI solution. It also summarizes the IBM B2B Cloud Services offering, with real-world examples of how companies are leveraging the IBM Cloud to Excel amid escalation global complexity, demand volatility and new customer requirements.

More and more companies are moving to the cloud for B2B services, and for good reason. There’s a huge potential for increased visibility and analytics-driven insights to be gained from B2B transactions that can give businesses unprecedented levels of information. But many organizations continue to struggle when it comes to going beyond basic transactional data and historical performance metrics. What does it take to not only report on past activity, but to get real-time alerts, predict future events, manage exceptions, and proactively leverage this wealth of data in order to put it to work? Read this IBM white paper to find out how B2B Services Reporting and Analytics provide new insights into your trading partner relationships and to drive better, more profitable business decisions.

The right test data management solution accelerates time to value for business-critical applications and builds relationships and efficiencies across the organization. IBM InfoSphere Optim Test Data Management closes the gap between DBAs and application developers by providing all teams with accurate, appropriately masked and protected data for their work. Developers can confirm that new application functionalities perform as expected. QA staff can validate that the application performs as intended based on the test cases, and that integrations work properly. And business leaders can be more confident that competitive functionality will be delivered on time with less risk.

Without an enterprise-grade cloud, organizations may find themselves falling short of their cloud computing transformation goals. Have you read more about Oracle ERP Cloud Service so your enterprise does not fall short?

Without an enterprise-grade cloud, organizations may find themselves falling short of their cloud computing transformation goals. Have you read more about Oracle ERP Cloud Service so your enterprise does not fall short?

BACKUP ISN’T JUST A COPY IN THE CLOUD. IT’S THE ANTIDOTE TO EVERYTHING. Be it user error, natural disaster, hardware failure, malware, theft or litigation—there’s a countermeasure to restore your business to normal. Skeptical? Click through the eBook to ?nd out how backup makes the enterprise impervious.

When designing a power protection scheme for their data center, IT and facilities managers must ask themselves whether a distributed or centralized backup strategy makes more sense. Unfortunately, there is no easy answer to that question. Companies must weigh each architecture’s advantages and disadvantages against their financial constraints, availability needs and management capabilities before deciding which one to employ. This white paper will simplify the decision-making process and lessen the potential weaknesses of whichever strategy you ultimately select.

When it comes to data protection, what matters most? You want the freedom to choose the types of data, applications, and computing platforms you protect. You want to seal off that data from security threats. You need space to house that data—the right space now with room to grow. You want to support older solutions as you evolve your technology environment to modern strategies, at a pace that suits your business. And you need the ability to reach out for that data at a moment’s notice without overstressing your network. In short, you need it all.

Paper: Desktop Standards, User Needs

Bank of Ireland is a leading retail and commercial bank. Snow has helped Bank of Ireland streamline and optimize its software licensing.

Retail banks are in a state of transformation all over the world. They must integrate new remote payment systems, digitize process integration and update credit management. Watch this webcast to see how IBM WebSphere Portal is helping these companies deliver targeted information to support decision-making, and to aid in their transformation.

Baptist Health is South Florida’s largest not-for-profit health care organization, encompassing six major medical facilities and a number of outpatient centers.

Watch this webinar to learn how to win the battle against Advanced Persistent Threats.

Baylor Medical Center at Frisco (BMCF), outside of Dallas, Texas, is one of approximately 100 hospital facilities run by United Surgical Partners International (USPI). In this large system, BMCF is known as the most profitable medical facility in the entire USPI system.

Business critical applications must always be available and performing. Furthermore, the reality is in today's customer centric world, slow is the new broke. Compounding this challenge, IT complexity is rapidly increasing.

Enterprise risk management (ERM) is moving to the top of corporate agendas, and evidence shows strategic risk is a key factor in a robust ERM framework. Check out this white paper from risk management pioneer James Lam. In it, Lam explains why every organization should be focusing on strategic risk. You'll learn how to integrate risks into the planning process, use economic capital and risk-adjusted return on capital to measure risk, and how to apply these results.

You want to maximize the potential offered by new technologies and establish an advantage over your competitors. But you know the latest IT developments can also bring new security challenges.

Now that employees are using more SaaS applications, its time for enterprises to adjust the way they manage employee identities. This white paper from Ping Identity addresses how IT can simplify identity management and maintain enterprise security.