Month: November 2019

Accelerated business: The rise of next-generation connectivity

The race is under way. A large majority of US companies recognize the transformational impact of 5G and seek to harness the business opportunities that will result from technologies enabled by next-generation connectivity. According to this EIU survey-based report, sponsored by Sprint Business, breakthroughs delivered by 5G will be truly disruptive, upending the status quo, …

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Business Communications in Context Putting the U in UC

The proliferation of communications channels has set expectations around cost and productivity benefits. Unified Communications (UC) is proffered as a way of helping bring them all together, but companies struggle to justify the business case for it. Against this background, how important is UC as an approach to streamlining communications, and how can businesses exploit …

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Secure at the Source

Countless studies and analyst recommendations suggest the value of improving security during the software development life cycle rather than trying to address vulnerabilities in software discovered after widespread adoption and deployment. The justification is clear.For software vendors, costs are incurred both directly and indirectly from security flaws found in their products. Reassigning development resources to …

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Software-as-a-Service: An Ideal E-mail Archive Solution for Medium-Size Businesses

Businesses over the past ten years have used email archiving solutions in order to meet record retention compliance, facilitate electronic discovery, and control message-related storage costs. Despite these benefits, many organizations still have not adopted an archiving solution and still simply enforce mailbox quotas or message deletion policies as the best way to manage messaging …

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IBM XIV® Storage System: Ease of Management Reinvented

Managing a storage system has become a costly and complicated task. The direct labor cost associated with its management is increasing. In addition, organizations incur hidden indirect costs due to slow responsiveness, ineffective utilization, and inflexibility. This paper discusses how the IBM XIV Storage System’s revolutionary built-in virtualization architecture provides a way to drastically reduce …

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