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 …
Business Communications in Context Putting the U in UC Read More »
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 …
A range of application security tools was developed to supportthe efforts to secure the enterprise from the threat posed by insecure applications. But in the ever-changing landscape of application security, how does an organization choose the right set of tools to mitigate the risks their applications pose to their environment? Equally important, how, when, and …
According to industry analysts, email volume in organizations is growing by more than 30% annually, and the average user receives 7MB of data per day via email. if not more. As a result of this growth, the handling of email has become a critical business, IT and regulatory issue – driving the need for email …
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 …
Software-as-a-Service: An Ideal E-mail Archive Solution for Medium-Size Businesses Read More »
Email is possibly today’s most important business tool but its use also carries many risks. Scalable, secure archiving, email continuity, data leak prevention – not to mention the constant onslaught of spam and malware – are just some of the issues that IT professionals have to deal with on a daily basis. Mimecast Unified Email …
How should you handle your growing email archiving issues? According to ESG (Enterprise Storage Group), the number of organizations using a SaaS-based email archiving solution has increased 350% in the past three years. It’s not a question of if you should archive email, but how – and, the evolution of SaaS solutions makes sense to …
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 …
IBM XIV® Storage System: Ease of Management Reinvented Read More »
The novelty of delivering video on Web sites is over. User expectations have matured. Internet video consumers are becoming more numerous and more demanding. This paper outlines the inability of legacy CDNs to deliver on these seven criteria and the corresponding, unique solution provided by a Distributed Origin-based network architecture purpose-built for today’s broadband vide
Case Study: NEC provided intuitive and user friendly technology to enrich the whole guest experience with improved service times, personalized assistance and quality communications. The choice of partner was an important first step for The Peninsula Hotels, and it was vital therefore to identify a communications vendor that could not only provide ahead-of-the-game technology, but …
