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SaaS Secures in Uncertain Times
As organizations rethink how they manage critical functions like Web and email security, industry experts are recommending the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. Learn how you can save money and simplify management

Protecting Data: The Rise of New Technologies
Discover how deduplication can help drive efficient storage consolidation, as well as improve data protection and disaster recovery under heavy workload conditions. Assess the value of deduplication for your storage consolidation initiatives.

Virtualization Technologies Aid Disaster Recovery Planning
Learn more about enterprise-class disaster recovery and high-availability solutions for cutting-edge virtual environments.

2009 IT Skills and Salary Report
How much more could you be earning? Find out now with this revealing salary survey.

Slam Dunking Network Availability during March Madness
For network managers, March is truly a month of madness. Beginning March 20, CBS Sports will stream all 63 college tournament basketball games, highlights, recaps and more. Hoops fans in offices worldwide will create serious network traffic spikes and the extreme possibility of cyber-crime. Some companies estimate that one-fifth of each enterprise Internet gateway's capacity will go toward the games. But don't sweat it. Here's how to be prepared for the onslaught of March Madness.

Challenges and Opportunities of PCI
Controls-particularly those around change and configuration issues-are critical to meeting the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) mandates. As it happens, they also are critical to delivering the sustained and continuous improvement to stabilize the IT environment and avert risk that define top-performing companies. Find out why change auditing carries so much weight.



Featured Reports
Setting Priorities for Next-Generation Web Apps
Rich Internet Applications are favored by technology and business decision makers for many new Web development projects. But while the next generation of Web applications will combine both the richness of the desktop and the networking of the Internet, there are still a number of concerns that need to be addressed.

The Case Against Tape Backup
While many companies are already backing up their office systems to tape, what they don't understand is just how vulnerable their data and businesses remain. Find out what you need to know about the high cost, complexity and potentially dangerous shortcomings of a strategy based only on tape backup, and how Double-Take Software can dynamically move, protect, and recover your critical applications.

HP Dynamic Deduplication - Achieving a 50:1 ratio
In these days of rampant data growth, a technology that can increase the effective capacity of a disk-based backup system by a ratio of up to 50:1 is big news. Data deduplication allows you to store up to 50 times more backup data into the same disk footprint - giving you a better chance of restoring your users' lost data from exactly the point they need it.



Featured Blog
Making the Web - And Your Content - More Accessible
After a long process of drafting and refining the documents, W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative released the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0). By Peter Hagopian, InformationWeek




Featured Videos
Eco-Finance in Brazil: One Bankıs Green Journey
This 10 minute documentary features the ıgreen journeyı of follow Santander Brazil.

Build a Standard WPF Application
In this video you will learn how to build a standard WPF application using Microsoft Visual Studio.



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From Data Overload to Business Asset
Learn the five entry points to create a winning information strategy





Featured Sites
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Performance Resource Center
Boost productivity, optimize process, and reduce costs by leveraging the SOA Performance Resource Briefing Center. Despite its advantages, an SOA deployment can be fraught with challenges if it is not implemented systematically. The SOA Performance Resource Briefing Center will allow you to reap the SOA advantage while managing its challenges along the way.

IBM Business Optimization Briefing Center
Businesses need to act on their data to optimize processes and relationships, drive competitive advantage, and realize new levels of efficiency and productivity. Clearly, it's critical that they be able to rely on the information that will influence their actions. This site is your online resource for gaining business insight from trusted information.




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Wednesday, March 11, 2009 
  In This Issue
» SaaS Secures in Uncertain Times
» Protecting Data: The Rise of New Technologies
» Virtualization Technologies Aid Disaster Recovery Planning
» 2009 IT Skills and Salary Report
» Slam Dunking Network Availability during March Madness
» Challenges and Opportunities of PCI
» Setting Priorities for Next-Generation Web Apps
» The Case Against Tape Backup
» HP Dynamic Deduplication - Achieving a 50:1 ratio
» Making the Web - And Your Content - More Accessible
» Eco-Finance in Brazil: One Bankıs Green Journey
» Build a Standard WPF Application
» From Data Overload to Business Asset
» Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Performance Resource Center
» IBM Business Optimization Briefing Center
» Best Practices for Secure Remote Access: A Guide to the Future
» Continuing to Innovate in a Difficult Economy: IT Productivity and The Drive for Automation
» View this Security WebCast: 5 Strategies for Addressing Insider Risk
» SMBs: Get More with Less from Your Power Protection
 
Featured Best Practice
Best Practices for Secure Remote Access: A Guide to the Future

All users are potentially remote and all endpoints are potentially unsafe, but users nevertheless demand access to business resources from any location. The future is universal access control, which inverts the network so that the protective perimeter is concentrated around application resources. Learn how you can establish universal access control with SonicWALL Aventail E-Class SSL VPN.


Featured Online Events
Continuing to Innovate in a Difficult Economy: IT Productivity and The Drive for Automation

One of the biggest components of the IT budget has always been personnel costs. In a lean economy, thereıs no room for padding; productivity is essential, and human resource talent has to be maximized. To achieve this, CIOs are looking to implement more extensive automation. Our CIO panel offers strategic considerations as well as practical advice to help IT management forge ahead with confidence.

View this Security WebCast: 5 Strategies for Addressing Insider Risk

Find out who the insiders are... what motivates them... and most importantly, things you can do to prevent them! Watch the WebCast

SMBs: Get More with Less from Your Power Protection

Learn best practices for ensuring reliable, scalable power protection for IT equipment, as well as opportunities for reducing costs by preventing system downtime, enhancing energy efficiency and reducing total cost of ownership. Then see how other small and midsized businesses across the country protect their networks and reduce costs by implementing their own power protection strategies.


 
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