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Code-Signing Certificates: What are they? How are they used?
Whether you realize it or not, digital certificates are everywhere. Once considered the domain of Web servers used by online banking and e-commerce sites, digital certificates continue to expand into every aspect of information technology, thanks to the significant security and privacy benefits they offer.

Next-Generation Disaster Recovery Technologies for i5/OS and AIX environments
Journaling? RAID? Mirroring? Clustering? Know your options! Download this information-packed report that reviews the spectrum of resilience and recovery technologies to help managers of IBM i (i5/OS) and AIX environments see the entire spectrum of disaster recovery technologies and best practices available for IBM I (i5/OS) and AIX environments.

Successfully Automating Decisions with Business Analytics
This white paper features independent research that defines a systematic approach to identifying and qualifying opportunities for embedding analytics into business processes. The step-by-step instruction is meant to help the reader determine which business processes would benefit the most from efforts to embed analytics into them and how to identify where analytics would help create the biggest return on an investment of time and money.

The Necessary Convergence of IT and Facilities: Bringing the Two Groups Together Under One Unified Process
If IT and Facilities could work collaboratively, organizations can operate more efficiently and effectively while still meeting their business objectives. This white paper describes how a joint monitoring and management solution links IT assets, the data center infrastructure and Facilities assets into a holistic perspective aligned with business processes.

3 Easy Steps to a Better Desktop
The changing dynamics of the desktop is rendering traditional desktop lifecycle management obsolete. Learn how desktop delivery powered by Citrix XenDesktop quickly provides a pristine, on-demand desktop experience to users wherever, whenever and on whatever device they choose while cutting IT costs. Read the whitepaper.

Gartner Whitepaper - The Evolving Open Source Software Model
As open source becomes ubiquitous, new patterns are emerging that will have a profound effect on adopter IT strategies...

Actionable Analytics: Creating Competitive Advantage in Growing and Mid-Sized Businesses with BI
Learn about today's BI tools and how they provide executives with the information they need to enhance revenue in a constantly changing business environment.



Featured Reports
The Evolution Of Data-Centric Protection
This InformationWeek Analytics/Dark Reading Report analyzes the role of endpoint protection in enterprise data security strategies.

Case Study: INERGY Increases Network Performance and Enterprise Security
10 Steps For Stronger Application Performance A new InformationWeek Analytics report, free for a limited time. This report challenges the paradigm that you just have to put up with sluggish business apps because thatýs the way it is. Subpar application performance costs money, and impacts employee productivity, perception of IT, and the expectations customers and partners have about your organization's overall ability to deliver. Do better. Learn how.

InformationWeek IT Salary Survey 2009: Meager Raises, Solid Prospects
Raises are notably smaller than a year ago, and the pay shifts track the industries and regions hardest hit during this recession. Job security's shrinking, and concerns are rising again about the IT career path. Get all the findings in InformationWeek's comprehensive, annual IT Salary Survey.



Featured Case Study: CareGroup Health System
Read the Success Story

When the CareGroup hospitals in greater Boston needed to optimize their mission-critical applications and databases while improving security to meet compliance requirements, they turned to Precise. The Results: Application availability is up to 99.99%, a key billing application doubled its performance, and the staff time needed to support compliance audits is down by 70%.

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Watch this video to learn more about how Precise helped them improve availability, reduce response times, and better protect patient information while delivering 100 percent ROI in less than six months.





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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 
  In This Issue
» Code-Signing Certificates: What are they? How are they used?
» Next-Generation Disaster Recovery Technologies for i5/OS and AIX environments
» Successfully Automating Decisions with Business Analytics
» The Necessary Convergence of IT and Facilities: Bringing the Two Groups Together Under One Unified Process
» 3 Easy Steps to a Better Desktop
» Gartner Whitepaper - The Evolving Open Source Software Model
» Actionable Analytics: Creating Competitive Advantage in Growing and Mid-Sized Businesses with BI
» The Evolution Of Data-Centric Protection
» 10 Steps For Stronger Application Performance
» InformationWeek IT Salary Survey 2009: Meager Raises, Solid Prospects
» Case Study: CareGroup Health System Optimizes Availability and Response Times
» The Adaptive Business eBook: A Strategy for Success
» Java 7 Will Evolve to Fine-grained Parallelism
» How to Integrate the Best of Open Source and Business Intelligence
 

Featured eBook
The Adaptive Business eBook: A Strategy for Success

Businesses must be adaptive. They need to be more productive using fewer resources. Recruit talent from a range of distributed employees, part-time workers, contractors and partners. Adapt to a torrent of new technologies that are no longer under complete IT control. Respond to threats from malware and criminal online activity. Learn how to use adaptive business strategies to not only survive but to grow.



Featured Blog
Java 7 Will Evolve to Fine-grained Parallelism

Java's development team understands the multicore revolution and is working hard in offering a new concurrency framework taking into account the new possibilities offered by the new microprocessors. Hence, JDK 7 (Java Development Kit 7) will offer the fork-join framework in order to help Java developers to tackle the multicore revolution using this popular programming language.

Featured Webcast
How to Integrate the Best of Open Source and Business Intelligence

Join Matt Aslett, leading Analyst with The 451 Group, as he highlights the evolution of open source and its profound effect on the face of business intelligence and IT usage adoption. Jeff Morris, Sr. Director of Product Marketing at Actuate, will share innovative features and information on how to deploy best-of-breed technology.


 
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