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Comparing Email Management Systems: Protect Against Spam, Viruses, Malware and Phishing Attacks
Because e-mail is so critical, managing it properly and protecting it from the growing array of threats that impact it is becoming increasingly important. To understand organizations' perceptions about various e-mail management systems, Osterman Research surveyed organizations that are using five different e-mail management systems. Read this white paper to learn the results of those findings.

7 Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Video Conferencing Solution: How to Avoid the "Gotchas"
The explosion of video communications has created a multitude of video conferencing products - and it's increasingly difficult to navigate the maze of choices and end up with a solution that's powerful enough to meet your communications needs today while offering the flexibility to respond to the opportunities, challenges, and changes of tomorrow. Learn the question you should ask before choosing a Video Conferencing Solution.

Get More from Your IT Budget
In uncertain economic times, it's critical to spend your budget wisely. A hosted email and web security service provides faster ROI, predictable costs with no hidden fees. Learn more in this new whitepaper.

Application Portfolio Optimization
Application Portfolio Optimization (APO) provides executives with tools and information to assess the quality and condition of application assets as well as a means for understanding the impact of proposed application changes. This paper presents a three-stage approach for implementing an APO initiative that delivers immediate benefits while setting a foundation to better support future business requirements.

Top 5 Imperatives to Ensure Siebel Application Performance
How do you ensure that your company's Siebel environment is performing up to par? System slowdowns-not to mention outages-can wreak havoc on productivity and customer satisfaction. But because Siebel deployments cut across the enterprise, identifying the source of problems can be difficult. Check out this report to learn how Precise's Transaction Performance Management can enable you to meet SLAs in complex Siebel environments with its unique

Clean VPN Approach to Secure Remote Access
Users, endpoints, traffic and resources extend beyond the traditional network perimeter. A"clean VPN" integrates secure remote access and network security appliance technology to deliver layered protection.



Featured Report
7 Steps to Information Protection
Global corporations and government organizations require more than network security and access control to guard their confidential data - they must protect the information itself, and implement a policy for managing it. Learn about the seven steps to information protection in this report.

The Case for E-mail Consolidation
The Case for E-mail Consolidation E-mail is the backbone of most organizations-and a huge resource hog. Can we make it greener and less expensive to boot? In this first installment of our Green IT: Beyond Server Virtualization series, we'll focus on how IT can capitalize on opportunities to reduce the environmental footprint of messaging operations using consolidation; to illustrate the concept we'll describe how to integrate distributed e-mail systems and use data deduplication and WAN optimization techniques to green advantage.



Featured Tool
Email Continuity Risk Assessment
Want to reduce the risk of downtime and lower TCO of your email system? Answer some straightforward questions, and receive a customized report on how your organization's email continuity compares with industry best practices. You'll also get an action plan for ensuring high-availability and disaster recovery with Microsoft(r) Exchange.



Featured Blog
Efficiency of the programmer needs to trump efficiency of the machine for parallel programming to go mainstream
You can tell when technology has matured, in part by how much the user needs to be an expert in using it. A step in maturing for parallel programming will come as we see that the efficiency of a programmer is more important than the efficiency of the machine.




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Wednesday, May 6, 2009 
  In This Issue
» Comparing Email Management Systems: Protect Against Spam, Viruses, Malware and Phishing Attacks
» 7 Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Video Conferencing Solution: How to Avoid the "Gotchas"
» Get More from Your IT Budget
» Application Portfolio Optimization
» Top 5 Imperatives to Ensure Siebel Application Performance
» Clean VPN Approach to Secure Remote Access
» 7 Steps to Information Protection
» The Case for E-mail Consolidation
» Email Continuity Risk Assessment
» Efficiency of the programmer needs to trump efficiency of the machine for parallel programming to go mainstream
» How Do I: Use Smart Encryption Techniques for Cloud Apps
» Driving Business Results with New Intelligence
» How a Configuration Management Database Can Help You Survive an Economic Hurricane
 

Featured Online Event
Driving Business Results with New Intelligence

View this one hour WebCast to learn why companies struggle to use information in decision-making, despite having access to more sources and types of information than ever. Discover how to develop a strategy for effectively capturing, managing, analyzing and delivering information to the people who need it as well as how to create a smarter business via new intelligence.


How a Configuration Management Database Can Help You Survive an Economic Hurricane

This ASG webcast, featuring Forrester Vice President Bobby Cameron and ASG Sr. Director of Product Management, Ian Rowlands, will review the background and discuss specific use cases in which the CMDB can support the CIO in addressing key 2009 priorities.


Featured Video
How Do I: Use Smart Encryption Techniques for Cloud Apps

If you use Visual Studio, you can already develop in Azure: You can apply encryption to your cloud app. Join Katheryn Baker as she explains the basics behind encryption algorithms and practices used to create cryptographic schemes. Learn more about symmetric and asymmetric encryption algorithms, the SHA256 hash encryption algorithms, and how to implement in a simple application.


 
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