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BPM: The Intelligent Assembly Line
Learn how BPM and workflow can optimize operations, reduce errors, and support compliance.

Comparing Email Management Systems
Email is absolutely critical to the health and efficiency of just about any organization. In order to understand organizations' perceptions about various email management systems, Osterman Research surveyed organizations that are using five different email management systems.

Getting Started with Cloud Computing: Amazon EC2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing customers to pay only for the infrastructure software services and capacity that they actually use. Learn how.

Lean BPM: Process Pain to Process Gain in Three Simple Steps
This whitepaper focuses on the 3-step, simple approach on how to visually design a collaborative application.

Five Security Threats and How to Protect Against Them
Malware and other network threats can do more than just cost you time. They can cost you money-andcustomers-if you're not careful. Read More!

Protect Your Laptop At The Airport
Business travelers lose 12,000 laptops weekly in U.S. airports. Here's how to protect the data on yours!

Optimizing Infrastructure Control
An investment in configuration assessment and change auditing solutions can stabilize IT operations, lowering the operational costs associated with the IT infrastructure; and provide a solid foundation that increases the effectiveness of the investment in information security. Discover why IDC Research says TripWire can claim complete configuration control as its own domain.

Mainstream Cloud Computing
Whether your IT organization is already on the path to adopting some aspects of cloud computing or you are a cloud skeptic, read this whitepaper to understand what cloud computing can and should mean to you.



Featured Reports
Data Center Unification: A Practical Guide To A Trendy Concept
It's time to think about running IP and storage networks together. This report examines Cisco's "unified computing" vision that's dominating the current discussion, but also the larger strategic direction IT leaders need to consider.

The Right Place For Social Networking
IT leaders are wrestling with how to bring informal collaboration into rigorous processes such as global project management and product development.



Featured InformationWeek Analytics
8 Storage Automation Questions to Ask

Obtain the critical storage automation questions you should ask before making your purchase.

Data Center Automation: 10 Questions to Ask Before Proceeding

Our InformationWeek Analytics Informed CIO series arms business technology chiefs with the questions they must ask before dropping big bucks. In this installment, we examine what part data center automation can play in helping IT do more with less.



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vPro Expert Center Blog

Cultivate Intel vPro expertise by collaboration and knowledge management tool.



Featured Tools
Build A Case For A Business Continuity Appliance

This is a free, downloadable PowerPoint presentation designed to help your company justify the purchase of the technology solutions it needs to maximize business uptime with minimal disruptions at the lowest possible cost. Get it today!

Calculate the Benefits of a Unified Fabric

Cisco Nexus 5000 Unified Fabric Calculator helps you compare costs of unified fabric implementation vs. unconsolidated input/output (I/O) technology.

Virtualization and Service Automation (shortcut guide)

This guide defines virtualization and service management as well as discusses their challenges and how to resolve them. Read the guide today!



Featured Site
agiletech: Smarter Strategies and technologies for agile financial services

Reduce costs by streamlining operations, drive customer centricity while improving performance, and manage financial risk. Visit AgileTech and discover smarter strategies and technologies for agile financial services.




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Wednesday, August 5, 2009 
  In This Issue
» BPM: The Intelligent Assembly Line
» Comparing Email Management Systems
» Getting Started with Cloud Computing: Amazon EC2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
» Lean BPM: Process Pain to Process Gain in Three Simple Steps
» Five Security Threats and How to Protect Against Them
» Protect Your Laptop At The Airport
» Optimizing Infrastructure Control
» Mainstream Cloud Computing
» Data Center Unification: A Practical Guide To A Trendy Concept
» The Right Place For Social Networking
» 3 8 Storage Automation Questions to Ask
» Data Center Automation: 10 Questions to Ask Before Proceeding
» vPro Expert Center Blog
» Build A Case For A Business Continuity Appliance
» Calculate the Benefits of a Unified Fabric
» Virtualization and Service Automation (shortcut guide)
» VMware Data Backup and Recovery Best Practices
» Essential Steps to Implementing Database Security and Auditing
» Application Definition Best Practices: Ten Tips for Getting Applications Right - The First Time
» agiletech: Smarter Strategies and technologies for agile financial services
» Strategies for Finding and Unlocking Hidden Power Capacity in your Data Center Infrastructure
» It Pays to Deliver First-Rate Support: How One BPO Reaps the Rewards
 

Featured Best Practices
VMware Data Backup and Recovery Best Practices
Download this guide to learn best practices for architecting a backup/recovery/DR approach for VMware using Data Domain storage, regardless of which backup software or scripts are involved.

Essential Steps to Implementing Database Security and Auditing
Learn best practices and specific tips for effectively securing Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL and Sybase environments, including tracking security vulnerabilities, the anatomy of buffer overflow vulnerabilities and database auditing.

Application Definition Best Practices: Ten Tips for Getting Applications Right - The First Time
Today's market pressures are forcing a fundamental change in how business and technology teams partner to deliver innovation faster, with less cost and risk. Visualization is the key to a successful partnership. Learn how thousands of business applications have been successfully visualized using iRise, and get 10 tips that will enable you to get applications right - the first time.

Featured Online Events
Strategies for Finding and Unlocking Hidden Power Capacity in your Data Center Infrastructure
This webcast will help you determine how much "flex" exists within your data center power infrastructure and show you how to assess and unlock the hidden capacity in your power systems.

It Pays to Deliver First-Rate Support: How One BPO Reaps the Rewards
Join the webcast August 6th at 2 p.m. EDT with Andy Hare, Vice President of Service Operations for Ceridian's HR Payroll Service, and find out how you too can provide mission critical support for your mission critical systems.


 

Imran Suleman Smart companies are leveraging social networking to accomplish global project management goals and product development. Find out how, in this weekęs Digital Edge.

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