Scott Gardner has been living in the world of chip design and manufacture for decades, and he is perhaps the most technically adept of anyone I know writing about chips today. When we recognized the importance of the Microsoft-ARM alliance, we...

Vendor Research

EMC has observed the recent trend of shifting partner programs from volume to value, and has reorganized its Velocity Partner Program requirements and benefits to that end. In addition, EMC is consolidating multiple partner programs in order to...

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Middleware tools provide real-time integration and SOA delivers improvements in IT service quality, agility, and costs. Evaluate these technologies for your organization.

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Use this tool to assess whether a SOA implementation can produce value for your organization. The tool will recommend a SOA implementation or an evaluation of a limited middleware adoption.

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Use this tool to find the ideal integration method for each of the organization's integrations.

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Middleware tools provide real-time integration and SOA delivers improvements in IT service quality, agility, and costs. Evaluate these technologies for your organization.

Buyers of SOA technology struggle to reconcile their SOA strategy with other programs, such as BPM.

SOA adoption remains half-hearted. Departments hesitate to use SOA services and secretly develop their own versions on the side.

Solution Set

The organization houses a multiplicity of messaging protocols, making each new application integration a nightmare of confused standards, hardcodes, and unnecessary complexity.

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Exploding volumes of data are driving the search for faster and more reliable backup, but data value and restore speed are also critical considerations. Designing a best-fit architecture requires these elements be evaluated alongside total cost...

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This template will help build a backup architecture acquisition business plan for the enterprise, as well as document business justifications for purchase of a particular backup storage configuration. The resulting document is therefore intended...

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Organizations engaged in a backup architecture redesign must align their architecture with business properties and requirements to minimize costs, while ensuring adequate data protection. Use the backup architecture appropriateness assessment...

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Total cost of ownership (TCO) is an important consideration when designing a best-fit backup architecture. Comparative analysis of TCO can help you decide whether to move forward with a design or go back to the drawing board. A careful TCO...

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Exploding volumes of data are driving the search for faster and more reliable backup, but data value and restore speed are also critical considerations. Designing a best-fit architecture requires these elements be evaluated alongside total cost...

Solution Set

Exploding volumes of data are driving the search for faster and more reliable backup, but data value and restore speed are also critical considerations. Designing a best-fit architecture requires these elements be evaluated alongside total cost...

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Enterprises making use of a formal Security Plan report higher levels of security and more cost-effective acquisitions of security solutions. Given that a Security Plan defines the enterprise's security architecture and deployment roadmap, this...

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A Security Plan is the formal document that indicates both the security solutions that the enterprise will deploy to protect its information assets as well as the order in which they will be deployed. Building security plans is shown to increase...

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This solution set will guide you through the process of developing a formal plan that outlines and guides security infrastructure acquisitions.

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In most cases, using a phased implementation approach for Security Policy allows enterprises to begin to reap policy benefits quickly without causing the massive culture shift associated with an en masse deployment. Determining which Policies to...

As a business develops, the number of point-to-point integrations grows to become a hopelessly tangled web of integrations. Data integration can bring order to data chaos to increase accuracy and consistency, decrease redundancies, and make...

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There is no quick way to fix a broken data architecture. There are, however, short term tactics and long term strategies to move from chaos to an optimized architecture.

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Taking stock, or mapping out an existing data inventory terrain is important to understand where the organization is strong, and where there are gaps. This identification will aid in the process of moving from a chaotic to controlled data...

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Data integration projects are rarely approved as stand-alone projects, but are often tacked-on to existing business projects. This tool will assist you in determining which of the business projects currently being considered in your organization...

While every Active Directory implementation is going to require the use of at least one domain, determining when multiple domains should be used and how they should be aligned is a matter for serious consideration. Understanding all of the...

Failure to follow proper change management processes when adopting infrastructure change increases the number of enterprise system outages and results in severe impact to the business. Executing proper control and management of infrastructure...

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In the last few years, the mid-market CRM landscape has changed due to the emergence of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) into the mainstream market and changes in consumer needs and buying behavior. Examine the summary findings from a recent...

Although moving to a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) can enhance business and IT agility, the sheer complexity and scope of the migration make this a potentially pitfall-ridden process. When embarking on an enterprise SOA initiative, IT...

This is the second of two notes on the basics of Service-oriented Architecture. Info-Tech covers the key features and technological improvements associated with SOA, and the business benefits it provides. Follow Info-Tech's recommendations to...

Are the enterprise firewalls due for a refresh? The technologies, features and vendors associated with firewalls have likely changed since the enterprise legacy systems were purchased. When choosing a firewall vendor, consider these three points...

What is Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)? Few in IT have a solid definition of the concept, given the many products and vendors that misbrand using the SOA label. This is the first of two notes on the basics of Service-oriented Architecture,...