Improving client management

Business Management asked Fred Broussard, leading research analyst at IDC, to moderate a roundtable looking at the rise of client management suites. Also on the panel: Novell’s Richard Whitehead, LANDesk’s Steve Workman, BMC’s Paul Farr and HP Openview’s Ezi Boteach.

Driving data center efficiency

A new wave of storage solutions is emerging that offer greener, more energy efficient approaches to IT. Business Management spoke to Bruce Shaw, Director of Server and Workstation Marketing at AMD, Ian Seaton, Technology Marketing Manager for Chatsworth Products, and Lorie Wigle, Director of Server Technology and Initiatives Marketing for Intel, to find out how companies can reduce their energy costs and improve data center efficiencies.

Stripping it back

Data de-duplication has the power to revolutionize the data management process. Business Management spoke to COPAN Systems’ Jon Mellon, NEC Corp.’s Karen Dutch, FalconStor Software’s Paul Kruschwitz and Quantum Corp.’s Janae Lee to find out how.

Executive roundtable: Next generation storage
A new wave of storage solutions is emerging that offer greener, more compliant and less fallible approaches to data archive and access management.
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Executive roundtable: At the sharp end
Blade servers pack a helluva lot of punch into increasingly smaller form-factors, but can they solve the problem of effectively and efficiently managing the huge data volumes currently swamping companies large and small?
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Executive roundtable: Brave new world
An effective e-discovery policy is no longer just a nice-to-have. New FRCP rules mean that companies now need to know more about the information contained within their electronic documents than ever – or face the consequences.
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Executive roundtable: If you’re name’s not down, you’re not coming in…
Fortifying a network to ensure complete security from external threats is a burden, but an unquestionable necessity these days.
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Back to school
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Proactive data center management
Optimizing the data center with Microsoft’s Zane Adam and Connectivity Technologies Inc.’s William DiBella and Neil Unger.
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Protect and serve
In the relentless drive for greater returns, areas that do not generate obvious additional revenue, such as data protection, have traditionally been overlooked in favor of snazzier investments that promise bigger ROI.
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Searching for the right solution
The answers to most business-related queries usually lie within, which makes it imperative that knowledge workers are able to effectively trawl through your company’s information repositories quickly and easily in order to find the answers they need.
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Operational improvement through GRC
Organizations are examining their risk and compliance initiatives as an integrated mechanism for improvement throughout the information technology infrastructure.
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Settling the payment debate
Electronic invoice presentment and payment (EIPP) solutions allow suppliers and buyers to exchange financial documents (invoices, purchase orders, credit notes, statements etc.).
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Mastering the data management maze
Getting a single, consistent view of key information has traditionally been a problem for companies of all sizes – but now proponents of master data management (MDM) claim to have found the answer.
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Getting a grip on travel costs
The traditional approach of managing expenses using paper-based reporting is fading fast. In order to stay competitive
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Untangling telecoms
With Symphony Services’ Alan Harlan, Control Point Solutions’ Bob McMullan, Avotus’ Fred Lizza and Charlotte Yates of Telwares Communications.
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Teaching top dogs new tricks
With Schulich School of Business’ Alan Middleton, Queen’s School of Business’ Thomas Anger, Instituto de Empresa’s Joaquín Uríbarri, HEC Paris’ Bertrand Moingeon and David Butcher of Cranfield School of Management.
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Get connected
EDS’ Patricia Wilkey, Siemens Communications’ Chris Meaney and John McHugh of ProCurve Networking by HP talk next-generation networks and WLAN’s role in the future.
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Developing supply chain excellence
RedPrairie’s John G. Jazwiec, HighJump Software’s Chris Heim and Lora Cecere of AMR Research on how companies can achieve excellence and avoid potential pitfalls.
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Closing the gate
Akonix’s Peter Shaw, CipherTrust’s Aaron Kuehn and Natalie Lambert of Forrester look at messaging security and compliance systems
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Winning the war on malware
Radware’s Dr Michelle Blank and Gregory Fitzgerald of TippingPoint discuss the value of intrusion prevention systems.
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Building the business case for better IT
With RealOps’ John Scott, iET Solutions’ Michael Schieb, HP’s Ken Hollywood, Microsoft’s Anders Vinberg and Greg Downer of Pepperweed
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Good governance is good business
With Approva Corporation’s Prashanth Boccasam, Virsa Systems’ Jasvir Gill, ACL Services’ Harald Will and Chris Capdevila of LogicalApps
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Survival of the fittest
Intelligenxia’s Robert Carlson, Clarity’s Stephen Nelson, CODA Financial’s Steve Pugh and John Power of Longview talk bang for your BI buck
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