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The Weekly Round-Up: 16.05.08

Round-Up The San Francisco Department of Public Health warned that several people had become ill after attending or working at conferences at the city's Moscone Convention Center between 30 April and Thursday.

Tags: google sky, amd, apple, work wise

[16 May 2008]

Financial Institution Chooses Virtualization to Cut Costs, Improve Business Continuity

whitepaper Challenged by recent expansion, the Bank's IT department wanted to reduce costs and better support the business with responsive, reliable IT services. It began by solving inefficiencies in its overcrowded data center.

Tags: infrastructure management, virtualization, automated, host

[16 May 2008]

Insurance Agency Prepares for New IT Projects, Realizes Savings Through SAM

whitepaper The IT department had a number of vital projects planned for the next three years and wanted to gain control of the IT infrastructure to prepare for changes. As one of the largest insurance agencies in the United States, Lovitt & Touche realized...

Tags: asset management

[16 May 2008]

BMC Software IT Systems Management Express: Meeting Challenges in the Midsize Enterprise

whitepaper This IDC White Paper looks at the challenges facing midsize IT department customers in implementing and managing software changes in their IT environments. Certainly budget is a perennial challenge, but smaller IT shops may not be aware of the...

Tags: monitoring systems

[16 May 2008]

The Wake County Public School System Uses Biscom Delivery Server (BDS) To: Ensure Privacy of Student and Employee Files, Comply With the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and Eliminate

whitepaper WCPSS's IT department needed to provide users with an alternative, compliant, and secure method to email attachments. The Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) is one of the twenty largest school districts in the nation.

Tags: tcp - ip

[16 May 2008]

Gov't department readies for Vista rollout

News Although it's unclear if Defra is the first central government department to commit to a Vista deployment, it is among the early adopters. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will start to roll out Microsoft's Windows...

Tags: upgrade, encryption, carbon, defra

[15 May 2008]

EDS Cuts Time to Deploy Software by 92 Percent, Improves Security and Productivity

whitepaper Part of the job of any IT department is installing and deploying software - from office productivity applications to specialized utilities. Such a task is easy at a small firm, but daunting if one is facing a network with tens of thousands of seats.

Tags: monitoring systems

[15 May 2008]

Arizona's SIREN Speeds Information Flow, Helps to Avert Potential Epidemics

whitepaper This is a discipline the Arizona Department of Health Services - via its successful SIREN program - is attempting to master with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft .NET products and services.

Tags: application servers

[15 May 2008]

Enterprise Architecture and the Role of Technology: Delivering Value to Stakeholders

whitepaper In this paper, discover why technology is a key function of enterprise architecture, especially in the current context of innovative and disruptive technologies, and position the enterprise architecture department to help stakeholders clearly see...

Tags: software engineering

[15 May 2008]

Introducing the Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), Part 2: Explore an Industry Standard for Defining an Enterprise Architecture

whitepaper Department of Defense Technical Architecture For Information Management (TAFIM). The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) provides architects a methodology for gaining control over enterprise architecture and IT.

Tags: software engineering

[15 May 2008]

TJ Hughes buys into email to slash admin costs

News Discount department store chain TJ Hughes has managed to save more than £10,000 in administration costs by using an email alerts system to communicate tasks to store managers. Find out what's hot on the top tech execs' agendas for 2008… diams...

Tags: tj hughes, email, vodat

[14 May 2008]

City IT Department Improves Data Protection and Backup Process Efficiency

whitepaper The city's IT department, which manages the entire technical infrastructure, had been using a data backup and recovery solution that was difficult and time-consuming to configure. Southlake implemented the beta of Microsoft System Center Data...

Tags: monitoring systems

[14 May 2008]

BMC Service Desk Express Suite: The Asset Management Process

whitepaper Historically, the organization's IT department has been responsible for managing IT-related assets, such as computers, software, and routers. Industry trends now show that the IT department is inheriting complete infrastructure asset management...

Tags: asset management

[14 May 2008]

Municipality Reduces Backup Time by 96 Percent, Gives Users File Restore Capabilities

whitepaper From its data center in Woodside, the IT department for BME delivers services to the bureau's four borough repair shops and the Central Repair Shop. The Bureau of Motor Equipment (BME) for New York City's Department of Sanitation manages and...

Tags: monitoring systems

[14 May 2008]

A Case for SOA Governance

whitepaper Any key asset, be it a physical inventory, the business intelligence of a department, or anything in between, needs to be carefully managed in order to harvest its maximum business benefit. In the business world, what is it that needs to be governed?

Tags: web services

[14 May 2008]

Screen Sharing Performance of Web Conferencing Services

whitepaper Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional offers users the ability to have a more productive and engaging Web conferencing experience while providing the IT department with a program that efficiently utilizes bandwidth and minimally impacts the...

Tags: video conferencing

[14 May 2008]

Chemicals Firm Lowers Costs and Boosts Collaboration With Portal Technology

whitepaper To improve its operational efficiency and inter-department work processes, the company selected a Microsoft .NET based portal technology featuring real-time messaging, knowledge sharing and collaboration for the whole organization.

Tags: .net

[14 May 2008]

Enterprise Reporting - The First Step to Superior Performance Management

whitepaper Generated by an array of different tools, the multiple (and perhaps contradictory) data points presented in the heterogeneous reports require users to move from interface to interface to piece together a consolidated view of customers, products...

Tags: back-office

[14 May 2008]

Food Company Improves IT Security System View and Management Using New Solution

whitepaper However, the company's small IT department needed a solution that would help it better manage those products. Del Monte Foods, based in San Francisco, California, sells popular, premium-quality branded food and pet products throughout the United...

Tags: security tools

[11 May 2008]

Students Use Online Collaboration to Improve Study Habits and Learning Outcomes

whitepaper To reduce spending, the IT department decided to replace its aging, expensive, in-house student e-mail solution with a hosted solution. In Joplin, Missouri Southern State University (MSSU) offers students a high-quality education while striving to...

Tags: collaborative web

[10 May 2008]

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