CASE STUDY - One of the greatest challenges for Fox Chase has been to keep pace with the backup requirements imposed by ever-growing amounts of data. Read this case study to learn how Fox Chase implemented a storage solution that significantly reduced backup times and improved the data reduction ratio.
Posted: March 11, 2010 | Published: October 19, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Deduplication | Data Storage | Storage Appliances | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - Security managers worldwide working for midsize or large organizations share a common goal: to better manage the risks associated with their business infrastructure. This session discusses new and emerging network and application security attacks and ways organizations can protect themselves against Web application and network security threats.
Posted: March 10, 2010 | Published: September 1, 2008


Topics:  Hackers | Network Security | Security Management | Security Threats | Vulnerability Management | Web Application Security | Web Applications Management

WEBCAST - Malicious software seems to be everywhere these days. Viruses, Worms, Trojan Horses and other types of malware are becoming a regular part of the daily news, and become more and more sophisticated, outsmarting defenses. Check out this webcast to learn how web application owners can protect themselves from malicious entities.
Posted: March 10, 2010 | Premiered: March 10, 2010


Topics:  Application Security | Malware | Trojan Horses | Virus Detection Software | Virus Protection | Web Application Security | Web Applications Management | Worms

WEBCAST - Join us for a one-hour Web seminar where members of our security research team will discuss whitebox and blackbox application security testing techniques, highlight how their approaches to vulnerability detection compliment one another and share best practices for embedding application security testing across the software development lifecycle.
Posted: March 10, 2010 | Premiered: March 10, 2010


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Security | Black Box Testing | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Testing | Vulnerability Assessments | White Box Testing

WHITE PAPER - Secure software starts in development.  A defect-- quality flaws or security vulnerabilities-- caught early in the production cycle costs far less to fix than when caught later in production. How do you ensure that security standards are met as part of your quality measures? 
Posted: March 10, 2010 | Published: December 14, 2009


Topics:  Application Development | Application Security | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Tools | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing | Source Code Control

WHITE PAPER - When delivery is implemented in a collaborative, repeatable, and process-oriented manner, companies can benefit from more efficient development models and secure applications. Integrating security into these processes from the beginning can curb expensive and time consuming “gotchas” at the end of the lifecycle. Read this paper to learn more.
Posted: March 10, 2010 | Published: July 8, 2009


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Security | Customer Data Management | Customer Privacy | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Tools | Web Application Security | Web Applications Management

DATA SHEET - This data sheet provides information about the IBM System Storage™ TS7650 ProtecTIER® Deduplication Appliance, a preconfigured solution of IBM storage, IBM server and IBM's revolutionary ProtecTIER data deduplication software.
Posted: March 10, 2010 | Published: July 25, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Deduplication | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Data Storage | Storage Management | Storage Replication | Storage Security

WHITE PAPER - The IBM System Storage TS7650G ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway solution is an enterprise-class, data protection platform designed to quickly and safely protect business information while reducing the amount of space required for storage. Read this paper for more details.
Posted: March 10, 2010 | Published: July 8, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Deduplication | Data Storage | Storage Appliances | Storage Capacity | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - This Product Profile details where ProtecTIER is today, how native replication increases its value to enterprise and mid-market customers, and how customers are using ProtecTIER to protect their critical data.
Posted: March 10, 2010 | Published: December 14, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Deduplication | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Storage Capacity | Storage Management | Storage Replication

DATA SHEET - ProtecTIER helps IT organizations prepare for a disaster by providing a safe, simple, and affordable means of transferring key data to the remote site. Read this data sheet for more information.
Posted: March 10, 2010 | Published: July 20, 2010


Topics:  Data Deduplication | Data Replication | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes the native replication feature of ProtecTIER®, IBM’s enterprise-class deduplication solution, and demonstrates that deduplication-enabled replication provides dramatic improvements to Disaster Recovery operations.
Posted: March 10, 2010 | Published: August 11, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Deduplication | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Storage Management | Storage Security

TECHNICAL ARTICLE - IBM recognizes the need to not only consolidate data center storage, but also to reduce the amount of array capacity required to store multiple copies of business-critical information. Read this article for information on how data center storage issues can be addressed using innovations such as data deduplication.
Posted: March 10, 2010 | Published: February 25, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Deduplication | Data Management | Data Storage | Storage Appliances | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - Outsourcing can be a cost effective and efficient solution to the demand for new and specialized applications in today’s Internet-based marketplace. It is absolutely critical, however, that the team responsible for evaluating the outsourced application makes security one of its principal criteria prior to acceptance of each release.
Posted: March 8, 2010 | Published: December 1, 2009


Topics:  Application Monitoring | Application Outsourcing | Application Security | Applications Management | Code Management | Outsourcing | Secure Application Development

WHITE PAPER - The path to creating a secure application begins by rigorously testing source code for all vulnerabilities and ensuring that use of the application does not compromise or allow others to compromise data privacy and integrity.
Posted: March 8, 2010 | Published: December 1, 2009


Topics:  Access Control | Access Control Software | Application Security | Authentication | Data Security | Source Code Control | Source Code Control Software

VIDEO - In this video, David Sherry explains the cloud's many uses, its current advantages and disadvantages, and most importantly, the security risks and compliance issues that must be considered with any cloud computing implementation.
Posted: February 5, 2010 | Premiered: February 5, 2010


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Compliance Best Practices | Regulatory Compliance | Security | Security Policies | Security Threats | Testing

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - Read this brief presentation transcript for information about improving data center energy efficiency and how this can have a tremendous impact on the environment. Presenters also discuss the LEED ratings system and the need for data center specific benchmarks.
Posted: February 1, 2010 | Published: January 25, 2010


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Green Data Center | Green Storage | LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - Read this presentation transcript to learn what Robert McFarlane, Principal Data Center and Financial Trading Floor Consultant, thinks it means to really have a green data center.
Posted: January 28, 2010 | Published: January 25, 2010


Topics:  Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Green Data Center | Green Storage

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - This paper discusses the results of numerous interviews Nucleus Research conducted with customers that decided to use IBM Cognos as their business intelligence and performance management solution in order to embrace, enhance and extend their SAP and ERP investments.
Posted: January 21, 2010 | Published: January 21, 2010


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Performance Management | Business Performance Management Software | ERP | ERP Software | Investments | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - This paper explores the problem of malware and how it is increasingly being delivered through legitimate Web sites. It also introduces new techniques from IBM that are designed to go beyond standard security measures to help organizations proactively defend against threats.
Posted: December 31, 2009 | Published: November 2, 2009


Topics:  Anti-Spam Software | Anti-Spyware Software | Malware | Security Threats | Social Computing | Social Networking | Virus Protection | Web Services Security

VIDEO - In this videocast, SearchDataManagement.com sat down with Rick Sherman, an independent consultant with over 20 years of experience in the industry, to find out key trends in business intelligence and data management that are affecting how enterprises can achieve more insight into every aspect of their business.
Posted: December 22, 2009 | Premiered: December 22, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | CRM Analytics | Data Governance | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Quality | Information Management | Knowledge Management | Real-time Analytics

VIDEO - View this viewcast to hear from Judith S. Hurwitz, and Marcia Kaufman of Hurwitz Group, as she describes best practices she's found from analyzing many different BPM-SOA implementations.
Posted: December 18, 2009 | Premiered: December 18, 2009


Topics:  Application Integration | Best Practices | Business Environment | Business Process Management | Business Process Management Software | Business Processes | SOA | SOA Governance

VIDEO - This videocast highlights the importance of metrics and measurements for enabling efficient and optimized physical, virtual or cloud data centers and storage. It discusses some different metrics, for example performance, availability/data protection, and capacity/space. It also gives tips for what metrics to use when, where to use them, and why
Posted: December 17, 2009 | Premiered: December 17, 2009


Topics:  Business Performance Management | Capacity Planning | Data Center Consolidation | Data Management | Data Mining | Metrics | Operational Metrics (Systems) | Software Metrics

VIDEO - Robert McFarlane, Principal Data Center and Financial Trading Floor Consultant, runs through what it means to really have a green data center and offers suggestions on what you can do to get there.
Posted: November 23, 2009 | Premiered: November 23, 2009


Topics:  Cooling Equipment | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Design | Green Data Center | Power Consumption Monitoring | Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)

VIDEO - Are the products you see advertised real, or is it mostly hype? Robert McFarlane, Principal Data Center and Financial Trading Floor Consultant, goes over the products and methods that aren’t as green as they'd like you to think and summarizes ways to extend the life of your data center.
Posted: November 23, 2009 | Premiered: November 23, 2009


Topics:  Cooling Equipment | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Design | Green Data Center | Power Consumption Monitoring | Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)

VIDEO - Everywhere we look, there's another "green" product for the data center. How do you know what really makes a data center "green"? Beth Nicholson, Senior Editorial Events Manager at TechTarget sits down with Bob McFarlane, Principal Data Center and Financial Trading Floor Consultant to take a closer look at energy efficiency in the data center.
Posted: November 23, 2009 | Premiered: November 23, 2009


Topics:  Cooling Capacity | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Design | Energy Efficiency | Green Data Center | Power Consumption Monitoring | Power Supplies