Computer/IT Services
5 myths about Ethernet and VPNs
Myth 1: Ethernet is just a simple plug for my PC, not a networking solution....
A Bloor InDetail Paper on Sybase IQ 15.1
Sybase IQ is a column-based relational database that has been designed specifically for analytics and business intelligence applications. It can offer a number of very significant advantages within a data warehousing environment, including performance, scalability and cost of ownership benefit...
A Closer Look at the Financial Benefits of Intelligent File Virtualization
F5 Acopia products virtualize existing file storage resources for dramatically reduced storage costs, improved resource utilization and simplified storage administration. As expected, there are normally significant capital expense (CapEx) and operation expense (OpEx) savings associated with the ...
Bringing TRUST to the Cloud
Strong Authentication as an enabler for SaaS adoption
The objective of this white paper is to help educate the reader on the critical components in which authentication solutions are applied within Business to Business (B2B) applications. B2B applications, or more commonly referred...
Business continuity for minimising risk and achieving competitive advantage
Business continuity management (BCM) has become an established part of business planning for 21st Century companies, minimising the risk of threats from external factors in the form of infectious pandemics, terrorism and natural disasters or the failure of internal systems. However, while the former...
Change Management in an IT project: 10 ways to make it work
“HELP! I need to change!!!”
Although this cry for help is not usually heard out loud, it does represent what’s going on in people’s minds when they’re faced with change. Whether it concerns your son or daughter who need to learn how to ride their bycicle by themselves, or your ...
Cloud Innovation at the speed of life
CIOs are operating in a changing world. Tectonic shifts in the way employees work and play, the way we communicate and the economic environment are leading CIOs a merry dance. This paper looks at just some of the big organisational changes CIOs are facing. It explores how they can make the most of c...
Cloud vs. On-Premise: Is there a Middle Ground?
Building Multi-Channel Business Applications without Re-Coding
According to most analysts, the key to business survival in today’s economic environment is to adopt a ‘lean and mean’ approach.i In practical IT terms this means adopting technology platforms that are low on entr...
Disaster Recovery: Not Just Planning for the Worst
This paper describes how businesses can use F5 Networks’® BIG‑IP® Global Traffic Manager™ to leverage all the benefits of their secondary site in an active-active configuration to holistically manage their applications across multiple sites. This paper also describes how you can use BIG-...
Get Analytics Right from the Start
A decade ago, businesses, governments, even charitable foundations spent considerable time and effort in rationalizing and replacing the disparate legacy operational systems that consumed a major portion of the IT budget. Despite the enormous cost these efforts respresented as well as the risk of de...
