Finding Security In Consolidation
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GlobalSecure Holdings Ltd. , a District-based private-equity investment firm that has bought three homeland security companies in the past year, last week wrapped up raising $23.5 million. Armed with this cash, it's aggressively searching for more companies in this field.
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These companies are building a wall around your investment.
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Protect your portfolio from these destructive forces.
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IT infrastructures have become sufficiently complex that it's a challenge to peel through the layers of abstraction and aggregate the various components that determine the recoverability of an application.
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One recent Saturday morning, I woke with one seemingly simple thing in mind: cleaning out and organizing the closets in my bedroom. If my closets were a database system, the contents would be stored as BLOBs (binary large objects) of varying sizes with no defining structure â just a dumping ground for stuff. As I began dragging things out of the closet, I found items as varied as a backpack, a pair of old ski gloves, about 10 square feet of foam padding, and pocket change in three different international currencies (anyone need Thai bahts?). Faced with a mound of the messy detritus of my own life, I did what most people would probably do: I went to the store to buy even more stuff to organize the stuff I already had.
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Have an investment-related expense? Keep the paperwork on file.
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(Source: Hewlett Packard) A typically complex, distributed, and heterogeneous IT environment is very difficult and expensive to manage, and a number of disadvantages to this model have become apparent. These include escalating operational costs, inflexible infrastructure, and erratic data security and integrity. Consequently, Butler Group believes that the proliferation of system silos found within the majority of enterprises today is not sustainable in the long term. Read this white paper to learn the significant benefits to data center consolidation and the adoption of a corresponding centralized management approach.
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(Source: Computerworld) Peace of mind is in short supply these days among IT managers and network administrators, given the dangers out there today. Not only are internal threats ever-present, but highly paid cyber criminals half a world away are almost constantly trying to knock down security walls. The best defense, as it turns out, is a comprehensive risk management strategy.  Download this Technology Briefing to learn more.
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Company is readying security software or cell phones and handheld devices.
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IT managers worry that XML documents will be bloated, but compression can yield smaller files and storage savings.
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Already entrenched in smaller companies, the trend of grouping security resources into a "single box" is gaining ground in larger enterprises.
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Vormetric&#39;s CoreGuard helps Ocwen protect confidential information in its online exchange for the mortgage industry. By Steven Marlin.
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Rumors are swirling that the companies will join forces in storage. It makes more sense than the alternatives, observers say.
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For years, companies large and small have been convinced that if they want the sophisticated functionality of enterprise-class software like ERP and CRM systems, they must buy pre-packaged applications. And, to a large extent, that remains true.
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How to steer clear of "free checking" pitfalls.
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Every IT initiative should have security reviews early and often, says Mathias Thurman. Waiting can result in applications with gaping security holes &mdash; costing money and causing delays.
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A once-ailing heavy industry is now in heavy demand. The next step? Global consolidation. For the last decade, much of the West&#39;s steel industry has been in the doldrums.