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Vendor Landscape Storyboard: Mid-Market BI

Vendor Landscape: Enterprise Backup Software

When looking at backup software vendors, don’t be distracted by flashy new features. Backup software should actually be called restore software.
Failure in backup is failure to meet recovery objectives. Always evaluate features in light of these objectives

Vendor Landscape Plus: Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems

Measuring Return on Security Investment (ROSI) can be tricky since it is difficult to determine if not being compromised can be attributed to good tools, or poor intrusion attempts. Nonetheless, 86% of enterprises are adopting IDPS to improve their security stance.

Prices and feature sets for IDP Systems vary wildly; on a price per Gigabit of throughput, the least expensive solutions cost half that of the most expensive, yet offered no less feature-functionality. Wise purchasing decisions can save the enterprise tens of thousands of dollars.

Develop Your Cloud Storage Strategy

Purchase in-house storage capacity, or pay for usage in the cloud. Cloud storage does not replace spending on in-house storage capacity, just as cloud computing does not replace money spent on servers and networking equipment. The expense is simply directed at a third-party, purchasing the same type of equipment.

Cloud Infrastructure-as-a Service

Select the Cloud IaaS solution that’s the best fit for your organization, taking advanced features, support, and vendor viability and customizing the Vendor Landscape according to what criteria are most important to you.

Endpoint Anti-Malware

Implementing feature-rich endpoint Anti-Malware solutions is the most significant step that enterprises can take to mitigate risk. Selecting the optimal solution ensures the greatest level of protection, and therefore the greatest reduction in risk.

Keys to Selling Cloud Solutions

Submitted by Ash.C on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 01:26

How exactly do you sell the Cloud? This one is for all the resellers and service providers out there. This report will help you understand how to sell your Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions.

It will emphasize the rationale of end customer purchases and what this means to the vendor. We cover:

Tools to Assess Risk

Risk assessments are used to determine the likelihood and magnitude of information system harm, in the event of a security breach. This in turn determines how much of that risk should be mitigated and what controls should be used to achieve that mitigation.

Without risk assessments, the potential exists for organizations to leverage inappropriate (i.e. either too strict or too lax) security controls to protect information systems. Use the attached:

Mitigate Risk Through IT Governance

Today, businesses are 100% reliant on information technology for day-to-day operations, yet fewer than 50% of organizations involve senior management in IT decisions. There are four key areas where senior management must play an active role:

Application Development Tools Vendor Landscape

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Understand what’s new in the development tools and component market.
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