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Sometimes, it becomes necessary to say goodbye to an old friend. But how do you switch a mission-critical system like e-mail - without causing disruption to the organization?

While Microsoft Exchange dominates with 79% market share, more small enterprises are switching away from Exchange than are switching to it, due to a perception of higher TCO and the complexity of migrating to Exchange 2007/2010. Besides, Cloud based enterprise e-mail solutions are now mature.

Get to action with these following steps, available as attachments below:

If your company has a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) but has invested nothing in ensuring it isactionable, that plan is destined for failure.

You need to have the right resources trained, and test the plan for validation. Follow these steps to actioning up your DRP:

Regardless of version deployed, enterprises are finding out the hard way that SharePoint won’t govern itself. SharePoint’s explosive popularity has often meant that planning has taken a backseat to deployment, and many enterprises find themselves in a Wild West environment. Without sufficient planning, SharePoint is often used recklessly if at all.  Understand the common issues and develop a governance model to restore order and smooth operational management using this step-by-step guide:

This template will help define IT's position on a Bring Your Own Computer (BYOC) initiative for the business. It outlines where current capabilities exist to support a BYOC program and where improvements are needed to efficiently and securely offer the program. The goal is to ensure that a comprehensive business strategy either begins to be defined or is put on hold until capabilities are improved. Theresulting document is therefore intended for both initial project scoping and for reuse in future projects.

This is your one-stop shop for choosing the right Intrusion Detection and Prevention system, and becoming smarter with risk management.

1. Download the vendor landscape to get a snapshot of the top tier players in this market.
2. Go through an appropriate assessment to see if IDPS is right for your organization
3. Fuel your business plan using data from the TCO calculator
4. Use the vendor shortlist tool to find one that best fits your needs
5. Create an initial RFP using our template

Gathering and scoring the various responses to a Request-for-Propsal (RFP) can be difficult and time consuming. These tools enable enterprises considering a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution to:

This template will help build an Internal Cloud business plan for the enterprise as well as document business justifications for any additional projects that are connected to implementations, such as virtualization, shared storage and network convergence.

This template will help IT professionals build a Platform as a Service (PaaS) business plan for the enterprise as well as document business justifications and cautions for developing on the cloud. The goal is to ensure that a comprehensive corporate strategy begins to be defined. The resulting document is therefore intended for both initial project scoping and for re-use for future projects.

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Security assessment is focused on determining the degree to which information system security controls are correctly implemented, whether they are operating as intended and whether they are producing the desired level of security.

Vulnerability assessment is focused on determining the weaknesses inherent in the information systems that could be exploited leading to information system breach. Without Security and vulnerability assessments, the potential exists that information systems may not be as secure as intended or desired.