IT-Director.com Papers

Managed hosting in Europe - June 2009

Quocirca — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:10:00 +0100

The term managed hosting describes the provision of a ready to use IT stack including hardware and infrastructure software for the deployment of applications. [Read More...]

Creation of Accessible Documents

Bloor Research — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:00:00 +0100

This paper concentrates on the creation of accessible PDF files from word processing and desktop publishing systems. [Read More...]

New Model Marketing - building on experience

Bloor Research — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:00:00 +0100

The Think Smart approach is to build a consistent, industrialised process through which to manage the four major elements of the marketing process. [Read More...]

The Rise of Enterprise Architectures

Bloor Research — Fri, 15 May 2009 10:00:00 +0100

EA promotes integration, effective change management and the proactive impact analyses. [Read More...]

Body shop to mind shop

Quocirca — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:00:00 +0100

As financial pressures mount and technology continues to evolve and its relationship with the business becomes increasingly complex, how does this change the expectations and needs of those external relationships? [Read More...]

Data quality platforms

Bloor Research — Tue, 12 May 2009 10:00:00 +0100

This is the last of four Market Updates on data discovery, data profiling, data cleansing, and data quality platforms respectively. [Read More...]

An Executive Guide to the Green Value of High Performance Data Warehousing

Bloor Research — Mon, 11 May 2009 10:05:00 +0100

High performance data warehouse technologies should be considered as a central component of Green IT strategies going forward. [Read More...]

EXASolution

Bloor Research — Mon, 11 May 2009 10:00:00 +0100

EXASolution is a massively parallel database management system especially developed for data warehousing applications. [Read More...]

Data Cleansing

Bloor Research — Thu, 07 May 2009 10:00:00 +0100

The third of four Market Updates on data discovery, data profiling, data cleansing, and data quality platforms respectively. [Read More...]

BakBone NetVault: Real-Time Data Protector

Bloor Research — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:00:00 +0100

BakBone's NetVault: Real-Time Data Protector carries out data recovery in a unique way which sets it apart from all other CDP software in a Windows environment. [Read More...]

Embarcdero DB Optimizer

Bloor Research — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:00:00 +0100

Most database performance tools focus on what is happening in the database and fixing it, rather than preventing problems. Conversely, this is DB Optimizer's strength. [Read More...]

Beating IT recession blues

Quocirca — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:00:00 +0100

There is a link between the performance and capabilities of the IT function and overall business performance, but not everybody is aware of this, or takes advantage of it. [Read More...]

Cach� 2008

Bloor Research — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:00:00 +0100

We have no doubt that Cach� offers better performance both for the developer and in production than comparable systems from much more well-known vendors. [Read More...]

Data warehousing with HP

Bloor Research — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:00:00 +0100

We explore the differences between the various options now available from HP and explain how the company's partnership with Oracle strengthens its position. [Read More...]

Enterprise Performance Management

Quocirca — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:35:00 +0100

Monitoring, measuring and reporting on the financial health of an organisation is a basic need that requires effective tools and processes to optimise the end result. The research in this report shows that most organisations still have... [Read More...]

Light touch, firm impression

Quocirca — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:00:00 +0100

The automation of traditional paper based processes with technology can lead to unnecessary complexity. This leads to increased costs and other challenges which can be avoided if solutions are simple and fit closely to the business task in... [Read More...]

Data Encryption

Bloor Research — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:05:00 +0100

Data encryption forms an integral component of a secure computing environment. [Read More...]

Data Leak Prevention

Bloor Research — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:05:00 +0100

Data leak prevention can play a significant part in data protection as it prevents unauthorised data leaving an organisation's endpoints. [Read More...]

Enterprise Data Protection

Bloor Research — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:05:00 +0100

The need for Enterprise Data Protection is now more pressing than ever before. [Read More...]

Taking stock of the IT environment

Freeform Dynamics — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0100

How can IT and business leaders take practical steps towards improving the organisation's ability to deliver its own services? [Read More...]

Application Platforms

Freeform Dynamics — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:30:00 +0100

It makes sense to consider application platforms as a logical evolution of how IT in general, and software in particular, is commoditising. [Read More...]

Information Management in the Retail Sector

Freeform Dynamics — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0100

A more holistic and cohesive approach to information management can help improve performance. What's in this for retailers and how can they move forwards from where they are now? [Read More...]

EU compliance and regulations for the IT security professional

Bloor Research — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:00:00 +0100

Clearly, and quite rightly, data loss is now a legal issue and IT professionals need to be aware of their responsibilities. [Read More...]

Asia Pacific & Japan - Compliance and Regulations for the IT professional

Bloor Research — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:40:00 +0100

Clearly, and quite rightly, data loss is now a legal issue and IT professionals need to be aware of their responsibilities. [Read More...]

Standardised Battlespace SOA

Quocirca — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:05:00 +0100

Network Centric Operations (NCO) recognises the demand for pervasive decision-making in the modern battlespace. NCO provides the ability to leverage information networks to generate a more dynamic and agile decision-making space. [Read More...]

The Perfect Storm

Quocirca — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:50:00 +0100

As different needs and issues converge on businesses and IT managers around managing costs and risk while creating an enabling environment, technology advances now mean that client-side computing can be more tightly controlled. [Read More...]

SaaS-finding the user value propositions

Bloor Research — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:00:00 +0100

Though relevant to all business sectors, the SaaS model is particularly attractive for SMB sector, giving them access to resources that they would otherwise be unable to afford. [Read More...]

Sun SDRS

Bloor Research — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:00:00 +0100

The market for data retention is set to grow dramatically in the next few years and Sun is the only big name company with a specialised solution in this space. [Read More...]

Data Profiling

Bloor Research — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0100

The second of four Market Updates on data discovery, data profiling, data cleansing and matching, and data quality platforms respectively. [Read More...]

How Real-Time Online Sales Lead Scoring Drives A Competitive Edge

Bloor Research — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:35:00 +0100

Real-time online sales lead scoring can be the difference between winning and losing a high lifetime value new customer. [Read More...]