Thanksgiving Roundup: Optimizing Blade Servers, Cloud Performance, Database Security, Data Integration, and Disaster Planning

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Welcome to the special Wednesday edition of the VoicesOn Friday Roundup due to the Thanksgiving holiday. This week, we bring you white papers on Optimizing Blade Servers, Cloud Performance, Database Security, Data Integration, and Disaster Planning.

Optimizing Blade Servers for Virtualization: Improve IT Efficiency, Stop Server Sprawl
This Technology Spotlight discusses the changing nature of IT and how blade server technology combined with virtualization is becoming the foundation of the distributed IT environment.

Unleashing Cloud Performance: Making the Promise of Cloud a Reality
Want to eliminate spiraling cost and complexity of your IT infrastructure? Riverbed can help by delivering cloud services with LAN-like performance across your organization. In this whitepaper, we explore how WAN optimization from Riverbed can deliver on the promise of accelerated cloud performance for widely distributed enterprises.

SANS Institute: Making Database Security an IT Security Priority
The most important company information resides in databases and organizations are not doing enough to secure this critical data. Although it can be difficult to put a price tag on stored data, the compromise of such information can cause significant damage to an organization's operations, reputation and bottom line. Tanya Baccum, SANS Institute analyst, discusses the importance of having an appropriate IT security strategy that mitigates risk to databases by introducing key steps and controls to effective database security.

Nimble Data Architecture: What Getting Data Integration Right Can Do for Your Business
In this whitepaper, we describe how executive and IT management can get and maintain control of their company's data architecture to help meet business objectives. We describe the relationship between data integration projects and data architecture concepts and practices. We describe how the business planning and IT development processes that direct and leverage data integration projects depend on tooling. We describe breakthrough ways in which data architects, business analysts, programmers, and business users can collaborate to address their organization's pressing business challenges.

Planning for Disaster and Everyday Threats
From downtime costs to regulatory compliance, the need for strategic business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) planning is clear, but what does that mean for your organization? Find out how your organization can protect business-critical functions, minimize downtime and mitigate risk.

 

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