Friday, March 29, 2013

Friday Roundup: IP Theft & Employee Attitudes

IP Theft: Understanding Employee Attitudes

CIOs: Be a Multi-Sourced IT Services Broker

Industrial Big Data: Addressing New Business Analytics

Datacenter Footprint: Increase Performance & Reduce Costs

Welcome to this week's Friday newsletter. In this issue you'll find out how employees can put your sensitive data at risk and the mindset behind it. Plus, find out how CIOs can seize the opportunities offered by a cloud-enabled multi-supplier service delivery chain.

Hospital adoption of electronic health record systems has more than tripled since 2009. But as states rush to meet the 2015 deadline – is there a danger of the quality of healthcare being compromised? Read the blog here to make up your own mind.

Employees are Putting Your IP at Risk

Companies today are losing valuable intellectual property (IP) on a regular basis. While most security initiatives focus on threats posed by cyber criminals and hackers, there is a less obvious player in the theft of corporate assets: employees. In most cases, these trusted employees are moving, sharing, and exposing sensitive data in order to do their daily jobs. Read on to discover the mindset and motivation of employees involved in IP theft.

Be a Multi-Sourced IT Services Broker

There is increasing pressure for IT to provide innovative services more quickly and efficiently. Additionally, delivering services is becoming more complex. However, this new multi-vendor 'supply chain of IT' offers the best opportunity in a decade for IT to strike up a new relationship with its internal customers – one based on the value of the service delivered, rather than just the applications and infrastructure it is entrusted to manage. This paper explores how CIOs can seize the opportunities offered by a cloud-enabled multi-supplier service delivery chain. Find out how to take charge with HP on service integration and management.

Address New Business Analytics Challenges

Organizations today understand the strategic value of analytics, but determining the best way to deliver on that value is in question. Many tools currently in use are not standardized and not delivering the economies of scale normally associated with growth. Visibility into the cost of supporting Business Analytics for the enterprise can be very difficult. Join this webcast on April 9 at 11am EDT and find out what is essential for a Business Analytics solution moving forward – including building off the lessons learned of others.

Shrink Your Datacenter Footprint

From e-commerce retailers to the world's social media leaders and Fortune Global 500 companies, the size of your data center's footprint matters. Often scaling up is a necessary evil, but can increase costs and cause other problems. Download now to get a series of case studies documenting how companies increased performance while shrinking their datacenter footprint and infrastructure costs.