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The Hidden Costs of BYOD

BYOD is the latest trend that shows how far IT has come in understanding and responding to what employees want and need to be productive. While the mobile workforce can accelerate productivity, because BYOD signals a fundamental shift, costs can add up. According to Aberdeen, enterprises spend an extra $170,000 per year to deploy 1,000

IT Management Starts at Layer 2 Three Simple Steps to Greater Network Efficiency

Efficient Networks are Built on Information You want great performance, high availability, and cost-effective operation. To get it, you need fast access to comprehensive, real-time information about your: • Hardware and software: What devices are on your network and how they’re connected • Wired, wireless, physical, and virtual infrastructures: All the infrastructure factors that affect

Putting Social to Work for Your Business

Governments, corporations and NGOs around the world face a serious trust deficit. Although high-profile institutions have weathered the storm of negative public opinion since the 2008 financial crisis, the 2012 Edelman Trust Barometer reveals that a tide of skepticism is sweeping through most of the world’s biggest economies. At the same time, social networks are

Quality management throughout the product and application lifecycle

The bottom line—success or failure often depends upon one thing: Whose product or service is of the highest quality. The quest for business transformation through innovation and increasing reliance on software to deliver that innovation, while at the same time reducing risk and cost, mandates a more rigorous approach to managing software quality. Complexity is

A Rational approach to integration testing

Applications are evolving at an ever-faster pace. These applications are not discrete islands; they build on a complex, interconnected set of components that includes disparate technologies, developers, deployment topologies and organizations. Developers must deliver high-quality applications while limiting their testing expenses. In this challenging environment, a combination of automated integration testing and test virtualization can

Service Virtualization For Dummies

Welcome to Service Virtualization For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition. Service virtualization helps companies create more efficient testing environments by eliminating many of the roadblocks that testing teams typically encounter. While testing teams want to test early in the application development process, it’s hard to make this plan a reality based on the increasing complexity of

Social Selling in B2B Sales

Over the past decade, B2B customers have become socially empowered, highly informed decision makers. While it’s common knowledge that consumers are using social media to find deals, research products and make recommendations, the widespread use of social media among business purchasers is less appreciated. In fact, social media (along with search) is giving B2B customers