This report outlines Forrester’s guidance for developing a business case to justify a BYOD program to support your workforce computing strategy. Supporting the growing number and increasing diversity of mobile devices used for work is particularly challenging for I&O executives. Results of Forrester’s Forrsights Workforce Employee Survey, Q2 2012 show that more than two-thirds of
For years, organisations have had to protect desktop and notebook computers. Typically, these efforts have fallen under the purview of different groups within a company, each of which would use its own tools to ensure systems were backed up, the device was secure and not compromised, and the corporate data was safeguarded to satisfy regulatory
In March 2012, HP Storage commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying HP 3PAR Storage.
Many factors are causing IT organizations to look at their environmental scorecards. The rising worldwide demand for power, inherent complications of power creation and usage, the ongoing debate about global warming, and steady demand for more IT services at less cost are driving more focus on green IT. Other practical business reasons are not to
Leveraging deduplication in backup environments yields significant advantages. The cost savings in reducing disk capacity requirements change the economics of disk-based backup. For some organizations, it allows disk-based backup—and, importantly, recovery—to be extended to additional workloads in the environment. For others, deduplication makes it possible to introduce disk-based backup where it may not have been
Firesheep/FaceNiff fears? Learn how to prevent side-jacking attacks and protect your website users. Using extensions such as Firesheep and FaceNiff have made session hijacking (or sidejacking) easier than ever, meaning almost anyone is able to intercept web session profiles over wireless networks and steal user credentials. This white paper discusses the risks and how to
When you employ web-based services on the Internet, SSL certificates are the industry standard for authentication and security. Depending on how you plan to use SSL certificates, multi-use certificates can provide greater flexibility than traditional certificates. Multi-use certificates protect multiple Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDNs) and subdomains, lowering your administrative costs and simplifying certificate installation,
Trust is a fundamental currency on the web. In a virtual world, where you never know for sure who is controlling the website you are viewing or consuming the information you are sharing, meaningful interaction is impossible without high levels of trust. Increasingly, as cybercriminals have become more sophisticated in setting up spoof phishing sites
Microsoft will end support for Windows XP on the 8th April 2014. Organizations that have not started a migration to Microsoft Windows 7 will need to do so quickly or lose support for one of the most important technologies in the enterprise desktop environment. There are two options for customers after this date; either take
The pressure for organizations, in the public or private sector, to reduce costs is constant. At the same time, organizations have to remain or improve user productivity in all their departments to stay competitive. This is even further magnified during a recovering economy as organizations face challenges of sustaining or growing revenue from customers or