Dell’s new family of its market-leading Latitude business laptop range changes the game for end users and IT professionals, responding to the biggest needs of both key players in the notebook PC equation. This new range incorporates state-of-the-art reliability, battery life, security and connectivity, to bring users all-day computing, inspired design, peace of mind and
This whitepaper sets out to evaluate benefits in performance, cost, time to complete, wattage consumed for each test and overall KWH consumption by using Diskeeper defragmentation software. Benchmarking consisted of simple before and after wattage calculations monitored on the system without, and then with Diskeeper.
Industry discussion on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and virtualization positions them as separate, though related, topics today. Because of the wealth of public discussion on each technology, IT managers may wonder whether they are in any sense connected to each other. In fact, the technologies that come with virtualization can be seen as the key enablers
Over the last several years, business process management (BPM) has evolved from a mysterious alchemy of arc-and-bubble graphics to a mainstream tool of the trade for business-led IT integration. In a parallel universe, complex event processing (CEP) has expanded beyond the ethereal domain of foreign-exchange trading to include everything from transportation logistics to customer relationship
Laptops are all too often the weakest link in information systems. To guarantee the confidentiality and integrity of exchanges with mobile terminals, Arkoon recommends strong, bilateral authentication, encryption adapted to the information stored and transmitted, use of virtual private IP links (VPNs) and centralised management of keys and security rules.
One in every three companies in Western Europe is looking into voice and data convergence. Network infrastructure, servers, and client devices are all going to be impacted. Security and quality of service are essential ingredients of a successful move to IP telephony.
The time has come for businesses to move on from perimeter protection to a more comprehensive, panoramic solution. UTM is the only multi-function security system that offers the necessary protection. It provides the extended company with total, upgradable and inexpensive protection for its digital data exchanges.
Initially designed simply to clean up electronic mailboxes, the antispam function is now wide-reaching and increasingly essential. It helps protect against worms and viruses, phishing and fake websites, maintains user productivity at an optimal level and preserves the bandwidth of the company’s network.
There are a number of possible deployment models for running enterprise Java applications on hypervisor-based virtualization platforms such as VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure. Which one you choose can have a very significant impact on the total cost of ownership (TCO) for those applications. Simply running a “standard” software stack inside a virtual machine will usually not
With corporate data centers at or near their physical limit, virtualization is fast emerging as the best way to meet the growing demand for computing capacity. Adding physical capacity isn’t a fast, easy, or readily scalable option. Sometimes it’s hardly an option at all: building new data centers takes too long and costs too much,