Get control over your cross-platform identity management issues

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	Get control over your cross-platform identity management issues According to the Gartner 2010 CIO Survey, identity management is the No. 1 IT security priority through 2011. This will be an ongoing concern well beyond 2011 as companies grapple with increasingly complex and disparate infrastructures and a multitude of new mobile access devices. New tools offer help in gaining control across heterogeneous platforms, even into the cloud. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Exceptional Application Experience Deliver a consistent and quality end-user experience with application performance management that enables you to: - Measure and analyze application performance for all transactions - Compare the response times against intelligent baselines and thresholds - Identify abnormal latencies in the infrastructure Learn More In this Issue IT Consumerization Momentum and Implications Cloud Fears Are Overblown, Says U.S. CIO Apple Gets Serious About iPad Security, Is It Enough? How to Succeed at Innovation WHITE PAPER: F5 Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers, 2010 The market for ADCs is consolidating. However, innovation continues, especially among some select smaller players. Although there are clear leaders in the ADC market, enterprises should focus their buying decisions on a vendor's ability to support specific application requirements. Learn more! IT Consumerization Momentum and Implications Pick up any tech journal and you still read headlines like, "CIOs must be prepared for IT consumerization." The articles in this genre proceed to warn IT executives that resistance is futile, IT consumerization will eventually impact their organizations. Read More WEBCAST: CA Technologies Business Service Assurance Define and manage IT service quality & delivery based on business impact and priority. View Now Cloud Fears Are Overblown, Says U.S. CIO Outgoing federal CIO Vivek Kundra believes that concerns about cloud security have been exaggerated in part to discourage cloud migrations that would take business away from traditional IT vendors. Such fears haven't stopped the Department of Homeland Security from embracing the cloud. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Taming the Data Demons Taming the data demons: leveraging information in the age of risk explores the framework and advantages of a holistic approach to data risk management, and provides both IT and line-of-business executives with the "why" and "how" to begin putting an end-to-end data risk management program to work in your organization. Learn more Apple Gets Serious About iPad Security, Is It Enough? Can you send encrypted email from your iPad? Not yet. As iPads pour into the enterprise, CIOs hope Apple can help solve this and other security problems. Read More How to Succeed at Innovation There are many contradictions in the CIO role: You are intimately involved in every aspect of the business yet are often considered separate from it. You are the steward of cost containment, yet you must also drive innovation. Technology is critical to your company's success, yet its value is difficult to demonstrate. In other words, it's a wonder IT innovation happens at all. Read More
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