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	Sister organizations pool their resources to share SIEM and logging You've heard the expression, "Two can live as cheaply as one," but can five log as cheaply as one? Five sister clubs of the Canadian Automobile Association pooled their resources to acquire one high-end SIEM and logging system from LogRhythm to meet their logging requirements for PCI compliance. Read More WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation Ensuring Maximum Performance on Windows 7 Systems Independent tests show that fragmentation prevention and defragmentation resulted in performance benefits significantly beyond those delivered by the native Windows 7 utility. Learn more. In this Issue University tests ERP on new Dell cloud What you need to know about HP's acquisition of Autonomy What to do about rogue IT Top cybersecurity concerns: Malicious code, employees run amok Spirits Distributor Serves Real-Time Business Intelligence Why Companies Should Donate Used PCs Instead of Recycling WHITE PAPER: GFI Software Messaging and Web Security Best Practices for 2011 In this white paper, Osterman Research discusses how the daily occurrence of malware within organizations has become decidedly worse over the past several years. Read More University tests ERP on new Dell cloud University of Kentucky CIO Vince Kellen is considering moving some of the university's SAP work to a cloud environment, which would make him a relatively early adopter of ERP in the cloud. Read More What you need to know about HP's acquisition of Autonomy Here's why you should be paying attention: It's a big analytics play that could help lead the way to making sense of all the unstructured data that's overwhelming enterprises of all sizes, says analyst Charles King. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies CA Technologies Newsletter featuring Gartner Research This publication, enhanced by Gartner research, reveals how to take a proactive IT approach which ensures visibility and control during the adoption of virtualization and cloud environments. Read now What to do about rogue IT The CEO has fallen head over heels for his iPad. The marketing team has set up shop on every social media site known to man. The sales group has secretly purchased its own software-as-a-service subscriptions. Meanwhile, the VP of operations is wondering whether there isn't something better out in the cloud that the company could use to run its supply chain. Read More Top cybersecurity concerns: Malicious code, employees run amok When 3,300 information-technology professionals were asked about cybersecurity, they said malicious code attacks accounted for the main type of cyberattack their organizations suffered during the past year, although "internal unintentional actions" by well-meaning insiders also wreaked havoc. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC How SaaS Can Benefit the IT Help Desk Small and midsize businesses that are using software as a service (SaaS) to automate their IT help desk(s) and IT infrastructure are reporting significant savings. Read More! Spirits Distributor Serves Real-Time Business Intelligence Charmer Sunbelt Group CIO Paul Fipps doesn't usually make IT investment decisions on instinct alone. Except, that is, when it came to implementing SAP's new in-memory analytics engine. Read More Why Companies Should Donate Used PCs Instead of Recycling When we write about sustainability in CIO, we often focus on how IT leaders can help their companies cut energy consumption. It's an obvious target because it's relatively easy to quantify. Whether or not you have formal goals for reducing carbon emissions, those kilowatts saved and gallons of heating oil conserved drop right to the bottom line. Read More
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