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IBM Tivoli Security User Compliance Management Demo SOFTWARE DEMO: This demonstration shows how Tivoli's security management products work together to provide an audit trail of unauthorized access when an IT administrator logs in to a human resource database containing sensitive information. Posted: 22 Dec 2008 \| Premiered: 19 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Compliance (Finance) \| Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Dashboards \| Databases \| Enterprise \| Operating Systems \| Security Policies

Take a Holistic Approach to Business Driven Security WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about actions that organizations can take to drive security efforts from a business-driven perspective, and how leadership from IBM can help enable success. Posted: 22 Dec 2008 \| Published: 19 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Business Processes \| CRM \| Data Security \| Enterprise \| Investments \| Physical Security \| Security Infrastructure

Enabling Sustainable Compliance Management WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to see how adopting a sustainable security compliance strategy minimizes risk, while making proper use of people, process and technology. Also learn how you can cost-effectively comply with regulations, while maintaining business flexibility to achieve mission goals. Posted: 22 Dec 2008 \| Published: 19 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Business Processes \| Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Compliance Audits \| Compliance Software \| Data Security \| Enterprise \| HIPAA

Controlling Application Data Growth in the IBM z/OS Environment WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how the IBM® Optim™ Data Growth Solution for z/OS offers proven capabilities that align the management of application data with your business objectives to maintain z/OS service levels and control costs. Posted: 05 Dec 2008 \| Published: 05 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Management \| Databases \| Disaster Recovery \| IT Infrastructure \| Systems Management

Application Retirement: Enterprise Data Management Strategies for Decommissioning Projects WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how incorporating an enterprise data management solution into your decommissioning project can help your company increase the business value of your enterprise applications. Posted: 05 Dec 2008 \| Published: 05 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Data Management \| Databases \| Enterprise \| ERP \| IT Infrastructure \| Storage Systems

Enrich the Decisioning of Your COBOL Applications WHITE PAPER: With IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules and IBM WebSphere ILOG Rules for COBOL, you can externalize and manage the business rules in your organization’s COBOL applications without disruption or a major development project. Furthermore, you can use the externalized rules as decision services within an SOA strategy. Posted: 02 Dec 2008 \| Published: 15 Mar 2008 TOPICS: Application Life-Cycle Management \| COBOL \| ERP \| Programming \| ROI \| SOA

Rational Asset Manager Made Practical WHITE PAPER: The eKit includes demos on how Rational Asset Manager tracks and audits your assets in order to utilize them for reuse. Posted: 25 Nov 2008 \| Published: 25 Nov 2008 TOPICS: Application Life-Cycle Management \| Applications Management \| ERP \| RAM \| SOA \| Systems Management

Remote Data Protection Demo SOFTWARE DEMO: Backup is a pretty complex ecosystem. There's data explosion, increasing recovery demands, a shrinking backup window and a limited IT budget. In this webinar you'll hear 2 key backup experts discuss the best practices around critical success factors. Posted: 31 Oct 2008 \| Premiered: 30 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| ERP \| Networking \| Remote Access Protocols \| Remote Access Security \| Remote Network Management

IBM Optim Data Privacy Solution for SAP PRODUCT LITERATURE: The IBM® Optim™ Data Privacy Solution for SAP® offers comprehensive, proven capabilities for de-identifying test data, making the data appropriate for testing. Posted: 29 Oct 2008 \| Published: 29 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Authorization \| Data Center Management \| Data Management \| Data Security \| Databases \| ERP \| SAP (Product) \| Testing

IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force® 2008 Mid-Year Trend Statistics WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to discover the implications, so you can enhance information security for the rest of 2008 and beyond. Posted: 27 Oct 2008 \| Published: 27 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Databases \| HTML \| Internet \| Internet Security \| Malware \| SQL

The Roadmap to Virtual Infrastructure: Practical Implementation Strategies WHITE PAPER: This VMware® white paper, especially useful for senior IT managers, describes best practices for implementing virtualization technology and provides strategies for convincing decision makers and others to support server virtualization. Posted: 27 Oct 2008 \| Published: 27 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Centers \| Databases \| Disaster Recovery \| IT Infrastructure \| NAS \| ROI \| SAN \| VMware

Solving the Distributed Data Problem WHITE PAPER: Companies need to reevaluate traditional methods of protecting branch office and PC data such as tape backups and other localized do-it-yourself solutions. Read this white paper to learn about remote on-demand services. Posted: 27 Oct 2008 \| Published: 27 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Centers \| Data Security \| Distributed Data Management \| Enterprise \| Internet \| NAS \| Productivity \| RAID \| SAN

Exploiting DB2 on System z to Meet Your Data Warehousing Needs WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the role of data warehousing and DB2 on System environments, and it explains how you can standardize and consolidate your existing data marts and warehouses to form a mixed workload solution. Posted: 27 Oct 2008 \| Published: 27 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Warehouses \| IT Infrastructure \| OLTP \| Regulatory Compliance \| Storage Systems

Creating and Managing Value with IBM Tivoli Service Management Center for System z WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how IBM Tivoli Service Management Center for System z can help you reduce the overall cost of IT by transforming your data centre from a reactive, resource focus to a business-driven, proactive service. Posted: 27 Oct 2008 \| Published: 27 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Enterprise Systems \| IT Service Management \| ROI \| System z \| TCO

Beyond Disaster Recovery: Becoming a Resilient Business WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you'll learn how to determine risks, calculate impact, evaluate your current structure's response and test overall resiliency. Posted: 27 Oct 2008 \| Published: 27 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Business Processes \| CRM \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| ERP \| High Availability \| Risk Management

Creating a Green Data Center to Help Reduce Energy Costs and Gain a Competitive Advantage WHITE PAPER: The data center is often the engine that drives the growth of the enterprise, and energy efficiency is the key. Posted: 20 Oct 2008 \| Published: 17 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Enterprise \| Environmental Compliance \| Environmental Industry \| Environmental Law \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Managers \| Leadership \| Vendors

IBM Smart SOA Global Virtual Forum: How to Get Smarter Business Outcomes WEBCAST: Adapting to change is hard for today's professional architectures, but with the dynamics of the industry, change is a must. This webcast will show how to gain successful agility and maximize business IT value with the Smart SOA approach. Watch now! Posted: 13 Oct 2008 \| Premiered: Nov 5, 2008, 10:30 EST (15:30 GMT) TOPICS: Application Deployment \| Application Development \| Application Development and Integration Services \| Business Processes \| Database Management Software \| Programming Languages \| SOA \| SOA Governance

Move Web Application Security Testing into Your Development Cycle WHITE PAPER: This paper focuses on the role developers can play in solving Web application security issues, and it details how IBM Rational® AppScan® Developer Edition software can enable them to do so. Posted: 06 Oct 2008 \| Published: 04 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Application Security \| HTTP \| Risk Management \| Security Threats \| Software Testing \| Web Application Security \| Web Development \| Web Development Tools

Strengthening Web Application Security: Charting a Robust Strategy That Starts at Development. WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the current dilemma that security auditors face with the bottleneck for Web application deployment. Posted: 06 Oct 2008 \| Published: 04 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Application Deployment \| Budgeting \| Software Development Methodologies \| Testing \| Web Application Security \| Web Development \| Web Services

IBM Software: A Green Strategy for Your Entire Organization WHITE PAPER: This paper explores optimization strategies and demonstrated benefits being achieved today with IBM Software solutions. Utilization of these capabilities can help you meet the increasing challenges of energy efficiency, cost containment and compliance. Posted: 06 Oct 2008 \| Published: 04 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Business Processes \| Cooling Capacity \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| Infrastructure Management \| Power Supplies \| Regulatory Compliance \| Software Development Methodologies

Realizing the Value of the Green Data Center by Integrating Facilities and IT WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the importance of managing energy consumption in data centers and how systems management technologies contribute to green management. Posted: 06 Oct 2008 \| Published: 04 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Business Processes \| Data Centers \| Energy Industries \| Environmental Compliance \| Environmental Industry \| Environmental Law \| IT Infrastructure \| Systems Management

IBM Enterprise Content Management and System Storage Solutions: Working Together BOOK: This IBM Redbooks publication will provide the necessary information to IBMers, business partners, and customers on how to implement FileNet ECM with IBM Storage Solutions. Posted: 06 Oct 2008 \| Published: 03 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Data Storage \| Disaster Recovery \| Email Archiving \| Enterprise Content Management \| Enterprise Content Management Software \| SAP (Product) \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Management Services \| Storage Virtualization

Extending the Value of RPG Applications on the IBM i Platform WHITE PAPER: Applications based on the RPG programming language running on the IBM i operating system on the IBM Power Systems platform are the cornerstone of many companies' business processes. Posted: 17 Sep 2008 \| Published: 17 Sep 2008 TOPICS: Application Development \| Application Life-Cycle Management \| Application Performance Management \| Application Programming Interfaces \| BPEL \| Business Process Management \| Productivity \| SOA

The Ideal Blade Solution to Replace Your Rack Server: IBM BladeCenter JS12 Express Blade PRODUCT LITERATURE: Read this article to learn how to simplify your traditional UNIX, IBM i and Linux rack-mount and tower setup with the IBM BladeCenter JS12 Express blade and BladeCenter S chassis. Discover how it delivers a complete integrated business system. Posted: 11 Sep 2008 \| Published: 11 Sep 2008 TOPICS: Application Server Hardware \| Blade Servers \| Chassis \| High Availability \| Linux \| Rack Servers \| Security \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| Staffing

IBM BladeCenter: The Right Choice BROCHURE: In this brochure, you’ll read about the advantages of IBM® BladeCenter®, including its flexible architecture, easy deployment and energy-efficient features. Posted: 11 Sep 2008 \| Published: 11 Sep 2008 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| DVD \| Memory \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Management \| Switches \| Virtual Machine Monitor \| VMware