Dear Subscriber, Welcome to the ZDNet IT White Papers newsletter-your weekly highlights of the most important white papers and case studies recently posted in ZDNet's White Paper library. In this edition, we present white papers on Security Tools, Wireless Internet, Network Disaster Recovery, Telecom Hardware, Smart Cards, Security Applications, Sales/Marketing and Methodology.
********************** ADVERTISEMENT *********************** This is the digital networked economy. Where connectivity is power. We live in a world where businesses can fail or thrive through connectivity and networks. The availability of secure, affordable networks allows organisations to connect offices, facilities, staff, management, customers, suppliers and partners together into a commercial ecosystem. Download the white paper today: http://newsletters.zdnetuk.cneteu.net/t/33964/1427290/13286/0/ ************************************************************ This Week's Top White Papers: CATEGORY: SECURITY TOOLS TITLE: Email Security Intelligence Report COMPANY: Messagelabs DESCRIPTION: MessageLabs Intelligence is the leading source for email security news, information and data. Providing a range of information on global email security threats, the service is based on live data feeds from MessageLabs global messaging infrastructure, which scan tens of millions of emails daily, offering the latest and most comprehensive data and analysis. LINK: http://newsletters.zdnetuk.cneteu.net/t/33964/1427290/12405/0/ CATEGORY: WIRELESS INTERNET TITLE: New Requirements in Mobile Manageability COMPANY: Hewlett-Packard DESCRIPTION: The tidal wave of mobilized computing is generating a large and complex manageability burden. Therefore, your organization may need a solution to avoid drowning in a flood of problem incidents, support requests and outages. By adopting best practices and a comprehensive lifecycle management suite, you can stem the tide and regain effective control. LINK: http://newsletters.zdnetuk.cneteu.net/t/33964/1427290/13287/0/ CATEGORY: NETWORK DISASTER RECOVERY TITLE: Disaster Recovery Planning: Don't Forget the WAN! COMPANY: Cisco Systems DESCRIPTION: The range of eventualities to be considered in planning for business continuity has grown even wider in recent months. Coupled with the growing use of Internet-based business applications, disaster recovery planning must give considerable attention to the wide-area network (WAN) environment, as well as to traditional topics such as redundant storage of data. Enterprise planners can take advantage of the Cisco AVVID (Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data) to increase network and application resiliency, and must understand the technologies and WAN services that network service providers offer. LINK: http://newsletters.zdnetuk.cneteu.net/t/33964/1427290/13288/0/ CATEGORY: TELECOM HARDWARE TITLE: Accelerating the Growth and Profitability of Next-Generation Services COMPANY: IBM DESCRIPTION: This white paper tries to explain the solutions, which will accelerate the growth and profitability of next generation services in the telecommunication industry. The IBM - Integrated Platform for Telecommunications opens the way for service providers to grow their profits from COTS NGN solutions without abandoning their legacy systems. With the IBM - Integrated Platform for Telecommunications, providers can quickly and economically converge disparate voice, data, IP and enterprise technologies solutions on a single, open platform. LINK: http://newsletters.zdnetuk.cneteu.net/t/33964/1427290/13289/0/ CATEGORY: SMART CARDS TITLE: Overview: NEC's Advanced Digital Identity Solutions COMPANY: NEC DESCRIPTION: This document explains how the current concerns of managing identities are becoming more of an integral part of an organisation�s business strategy, and how NEC�s open, modular, standards-based approach can facilitate that strategy. It goes on to describe in outline form some of the standard modules that are available as building blocks for the system. LINK: http://newsletters.zdnetuk.cneteu.net/t/33964/1427290/13290/0/ CATEGORY: SECURITY APPLICATIONS TITLE: Patch Management: Managing and Maintaining Windows Updates COMPANY: St. Bernard Software DESCRIPTION: The number of patches and updates software vendors release is increasing, as is the complexity of the patches, updates, and service packs released. Although this is a positive step in closing security vulnerabilities and keeping applications current, the sheer volume of patches and updates can overwhelm IT professionals. TechRepublic's Patch Management: Managing and Maintaining Windows Updates outlines simple strategies, and describes several tools, for deploying and managing patches. LINK: http://newsletters.zdnetuk.cneteu.net/t/33964/1427290/13291/0/ CATEGORY: SALES/MARKETING TITLE: The Emerging Trend to Sales and Marketing Intelligence, Part 1 COMPANY: DM Review DESCRIPTION: Business and customer intelligence have largely been associated to application providers that couple ETL tools with high-powered analytical capabilities to help sales and marketing managers integrate disparate databases into data warehouses to run through millions of rows of data in hope that they be able to cater to customer needs. However, the focus with business and customer intelligence is often on the application, not the output. Sales and marketing intelligence is focused on the output, not the application. Sales and marketing intelligence serves the needs of sales and marketing professionals. LINK: http://newsletters.zdnetuk.cneteu.net/t/33964/1427290/13292/0/ CATEGORY: METHODOLOGY TITLE: HP Product Change Management Program COMPANY: Hewlett-Packard DESCRIPTION: Businesses are constantly dealing with change � no matter what stage of the product lifecycle. HP can help minimize the negative impacts of change for your organization through the Product Change Management Program, demonstrating their commitment to providing comprehensive lifecycle management for HP business products. 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