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WHITE PAPER: This quarters figures compiled by jobadswatch.co.uk show that during the fourth quarter of 2010 the IT jobs market for permanent staff being recruited by media organisations is up by 1.8%. This is the sixth consecutive quarter that has seen higher demand.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: Download the Open Group Service-Oriented Architecture reference architecture.

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 | Published: 17 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this document is to help the security practitioner responsible for their organization’s risk estimation function to utilize The Open Group Risk Management Frameworkin an ISO/IEC 27005 structured process.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011

EZINE: 2011 has been an overwhelming year for security; complete with security breaches, subsequent attacks and an abundance of negative attention. This month’s edition of Information Security Magazine, brought to you by SearchSecurity.com, is looking past the negativity and focusing on the positive. 

Posted: 01 Oct 2011 | Published: 01 Oct 2011

IT BRIEFING: This report extract from the Corporate Executive Board, presents key facts and figures on the take up of consumer technology in the workplace.

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 | Published: 31 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This document is designed for users, developers, and implementors of open systems. It provides complete infor mation on what’s new in the Single UNIX Specification, Version 4, including POSIX.1-2008,with comprehensive reference material on every aspect.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: The O-ISM3 is The Open Group framework for managing information security and information in the Open Information Security Management Maturity Model (O-ISM3) wider context. It aims to ensure that security processes in any organization are implemented so as to operate at a level consistent with that organization's business requirements.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This resource explores several topics related to future 40 Gbps twisted-pair options such as, an overview of some recent developments in cabling industry standards, capacity considerations with lessons learned from 10GBASE-T, cabling system considerations, and much more.

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: The definition of a mobile payment is often open to interpretation and can differ from source to source.    Juniper Research has a simple definition of a mobile payment as “payment for goods or services with a mobile device such as a phone, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), or other such device.”

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Juniper Research defines a mobile coupon as “a coupon sent to and stored on a mobile phone that can be exchanged for a rebate, a financial discount etc. at a retailer or merchant when the consumer purchases a product.”

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 | Published: 25 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper introduces an integrated, turnkey data center solution designed to accelerate VM backup and restore operations while keeping IT costs to a minimum. Featuring backup, storage and data protection technologies all-in-one, this integrated solution can protect your most critical VM data. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 | Published: 31 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Consolidating infrastructure servers across several business locations can reduce management costs, improve availability and help you transition towards a greener IT environment.  This white paper examines how one IT organisation accomplished this goal by deploying Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 Datacenter Edition across all 12 of its locations.

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Collaboration Oriented Architectures (COA) describes information architectures that comply with the COA framework, which in turn is described in the associated COA Framework paper1.

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 | Published: 25 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: As the IT industry standardizes its operations to solve business problems in the most efficient, effective, economical, and equitable way, ITIL v3 becomes a useful and critical tool.

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008

IT BRIEFING: This paper from the Open Group, documents an approach to enhance the TOGAF enterprise architecture methodology with the SABSA security architecture approach to create one holistic architecture methodology.

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 05 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Phase 1 of the Government Data Centre Strategy Programme identified the feasibility of consolidating existing  Public Sector data centres and accelerating the provision of cloud computing to  the Public Sector (G-Cloud) and suitable offerings and procurement terms (Application Store) for all UK Public Sector organisations.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

EGUIDE: Something as seemingly trivial as a truck hitting a telephone pole can suddenly leave health care employees unable to access clinical applications and patient data. This tip discusses how providers can create, and update, business continuity plans to ensure that key systems and processes are maintained.

Posted: 20 Sep 2011 | Published: 20 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this resource for insights to help ease the transformation from service desk to service management, including the 4 requirements for an effective IT Service Management (ITSM) platform, how to develop a holistic governance framework to minimize compliance costs, and the underlying principles of the newest version of ITIL (ITIL V3).

Posted: 21 Dec 2011 | Published: 21 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides best practices for integrating security planning into your cloud computing initiatives. Gain insights on key aspects of cloud security, such as encrypting data, extending trust across federated clouds, strengthening compliance and much more.

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 | Published: 20 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn more about outsourcing SharePoint2010 infrastrucutre to Office 365 or another hosting provider.

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 | Published: 27 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Over time, the information security/risk management profession has developed a variety of methods for assessing risk within an organization.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Recent news from the Bank of England now places a swift economic recovery in real doubt. The UK economy actually slipped into negative growth in the final quarter of 2010, and even the most optimistic forecasts predict economic recovery over the coming years to be sluggish at best.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: View this paper for an introduction to CSC Trusted Cloud Services and explore how it not only can satisfy client value expectations for enterprise agility, flexibility and economy, but also offer new payoff possibilities by combining strong security with transparency services to generate trust and open up new possibilities for enterprise value.

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 | Published: 29 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This Technical Standard provides a taxonomy describing the factors that drive risk – their definitions and relationships. This Technical Standard is not a reference or tutorial on how to assess or analyze risk, as there are many such references already available.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011

EZINE: Check out this first 2012 issue of Storage Magazine for in-depth analysis of the factors you need to consider when choosing the best type of DR site for your organization, including balancing costs against risks.

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 | Published: 18 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Recognise how your data can become vulnerable and understand the compliance issues involved. This paper identifies data protection strategies you can use to keep your organisation's information both safe and compliant.

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 | Published: 07 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: Oracle introduces the new Sun Fire X4170 M2, the most versatile IT infrastructure building block server and the Sun Fire X4270 M2 server, the ideal server for clustered database and virtualized workloads.

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 | Published: 16 Mar 2011