SmartBiz IT Research Library

WEBCAST - This webcast explores the legal and business penalties that organizations face when they do not comply with privacy laws. Discover which of these laws apply specifically to your enterprise, which personally identifiable information (PII) you need to protect and where to find the critical data hiding in your networks.
Posted: October 30, 2009 | Premiered: October 30, 2009


Topics:  Data Encryption | Data Governance | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Security | Legal Compliance Software | Privacy Rights | Regulatory Compliance | Storage Security

PRESENTATION - This collection of slides from the Information Security Decisions Conference provides practical advice about securing your data. The presentation builds upon a basic, four-step model of discover, secure, monitor, and protect. Download these slides to learn how to overcome common data security issues.
Posted: October 29, 2009 | Published: October 29, 2009


Topics:  Data Governance | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Management | Data Security | Information Security | Security | Security Management

PODCAST - Matt Grand talks with Randy Abrams about a data breach at Radison Hotels. Unfortunately, an unknown number of their guests' credit card numbers were exposed to malicious hackers. In this podcast, Randy dishes out some advice on how to prevent this sort of data breach and what to do in the event that it’s already happened.
Posted: October 29, 2009 | Premiered: September 23, 2009


Topics:  Data Governance | Data Security | Kiosks | Malware | Security | Security Policies | Security Threats

PODCAST - Matt Grand talks with Randy Abrams about security issues with hotel business center computers. These are public computers and they often have insufficient security features. In this podcast, Randy shares some interesting things he’s found in hotel computers and gives some advice on using them safely.
Posted: October 29, 2009 | Premiered: August 20, 2009


Topics:  Data Governance | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Security | Malware | Remote Access Security | Security | Security Policies | Security Threats

WHITE PAPER - Organizations are being forced to move towards identity-based access lifecycle management tools in order to support IT agility and flexibility, safely empower staff, meet compliance requirements, and cope with the rapid evolution of data centers and core systems.
Posted: October 28, 2009 | Published: December 15, 2008


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Data Governance | HIPAA Compliance | Identity Management | Security Management | Security Policies | SOA

WHITE PAPER - Organizations should consider a thorough approach to IAM governance that meets the requirements of discovering, documenting and analyzing user access; establishing a process for user access governance; ensuring that constraints help manage business conflict; enforcing policies; and continuous monitoring.
Posted: October 27, 2009 | Published: June 11, 2009


Topics:  Access Control | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Data Governance | HIPAA Compliance | Identity Management | Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Compliance | Risk Management | Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance | Security Policies

PODCAST - In this podcast, listeners will hear a vendor-neutral, executive overview of in-database analytics technology from independent expert Rick Sherman. Find out how the technology works -- and how companies are leveraging it for improved operational efficiency and other business benefits.
Posted: October 21, 2009 | Premiered: October 20, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | CRM Analytics | Customer Data Integration | Data Governance | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Quality | Data Warehouses | Master Data Management

PODCAST - This expert podcast offers advice for deploying and completing tactical data quality projects from Forrester's Rob Karel.
Posted: October 21, 2009 | Premiered: October 21, 2009


Topics:  Data Auditing | Data Collection | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Modeling | Data Modeling Languages | Data Profiling | Data Quality | Design Verification | Quality Control | ROI

VIDEO - You know you have to protect your sensitive data, but in order to do that, you have to find it. Data classification consists of identifying what information is confidential, then deciding how to store and secure that information. In this video, Adrian Lane of Securosis gives insight into the data classification process.
Posted: October 20, 2009 | Premiered: October 20, 2009


Topics:  Data Classification | Data Collection | Data Governance | Data Security | Regulatory Compliance | Security

EZINE - Having some issues with SharePoint? It happens. This issue describes some of SharePoint's most common problems and provides the fixes to solve them. Also in this issue, get some pointers on how to manage external data access as part of your governance plan, and weigh the pros and cons of SharePoint social computing.
Posted: October 20, 2009 | Published: October 20, 2009


Topics:  Authentication | Collaborative Applications Software | Data Governance | Microsoft Office | Remote Access Protocols | Remote Access Security | Social Computing | Social Networking | Web 2.0 | Wikis

EBOOK - This e-book from IBM discusses three solutions that can help you deal with data growth, optimize your resources for the best possible throughput, and increase overall application and database performance.
Posted: October 19, 2009 | Published: July 10, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Management Software | Database Management | Database Performance Management

DATA SHEET - Iron Mountain’s Archive Services Platform API provides developers with the ideal remedy to take control of their data archiving challenges. A Web services interface allows developers to easily integrate their data-intensive applications, using almost any programming language, with Iron Mountain’s ultra-secure, highly scalable archive.
Posted: October 15, 2009 | Published: October 15, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Cloud Computing | Customer Data Management | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Storage | Email Archiving | Storage Architectures | Storage Best Practices | Storage Management

WEBCAST - This webcast will show you how to access and deliver relevant, trusted data to your business to drive competitive advantage. Discover how to get business and IT on the same page, make data quality issues a thing of the past and leverage SOA effectively.
Posted: October 15, 2009 | Premiered: October 15, 2009


Topics:  Data Collection | Data Governance | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Profiling | Data Quality | Quality Control | SOA | Web Services

WHITE PAPER - For processing data for BI analytics and other applications, the usual go-to software products include various extract, transform, load (ETL) and data warehousing solutions. However, these products do not always provide the speed required to deliver data on time. An additional product can speed the processing of high volumes of data.
Posted: October 12, 2009 | Published: October 12, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Data Collection | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Mining | Data Quality | Data Storage | Data Warehouses | Database Administration | Database Administrators | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Databases | ETL (Software)

WHITE PAPER - This paper explores the reasons why data volumes are increasing and where bottlenecks most frequently occur. It then explains why adding more hardware isn’t a solution to these performance problems and delves into the various methods that can be used to break through the bottlenecks to speed applications.
Posted: October 12, 2009 | Published: October 12, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Data Center Management | Data Classification | Data Collection | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Mining | Data Quality | Data Storage | Data Warehouses | Database Administration | Database Management