"The growing use of mobile devices and movement of resources to the Cloud are adding further complexity to access management administration, enforcement, and auditing. However, there are still some basic access management challenges that need to be addressed. Here is how we see it all playing out in 2012."

Securing Access to the IT Infrastructure: Predictions for 2012 that Every IT Security Pro Needs to Know

"The volume of data managed by organizations today is growing exponentially as a result of increased dependence on digital content and long-term data retention. While businesses can become more agile via the use of information technology, there’s a price to pay: conducting business requires uninterrupted access to data and systems. With limited tolerance for downtime, organizations adopt contingency plans that include auxiliary systems and copies of data. This limits risk, but it also increases costs. Since risk mitigation and business agility cannot be compromised, IT organizations seek data protection solutions that optimize their storage investments. IBM delivers a portfolio of data protection and retention solutions that can improve efficiency in many ways. This paper will review the challenges introduced by data growth and focus on IBM data protection and retention products/technologies that address storage efficiency."

Storage-efficient Data Protection and Retention

"Delivering smarter security and more customized services are at the top of any IT agenda. But while these goals may appear quite different from a business and technical perspective, they share a lot under the surface. In face, both would be easier, and cheaper, to achieve with a common infrastructure: what we call an identity and context service."

Delivering Identity and Context as a Service

This Dell whitepaper discusses the efficient data centers that the latest in affordable technlogy makes possible. Beyond cutting costs, these data centers can be used to drive Sustainable growth. 

The Smart Money's on IT: How the Efficient Data Center Drives Sustainable Growth

This six page whitepaper from IT-Harvest takes a look at the move of security utilities, firewalls and IPS, to the new virtual environments that are sweeping through computer architectures. Should your company do firewall and IPS policy enforcement within the virtual environment, or off load it? Read this whitepaper to learn how HP Tippingpoint, SourceFire, MCAfee, Cisco, and Juniper are adapting to this challenge. 

"Fractal computing: the parts resemble the whole. A data center mimics the Internet. In a virtualized environment a host mimics a data center."

Securing Virtual Environments

"As server virtualization continues to transform the data center, enterprises have some critical decisions to make. How will they migrate to a fully virtualized environment? How should the IT Infrastructre be configured for maximum business benefit? Dell is partnering with other Industry leaders to build flexible, Industry-standard approach that helps simplify the transition."

A Smart Path to Virtualization

"Storage virtualization products are not just for large businesses. There are a variety of data storage virtualization solutions that are easy to set up and are priced right for small- and medium-sized businesses. In this SearchSMBstorage.com e-guide you will learn all about the virtualization options that are on the market for SMBs in 2011."

Virtualization Options for SMBs in 2011

Many companies are tackling the challenge of email archiving head-on with cloud based solutions that scale to business growth, conform to regulatory mandates, and deliver low operational costs. In this whitepaper, Mimecast details the issues involved in email archiving, considering best practices, and presenting a solution that emphasizes scalable cloud-based storage, secure access to assets, and high availability.

Cloud-based email archiving: A practical guide

Many organizations may not know the best approach to take when performing a risk assessment on their existing or potential virtual environments. This whitepaper breaks down specific issues to pay attention to in a six step process. 

Assess virtualization security risk in six simple steps