How to clamp down on privileged users in a virtualization environment

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	How to clamp down on privileged users in a virtualization environment Management and security, always a troublesome twosome, have reared their ugly heads yet again. This time, they're causing problems for virtualization initiatives, quashing deployment plans while IT managers grapple with how to finesse management and security of the virtual machines moving around the server infrastructure. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP ESG: Business Value of Reservationless Storage Capacity This report explores the value of some exciting new storage technologies which are collectively known as "reservationless storage." ESG Lab hands-on testing of the HP StorageWorks product line and analysis are used to quantify the business value of reservationless storage. Read Now In this Issue How can wireless and wired security be brought together, rationalized and managed? How to secure and manage employee-owned mobile devices When taking stock of performance, beware the benchmarking blues Top 5 myths of disaster recovery Bring your own everything Manage your IT certifications through a single source Best desktop search tools Desperately seeking desktop data Build archiving systems to meet compliance demands The challenges of virtualization WHITE PAPER: Novell Efficiently Delivering Enterprise-Class File-Based Storage IDC: Read about the exponential growth in file-based storage. Learn how having intelligence on data stored can help storage managers make smarter decisions about data storage, protection, archiving, retention, and disposition. Read Now. How can wireless and wired security be brought together, rationalized and managed? Like many things in IT, this security convergence is a work in progress. But as wireless LANs become the primary connectivity for more enterprise users, integrating wired and wireless becomes more pressing, especially around security. Read More How to secure and manage employee-owned mobile devices With the rise of personal mobile devices, a growing number of enterprises have scrapped the homogeneity mandate. Instead of requiring employees to use a standard smartphone, more IT departments are now looking at some degree of control over employee-owned (or "employee-liable") devices, to manage and secure them. Read More When taking stock of performance, beware the benchmarking blues Done well, benchmarks provide a basis for sound decision making. Yet, badly crafted benchmarks are remarkably common. Even worse, a poorly crafted benchmark can intuitively look like a good one, thereby discouraging a deeper benchmarking evaluation that could deliver superior results. Read More WEBCAST: Accelops Why Private Clouds May Prevail Cloud computing's perceived challenges of security, visibility and management may give the upper hand to private clouds. Join Yankee Group for this Webcast that discusses how to ensure you deploy a cloud that meets your organization's security and compliance needs. View Now Top 5 myths of disaster recovery When it comes to disaster recovery, many companies think five 9s of uptime is required, that all data needs the same protection, and that all you need is clustering. Mike Denapoli from Double-Take Software talks with Keith Shaw about these and other myths of disaster recovery in this podcast. (10:42) Read More Bring your own everything The "bring your own" craze started with instant messaging but certainly didn't end there. Today employees are bringing the rest of their social network tools to work, their own smartphones, their own computers, and now, with the advent of Google Voice, their own phone number and voice mail. Read More Manage your IT certifications through a single source Over the years, you've earned technical certifications from numerous vendors and agencies. There's a new service that helps you manage these certifications through a single Web portal. This clearinghouse aggregates and demonstrates your certifications to employers on one neat transcript. Learn more and join today. Read More WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs Employee Web Use and Misuse: This white paper examines a Web security solution that gives companies the ability to monitor and enforce their Internet usage policies, bringing site monitoring and URL filtering together while insuring security with anti-virus and anti-spyware protection. Read Now Best desktop search tools Looking for a relatively simple and inexpensive way to improve end user productivity? Desktop search tools can help end users swiftly locate critical nuggets of data, freeing up time for more important tasks. Read More Desperately seeking desktop data Six products that can help you quickly dig up that key nugget of information. Read More Build archiving systems to meet compliance demands For a viable archiving strategy, you need to know the regulation landscape -- and the key technologies that will help you comply. Read More The challenges of virtualization As we have said in multiple newsletters, virtualization changes everything. We are going to use the next two newsletters to describe some of the changes brought on by server virtualization and to describe the project that we are undertaking to drill down further into how virtualization changes the network. Read More
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