The Summit
22nd - 24th October 2012
Summit Venue
Dolce Bad Nauheim, Frankfurt, Germany
The CIO Europe Summit 2012 will once again serve as an arena for senior level executives to engage in clear and focused dialogue with their peers and examine their management objectives in a relaxed and vibrant environment.
White Papers
OLSWANG
As UK plc drags itself out of recession, CIO's and their Boards are looking once more at their IT needs. For many users the "pause" they have placed over the last few years on IT upgrades makes their impending rollouts all the more important. At the same time, the suppliers of software and services have been eagerly awaiting for the upgrade cycle to begin in earnest and have created what appear to be very compelling propositions for their customers. For many of these propositions, the devil is in the detail and that detail is in the contractual terms that accompany the software and services. This article considers the legal approaches that open source distros use to get paid for something that at first looks like a free lunch.
Good Technology: Secure Business mobility
In a connected world, companies must now deliver critical data to their mobile workers in real time. In addition, corporate IT departments must now support a growing number of devices from an expanding field of manufacturers. Good for EnterpriseTM is a unique security and management solution for companies whose mobile workforces demand rapid access to mission-critical data on the devices they prefer to use. The Good for Enterprise software suite empowers you to provide secure access to corporate data and applications across a spectrum of mobile devices, including the Apple® iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.
IDC: Removing Storage-Related Barriers to Server and Desktop Virtualization
The Hardware Perspective
Datacenters are an aggregate of very heterogeneous elements interacting with each other and incurring a complex chain of dependencies, particularly around the point of contact between hardware and software. Against this backdrop, IDC is observing a great push from suppliers and end users alike toward a consumption model based on pre-integrated blocks of optimized hardware and software that IT departments need only to fine-tune, as opposed to build out of a collection of different components. This approach was the one chosen in 2010 by BNP Paribas, one of the largest financial institutions in the world, in order to upgrade its datawarehouse by implementing Oracle Exadata Database Machine as the backend for all the applications, allowing financial analysts to pull data for their daily trading activities.
APC by Schneider Electric: How Data Center Infrastructure Management Software Improves Planning and Cuts Operational Costs
Business executives are challenging their IT staffs to convert data centers from cost centers into producers of business value. Data Centers can make a significant impact to the bottom line by enabling the business to respond more quickly to market demands. This paper demonstrates, through a series of examples, how data center infrastructure management software tools can simplify operational processes, cut costs, and speed up information delivery.
Compuware: Borderless applications and the changing face of application performance management
As applications become more collaborative and are accessed globally, businesses will need to ensure they are well-equipped to manage user performance and eliminate outages in order to compete. Understanding application performance and user experience for these types of transactions is critical. Today, applications have a direct impact on company revenues, customer satisfaction and brand perception. However, being able to manage the business application’s performance has become a difficult task for IT operations, due to...
Frost & Sullivan: Gaining competitive advantages on the road to economic recovery
Using managed videoconferencing services to solve today’s business challenges and prepare for tomorrow’s opportunities.
Workspace Online™: The certainty of a flexible, secure and reliable workspace for personal productivity
Workspace Online, the Getronics Private Cloud Service, offers the certainty of a flexible, secure and reliable workspace, accessible from any location, on any device, at any time, without the need for additional investment in hardware or software. With a satisfaction level of 8.5 out of 10, across over 50,000 users. Workspace Online is a proven platform ready for your business to adopt. Built on market-leading technologies from our partners Microsoft, HP and Citrix, Workspace Online provides our customers with a complete desktop services platform which delivers all commodity IT services as well as the complex enterprise applications which are core to our customers’ businesses. With its mature self-service and provisioning modules, customers are empowered to easily manage all aspects of their IT service, from application selection to storage allocation, all backed by full administrative workflows. Getronics has the expertise to de-risk the migration of IT services to our private cloud platform and to provide a 24/7/365 service, with guaranteed availability across dual-data centres.
The Importance of Integrating Host and Network Forensics
An AccessData Corporation Whitepaper
IT Financial Management Series: Top 10 Technology Investment Ideas to Generate a Positive ROI within 12 Months
How do you react when your company is in a tough economic situation? IT is usually viewed as a big spender, and when times get tough organizations look to IT for cost saving opportunities. Rather than just cutting costs, we recommend the approach of identifying ways in which IT can invest wisely to increase value while reducing overall spending. This may sound like a contradiction, but it can be done. Here are ten ways in which you can invest wisely to save money while increasing the value IT brings to your business. A NET(net) Europe Whitepaper
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