Realtime Reader September 2008: Issue 107

Software Business 2008, Oct 30-31, focuses on business, financial & technology issues and growth opportunities facing leading and fast-growing software and SaaS companies. Make plans today to attend Software Business 2008!

Find out more at: http://www.softwarebusinessonline.com/sb_conf08_media.php

Complete eBook: The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation

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The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation will help IT professionals, analysts, and engineers to understand the benefit of a holistic disk defragmentation strategy across the enterprise. The new guide will examine how the pervasive problem of fragmentation affects a computer system and what approaches are effective in reducing these effects. Lastly, the guide will outline the mechanics of automatic defragmentation, and how to select and deploy an automatic defragmentation solution.

The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation, written by Mike Danseglio, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/SGMDF.htm

New Series: The Business Imperatives of Compliance in the UK

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The Essentials Series: Business Imperatives of Compliance in the UK examines the compliance requirements that affect practically every type of business in the UK and have changed the way organizations manage information risks. This new series, intended for information security and compliance managers, explores the underlying premise of regulatory compliance and how it can be managed through the effective use of policies and procedures in day-to-day business. Anyone playing a part in compliance in UK-based organizations will benefit from the practical solutions and suggestions outlined in the material.

Articles include:
Article #1: Managing Compliance in the Healthcare Industry
Article #2: Managing Financial Compliance
Article #3: Managing Compliance in Business Today

The Essentials Series: The Business Imperatives of Compliance in the UK, authored by Kevin Beaver, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/ESBIC.htm

Series Spotlight: Email-Centric Data Loss Prevention

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Data loss prevention (DLP) is becoming a more common business practice as the demands for compliance increase and as awareness of how the lack of DLP strategies inhibits business operations. The Essential Series: Email-Centric Data Loss Prevention provides an overview of key aspects of DLP, including: the varied executive management responsibilities, the role of employees in data loss prevention, and best practices for automating DLP controls. Together, the three articles in this series describe the major fundamental issues in email centric data loss prevention and offer best practices for effective and efficient DLP management.

Articles include:
Article #1: Executive Perspectives on Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Article #2: Employees' Role in Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Article #3: Benefits of Using Data Loss Prevention Technology

The Essentials Series: Email-Centric Data Loss Prevention, authored by Dan Sullivan, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/ESECDLP.htm

New Chapter: Service Operations and Business Service Management

Download the newest chapter from The Shortcut Guide to IT Service Management and Automation!

To successfully align IT with business, IT leaders must have two primary goals: 1) Ensure business-critical services are available whenever needed and with the highest possible quality, and 2) Deliver IT services at optimal cost while appropriately managing risk. Achieving these goals requires IT’s emphasis be placed upon business availability, business quality, business cost optimization, and business risk reduction. It is absolutely imperative for IT leaders to start thinking, and planning, like business leaders. The ITIL V3 framework facilitates this idea, and Service Transition in particular provides the processes necessary to engage business thinking throughout all layers of IT activities.

Chapter 3: Service Operations and Business Service Management, written by Rebecca Herold, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/SGITSMA.htm

New Series: Eliminating Administrator Rights

The Essentials Series: Eliminating Administrator Rights

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Too often in today’s IT environments the solution for difficult applications or difficult users is to simply grant them administrator rights and move along. Yet that accumulated distribution of admin rights, and the inappropriate actions and potential for problems that goes with it, eventually takes away IT’s ability to control the environment. The problem with the Windows OS is that sometimes the only way to accomplish a needed task is with Administrator rights. With the right tools and techniques, no more. In The Essentials Series: Eliminating Administrator Rights, we’ll talk about the issues with granting privileges and the ways to take them back. You’ll understand the concept of Least Privilege, the business benefits of eliminating excessive privileges, and the limitations you’ve probably already experienced in today’s native solutions for privilege management.

Articles include:
Article #1: Understanding Least Privilege
Article #2: The Business Benefits of Eliminating Administrator Rights
Article #3: Limitations in Native Solutions for Privilege Management

The Essentials Series: Eliminating Administrator Rights, authored by Greg Shields, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/ESEAR.htm

New Chapter: Advanced Topics in Terminal Services

Download the newest chapter from The Definitive Guide to Building a Windows Server 2008 Infrastructure!

The gap between the functionality previously only available with third-party products like those from Citrix and native tools grows a little smaller with the release of Windows Server 2008. With Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008, a number of the long-desired features and capabilities have been folded into the native Windows OS for no extra charge. Although there remains a compelling justification to move to the Citrix product lineup for environments that require its added management functionality and high-end capabilities for users, Terminal Services gains a lot in the transition.

Chapter 8: Advanced Topics in Terminal Services, authored by Greg Shields, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/DGBWS2K8I.htm

Mid-Market IT in Realtime - Issue #4

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Features in this issue include:

• Business Intelligence Methodology for the SMB
• Business Intelligence Resources for the SMB
• Data Loading Tools and Methods
• Building a Better Data Warehouse

The latest issue of Mid-Market IT in Realtime, is available at:
http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/RTMMIT.htm

Series Spotlight: Optimizing Database Connection Performance

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The Essentials Series: Optimizing Database Connection Performance examines the architecture, resource utilization and scalability of the three most prevalent database connection technologies: Managed .Net, Open Database Connectivity and Java Database Connectivity. It examines the common point of optimization these technologies share and highlights the distinctive challenges that each technology faces to optimize the vital flow of information with the enterprise. These expert articles will help developers, software architects, IT professionals and technologist decipher the characteristics they require for their enterprise database connectivity requirements and provide a critical frame work for making informed choices when choosing and implementing database connectivity software.

Articles include:
Article #1: Managed .NET Connectivity
Article #2: Open Database Connectivity
Article #3: Java Database Connectivity

The Essentials Series: Optimizing Database Connection Performance, authored by Mark Scott, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/ESODCP.htm

Recently Announced Chapters

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The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation
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he Essentials Series: Modern Malware Threats and Countermeasures
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