This paper briefly traces some of the challenges involved with IP address distribution over the past two decades, to the current adoption of DHCP as the dynamic protocol of choice for pain-free management of network resources. Integral to the theme of secure yet reliable network administration is the integration of DNS and DHCP into a single network device called the Adonis DNS/DHCP Appliance which ensures that traditional barriers to secure and effective resource allocations are overcome with an efficient yet easy-to-use solution that enhances enterprise information security.

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Mobile deployments in business are growing at an accelerating rate, enabled by increasingly capable devices at attractive prices, faster, less costly, and more reliable wireless networks being deployed across wider areas, and an expanding array of mobile applications that empower the mobile workforce with an abundance of business critical functions.

Over the last fifteen years, mobility solutions have evolved from cell phones and pagers to platforms for wireless email and mobilizing business applications. Today's road warriors depend on their mobile devices for fast, reliable, easy access to applications and corporate data. Mobile solution downtime can adversely affect customer service, productivity, sales, and revenues.

Drive quality earlier in the development process with continuous testing. Large development organizations have increasingly been adopting select agile practices to enable faster development, create more reliable software, and reduce costs. Chief among these practices is providing developers early and frequent feedback from users, from other developers, and especially from the programming, build, and test tools. In the latter category, continuous integration and continuous testing are emerging as valuable techniques for identifying errors early so they can be corrected immediately by the developer who made the code changes.

Voice Over IP (VoIP) deployments can cause unexpected or unplanned power and cooling requirements in wiring closets and wiring rooms. Most wiring closets do not have uninterruptible power available, and they do not provide the ventilation or cooling required to prevent equipment overheating. Understanding the unique cooling and powering needs of VoIP equipment allows planning for a successful and cost effective VoIP deployment. This paper explains how to plan for VoIP power and cooling needs, and describes simple, fast, reliable, and cost effective strategies for upgrading old facilities and building new facilities.

The Department of Homeland Security puts businesses in two categories: those who have already experienced the pain of losing valuable electronic data, and those who will at some point in the future. Well-prepared businesses know that deploying the right resources, processes and technology to protect vital HR information is important, but having adequate resources and technology in place to protect the same invaluable data in branch offices is just as important, though often overlooked. This paper will teach you how real-time data replication software can automatically backup branch office data to a central server for a simpler, more reliable and cost-effective way to protect your branch.

This paper will examine how you can gain reliable, accessible information from efficient, integrated IT systems - and use that information to make faster, smarter decisions.

Today's enterprise environments need fast, reliable and immediate execution of email messaging flow. And to successfully achieve greater deliverability, proven technologies need to be in place to optimize the messaging infrastructure.

VoIP is rapidly becoming the standard for voice communications in business, government, education, government and healthcare. It offers capabilities that far exceed traditional phone systems, with unified communication platforms promising to integrate messaging, mobility, collaboration, relationship management, teleconferencing and other advanced features. The transition to VoIP presents a number of challenges like the need to install new equipment in the MDF and the IDFs dispersed throughout your organization's network/telecom wiring closets. Typical closet designs can't handle the increased wattage and heat output of the PoE switches used to power IP phones. In this white paper you'll learn: • The basics of VoIP migration and implementation • What issues to consider when upgrading network/telecom wiring closets for VoIP • What cost-effective solutions are available to power and protect a VoIP network wiring closet

As renowned cost accounting professor Chuck Horngren notes, corporate finance executives can deliver the greatest value by establishing the sturdiest foundation of timely, reliable and relevant facts. This analytical platform ultimately enables their organization’s most important measures – including revenue growth, return on invested capital and profit growth as measured by EBITDA – to outpace the financial outcomes of the competition. The goal is to support speed and effectiveness in decision-making.

According to the 2016 Enterprise IT Spending Benchmarks, compiled by 451 Research, North America will exceed $1 trillion in IT spending by 2017. Businesses of all sizes are expected to move to a hybrid IT approach. When choosing a hybrid approach, you need both on-site and cloud resources that are reliable and well maintained. The easiest way to assure this is by streamlining your data center solutions through a single, fully integrated service provider.

The need for social media intelligence (SMI) has increased during recent years as social media adoption rates and the number of social media sites that b-to-b organizations must track have grown. Organizations require reliable SMI tools to discover, monitor and make sense of social signals being sent by buyers, customers, influencers and even competitors.

Marketers who see the customer path as a linear funnel are out of touch with their customers. The customer path contains multiple channels where customers expect marketers to remember their preferences and anticipate their needs. In Ten Ways Cross-Channel Marketing Is Not Rocket Science, you’ll learn how to connect with your customers and reach them in personal and relevant ways — all from reliable data you collect.

Learn how to align PCI compliance with business processes for a more streamlined and reliable IT infrastructure with this whitepaper from the IT Compliance Institute.

Watson Explorer provides organizations with a combined, trusted 360-degree view of both structured and unstructured data. The solution indexes information from unstructured data sources (PDFs, Microsoft SharePoint, flat files, social media, blogs and so on) as well as structured sources for search and discovery. Organizations can leverage their data in place, respecting existing security models when creating this virtual access point to all information. Watson Explorer requires trusted master data to ensure that links are accurate and reliable, so the end user can confidently leverage a holistic view of a customer or product.

In a recent Aberdeen Group Analyst Insight report,1 Asset Management: The Changing Landscape of Predictive Maintenance, a survey of executives states that the number one risk to operations was failure of their critical physical assets —ensuring that they are available, reliable and performing as originally intended. Though, such a risk can become an opportunity. Top-performing companies rely on analytics related to maintenance, safety and replacement equipment to plan for capital expenditures, manage their assets on a daily basis and maximize asset performance.

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Reliable Transportation For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition, shows you what you need to know about what it takes to keep a fleet operating efficiently while keeping maintenance expenses in check. In other words, this book provides information and ideas about what you can do to have a reliable fleet operation that doesn’t break the bank with either unforeseen breakdowns or out-of-control maintenance expenditures.

Open-source is becoming an increasingly critical component being leveraged by agile enterprises. The capital investment required to develop next generation business solutions demands that components be built and targeted to the platform best suited for the task. Understanding the tools available for you or your developers to gain efficiencies to build solutions once, and deploy on a choice of scalable and reliable platforms is of paramount importance.

IDC analyst Chandana Gopal shares the reasons as to why the line of business is critical in helping create a modernized B2B architecture that is scalable, reliable, and can quickly adapt to changing business requirements.

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Companies rely on an expanding set of applications to compete in today's rapidly evolving business environment: - They rely on a fast-growing array of applications and devices (email, collaboration tools, and smartphones/tablets) to communicate and conduct business with customers and business partners. - They are creating, collecting, and repurposing large, unstructured data sets in life sciences, geophysics, media, and manufacturing. - They are collecting, storing, and analyzing more social and sensor-generated data about environments, products, customers, and transactions. The promise of better and faster data-driven decision making based on all this information is pushing big data and analytics (BDA) technology to the top of executive agendas. To succeed, CIOs must place a laserlike investment focus on datacenter solutions that allow them to deliver scalable, reliable, and flexible infrastructure for fast-growing BDA environments. Read more to learn how!