The top 5 IT budget killers: How to fight back

The Top 5 IT Budget Killers: How to Fight Back You've heard it a million times: Do more with less. It may be good business, but as budgets shrink and IT demands grow, you may start to wonder if the people who are saying "do more with less" think that it's a magical incantation. Run the servers without electricity! Wave a wand so your data center takes care of itself! While we're at it, let's conjure up some rabbits and train them to install security patches. You've already taken basic cost-cutting steps and saved the easy money. You know that you need to dig deeper. But where should you start? What's killing your IT budget?   Boosting Sales in Tough Times: Can Web Conferencing Help? Designed to help build prospect relations without physically being there, salespeople are using instant Web conferencing solutions to accelerate the sales process, quickly demonstrate solutions and build stronger connections with prospects. This white paper will examine key sales challenges and reveal the many advantages of selling with instant Web conferencing.   11 Business Rules Secrets Revealed Use the best practices for your business rules projects from the start. Read this white paper to learn the "11 Secrets of Success with Business Rules," covering everything from choosing the right applications, to creating frameworks for harvesting rules, to operationalizing predictive analytics.   Privileged Access & Data Security: How to Close the Risk Gap High-privilege administrative accounts hold the keys to the most sensitive IT functionality and information resources -- yet paradoxically, this level of access is far too often based on little more than trust alone. Solving the paradox of high-privilege access based on blind trust requires processes that afford control over who can access what resources under which conditions, with visibility into activity that demonstrates the integrity of dedicated professionals while protecting the enterprise.   How to Better Manage the DBMS Explosion For years, choosing a relational database management system (DBMS) boiled down to one question: Does it work? Only in the past ten years have there been multiple market-leading DBMS that could run substantially all online transaction processing (OLTP) applications on a variety of large multiprocessor systems. Before then, DBMS choices were sharply constrained by such factors as row-level locking, subquery execution, online backup performance, multiprocessor support, or basic functionality in triggers, stored procedures, and declarative referential integrity. Choices have exploded. But now the choices are broader.   3 Lessons Learned from Recent Data Breaches Missing laptops and mobile devices continue to be the number one cause of data breaches. Research indicates that over 60% of data breaches are caused by careless employees or insider theft. This white paper provides a case for endpoint security that remains effective regardless of end-user reliability. eNewsletter Information: You are receiving this e-mail because you are a loyal subscriber to the Web Buyer's Guide Member Update with the e-mail address ignoble.experiment@arconati.us. If you no longer wish to receive Web Buyer's Guide Member Update, unsubscribe here. Copyright © 2009 Ziff Davis Enterprise. All Rights Reserved. Ziff Davis Enterprise, 28 East 28th Street, New York, NY 10016 Privacy Policy