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Financial organisations are under increasing pressure to reduce costs and increase efficiency. Hence, disparate technologies are purchased to attempt to achieve efficiencies. This makes the IT environment difficult to manage. Read to find out how automation of maintenance tasks can help. VIEW SUMMARY

The growth of the cloud is encouraging inadequate passwords for various cloud applications, which adds to security risks. In addition, multiple sign-ons reduce productivity and increase need for help desk support. Single sign-on is necessary, but read this paper to uncover why it is rarely enough. VIEW SUMMARY

Data is constantly growing. It needs to be consolidated from disparate sources and distributed to multiple targets quickly and efficiently, without increasing cost or burden on IT. Read this white paper for a detailed discussion about the importance of data consolidation and distribution. VIEW SUMMARY

Virgin Money Giving wanted to produce a service that allowed ordinary people to donate online to charities without running up large admin and roll-out costs so that as much as possible of donor money goes to the actual charity. Find out how they did it using open source technology. VIEW SUMMARY

Operators must deliver vast volumes of messages that are effective and secure. Read for a case study of Openmind Networks, who wanted to increase value for money for customers by introducing reporting capabilities, allowing customers to track the efficacy, speed and reliability of messages. VIEW SUMMARY

The public sector is facing austere times, and needs low cost technology that does not compromise on functionality. This paper follows a case study of an Irish public sector body that needed to replace an ageing reporting tool with open source business intelligence. Read to find out more. VIEW SUMMARY

This paper follows the case study of EnergySys, who required a system to facilitate information exchange within the hydrocarbon industry. Read this report to understand how a SaaS solution provider helped to deliver powerful, flexible reporting capabilities through an online portal. VIEW SUMMARY

When the difference between a good and poor software developer could be in excess of 10 times, it makes sense to constantly encourage developers to improve. This white paper considers the importance of putting practices in place which stimulate skill development to make a more productive workforce. VIEW SUMMARY

Legacy storage solutions cannot keep up with the rapidly expanding datacentres with increasing application numbers and which demand higher performance. Throwing hardware at this problem is not the answer. Read this paper for a discussion about performance of applications in the datacentre. VIEW SUMMARY

Cloud computing, virtualisation and mobility have forced companies to rethink their branch networking strategy. The primary challenges of delivering headquarters-like service to remote locations are cost and complexity. Read this paper to examine how to support a secure and robust remote network. VIEW SUMMARY