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SharePoint is a flexible product with powerful security architecture but with this flexibility comes complexity. Cryptzone conducted a survey amongst attendees at the UK SharePoint Saturday conference held in Nottingham, United Kingdom in November 2011. Respondents consisted of various Microsoft® SharePoint users, from basic users to administrators and developers from organisations of all sizes.

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Free White Paper - How to Improve Data Centre Efficiency and Save Money through Intelligent Power Management

Through intelligent power management you can operate a more efficient Data Centre and save money. A study conducted by the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) shows that power costs of a data centre consume up to 30% of a company’s IT budget. Surely you want to avoid this. Rather, you will want to improve the economic viability of your data centre and avoid server crashes.    
   

This white paper explains how you can analyse the power consumption of data centres, ensure an optimum spread of energy load and retain reliability in the long term with the right form of management.
    
   

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Brush up your presentation skills for 2012

Whatever your professional rank and role, the ability to give engaging and interesting presentations is a vital skill for achieving your goals.
   

And yet few of us take the time to think about the presentations we give, and how they might be improved.
  

On Thursday, January 26, Vitesse Media will be hosting a free webinar with Hayley Mogridge of Masteclass Training on how to make presentations with impact.
   

Mogridge will present 12 tips that will help you learn how to have immediate impact, how to engage with your audience, and how to make sure your presentations are memorable – for the right reasons.
   
   

Social & Mobile Business - Jumeirah Carlton Tower, London, 31st January

Join Information Age to discuss the convergence of two of the overarching technology trends of the current era - social media and mobile technology - and how they impact businesses.

The Information Age Social & Mobile Business Conference will be held at Jumeirah Carlton Tower, London, 31st January 2012.    
  
If you wish to attend, please fill in the registration form and we will be in touch regarding your place.
   
*Pre-register and then attend for your chance to win £100 worth of Amazon vouchers. By attending the conference, you are automatically entered into a prize draw where you could win £100 worth of Amazon vouchers. This offer is open to attendees of Social & Mobile Business 2012 up until 29th January 2012. Winners will be picked at random on Monday 6th February 2012 and be notified by email on the same day.

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Free White Paper - The consumerisation of the data centre

The consumerisation of the data centre

The consumerisation of employee's client devices is one of the most frequently discussed topics in IT, with workers bringing their home computers and smartphones into the workplace.

But does the force of consumerisation stretch deeper into the corporate IT infrastructure. This white paper from data centre services provider Colt argues that it does.

In 'Data Centre Consumerisation', Colt explains how using standardised, modular data centre components leads to fast and more efficient data centre build projects than the highly customised, bespoke approaches of the past.

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The last frontier of IT automation

IT departments have successfully applied automation to many of their most repetitive tasks, but one area of work that has so far resisted automation is application release management.
  
According to this white paper from IT automation supplier UC4, the typical application release requires as many as six or seven people working for multiple days to ensure that new functionality is successfully introduced without impairing existing systems.
      
The white paper explains why application release management has so far been so resistant to automation, the financial impact of that, and how organisations can successfully deploy application release automation (ARA).
  
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Free White Paper - Redesigning back-up for the virtual era

Redesigning back-up for the virtual era

Virtualisation has delivered all manner of well documented benefits in the data centre but it has also added a degree complexity in certain areas, including back-up.

According to this IDC white paper, presented by information infrastructure provider EMC, the use of virtual infrastructure with legacy back-up systems can lead to issues including resource contention, virtual machine sprawl and impaired disaster recovery.

Not only can modernising the back-up estate resolve many issues, it can also save money. "It is one of the few projects that can generate funding and improve service levels at the same time," the white paper observes.

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Cost reduction not a primary driver for cloud computing

One of the key benefits associated with cloud computing is economic – the ability to match IT infrastructure spending to business demand. However, many organisations do not believe that cloud computing will reduce their IT costs overall.

That was one finding of a survey by Richardson Eyres, which asked strategic and operational IT decisions makers about their views and experience of cloud and virtualisation.

The survey found that providing flexible IT services and more resilient infrastructure were more important drivers for cloud adoption to most companies.

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Free White Paper - Tracking the popularity of deduplication

With data volumes growing and the frailties of tape-based storage looming large, the power of deduplication to reduce the back-up capacity that businesses require has made it popular technology in recent years.

This research report, by IT analyst group TheInfoPro, discovers precisely how popoular it has become. Based on more than 250 in-depth interviews with storage professionals at large enterprises, it shows that deduplication has been adopted by nearly 50% of organisations, with 40% planning to deploy it in the next year.

It also reveals precisely how organisations are using the features deduplication of to optimise their data centre operations.

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Free White Paper - The State of the Art in Disaster Recovery

Most organisations are still using tape-based storage media to back up their IT infrastructure. This approach means that recovering systems in the event of a disaster often requires physically locating a given tape, often at off-site location.
IDC analyst Robert Armatruda explains in this white paper, brought to you by EMC, using disk-based storage systems allows organisations to employ more sophisticated disaster recovery techniques.

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Free IDC report – The Wave of Change in Enterprise Client Computing

Having been broadly stable for decades, the end-user computing environment is currently facing profound disruption.
  
One way or another, consumer mobile devices have become an intrinsic part of the business IT Infrastructure; workers are increasingly remote and mobile; and applications and data are being sourced from ever more sources.
  
This IDC Executive Brief document, sponsored by RES Software, explains why this situation calls for a more 'user-centric' approach to client computing, allowing employees to access the relevant systems and data wherever they are, and whatever device they might be using.
  
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