NCP
Virtual private networks (VPNs) are the technologies most widely used by organisations today in the provision of remote access to their networks for employees, business partners and suppliers. Of the VPNs available, IPSe...
The essential elements of secure remote access.pdf
Money
Voice and data communications are taking up an increasing amount of organisations' budgets as more information is shared between and across more businesses.  Person to person contact now includes richer media, more...
Total telecoms expense management_optimised.pdf
Fortify
[Report]
[31.03.2008] Why Application Security is Crucial
Today, many organisations are increasingly reliant on software application development to deliver them competitive edge. Simultaneously, they are progressively opening up their computer networks to business partners, cus...
Why Application Security is Crucial.pdf
gdcm
[Report]
[17.03.2008] Data Centre Asset Planning
After years of uncontrolled growth, many data centres face a crisis as they run into space and power constraints. While remedies exist, present business practices do not encourage the prioritisation of power reduction wi...
GDCM report final.pdf
Riverbed
[Report]
[11.03.2008] The Distributed Business Index (DBI)
Businesses rely on widely distributed networks of workers, be they at HQ, in branch offices, mobile in the field or working at some other external location. Whilst the office continues to be seen as the primary place of...
Quocirca - The Distributed Business Index - March 2008.pdf
Average Inc
[Report]
[10.03.2008] Average Inc.
The Average Inc. could do quite a lot to improve the ways it uses technology in order to reduce risk, ensuring business continuity, and to cut unnecessary cost. If Average Inc. needs to improve its use and management of...
Quocirca - Average Inc - March 2008.pdf
Print
Whilst many organisations have invested resources in managing their IT infrastructure, few apply the same strategic focus to the document output environment. This can represent a huge cost drain, estimated to represent b...
Quocirca HP Print Intelligence Final.pdf
Cash
[Report]
[30.01.2008] Banks and data leak prevention
The financial services industry deals with a commodity that is primarily electronic-money. Consequently it spends more per employee on IT than any other industry. Despite this, there is a worrying tendency for informatio...
Quocirca - Banks and DLP - Jan 2008.pdf
CA SMB security
[Report]
[21.12.2007] Information security for SMBs
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can benefit from the expansive use of information technology (IT) just as much as their larger counterparts. Indeed, in many cases they have to, because to trade they need to inte...
Quocirca - Information security for SMBs Dec 2007.pdf
eg solutions
The extremely competitive nature of the financial services industry today and the changing landscape of customer expectations and their approach to investing in financial products, puts an onus on suppliers to consider h...
Operations Management in UK Financial Services.pdf
Akamai icon
Businesses across Europe are becoming increasingly reliant on web-enabled applications that are accessed over the public internet. One of the key drivers for this is to open up communications with external organisations...
Quocirca Oct 2007 - Web enabled apps and the internet.pdf
Blade
[Report]
[12.10.2007] Moving to a Blade World
The evolution of Blade Computing has moved from mere server consolidation to a way of managing IT assets which brings significant business benefits. This paper aims to explain those benefits to the business and IT manage...
IBM blade report Oct 2007 final v1.1.pdf
Compass
[Report]
[01.10.2007] The Location Intelligent Enterprise
Knowledge of the location of customers, property, products or any other asset is invaluable intelligence for improving competitive advantage and operational efficiency. However, despite the proliferation of data that bus...
PB MapInfo Location Intelligence.pdf
Information
[Report]
[05.09.2007] New Generation Information Management
Managing information is an increasing headache that is taxing many organisations.  This series of four inter-related short reports looks at how information management is important within the Telco and Finance v...
CommVault reports combined.pdf
Small data centre
[Report]
[05.09.2007] Managing Small Data Centres
A sound IT infrastructure is fundamental to today's businesses and when that infrastructure fails the consequences can be far reaching. Whether it is business-to-business, business-to-consumer or public sector organisati...
Quocirca - Managing Small Data Centres - Sept 2007.pdf