White papers and information on virtualization, archiving, Citrix solutions Brisbane Queensland based

NewBase make available informative reports that are relevant to the business challenges and technologies that we work with. While many of these reports are produced by technology vendors we select those that we think provide useful information to help organisations understand how the appropriate implementation of information technology can benefit their business.

Compares the features available in the new version of Citrix XenApp 5 with previous versions. A good illustration of what features are involved and which edition of XenApp (Platinum, Enterprise, Advanced) they are available in.

Businesses today run on applications, from ERP to email, and from packaged vertical solutions to custom Web applications. Rapid access to business applications and information from anywhere has become a critical requirement for modern organisations. This white paper from Citrix looks at the 7 key challenges for secure remote access to consider.

Content security must start with a clear, explicit policy that meets the need of the business and is communicated to all staff members. Only then can people, processes and technology play their part in enforcing that policy. This guide show you how to create an actual policy for email and web usage that will protect your organisation and its users

This VMware white paper examines how virtualisation software reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) in server environments and provides almost immediate return on investment (ROI).

Good overview document on VMware Infrastructure software and the challenges it helps to resolve. Explains how it allows IT teams to continuously consolidate workloads to maximize server utilization and decrease operational costs. It allows system administrators to manage a higher number of servers, and it delivers more flexibility and responsiveness in provisioning new software services and maintaining existing ones.

Data leakage has always been a concern, but with the growth of technology tools in user by employees it has become easier than ever to leak information, whether intentional or not. This report includes Gartner research on Data Leakage and provides 15 common mistakes in web and email security and the associated risks and solutions.

Do you face network traffic bottlenecks, poor application performance, and compromised business productivity? Managing WAN application performance can be quite a challenge. Productivity drops and frustration mounts when performance turns inconsistent, unpredictable, and slow. Increased network demands can take performance from adequate to unworkable. A single event—deploying a new application or relocating servers—is all it takes to trigger a decline. This handbook lays out a four-part strategy to maximise application performance and optimise your WAN.

Research report that looks at the latest version of Citrix Presentation Sever (what used to be known as MetaFrame) and finds that it has come a long way in terms of overcoming some of the limitations of server based computing with the introduction of application streaming and desktop broking.

Your email system is an excellent tool for transmitting information, but a poor one for storing it. When your organization uses the email system to store critical business information, you expose your organization to significant risk and your employees are less productive. This white paper discusses the need for organisations to implement email archiving solutions that will serve a number of requirements and constituencies.

Citrix white paper that looks at the background to virtualisation and how this has now come to the desktop, it discusses the different options available for desktop virtualisation, looking at both the Shared Model and Dedicated Model and how to decide which one suits your user groups best.

White paper from Microsoft detailing Exchange 2007. Delivers an overview of Exchange Server 2007 and describes how this next generation of Exchange helps increase user productivity and administrator efficiency while fulfilling your evolving business requirements.

White Paper from VMWare that outlines how using virtualisation for disaster recovery allows companies to extend the disaster coverage to more applications while reducing the recovery time and making the process more reliable.

‘Web 2.0’ has become a widely used term to describe the perceived ‘second wave of the Internet’, focusing on new collaboration technologies such as blogs, MySpace and Twitter. In early 2007, Clearswift commissioned research to establish how popular these new Web 2.0 technologies and sites really were among office workers to determine the scale of the potential threat to corporate security. These are the findings.

Very clearly written document that outlines mistakes often made by organisations, and why they are mistakes. If you want to review your approach or need justification to get buy in from other staff then this report will help.

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