Energy efficiency for the enterprise

In data centers around the world, energy costs are rising rapidly and consuming an ever-greater portion of IT budgets. Here's a sign of just how bad it is getting: It will soon cost more to power and cool a server over its
lifetime than it does to buy the server. Everywhere we look, IT facilities are running out of cooling
capacity and power. With multiplying numbers of servers, higher densities and hotter processors, data
centers are hitting a wall. Even though racks are half empty, many IT operators cannot add another server
into their environment. Air conditioning systems are maxed out and power distribution infrastructure is
completely utilized.

Business Value of Storage Virtualization: Scaling the Storage Solut ion; Leveraging the Storage Investment

Today's challenging business environment demands that IT managers extend the business value of past and future IT investments while boosting the efficiency of their IT operations. Despite tightening budgets, business and regulatory requirements are driving major, unavoidable increases in information creation and long-term retention. IT departments, no matter what their size, can expect data growth rates to increase anywhere from 40% to 60% (even more in content-rich sectors) in the coming year.

Business Value of Storage Virtualization: Scaling the Storage Solut ion; Leveraging the Storage Investment

Today's challenging business environment demands that IT managers extend the business value of past and future IT investments while boosting the efficiency of their IT operations. Despite tightening budgets, business and regulatory requirements are driving major, unavoidable increases in information creation and long-term retention. IT departments, no matter what their size, can expect data growth rates to increase anywhere from 40% to 60% (even more in content-rich sectors) in the coming year.

In the Crossfire: Critical Infrastructure in the Age of Cyber War

Six hundred IT and security executives from critical infrastructure enterprises across seven sectors in 14
countries all over the world anonymously answered an extensive series of detailed questions about their practices, attitudes and policies on security-the impact of regulation, their relationship with government, specific security measures employed on their
networks, and the kinds of attacks they face.

A Study of Advanced Collaboration and Its Impact on Your Enterprise

When we come together to do business, we collaborate,whether it's picking up the phone, attending a meeting or using one of many communications tools. But how we meet and communicate is changing. New innovations and applications enter the workplace at a steady pace. And that impacts your business.

The findings showed that the areas of Research and Development, Sales and Marketing are realizing the biggest bang for their buck by using advanced collaboration tools. They can more quickly and effectively bring new productsto market, market those products, and close sales.

Server Consolidation Assessment

As application demands increase, servers can become like suburbs-spread out, overgrown, and hard to manage. Such server sprawl-combined with the challenge of managing platform dependencies-can overwhelm your IT resources. And that doesn't make for efficient use of assets or enhance your ability to quickly implement the tools that drive your business.We use our professional virtualization experience to provide you with a Server Consolidation Assessment that gives you a clear picture of your current environment and a blueprint for a consolidated and more efficient set up.

Report: Mapping the Malweb – Which countries are safer to surf; which ones are avoidable

Here is a typical scenario. You hear about a free file-sharing program that will allow you to download copyrighted music for free, or a file that contains cheat codes for your favorite game. You search for the file, select a website that offers it, and begin downloading. What is the chance that the site you select will host some form of malware?

If the file comes from a site that ends in .KR (South Korea)-the chance that the site is risky is 2.8%. If you choose a site that ends in .RO (Romania)-the chance is 21.0%, an increase of 748.0%. One out of five Romanian-registered websites with downloadable files contains some form of potentially unwanted software.

This third annual report from McAfee contains some dramatic reversals with formerly risky domains significantly improving and others becoming "no surfing" zones. But the overall travel advisory for web travelers remains "use the web widely, but use it wisely."

Solution Brief: User Behavior Analysis – Find out who’s doing what and from where on your network

If your company is like most, there are real business needs and compliance requirements compelling you to continuously monitor and verify:

- Who is accessing critical business systems?
- What are these users doing?
- Where on the network are they doing it?

This lack of visibility and its corresponding lack of decision support send IT and security teams scrambling whenever threats impact the business. Such lack of visibility also frequently leads to audit findings regarding:

- Gaps in continuously proving the verification of third-party access
- Gaps in continuous monitoring of boundary conditions such as segregation of duties and international privacy laws
- Gaps in monitoring privileged user access

Learn how McAfee Network User Behavior Monitoring (Network UBA) (Securify) provides automated, identity-based monitoring to keep you in compliance and in control.

2009 Data Breach Investigations Supplemental Report

The Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) is an annual publication based on cybercrime cases worked by Verizon's Investigative Response team

Evidence gathered during a breach investigation is not sufficient to quantify losses.We put our heads together on the remaining topics and felt that putting the data in the format provided would go far toward achieving these goals.To address the final request (at leastpartially), we have also included Appendix A, which compares all five years of our caseload to incidents reported to the wellknownDataLossDB community research project.Overall, this supplemental report is a break from the norm for the DBIR series.

Getting the Best Value for Your IT Dollar in a Down Economy

"...IT is in a better position than ever to resist the downward pull of a slowing economy.
Technology is already deeply embedded in many mission-critical operations and remains
critical to achieving further efficiency and productivity gains."