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• Green Benefits Put Thin-Client Computing Back on the Desktop Hardware Agenda
  The lure of 25% or more power savings and the growing importance of green IT have resurrected the thin-client debate. IT sourcing executives, though responsible for setting neither environmental agendas nor computing architecture road maps, must reacquaint themselves with the realities of thin client provisioning to prepare a response to the various stakeholders who are pushing for or fighting its deployment. Sourcing will take on one of three roles: playing an investigative role and interfacing between suppliers and users; mapping out the true costs of a thin-client solution; or informing others within the business of the computing and user-experience issues that a deployment will generate.
  
  Organizations about to kick off their next major desktop hardware refreshes or upgrades will need their sourcing groups to be alert to the growing importance of green IT.
  
  Corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives and the ever-expanding power consumption of IT systems cause buyers to raise the priority of sourcing greener, more energy-efficient forms of IT. Recently, this set of issues has begun to prompt a few lateral-thinking businesses to reexamine the value of implementing thin-client hardware to replace traditional desktop systems. Advocates point to thegains the thin-client approach offers, including lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and lower power consumption, in comparison with mainstream PC environments with supporting-server architectures. But how realistic are these claims, and what part should the sourcing professional play in resolving the thick- versus thin-client discussion?
• EMC Documentum Information Rights Management Extends Security and Control
  The EMC Documentum architecture for information rights management (IRM) helps global companies and government agencies actively control, secure, and track sensitive information, wherever it resides, beyond delivery to and access by authorized users. The system uses strong industry-standard cryptography combined with a unique client-server architecture. Documentum IRM ServicesÂ’family of client applications or plug-ins works with a common policy server to secure and control electronic information. This white paper provides an overview of the technical architecture of the EMC Documentum IRM server and Documentum IRM clients, including information on cryptography, session security, separation of keys and content, and authentication. Read this white paper and learn how EMC Documentum IRM can open entirely new opportunities regarding the way sensitive information can be shared.
• EcoTech Research: Climate Change
  TechWeb asked subscribers of Bank Systems & Technology and Insurance & Technology about energy-saving computing practices, paperless processing and other environmentally aware business practices in their organizations.
  
  From more than 600 responses, we were able to make several observations about the financial services industryÂ’s response to the threat of climate change. Overall, the green message is getting through, and financial services executives have demonstrated a high level of concern and awareness of green issues. However, this interest has been slow to translate into concrete action, which has been largely limited to paper-saving efforts and reduction of energy use in the data center. As far as climate change risk management, green advocacy and other emerging practices, the financial services industry still has a long way to go.
• The Green Data Center
  After an intensive study of server and data center energy efficiency for Congress, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported that the U.S. data center industry is in the midst of a major expansion period spurred by increased demand for IT capacity to support busi-ness growth. The Agency listed several trends that are stimulating this demand, including:
  
  • Increased use of online banking and electronic stock trading • Adoption of Internet-based communications and entertainment • A shift to using electronic medical records for healthcare • Globalization of competition • Government regulations requiring digital records retention.
  
  In recent surveys, 73 percent of U.S. senior decision makers surveyed said they were planning expansion in the next 24 months, while 67 percent of senior decision makers in European markets said they were planning to do so.
  
  To satisfy this robust demand for computing capacity, IT executives are increasing both the numbers and the density of their servers and storage devices. IBM and consultant studies project that the server installed base will increase by a factor of six between 2000 and 2010, while storage is expected to grow by a factor of 69.4.
• Knowledge is Power: How the Quest for Greater Visibility is Redefining the Relationship between Corporate Clients and their Banks
  With increasing regularity, today’s corporate treasurers are looking to their banking partners to be catalysts for driving greater strategic value inside their organizations. In order to serve in this role, banks must transform how they interact with corporate clients, pushing aside long-standing, silo-based approaches to products and services, and embrace the role of true ‘partner.’ For banks, the future course is one that no longer emphasizes the collection and aggregation of data, but one in which the analysis, optimization and allocation of liquidity in an increasingly complex global business environment takes center stage. Integral to delivering clarity across payables, receivables and cash positioning services is an enterprise payments hub, which serves to consolidate payments and collections, introducing automation, increased straight through processing (STP), greater working capital management, tighter client integration, and improved control and security around core cash management processes. This whitepaper, authored by Bottomline Technologies’ Suzanne Hurt, explores the changing dynamics of the relationship between corporate clients and their banking partners, and how through the use of an enterprise payments hub, banks can become the consultative partner their corporate clients seek.
• Using TriGeo Security Information Management To Meet PCI Requirements
  Simply deploying a security solution cannot guarantee meeting every Payment Card Industry (PCI) requirement in full. This whitepaper discusses the challenges of PCI compliance and how security information and event management (SIEM) provides the data visibility, log management, end-point security and active response needed to demonstrate and meet each of the 12 PCI compliance requirements.
• Cutting the Carbon Footprint of IT
  Experience shows that wasted energy can cost tens of millions of pounds: environmental awareness goes with a keen eye for the bottom line. Combined with the financial impact of energy efficiency, in the current political climate, the responsible use of energy has serious implications for an organisationÂ’s public image.
  
  This paper explores how an organisation can sustainably reduce its carbon footprint and its costs at the same time. It is a practical study, drawn from real examples and actual observations, and is amongst the most detailed investigation into the management of workplace IT systems ever undertaken. It is presented in order that public sector organisations and businesses alike can share and use this best-practice, fact-based method to assess and reduce both carbon footprint and financial waste.
• ERM: Business Imperatives and Implementation Readiness
  Enterprise Rights Management (ERM) compliments existing information security technologies. This report by The Gilbane Group includes a brief recap of the history of ERM, an outline of the ERM market study, and highlights of the survey results. This ERM market study was designed to examine the progress ERM has made in the market over the past few years and to assist ERM vendors in positioning the technology to their customers. The structured primary research for the study included a detailed online survey of over 200 IT, security, and content management executives at companies across various industries. Survey results highlights include the following. Awareness of ERM has increased over the past few years. The financial services industry is showing the most uptake of ERM. ERM is becoming popular for supporting information usage regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley (accounting) and H