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Understanding the Infrastructure Implications of MiFID (Markets in Financial Instruments Directive)
MiFID will go into effect on November 1, 2007 in the United Kingdom and will have a considerable impact on the business operations of financial institutions and the technologies they use, by replacing the existing Investment Services Directive (ISD), which currently provides basic high-level provisions governing the organizational business requirements and conduct that apply to firms in the European Union. MiFID will have the same basic purpose, but will make significant changes to the regulatory framework to reflect developments in financial services and markets since the ISD was implemented, by extending the coverage of the current ISD and introducing new and more extensive requirements that firms will have to adapt to, in particular for their conduct of business and internal organization. ThruPoint's solutions will help quantify the impact of MiFID, prioritize the required actions and proactively address problems. Request it!
Mitigating IT Operational Risk Associated with Strategic Business Change
How Asset and Performance Management minimize risk associated with mergers and acquisitions, data center redesigns, and technology refresh. Learn how best practices in these areas help to stay within budgets, meet project deadlines, and maintain or improve performance. Request it!
Understanding Benefits and Risks of Data Center Optimization
A typical data center environment consists of multiple technology components including network, server, storage, hosting faciltiy, application and operational processes. With increased complexities and a greater degree of business dependency on data centers, organizations are taking a closer look at improving their data center infrastructure and becoming more operationally efficient. The following white paper is an overview of a typical data center optimization approach and the associated benefits and risks from a ThruPoint data center optimization client engagement. The discussion is followed by a real world case study, which highlights a ThruPoint data center disaster recovery consolidation project for a leading global information service provider. Request it!
Evaluating Outsourced versus In-House IP Communications for the Enterprise
The telecommunications landscape has changed significantly over the past five years with the service provider market feeling increasing pressure from the growth of the Internet and its promise of converged multi-media communications, delivered on IP-based technology. This paper discusses the options facing an enterprise today for their IP communications for either an outsourced solution offered by a service provider or an in-house solution owned and managed entirely by the enterprise. Request it!
IT Service and Application Reliability
Demand for 24x7 business operations makes service reliability one of the most important aspects of technology delivery in the highly competitive global economy. Business application and service reliability has a direct impact on customer satisfaction and corporate reputation. The bottom line; if your application is not up and running when customers expect it, you could lose money, old and new customers, along with company reputation all of which are components of success. This whitepaper focuses on specific methodologies that manage reliability to minimize operational risk. Request it!
Information Technology Performance Management
Service Scalability Analysis
Managing performance of IT systems is more critical than ever in today’s business world. With wide-scale commoditisation of IT, advantage lies in ability to build, test, deploy, and manage performance of computing environments better than your competition. Increasingly, the very existence of many businesses depends on reliable IT service provisioning. This whitepaper will outline ThruPoint’s approach to mitigating risks and mitigating approaches associated with service scalability - one of the most important aspects of successful IT performance management. Request it!
Achieving Compliance via Effective Information Technology Infrastructure Management
Information technology divisions not only have to keep their infrastructures optimized, they must also play a pivotal role in assuring that their companies adhere to regulatory compliance mandates. These two objectives demand better operational risk management and internal control audits as part of a more effective IT compliance program.
Advances in IT management and automation can help organizations respond more quickly to audit demands and provide a more consistent framework in which to operate over the long-term. Fortifying a Regulatory Compliance Management (RCM) process with the right technology-enablers can optimize IT operations, enhance security safeguards, and facilitate the transparency required by regulatory bodies.
This whitepaper shows how IT organizations can implement ThruPoint’s strategic approach to track business activity and demonstrate compliance without adversely impacting business performance or significantly increasing the cost of doing business. Request it!
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How Multi-Service Unified Work Centers Can Improve Managed Services’ Quality and Profitability
ThruPoint’s effective framework for building and sustaining high-quality, profitable managed services is based on our extensive experience in helping service-provider clients develop managed services and helping enterprise clients select best-in-class managed services.
ThruPoint’s model for Multi-Service Unified Work Centers enables service-providers to successfully deploy and administer an expanding array of managed services. ThruPoint’s model recommends that service providers and carriers establish a Policy and Product Management Organization that bridges the gap between offer management, operations, and customer-facing functions.
As this white paper demonstrates, ThruPoint’s proposed framework accelerates the rollout of new, more profitable managed services. We simplify service-provider solutions by creating a single point of contact, and an integrated service-delivery and service-management apparatus. The subsequent managed-service improvements help to increase customer satisfaction, loyalty, associated revenues, and profit margins. Request it!
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Creating a Security Risk Management Investment Strategy
With networked enterprises increasingly reliant on systems that span the globe, corporate information assets become more vulnerable to cyber espionage, hackers, and internal abuse. Securing IT assets and ensuring the reliability of business processes is a major priority of CFOs and CIOs alike. It is a challenge to accurately value technology-dependent assets, determine asset exposure and pertinent security threats, and strategically invest in security risk mitigation. This white paper discusses a five-step process to create a security investment strategy to effectively determine how much to invest and where to invest it. Request it!
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High Availability Firewalls: A Look at a Network's First Line of Defense
Corporations have never been faced with as many IT-security challenges as they are today. While the level of sophistication of hackers has risen, so too has the need for flexibility, scalability, and availability in today's networks. High-availability firewalls make it possible to achieve network access balance—enabling authorized parties round-the-clock access to the network and barring unauthorized access. This white paper examines high-availability firewalls—their role in security, policy, the economics of availability, and the associated technologies. Request it!
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A Guide to Implementing Security Policy
Implementing an information-security policy reveals common problems along the way and companies need help dealing with those problems. As with most aspects of managing information security, there are no absolute answers and no cookie-cutter solutions. Although there are industry standards for establishing policies, there are no standards for the deployment and implementation of policy—understandable given the endless variety of IT environments in which policies must be implemented. This white paper will set out the most common situations and discuss successful ways of dealing with them. Request it!
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Building an Enterprise Management Strategy
Every infrastructure and business model is unique, so the technologies and methodologies required to identify and implement effective enterprise management must be tailored to what is appropriate, operationally feasible, and cost effective. You must define requirements before management is applied and understand which tools will satisfy those requirements. This white paper provides an understanding of the traditional management domains, disciplines, and technologies required to manage an infrastructure—all building blocks of enterprise management. The paper suggests process and procedure requirements and describes of some of the management products available today. Request it!
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Content is Ready - Are You?
This white paper describes Content Networking and the various technology considerations involved in its implementation. Request it!
Content Delivery Networking - A Reference Guide
Despite the alluring promise of the Internet as a media convergence channel, there are many challenges to ensuring consistent delivery to the end-user. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are networks that specifically address these needs. This white paper examines CDN fundamentals and the associated technologies for building this service. Request it!
Complying with the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA): Taking the First Step
Enterprises that manage patient information are challenged by Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance methodology. Industry-watchers speculate that HIPAA compliance will be a bigger challenge for the health care industry than Y2K. This white paper examines HIPAA legislation, why it was enacted, what it seeks to remedy, and the logical first steps for health care providers on the destination to HIPAA compliance. Request it!
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