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Microsoft extends software assurance to disasters
News The software maker said that starting from 1 June, businesses in its Software Assurance programme will be able to make a duplicate copy for each server software product that they license. Also, the rights to store the extra copy are good only as...
[May 20, 2004, 9:00]
Why information assurance is like teenage sex
Blog Information assurance is like teenage sex. A great quote from a document borrowed at Infosec from Dr J Philip Evans who runs the centre for research into information technology security at the University of Westminster:
[April 24, 2007, 15:32]
Momentum Webcast: Determining the Value of Software Assurance Renewal for Your Organization (Level 100)
White Papers This webcast is designed for growing and mid-sized organizations that have a Microsoft Software Assurance (SA) agreement through the Open Business, Open Value, Select, or Enterprise Agreement (EA) programs.
[August 28, 2007, 1:00]
Achieving Process and Product Excellence With Commitment and Built-In Quality Assurance Procedures
White Papers Customer input is central to both product design and quality assurance tools, and it feeds the quality assurance process. The HP-UX development organization has adopted customer-based design and testing - and a highly disciplined quality assurance...
[February 24, 2005, 2:00]
Quality Assurance in High Volume Document Digitization: A Survey
White Papers Quality Assurance (QA) plays a critical role in high volume document digitization projects by making sure that the specified quality standard is reached under cost and time constraints. This paper takes a systematic view on this issue by...
[May 4, 2006, 10:17]
Microsoft 'must do better' on software assurance
News The UK IT industry is looking for big improvements to Microsoft's Software Assurance licensing programme, when the supplier announces changes to the scheme on Thursday. A cross-section of analysts, resellers and IT directors agreed on Tuesday that...
[September 13, 2005, 16:45]
Oracle Software Security Assurance
White Papers Oracle Software Security Assurance comprises all the processes, procedures, and technologies that have been implemented to ensure that Oracle's products are meeting the customers' security requirements, while providing for the most cost-effective...
[February 24, 2007, 0:00]
Using Assurance Models to Aid the Risk and Governance Lifecycle
White Papers This paper describes an enterprise assurance model allowing many layers of the enterprise architecture from the business processes; supporting applications and the IT infrastructure and operational processes to be represented and related from a...
[May 1, 2007, 1:00]
Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance
White Papers Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance is a dynamic desktop solution available only to Software Assurance Customers. It helps reduce application deployment costs, enable the delivery of applications as services, and allow for...
[June 2, 2009, 1:18]
Quality Logic Facilitates Communication Between Technical Support and Quality Assurance
White Papers The company wanted to enhance effectiveness of their technical support staff and to facilitate interdepartmental communication between technical support and quality assurance. Quality Logic develops and markets computer protocol test software.
[July 11, 2006, 0:00]
Phoenix Assurance Company Leverages Network Appliance Storage to Ensure Complete Operational Recovery Within 48 Hours of a Site Failure
White Papers The Israel Phoenix Assurance Company Ltd.specializes in general, life, health, and nursing insurance and is part of The Israel Phoenix Group, the third-largest insurance group in Israel. The company wanted to ensure rapid, uninterrupted access and...
[July 20, 2007, 1:00]
Revenue Assurance for Interconnect and Carrier Access Billing
White Papers Some of the biggest and most successful applications of business intelligence to revenue assurance have been situations where data mining or data warehousing were used to help carriers to identify settlement discrepancies (saving them millions of...
[May 12, 2007, 1:00]
Analysts see brighter future for Software Assurance
News Analysts have predicted that many companies that have not yet bought into Microsoft's previously underused Software Assurance scheme will now make the move — not because they want to, but because they will soon have to.
[March 16, 2006, 10:50]
Implementing BMC Performance Assurance in a VMware Environment
White Papers With BMC Performance Assurance Suite for Virtual Servers, one can manage the performance of VMware ESX servers. BMC Performance Assurance Suite for Virtual Servers provides the ability to collect VMware ESX server configuration and system-wide...
[August 14, 2009, 4:55]
Software Testing and Quality Assurance White Papers
White Papers Software Quality Assurance (QA) at Pointe Technology is oriented to ? prevention? It involves the entire software development process. Prevention is monitoring and improving the process, making sure any agreed-upon standards and procedures are...
[August 14, 2009, 5:26]
Integrated Information Assurance (I2A) Solutions
White Papers This experience enables BAE Systems to address the full Information Assurance (IA) lifecycle - Strategy & Policy, Engineering & Implementation, Certification & Accreditation (C&A), Operations & Monitoring, and Assessment & Remediation - to ensure...
[August 30, 2005, 3:00]
Using BS7799 Certification to Provide Demonstrable Assurance of Information Security Best Practice to Customers
White Papers Many of TSO's customers were looking for demonstrable assurance of the security procedures and that was one of the primary reasons that TSO chose to adopt BS7799. Privatised from HMSO in 1996, TSO (The Stationery Office) has a successful heritage...
[October 6, 2006, 0:00]
AppAssure: Leveraging Virtualization for Application Assurance
White Papers Application assurance. The problem is that application assurance, particularly the assurance of e? Business continuity. Virtualization. Consider that a mission? critical progression. Business continuity is essential for business productivity.
[July 18, 2009, 1:19]
Quality assurance checklist for outsourced projects
White Papers This quality assurance checklist includes questions to ask throughout the project to make sure it stays on track. You need some level of involvement in an outsourced project to validate that the outsourcer will deliver within your expectations.
[May 16, 2006, 5:38]
Network Assurance & Regulatory Compliance: Closing the Gap Between Policies & Defenses
White Papers Quantifying risk from a network perspective, or network assurance, is therefore critical to ensuring compliance with policies and key regulations. In a dynamic network environment, constant changes to the network cause defenses to become misaligned...
[October 1, 2009, 1:24]
