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Oracle Blends Managed Services With OnDemand Pricing

Overview Growing businesses are increasingly realising that Managed Services offer a scalable, flexible route forward. This whitepaper explores Oracle Managed Services offerings for PeopleSoft and Siebel, and sees how they can deliver an easier deployment, with on-demand pricing.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Oracle	File Format	WORD
Date Published	October 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Infrastructure Management, Web Content Management, Business Strategies, Security Management, Service Level Management

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Green IT: Reducing your Carbon Footprint with Citrix

Going green has become an imperative, not an option, for companies facing the new reality of balancing business objectives with dwindling environmental resources. Limited energy supply and skyrocketing costs are...

Publisher:
Citrix Systems

Security Beyond Corporate Boundaries: Using Citrix Application Delivery to Protect Corporate Information Anywhere Business Happens

Ironclad security has become the Holy Grail for companies looking to protect corporate and customer information at large in the modern enterprise. The move toward greater data distribution -- thanks...

Publisher:
Citrix Systems

Identity and Security Management and Strong Information Technology Goverance

A total identity and access management (IAM) – driven goverance, risk and compliance (GRC) solution should ensure foolproof and accurate measurements of policies and practises across the enterprise. This IDC...

Publisher:
Novell

The End of Application Deployment: Virtualised Applications Streamline, Secure and Manage Your Business

Hundreds, even thousands, of applications serve as the life blood of each of today's distributed global enterprises - at use in more places and in more ways than ever before....

Publisher:
Citrix Systems

Accelerating Microsoft Windows Vista Migrations with Citrix XenApp

For many organisations, migration to Microsoft Windows Vista is not a question of "if" but "when." This inevitability is causing companies to start asking the difficult questions. This white paper...

Publisher:
Citrix Systems

Water works for Thus in managed services win

Southern Water has awarded a three-year, multimillion-pound deal for managed telecoms services to Thus. The Scottish telco will manage wide and local area networks, voice services, telemetry and video conferencing for the utility after beating off...

Channel:
LANs
Tags:
southern water,
thus

Computacenter drives off with £8m Highways deal

Ian Chalmers, technology team leader for the Highways Agency's regional control centres, said the fact this was a new set-up for the agency was the main reason for transferring some of the risk by going down the managed services route.

Channel:
Servers

McAfee signs Wireworx managed services deal

Wireworx, a PC support service for one-man bands and 'microbusinesses', has entered into a pan-European partnership with McAfee, to provide managed security services to its customers. Analysts have given the managed services approach their blessing.

Quocirca's Straight Talking: The web at work

Unchecked use of the web also provides an easy route in for the purveyors of web-borne malware. Postini has 100s of ISP partners which could provide a lucrative route to market for its new web-filtering offering.

Businesses failing to commit to managed services

Businesses are losing control of their managed services because they do not understand how to work with third-parties, research has revealed. Managed services - the use of a third party to deliver IT services such as security - will increase...

Channel:
IT Director

Carillion builds on £27m managed services deal

He said with the new managed services agreement, BT will be helping to join the two businesses together and implement a comprehensive review of its networks to see which sites are ready for a converged voice and data network.

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