Incentive Compensation Management: Build Versus Buy

whitePaper | November 21, 2022

When weighing a move to “The Cloud”, there is a lot to consider. Clouds are complicated, and cloud providers offer a great degree of similar capabilities implemented in proprietary ways, while trying to add their own unique value

whitePaper | December 4, 2022

IT spending remains buoyant, as the momentum for digital transformation initiatives continues to accelerate. New technologies are giving organizations a boost in operational efficiency, improving customer outreach, and enabling better collaboration between business users. In ESG’s annual research survey of senior IT decision makers, 26% of respondents described their organization’s digital transformation initiatives as mature, and a further 47% said they were currently implementing and executing various digital transformation initiatives. Six years ago, these percentages were 13% and 38% respectively, showing just how far digital transformation has come.

whitePaper | March 15, 2021

This guide provides an overview of the licensing, pricing and packaging for VMware vSphere. The key topics discussed in this guide include: VMware vSphere overview Licensing overview – Licensing metric and management Packaging overview – Packaging options for editions (including VMware vCenter Server®), kits, vSphere Bitfusion and Tanzu Basic Version upgrade entitlements for existingcustomers Paid edition upgrades from vSphere 7 vSphere Platinum end of availability

whitePaper | September 6, 2022

The pandemic and its accompanying disruptions changed forever how enterprises think about, acquire, and use technology resources in order to meet constantly changing demands. One of these demands, the ability to work in collaborative teams anywhere in the world, dramatically accelerated in the 2020–2021 timeframe. This transition to hybrid work requires changes not just in the underlying technology architecture required to deliver the work experience, but also to the management and very definition of work.

whitePaper | October 4, 2022

Virtualization technology is gaining acceptance in the automotive industry. It makes the development process of software systems more efficient, reduces development and BOM costs, and shortens time-to-market. Especially in the cockpit, manufacturers and their direct suppliers have now been using hypervisor-based systems for several years. This first step towards a new conception of solutions is now experiencing another paradigm shift: the use of open standards. It further enhances the advantages of virtualization. The fully virtualized guest operating systems can be flexibly deployed and reused across all hardware. Only then can the full potential of virtualization technology be fully exploited

whitePaper | October 12, 2022

During routine analysis of detection performance, we noticed a batch of processes that respected the same pattern in the process names. These names begin with sys, win or lib followed by a word that describes the functionality, such as bus, crt, temp, cache, init, and end in 32.exe. We later noticed that the .bat files and the downloaded payloads respect the same naming convention. Further investigation revealed the components are part of a monitoring application called SecondEye, developed in Iran and distributed legitimately via the developer’s website. We also found that some spyware components were already described in an article published by Blackpoint [1]. In the article, researchers drew attention to the dangers of legally distributed monitoring software with malicious behavior