Enterprise print management and output management has emerged as a proven approach to reducing IT costs, improving employee efficiency, workflow, and the reliability of an enterprise’s printing infrastructure.

Most organizations turn to a third party printing solution for cost reduction and service reliability. But they can also provide other benefits such as document workflow, mobility, and end user productivity.

All print management and output management vendors try to focus on simplifying IT management, improving productivity, reducing costs and increasing security around enterprise printing operations, but that does not mean they are all equal.

A fault tolerant setup typically consists of a system that has the ability to continue seamless operation even under circumstances where one or more of its components suffer from failure.

This is distinct from non-fault tolerant systems, where any component failure may result in total system collapse!

Fault tolerance tends to be in high demand in environments and industries where workflows and processes are critical and extremely time sensitive, such as the in the healthcare and financial industries.

In the past, printers were simple machines where a user would print to one local printer and then go retrieve whatever document they printed.

There have always been security issues with legacy printers such as the theft of documentation from the printer before it can be collected. Unfortunately, innovation in software and technology has opened doors to a wide array of new print security threats enterprises must be aware of.

There are five main print security threats to watch out for.

Many organizations are paying an opportunity cost when it comes to the cloud – security teams tend to hold back due to cloud security worries. The IT world continues to operate under the misconception about public clouds or shared cloud infrastructure is risky.

Fears about security prevent their use of cloud services and organizations are not able to fully leverage the cost savings and flexibility of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS.

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) can be defined as the strategies, methods, and tools used to capture, manage, process, and deliver content and documents throughout an enterprise setting.

Because of the complexity surrounding enterprises and the vast amount of unstructured internal information going around within companies, content management in enterprise can be particularly challenging.