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Why Business Rules: A Case for Business Consumers of Information Technology by ILOG, Inc.
translation process. Policy changes often become entangled in a software development cycle that is driven by a host of technology and resource issues, and is insufficiently responsive to the business sponsors' needs. In effect, the owners of the...
Quest MessageStats™ by Quest Software
Quest MessageStats empowers executive management, Information Technology (IT) managers, and Exchange administrators to perform business-critical analysis and reporting on...
Baking Securing into the Network Infrastructure by CDW Corporation
This expert videocast details the ways that IT and IS technology have merged to provide complimentary capabilities and how these features can provide extra security for your...
Oracle and F5 Reference Architechture for SOA by F5 Networks
into categories that relate to the Oracle's Fusion Architecture. Oracle Fusion Architecture is a standards-based technology blueprint that details the linkage between all of the Oracle products. Oracle Fusion Architecture is based on three...
The Road to IT Governance Excellence by SERENA Software, Inc.
an award-winning IT Governance structure as a foundation for improving the business value of their office of Information Technology. BYU’s Office of Information Technology (OIT) is organized in support of the university’s major academic and...
ITIL® v3: What It Is and Why You Should Care by Global Knowledge
comes from, why you need to know about it, which types of IT organization can benefit from using it, and how to get started. The Information Technology Infrastructure Library® (ITIL) has been around for nearly 20 years, and within the last five years it has...
Continuing IT Excellence by Simplifying Remote Desktop Access by Citrix Online - GotoMyPC
just better service to citizens but much more timely delivery of services. The mission of Fulton County's Department of Information Technology is to provide public services to county constituents by leverag… Through GoToMyPC Corporate we provide...
AT&T Business Continuity Survey: 2008 by AT&T Corp
and how it figured in their overall IT strategy. For the seventh consecutive year, AT&T has completed a survey of 500 Information Technology (IT) executives around the US. The goal was to learn what these executives were doing about business...
Humidification Stratiegies for Data Centers and Network Rooms by APC
the nature of humidity, its effects and its management in computer rooms and data centers. The control of humidity in Information Technology environments is essential to achieving high availability. This paper explains how humidity affects...
Uniting IT with Business through ITSM: Oracle Leads the Charge by Oracle Corporation
a competitive advantage. Aberdeen’s August 2007 benchmark report ITSM: IT Transforms itself into a Service, presents Information Technology Service Management as a powerful remedy for contrasting objectives between the business and IT sides of...
5 Strategies for Going Green: Easy IT Strategies That save Money & Help the Environment by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Smart information technology (IT) practices can reduce the environmental impact of conducting business, and help small and medium-sized...
Taking the Guesswork out of ITIL by Netuitive, Inc.
Service Support addresses the day-to-day support and maintenance of these services. Many IT managers are turning to the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) as roadmap for service delivery and support. Chief among ITIL’s objectives...
Increase Operational Efficiency by Outsourcing by Cisco Systems, Inc.
There are only so many hours in the day. Do you really want your employees spending valuable time managing your business's information technology (IT) system? There are only so many hours in the day. Do you really want your employees spending valuable time...
HDS Reigns over Enterprise Arrays ... Again by Storage Magazine
9900 Series arrays in its shop, which over the years has evolved into an all-HDS environment. Keith Fisher, manager of information processing in the Office of Information Technology for the State of NJ, concurs with Tosti. At one point, the state agency...
Leveraging Next Generation Data Networking Technologies to Gain a Competitive Advantage by EMBARQ
and think of next generation technologies as a tool for gaining competitive advantages. If your business needs to share information between multiple computers and locations, this information will be beneficial. The rise of the Internet and other...
Microsoft Deploys EMC SAN for Data Centers and Reduces Costs by 50 Percent by EMC Corporation
to grant storage space to a customer. Deploying new storage capacity can be a time-consuming process. The Microsoft Information Technology Group (MSIT) was experiencing a rapid increase in the time and cost required to maintain its data centers...
The Right View of Performance Management by Corda Technologies
can help a company improve nearly any aspect of its business by connecting people and processes across functions and information systems, offering them more complete information. Performance management can help a company improve nearly any...
Blow Out the Candles by Information Security Magazine
to leave immaturity behind. Your experiences and observations of life are just beginning. For a magazine, especially a technology publication, 10 years is a lifetime. Information Security has grown up right alongside the security industry, watching...
ITIL Version 3 and the IT Service Catalog by newScale, Inc.
With ITIL Version 3, the Service Catalog has matured to become one of, if not the most important undertakings within IT." The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) has become the de facto standard for IT service management. The new version of...
The Service Catalogue and the CMDB by newScale, Inc.
ROI, improve operational efficiency and enable end-to-end IT service management. Many organizations implementing the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) as part of their IT service management framework begin with the...
ITIL Now - A Stepped Approach by Numara Software
such as configurations, incidents, problems, and service level management. While the ITIL framework (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) is intended to help IT support the business and improve efficiency, it has...
Data Center Waterless Fire Suppression System – Asset Protection by Peripheral Manufacturing. Inc.
NFPA Approved Aero-K® aerosol generators, manufactured in an American ISO 9002 facility, are being widely adopted in the Information Technology and Telecommunications Industries due to their obvious benefits: Aero-K®'s low-cost yet highly effective...
ITIL Best Practices for IT and Business Alignment by Hewlett-Packard Company
limited budgets and increased customer demands. As companies look to align IT with business goals and priorities, the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) has become the most accepted approach to IT Service Management (ITSM). ITIL...
Case Study - Agility Among the Ranks by SkillSoft Corporation
constantly challenged with providing geographically dispersed personnel with a wide range of business, information technology, leadership, professional and technical skills necessary to excel on the job. Through its partnership with...
Six Tips for Aligning Your Business with IT by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Companies should align their business needs with information technology (IT) such as networks, computers, software, and communications because alignment makes a business safer, more...
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As director of IS at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, James J. Thompson had landed a job most IT executives would kill for. He would be overseeing the build out of a networking infrastructure for a brand-new, state-of-the-art facility with -- this was the kicker -- awesome capital funding that was "almost unprecedented for a nonprofit art organization," he said.

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Your computers need change. Your business grows and adds people, and you buy new computers. Technological progress, Moore's Law and ever-falling component prices combine to make it nearly impossible that the machine bought today will be identical to the same brand and model number that you bought a year ago. With product lifetimes of just six months, the availability of machines meeting your specifications (whatever those specs are) changes from week to week. More...
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Tough economic times call for drastic measures. Learn how to focus on innovation when your budget has been slashed and IT strategy is centered on the maintenance of current applications.
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Shawn Banerji, a CIO recruiter at Russell Reynolds Associates Inc. in New York, encountered dozens of midmarket CIOs at a...
Rigorous up-front capacity planning was the key to this midmarket organization's successful virtualization strategy -- and boasts a 16-to-1 server consolidation ratio.
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Kronos Inc. was suffering from a serious case of server sprawl. Some 330 boxes had pretty much used up the space, power and...
Server virtualization, managed data centers and hosted software can affect your company's compliance controls. Here's how to overcome the obstacles.
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Data center virtualization is nothing short of revolutionary. It is transforming data centers into network traffic...
Virtualized servers can be a security sitting duck. Expert Brien Posey has suggestions on how to make your virtualized servers less of a target.
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Without a doubt, the hottest trend in IT today is data center consolidation through virtualization. Although...
An IT system gone bad can be more frightening than Freddy Krueger with a chainsaw. But if you've got the nerve, check out these top five IT horror stories.
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Vampires? Ghosts? Monsters? These creatures of the night may haunt your nightmares -- but what about what's lurking in your...