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Data Center Automation - Facing the Air of Change by Wipro Technologies
still perform a majority of Data Center administration tasks manually. Today, manual techniques are obsolete as Information Technology is required to manage complex multivendor infrastructures cost-effectively. There is one way to meet this challenge...
Real-World Strategies for Effective Web 2.0 and Cloud Datacenter Scaling by Schooner Information Technology
cloud computing datacenters face soaring costs and data growth. Join noted MySQL authority Peter Zaitsev and Schooner Information Technology for an informative one-hour webinar that will provide real-world strategies for leveraging these technology...
A New Mandate for IT by SAP America Inc
business. This report includes research targeted towards senior executives responsible for managing and deploying information technology in pursuit of business objectives. Innovation is no stranger to the information technology function. Armed with...
Effective SharePoint Governance: Meeting Business Objectives Through Top-Down SharePoint Administration by AvePoint, Inc.
a comprehensive, reliable, and efficient governance strategy appropriate to their organizational needs. Information Technology Governance (ITG) has become an initiative of crucial importance for organizations worldwide, as participants within...
Business Process-Centric Information Technology: Aligning Business and Technology for High Performance by Accenture
Process-centric IT is, first and foremost, a way for the IT organization to build applications that will deliver greater flexibility and agility to the business-enabling high performance. Process-centric IT is, first and foremost, a way for the IT organization to build applications that will deliver greater flexibility and agility to the...
A Framework for Assuring IT Service Quality and Performance by CA
Service, according to ITIL, is based on the use of Information Technology and supports the Customer's Business Process. An IT Service is made up from a combination of people, processes and...
Optimizing Email Storage to Drive Organizational Value by ScriptLogic Corporation
growth of e-mail due to the increasing amount of storage that is consumed by e-mail.

As these volumes increase, Information Technology (IT) and messaging administrators need to ensure that the email system is up to task. The optimization of e-mail storage is...

Business Intelligence for Process Industries: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers by SAP America Inc
Firms in Process Industries have made significant investments in information technology to increase the efficiency of their operations and supply chains. By integrating real-time decision making with...
Business Intelligence for the Health Care Industry: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers by SAP America Inc
45;increasing need to be service-oriented are forcing hospitals to do more with less. Even with recent investments in information technology, much of the data has not been coordinated, analyzed or deployed to improve operational performance. What is needed...
Cost-cutting strategies for a virtualized data center: Blade servers by Dell, Inc. and Intel
In part two of this podcast series on cost-cutting strategies for a virtualized data center, Laura DiDio, Principal at Information Technology Intelligence Corp. (ITIC), will provide insight into how new cost-effective blade server technologies improve overall...
Cost-cutting strategies for a virtualized data center: Performance and capacity management tools by Dell, Inc. and Intel
of this podcast series on cost-cutting strategies for a virtualized data center, hear from Laura DiDio, Principal at Information Technology Intelligence Corp. (ITIC), as she discusses how capacity planning and performance management tools can supplement...
Platform Design, TCO, and Cost-Effective Flexibility: The Role of Solaris in Support of SAP Enterprise Applications by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
a detailed analysis of the role that the Solaris operating system can play in meeting the new requirements. Information Technology executives face a continuing but unpredictable cycle in which newly relevant forces demand a redesign of the...
Responding Quickly to Changing Markets: Anticipate, Adapt, Excel by SAP America Inc
  • demand
  • Scalability - to expand and contract projects, workforce, and workload as needed

Flexible, integrated information technology makes it easy to adapt the way you do business in response to changing needs. It also helps you outperform the...
Remotely Manage Wired and Wireless PCs from the Same IT Console by Intel Corporation
are disabled, or hardware (such as a hard drive) has failed. Remote configuration in both notebook and desktop PCs helps information technology (IT) managers deploy thousands of systems without making a deskside visit. New wireless manageability improves remote...
Achieving Rapid Data Recovery for Credit Union Core Processing Applications by Vision Solutions
that a credit union has its priorities set appropriately. The right business processes, supported by a reliable information technology (IT) infrastructure, are the foundation on which continuous member service is built. The core component to this...
How to Assure ERP Success: Taking Ownership by IFS
of an enterprise application as a crucial business asset will go a long way to getting the full value out of your information technology investment...
Sun™ Storage 7000 NFS Solution For Windows Server Consolidation Using VMware by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
and VMware certification criteria, thus offering a superior quality product for mission-critical deployment. As an information technology professional you already know that planning and deploying virtualization in your IT environment can quickly become...
Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus ---Technical Overview by Oracle Corporation
in the suite are based on a proven Web service-oriented architecture that integrates with an organization's existing information technology (IT) infrastructure for the lowest total cost of ownership (TOC). OBIEE Plus provides complete, relevant insight to...
Getting the Foundation Right: Unified Communications by ShoreTel
benefits, companies must build the right foundation, eliminate the voice silo, and make telephony a seamless part of information technology. However, UC is a moving target right now, with various vendors using the term in different ways to emphasize a subset of an...
Podcast: A Framework for Assuring IT Service Quality and Performance by CA
Service, according to ITIL, is based on the use of Information Technology and supports the Customer's Business Process. An IT Service is made up from a combination of people, processes and...
An Introduction to the Business Model for Information Security by ISACA
Read this paper to learn about the Business Model for Information Security, which takes a business-oriented approach to managing information security that is both predictive and...
How to Ensure That Your Employees Will Want to Use CRM by Pivotal CRM, a CDC Software solution
This paper outlines the technology building blocks that enable you to create an information-rich environment that empowers your workforce to perform at its peak. Learn how to use data to its fullest--without...
Monitoring Trading Partner Agreements - Using Business Intelligence to Enhance BAM Activities by Information Builders
to look for in a complete integration platform and how to use BI technology in conjunction with BAM tools to achieve zero information latency and self-correcting processes. As IT organizations move steadily towards automated operations and straight...
Get the Facts: Comparing BlackBerry to Alternative Wireless Solutions by BlackBerry
Attend this on-demand webcast now for the latest information on wireless technology that will assist you in making the best wireless decision for your organization. Are you...
Data Management for Business Intelligence by SAP America Inc
that Best-in-Class companies are employing to alleviate the pressure to accelerate the delivery of actionable information within their enterprises. As the sheer amount of information available for Business Intelligence (BI) applications...
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Business management remains skeptical of the benefits of security spending on employee awareness training. Remote employees are more likely to be out of the loop on security risks than their cubicled counterparts. Mobile devices are vulnerable. Human error, alas, combined with technical glitches -- doh! -- remains the main cause of severe information security breaches. And the severity of IT security breaches is rising, even as the prevalence among U.S. firms has declined, suggesting the life of a security pro is as harried as ever.

Information security teams have plenty to grouse about, according to a survey of more than 1,500 IT security professionals by The Computing Technology Industry Association Inc. (CompTIA), the business technology trade group.

But money for security, it appears, is less of an issue in 2009, at least relative to other areas of IT. According to the CompTIA study, spending on information security processes, training and especially technologies is expected to increase approximately 20% to 25% globally, with India and China outpacing the U.S. and the U.K. The upswing comes at a time when IT budgets overall are expected by market watchers such as Gartner Inc. to decline worldwide in 2009. (Our... More...

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WiMAX, EV-DO, MIMO, ZigBee and UMTS. It sounds like a spelling bee gone out of control, but these are just a sampling of the ... More...
Historically, security threats were thought to be from bad guys outside your network. That resulted in strengthening... More...
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I will admit that I am not the smartest person on the face of the earth. Almost everything I have learned about IT...

When it comes time to manage key projects in the IT portfolio, CIOs need successful project managers who exhibit the...

Back around 2001, Carfax Inc., the provider of vehicle history reports on used cars and trucks, was growing rapidly. It...
From a decline in some types of software prices to licensing options for Microsoft's Windows 2008, opportunities to...