IT Management


Why Hardware-based WANs Are Obsolete

Hardware solutions are costly and time-consuming. Is it time you moved to a software solution?

Careers: IT Jobs Growth a Double-Edged Sword

The economy last month added more new IT jobs than at any point over the last four years, but the picture is changing radically.

IBM Bringing Windows to the Mainframe Later This Year

IT mainframe pros will have to wait until Q4 to get their first look at IBM's Windows-on-zBX offering. Will it be worth the wait?

5 Best Practices for Reducing IT Complexity

Can your business users trust your IT department? A new approach to enterprise automation may help IT better manage IT complexity and enhance that user/IT trust.

Q&A: Best Practices for Working with Unstructured Data

What is unstructured data and how should IT search on and store it?

5 Tips for Choosing a Managed Service Provider for Your Multivendor Environment

Managed services help enterprises enjoy the benefits of best-of-breed equipment when deploying converged communications.

Q&A: Benefits and Best Practices of Application Performance Management

What is application performance management, how can it reduce the number of availability incidents, and what best practices can help ensure your APM initiative is a success?



How BPM Can Transform and Empower Your Enterprise

Three examples demonstrate how self-service in the workplace can help us streamline business operations.

Analysis: The Oracle-Intel-HP Fallout Revisited

IT pros believe Oracle's move has less to do with cost savings and more to do with a strategy to negatively impact the hardware sales of partner/rival HP.

10 Reasons Why Architects and Developers Should Care about Cloud Computing

Cloud computing isn’t just about outsourcing IT resources. We explore ten benefits IT architects and developers will realize by moving to the cloud.

Putting a Total Architect to Work: Lean IT Implementation on Steroids (Part 4 of 4)

Wherever a Total Architect goes, projects get better. We explain why.

Mitigating the Limits of Your Data Center

To help data center managers understand how best to employ new energy metrics and tools, we examine five ways to optimize use of available space, cooling capacity, and power.

Does SQL Server PDW Have What It Takes for Very Large Data Warehouses?

When it comes to high-end data warehousing, Microsoft isn't promising something it can't deliver: it's been shipping a special release of its SQL Server 2008 R2 database since November of last year.

Q&A: Enterprise Collaboration and the Role of Private Social Networks

How enterprise social collaboration can benefit the enterprise.

Hiring a Total Architect (Part 3 of 4)

How to ensure you don't miss the right candidate during the hiring process.

Private Clouds: 5 Considerations for Optimizing the Dynamic Data Center

If you’re moving to private clouds, keep these considerations in mind as you plan your migration.

Traits of a Total Architect ... And All That Jazz (Part 2 of 4)

How a Total Architect is like a musician.

Tablets Having Big Impact on IT Budgets

This year, demand for tablet computers will actually help lift worldwide IT spending.

HP's HPC Server Refresh Hints at Exascale Future

Will Enterprise 2020 be hosting a substantial portion of its workloads on GPUs or on other non-traditional architectures?

How Total Architects Enable Project Success (Part 1 of 4)

Introducing the "Total Architect" and the benefits this position can bring to your enterprise.