A recent breach in Utah once again raises the need for IT to implement IT risk and security management on servers. What's holding IT back?
Can a law firm make a smooth transition to a storage cloud while meeting security and resource requirements?
If remote support solutions can relieve IT of some of its help-desk burden, why isn't it used more often or to better advantage?
We examine how application performance management (APM) has changed, discuss effective APM approaches, and recommend IT investments and training to help you deal with increasingly complex applications and environments.
Predictive analytics and big data "make perfect sense together," says analyst Fern Halper, even as some vendors are struggling to catch up with users.
When considering moving to the cloud, most IT shops have concerns about security. We tackle several of the most common questions.
The increased interest in predictive analytics points to its power and possibilities, says analyst Fern Halper. Vendors are eagerly jumping on board, and open source is becoming increasingly important.
It's not enough to respond to downtime; what's needed is a new mindset that focuses on preventing downtime.
Social media isn't just a marketing channel you bolt on to your current plans. You need to understand its true business-wide impact. How should your IT organization prepare to embrace social media over the next 12 months?
QlikTech's Donald Farmer discusses how mobile technologies are fundamentally changing BI, sometimes in ways you might not expect.
A certification program backed by CA Technologies may help supply IT’s next generation of trained professionals.
First it was just "the cloud." Then came public clouds versus private clouds, and, of course, hybrid clouds. How is IT coping, and how do clouds fit in with other trends, such as the distributed data center?
Organizations will have to accept that their gates will be breached and begin preparing their second line of defense -- data platforms -- to mitigate the damage caused by attacks that get through.
Huge data sets can reveal hidden patterns, analyst explains.
IT is looking to cut costs. One way is to outsource data center tasks. We take a closer look at a state-of-the-art site in Europe to learn what features are most important to IT and how investments in renewable resources are paying off.
How a cloud solution solved performance and complexity issues and returned an impressive ROI.
Tech advances are changing how physical documents are securely stored and recalled. We explore the latest trends and issues affecting document storage, including compliance, natural disasters, and data recovery.
An IBM storage expert looks at the storage challenges and trends faced by today's IT department and offer suggestions for better storage management.
A remodel of a data center created unique challenges. We examine the success factors of a project at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.
Semantics helps bring data management down to the user level.