We look at where software-as-a-service is heading.
Even before green got hot, it was apparent to many IT mavens that storage was actually consuming the most power and generating the most heat in their shops.
How the right software development partner can help to retain your in-house IT team
Adopters cite OSS' low-cost licensing, flexibility, and -- crucially -- freedom from a Microsoft lock-in as its most attractive features.
Mainframe pros have joined with IBM to tout the virtues of Big Iron-based cloud computing.
How deploying hardware in the data center that runs a centralized security suite that handles multiple security configurations can protect a diverse set of end users.
A surprising number of open source adopters don't have official OSS policies, exposing them to IP infringement or other violations
No matter how strange it sounds, many businesses could actually ramp up their IT spending during the current downturn
Promises comes and go. A few have morphed into something different.
Dashboards can shape (or reshape) perceptions of IT and enhance its organizational relationship with business users. Dashboards deliver transparency -- a world of growing, if not lasting, influence in the technology-requirements lexicon.
We explore the challenges of capacity planning and how IT can best balance performance and risk in virtualized environments.
How to keep IT systems running during the post-Thanksgiving shopping rush
Organizations should either implement a more secure version of WPA or switch to WPA2, the impregnable successor to WPA
Performance intelligence represents a new practice for database and application performance management
What's behind the move to mixing physical and virtualized desktops in an enterprise?
Big Iron ISVs maintain the mainframe is hot. In the current economic climate, they suggest, it could really sizzle.
Azure amounts to Microsoft's "most significant coordinated shift in strategy" since it got come-to-the-Internet religion in 1995.
A new survey reveals how IT is trying to automate the application infrastructure.
Networks are vital to your organization. We offer suggestions for moving from reactive to proactive network management.
Many mainframe customers -- perhaps as many as 80 percent -- lease their Big Iron hardware. How will economic uncertainty affect them?