A little imagination can be a great thing when it comes to planning for a disaster. The disasters we might encounter as IT managers are no different.
Fully 83 percent of IT chiefs expect to maintain their staffing levels. Among those planning staff reductions, most cite IT budget cuts as the culprit.
How an enterprise’s culture affects its IT security
Effective data management is an idea that has been ignored for far too long.
Far from transitioning away from Big Iron, customers seem to be doubling down
Why the common approach to IT modernization will fail in today's economy
Best practices for using network and application baselines to help predict service delivery degradations
Server sales are down and IT spending is projected to grow at an anemic rate.
IT no longer has the luxury of reacting to problems; data centers must now anticipate problems to correct them before they interrupt critical business applications.
With ILM, Informatica says it has the answer for harried data management pros. Analysts caution that Informatica's strategy will take time to gestate.
How to keep your Web apps running smoothly when workloads rise.
How can IT determine what should be virtualized, then know when the right mix has been achieved?
Three innovative enterprise technologies will shape the data center and provide companies better ways to achieve business goals.
If you’re looking to breathe extra life into your fleet of PCs and to keep your network as secure as possible, make sure you’re using a secure Web filter.
Mainframes offer scalability, availability, security, and compliance, and are energy efficient to boot. No wonder their popularity is growing.
The term SAN is an oxymoron when applied to Fibre Channel fabrics. Fibre Channel is a channel protocol, not a network protocol, so it stands to reason that Fibre Channel cannot be used to build a storage area network.
Green savings can be substantial. The trick, as one firm found, is to have all employees on board.
As interviews with IT pros make clear, IT organizations are responding to the economic crisis in very different ways
In a tough economic climate, IT organizations will look to virtualization to reduce TCO, slash their energy costs, and keep up with competitors
ID fraud spiked last year by almost a quarter, yet the total amount bilked by ID thieves rose only slightly.