IT Management


Remotely Manage Hardware with Embedded Technology

Organizations must be cautious to ensure they can manage their embedded devices as their population grows.

Q&A: Managing Explosive Network Growth in Education

How one University tackled rapidly growing network traffic.

Careers: IT Jobs -- A Safe Harbor of a Sort

With contract and services work all the rage, recruiting, retaining, or promoting full-time employees isn’t a high priority for most IT organizations at this time.

The Seven Deadly Sins of Managing an ERP Rollout

Visibility of entire system via automated structural analysis the key to being "sin-free."

Ten Ways to Avoid Performance Black Holes in Data Center Build Outs

Emerging technologies in the data center place organizations at a unique crossroads.

Extending Business Continuity beyond the Data Center with Application Availability

Application availability is critical in an always-on world in which businesses compete.

Careers: A Job-Seeker’s Market?

Some jobs -- particularly in network administration, security, and software development -- are always in demand and hard to fill.



Web Data Centers: Big QoS and TCO Opportunities Require Innovation

Realizing the potential benefits for large-scale service deployments presents difficult challenges. We discuss these opportunities and challenges and recommend solutions.

Q&A: Windows 7 Deployment

Challenges, mistakes, and best practices for moving to Windows 7.

The Rise of Social Business Process Management

Having been successful in addressing the needs of structured work, the process community is turning its focus on managing the social components of work.

Data Center Efficiency: No Leader in x64 Server Market

IT shops don't perceive any single vendor as being more efficient than its competitors.

Networking Processor Requirements in Cloud Computing Environments

Service provisioning using cloud computing poses challenges for the data center. What’s needed is a multi-core, heterogeneous architecture.

Efficient Design Never Goes Out of Style

When it comes to development, smaller truly is faster.

Top 5 Application Performance Challenges

Tips to identify and prevent the top headaches Java developers face.

Careers: As the World Outsources

India faces pressure from both Eastern European outsourcing destinations and a new crop of scrappy Asia-Pacific upstarts.

Top 10 Questions Data Center Operators Must Answer in 2011

With the rising costs of energy and increasing pressure on organizations to be more "green," implementing a DCIM and/or DPO solution is inevitable.

Making Sense of Contract Management

Contract lifecycle management solutions can provide greater insight and control over contractual obligations; helping companies to manage risks and increase profits.

Big Iron in a Class by Itself

What’s the most reliable server operating platform of them all? If you answered z/OS, you’re right. The rest of the tally might surprise you, however.

Virtualization 2011: Collaboration with Network Infrastructure

Enterprises are striving to increase server virtualization this year. The maturity of server virtualization will help drive the planning of your network strategy; another is desktop virtualization.

2011: The Year of SaaS for IT Management

This is the year when enterprises will evaluate SaaS solutions for cloud-based IT management.