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Our pros and cons list will help you sort out the issues relevant to your situation and select the right cloud model -- public, private, or hybrid -- for your environment.
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Mainframes are typically more secure than most other platforms, but that doesn't mean IT can ignore them.
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A tech-industry veteran looks back over the past year and predicts the big IT trends we can look forward to in 2012.
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IT administrators have traditionally been managing cloud technology with highly customized, manual scripts. Automation and integration are key to overcoming the inefficiencies of this approach. We explain what you need to know to about avoiding common mistakes in moving to automated, integrated management.
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In about two minutes you’ll know where you stand.
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Moving a data warehouse offshore can bring significant cost savings, but such a move introduces elements of risk that must be managed.
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Data governance expert David Loshin discusses ways to embed data governance practices into systems to institutionalize good practices while working to eradicate bad ones.
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News from Tableau’s recent user conference, including the company’s CEO discussion of how Seattle Children’s Hospital uses Tableau to improve care and reduce costs.
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How to stop fraud, strengthen controls and improve business processes by finding and fixing root causes behind improper transactions in real time.
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How an enterprise data model is used to "facilitate messaging" and the benefits of using it that way.
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Think VPN makes for secure data access and transfer? Think again.
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Can the gulf between development and operations be bridged?
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Moving to the clouds doesn’t mean resources must be let go.
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When you're shopping for backup appliances, keep these four scalability parameters in mind.
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The 4 Ps for staying informed when disaster strikes.
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Financial restructuring, Flash for mobile phase-out, job cuts ahead.
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Windows on the Big Blue's hardware is almost here.
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IT needs to supply the best customer experience while maintaining service-level agreements. We explain how VDI makes monitoring the end-user experience tougher and the best practices that will help you overcome these challenges.
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With the cloud, it's backup without the actual backup.
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Exchange 2010 is clearly the favorite solution for e-mail migrations, but the risks are clear. Even so, many enterprises aren't planning to conduct basic preventive measures such as data backup.
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Company describes its SQL Server 2012 licensing model.
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An independent study finds SMB IT professionals underestimate full cost of file servers.
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Fortune magazine has named IBM number one in its 2011 Global Top Company for Leaders study for the second time in a row.
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Over half of respondents believe application delivery controllers can replace traditional safeguards.
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The enterprise data model (EDM) has failed. We explore a new way of using EDMs -- one in which an EDM can more directly affect the management of data than as merely a paper reference model.