What gets in the way of managing and controlling your virtual environment effectively, and what best practices can you use to avoid VM stall?
Top four questions to ask when selecting an enterprise content management solution
In times of tight budgets, it's never been more important to squeeze the greatest value from your software licenses.
What defines "old" data, and how do you solve compatibility issues of legacy backups?
Sorting through legacy permissions can seem daunting; these suggestions will help you manage the project.
Planning for a merger or acquisition can be tricky, but it's a bullet that most CIOs will have to bite.
More proactive capacity planning can get IT closer to a fully virtualized data center.
Archiving isn't just for old data. We explain the process and benefits of archiving applications no longer used.
How IT can address the challenges of Active Directory
What role can -- and should -- free tools play in an IT environment?
Software upgrades offer your enterprise an opportunity to enrich more than just application features.
We examine the connection between business continuity and disaster recovery, explore what business impact analysis is and who's involved, and the tools available for this analysis.
Compliance efforts will also affect the security of your data. We explore the connection and what IT can do to protect its information assets.
Before you leap into the cloud, look at these challenges and best practices of managing performance of cloud-based services and applications.
Three technologies that can help you create an integrated recovery plan.
We examine the remaining five challenges and how Active Directory provides a solution.
As more users need multiple identities to access the applications they need regularly, IT has its hands full maintaining security.
Dealing with multiple job schedulers can be a challenge. We explore the problems, how IT goes about solving them (and how to avoid the typical mistakes), and the solutions available.
IT organizations don't yet have software vendors by the tail, but they do have new leverage, thanks to disruptive technologies such as SaaS and virtualization.
Enterprise IT organizations are no longer forced to choose expensive, proprietary storage solutions to run their most important applications.