Although clouds may never provide a truly carefree lifestyle when it comes to resources, these steps can ensure that they don’t create an expensive operational nightmare.
Although cloud computing gets all the attention, extreme collaboration, an emerging business model, will ultimately deliver value well beyond current market expectations by enabling faster and better business transformation.
How big is big data, and how can you get it under control?
Although the frequency of security vulnerabilities continues to decline, vendors were still preoccupied with patching last year.
Hardware solutions are costly and time-consuming. Is it time you moved to a software solution?
The economy last month added more new IT jobs than at any point over the last four years, but the picture is changing radically.
IT mainframe pros will have to wait until Q4 to get their first look at IBM's Windows-on-zBX offering. Will it be worth the wait?
What is unstructured data and how should IT search on and store it?
What is application performance management, how can it reduce the number of availability incidents, and what best practices can help ensure your APM initiative is a success?
Three examples demonstrate how self-service in the workplace can help us streamline business operations.
IT pros believe Oracle's move has less to do with cost savings and more to do with a strategy to negatively impact the hardware sales of partner/rival HP.
When it comes to high-end data warehousing, Microsoft isn't promising something it can't deliver: it's been shipping a special release of its SQL Server 2008 R2 database since November of last year.
How enterprise social collaboration can benefit the enterprise.
This year, demand for tablet computers will actually help lift worldwide IT spending.
Will Enterprise 2020 be hosting a substantial portion of its workloads on GPUs or on other non-traditional architectures?
Introducing the "Total Architect" and the benefits this position can bring to your enterprise.
Things look good but not great for IT job seekers, at least for the next few months.
A new survey shows a disconnect between the security-first mentalities of auditors and the compliance-driven concerns of their employers.
It's time to start planning your transition to IPv6.
High-density zones strike a balance between the power and cooling requirements of different kinds of data center assets. The rub, of course, is that they'll cost you.