No matter how strange it sounds, many businesses could actually ramp up their IT spending during the current downturn
Promises comes and go. A few have morphed into something different.
Encryption directly on the storage device provides the simplest and most effective means to obtain a trusted storage system.
Dashboards can shape (or reshape) perceptions of IT and enhance its organizational relationship with business users. Dashboards deliver transparency -- a world of growing, if not lasting, influence in the technology-requirements lexicon.
We explore the challenges of capacity planning and how IT can best balance performance and risk in virtualized environments.
How to keep IT systems running during the post-Thanksgiving shopping rush
Organizations should either implement a more secure version of WPA or switch to WPA2, the impregnable successor to WPA
Some manufacturers are buying so much of the advertising in magazines that articles critical of certain products never see the light of day.
Performance intelligence represents a new practice for database and application performance management
What's behind the move to mixing physical and virtualized desktops in an enterprise?
Big Iron ISVs maintain the mainframe is hot. In the current economic climate, they suggest, it could really sizzle.
An out-of-band security fix from Microsoft put administrators in a familiar but tough spot: potentially damned if they patched and damned if they didn't.
Azure amounts to Microsoft's "most significant coordinated shift in strategy" since it got come-to-the-Internet religion in 1995.
A new survey reveals how IT is trying to automate the application infrastructure.
Networks are vital to your organization. We offer suggestions for moving from reactive to proactive network management.
Many mainframe customers -- perhaps as many as 80 percent -- lease their Big Iron hardware. How will economic uncertainty affect them?
Virtualization brings a new set of security challenges.
Proponents say “going green” can help companies save money, but a secondary benefit may be just as important: delaying data center expansion.
If SOA, modernization, and Web 2.0 are complementary IT efforts, then why are they so often viewed as separate initiatives?
Sometimes innovation is as simple as reviewing, and replacing, a vendor service and support contract with one from a qualified third-party provider.