Executive Briefings


Stephen Swoyer

What Downturn? IT Shops Still Spending

Seventy percent of CIOs say they'll spend money on new or expanded IT initiatives this year, including information security, virtualization, and data center efficiency.

Stephen Swoyer

Study Highlights SOA "Herd" Mentality

Many shops are pursuing SOA strategies without first identifying the business benefits of doing so.

Stephen Swoyer

CA Mainframe Manager Gets Usability, Feature Boost

Mainframe management has come a long way, as the latest fruits of CA's Mainframe 2.0 initiative demonstrate

Stephen Swoyer

Outsourcing: Smaller, Selective Deals This Year

Although outsourcing revenues increased by nearly 50 percent last year, experts predict slowing demand for outsourcing services in the first half of this year.

Jon Toigo

Virtualization: Spin or Wobble? (Part 1 of 3)

When you look closer, the spin around VMware benefits starts to wobble quickly when you do the math.

Stephen Swoyer

Unix Proves It’s Still Full of Life

Unix, the quintessential enterprise workhorse, still has a lot going for it.

Virtualization Benefits: Beyond Server Consolidation

Virtualization has provided economic benefits, but there are more benefits to be had.



Jon Toigo

A Five Billion Dollar Data Center Bailout Strategy

It's time to challenge your concept of how LAN and SAN connectivity should be instrumented, and save money in the process.

Virtualization Best Practices: Tweaked Proverbs

Despite the novelty of virtualization (along with its unforeseen applications), tried-and-true axioms and sage wisdom of the past -- albeit with new twists -- can guide best practices while treading uncovered ground.

Stephen Swoyer

Careers: IT is Hiring, But Just Barely

Fully 83 percent of IT chiefs expect to maintain their staffing levels. Among those planning staff reductions, most cite IT budget cuts as the culprit.

Q&A: Security Breaches and Enterprise Culture

How an enterprise’s culture affects its IT security

Informatica Pushes ILM -- With an Application-focused Twist

With ILM, Informatica says it has the answer for harried data management pros. Analysts caution that Informatica's strategy will take time to gestate.

Q&A: The Optimized Data Services Model

If you need to provision, protect, migrate, dedupe, encrypt, replicate, recover, and archive data sources, ODS may be just what you’re looking for.

Q&A: Best Practices for a Greener Data Center

What technologies and best practices can make a data center greener?

ID Theft Red Flags: The Challenge for IT

What enterprises and IT must do to enhance their risk-management program.

Amid Economic Turbulence, Mainframes Counter IT Cost-Cutting Trend

This year isn't like 1999, and Big Iron could be in an enviable position should things get even worse.

Outsourcing: Where the Jobs Are

Non-traditional players -- such as Thailand, Egypt, and South Africa -- have emerged as offshore contenders.

Business Leaders Tell IT: You Must Deliver

As never before, IT is facing pressure to deliver products and services that help differentiate the business from its competitors.

Survey Reveals Global Sourcing Trends

From smaller deals to an increased interest in China, the face of outsourcing is changing, a new survey reports

Aligning IT with Business Processes

Just as physical symptoms indicate underlying system imbalance in humans, an enterprise must be watchful of its technology and business warning signs.