Executive Briefings


Symantec Report Highlights Web Security Struggle

To reverse the rise of Web-application vulnerabilities, enterprises must patch more than just their operating systems.

The Cold, Hard Costs of Data Exposure

Broken lock: $25. Stolen laptop: $1,500. The cost of corporate data breach: Priceless. Learn how to deploy resources and leadership to most effectively deal with the aftermath of sensitive data exposure.

Reaping the Benefits of Service Level Management

Management of IT performance for business results is within the reach of most organizations

Analysis: Behind Big Blue’s $1.6 Billion Acquisition of ISS

What does ISS give IBM—and is it worth the $1.6 billion Big Blue paid for it? That depends, analysts say.

Improving Security and Manageability without Increasing TCO

TCO matters in the embedded marketplace; hardware integration is the key.

Mapping ILM to ITIL

Do what needs to be done to operate storage infrastructure with a quality of service you can live with.

A Four-Step Plan for Measuring Enterprise IT Agility

You can’t know if your enterprise IT is truly agile unless you measure it.



2006 Salary Survey, Part 4: IT Attitudes

While salaries are rising, angst continues to rise

Case Study: Integrating Mainframe and Web-based Data Entry

Mainframe integration tool improves customer service, productivity, accuracy

Customers Get Hip to System z Value Proposition

Are a pair of recent Intel-to-System z defections a harbinger of what’s to come?

Security and SOX: Are CIOs Missing the Boat?

Many CIOs arrived late to Sarbanes-Oxley efforts

Five Steps to Strategic IT Management

How IT managers can make themselves more strategic and create more value for their organization

Reducing Off-site Storage Risks: What You Need to Do Now

The off-site storage industry continues to lack a common set of best practices to describe the services they provide or ways to measure service delivery.

Best Practices: Building a Test-Driven Development Team

More and more code jockeys are embracing software testing as a means to accelerate development and improve overall quality levels

2006 ESJ Salary Survey, Part 3: The Northeast, Larger Firms Pay the Most for IT Skills

In the third of our four-part report, we look at compensation by company size, industry, and region.

SNIA’s Information Lifecycle Management Paper Reads Like a Beach Novel

Like a summertime guilty-pleasure-but-pointless novel, and SNIA’s latest document on information lifecycle management makes for nice beach reading.

Survey: Windows XP Top Security Concern

Symantec survey focused on IT professionals’ views on vulnerability research and challenges they expect in the next year.

Case Study: Implementation Partner Helps Smooth Financial Merger

A financial advisory firm brings in an integration partner to help expand its financial systems

Q&A: How Security Budgets Determine Compliance Success

New study highlights commonalities between companies with the fewest IT compliance deficiencies.

Analysis: IBM Takes the Opteron Plunge

With Intel finally righting itself after years of floundering in AMD’s wake, why did IBM pick now to take the Opteron plunge?