WHITE PAPER - When an IT skill falls out of favor, it rarely ever comes back. Here's our list of 10 dying IT skills. If any of these skills are your main expertise, perhaps it's time to think about updating your skill set.
Posted: May 13, 2009 | Published: May 13, 2009


Topics:  COBOL | Code Management | IT Best Practices | IT Departments | IT Governance | IT Industry | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Managers | IT Service Management | IT Services | IT Systems | IT Workforce | Programming | Programming Languages

WHITE PAPER - A company’s overall success largely relies on the software team’s success. Organizations that embrace this concept experience less frustration, fewer errors, and faster planning and development cycles. Read this guide to learn about seven essential tips to help you be more successful with requirements management and software development.
Posted: December 8, 2009 | Published: December 8, 2009


Topics:  Application Deployment | Application Development | Application Life-Cycle Management | Collaboration | Collaborative Product Development | IT Management | Project Management | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Project Management

WHITE PAPER - This white paper reviews the issues related to modernizing enterprise IT systems and presents a unique end-to-end approach to one of the most complex IT challenges facing CIOs today: Legacy IT Modernization (LIM). Continue reading to learn more about this comprehensive solution approach to LIM.
Posted: June 15, 2010 | Published: June 15, 2010


Topics:  Application Integration | Application Life-Cycle Management | Applications Management | CIOs | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | IT Management | IT Systems | Legacy Applications Software | SOA

WHITE PAPER - Read this white paper to learn the four key initiatives for attacking network management inefficiency and how automation solutions from HP can help.
Posted: November 13, 2009 | Published: September 25, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Automation | Business Processes | Change Management | Configuration Management | IT Management | Network Configuration Management | Network Management | Network Performance

WHITE PAPER - Recent technology advances in five key areas put efficiency gains on the fast track. Here's how Dell can help CIOs capitalize on virtualization, mobility management, storage optimization, cloud services, and automated IT management.
Posted: April 5, 2010 | Published: April 5, 2010


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Data Center Management | IT Management | IT Services | Mobile Workers | Server Virtualization | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - This document discusses that dollars and time currently consumed by existing tape libraries can be far better utilized by moving to disk back-up with deduplication.
Posted: July 9, 2010 | Published: July 9, 2010


Topics:  Backups | Data Deduplication | Data Storage | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | IT Management | Storage Management | Tape Backups | Tape Libraries

EBOOK - Design, management and testing can make or break high availability in your virtual environment. Chapter 3 of this Advanced Virtualization E-Book discusses the essentials of high availability planning.
Posted: March 5, 2010 | Published: March 5, 2010


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | High Availability | IT Management | IT Managers | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Storage Replication | Testing | Virtual Machine

WHITE PAPER - Aging network systems and old habits have dictated how businesses spend their IT budgets. As a result, too many IT dollars are being spent on just barely remaining competitive with emerging companies and their newer IT infrastructures. Read this white paper to learn more about a new family of solutions that reduce IT expenses and free up budgets.
Posted: February 10, 2010 | Published: October 10, 2009


Topics:  IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Spending | Network Infrastructure | Network Management | Network Performance | Networking

WHITE PAPER - This white paper explores the capabilities within the MicroStrategy BI platform that make it the mature, tightly integrated technology best suited to meet the demands of today’s SaaS applications. Download the white paper today.
Posted: June 30, 2010 | Published: June 30, 2010


Topics:  Application Security | Architectures | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Data Security | High Availability | Metadata | SaaS business intelligence | SaaS ERP | Security

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper discusses how to define, track and enforce IT policies; automate IT compliance processes; and reduce the effort and cost of managing business applications.
Posted: September 10, 2009 | Published: October 16, 2008


Topics:  Business Process Automation | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Compliance Audits | Compliance Best Practices | IT Management | IT Services | Risk Assessment | Risk Management

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines various mistakes that compromise data center colling systems, explains their principles, quantifies their impacts, and describes simple remedies.
Posted: April 29, 2009 | Published: December 1, 2003


Topics:  Buildings and Facilities | Cooling Capacity | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Fault Tolerance | Load Balancing | Network Capacity | Network Management | Power Generation Equipment | Rack Enclosures | Rack Servers | Systems Design and Development

CASE STUDY - Bankinter, a multichannel bank, chose to work together with Intel and Infogroup in order to benefit from Intel® Core™ 2 Processor with vPro™ technology which it believed could meet its desktop platform manageability challenge.
Posted: October 15, 2009 | Published: May 9, 2008


Topics:  Desktop Applications Management | Desktop Computer Support | IT Management | IT Managers | IT Service Management | IT Services

WEBCAST - This webcast outlines how to converge storage traffic onto a common, unified data center with 10 gigabit ethernet (10GbE). The benefits of this conversion include lower costs, easier deployment and greater flexibility and performance within the storage network.  Download this webcast to learn more.
Posted: March 16, 2010 | Premiered: March 16, 2010


Topics:  10 Gigabit Ethernet | Data Management | IT Management | NAS | SAN | Server Hardware | Storage Hardware | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

VIDEO - Watch this video and learn how three small businesses experienced implementing their First Server. Learn how server-based networks helped these small businesses keep customer information protected, share communications, as well as re-alter their company website.
Posted: December 16, 2009 | Premiered: December 16, 2009


Topics:  Business Management | Collaboration | Information Security | IT Management | IT Spending | Networking | Server Appliances | Server Hardware | Server Management | Small Businesses

WHITE PAPER - Find out how to measure ROI for your business. Companies of all sizes constantly evaluate their operations, seeking to make changes that will increase effectiveness while controlling costs. This paper offers concrete practices, processes, and recommendations to drive the ROI of a company's IT investment (ROIT).
Posted: January 29, 2010 | Published: January 29, 2010


Topics:  eCommerce | Investments | IT Asset Management | IT Best Practices | IT Management | IT Spending | Project Management | ROI | SOA | TCO | Value Chains | Web 2.0

WHITE PAPER - Every day, millions of files are exchanged all over the world by corporations, government entities and other organizations. Most file transfers use the popular protocol known as FTP. This paper will examine how FTP has become the standard for business-to-business file transfers and the key pitfalls that face management using this open protocol.
Posted: March 15, 2010 | Published: March 15, 2010


Topics:  Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Management | Data Security | File Management Programs | File Transfer Protocols | Indexing (Information Management) | IT Management | Regulatory Compliance | Security Management

ANALYST REPORT - This Report examines best practices for aligning IT investments with the product supply goals of compliance, agility, and right-first-time manufacturing.
Posted: November 30, 2009 | Published: November 30, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Automation | Business Process Management | Compliance Best Practices | IT Management | Manufacturing | Manufacturing Execution Systems | Manufacturing Industry | Manufacturing Systems | Supply Chain Management

CASE STUDY - Blackboard needs a highly available, very scalable platform for its mission-critical learning management system offered through managed hosting from six global data centers. Ease of set-up and monitoring are of paramount importance. Read this case study to learn how Dell servers and Intel processors make it happen.
Posted: November 24, 2009 | Published: August 24, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Spending | Server Hardware | Server Management

WHITE PAPER - Dell is moving well beyond industry expectations to unlock data center efficiency and help organizations work toward the goal of returning as much as 50 percent of their IT budgets. Read this white paper to learn about the Dell Efficient Data Center model and how it can help lower costs and increae IT efficiency.
Posted: June 2, 2010 | Published: June 2, 2010


Topics:  Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | iSCSI SAN | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | Server Hardware | Server Management | Storage Virtualization

WEBCAST - This webcast explores how WebSphere and IBM Rational work together to help businesses achieve strategic objectives with reduced risk and cost and also for translating business vision and strategy into architectural change.
Posted: June 16, 2010 | Premiered: June 24, 2010


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Management | Business Process Automation | Business Process Management | Enterprise Architectures | IT Management | Strategic Planning

PRODUCT DEMO - Watch this in-depth product demo to learn how CA Clarity works. This project and portfolio management solution enables users to view all projects, programs, services, assets, and applications in a collection of portfolios.
Posted: March 31, 2010 | Published: March 30, 2010


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | IT Governance | IT Management | Project Management | Project Management Software | Project Portfolio Management

CASE STUDY - Building a brand new, state-of-the-art medical campus from the ground up requires an I.T. infrastructure capable of supporting newer, more advanced healthcare applications and the massive volumes of digital data generated by these systems. Read this white paper to learn how CDW Healthcare helped a Michigan medical campus to accomplish their goals.
Posted: July 28, 2010 | Published: July 28, 2010


Topics:  Digital Signatures | Health Care Applications Software | Health Care Industry | Health Care Networking | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | Thin Client Software | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

CASE STUDY - After investing close to two years developing nursing documentation software, The Nebraska Medical Center stood poised to begin implementing this lynchpin of its patient safety focus. But first, it had to identify the right hardware solutions for its requirements. Read this white paper to learn more.
Posted: July 28, 2010 | Published: July 28, 2010


Topics:  Documentation | Hardware | Health Care Applications Software | Health Care Industry | Health Care Networking | Health Care Software | Health Care Storage | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | Notebook Computers | Vendors

WHITE PAPER - Cisco® EnergyWise is a new energy management architecture that will allow IT operations and facilities to measure and fine-tune power usage to realize significant cost savings. This white paper illustrates how businesses can utilize Cisco EnergyWise with a network enabled by Cisco to better understand the power footprint of their organization.
Posted: May 27, 2010 | Published: March 1, 2010


Topics:  Energy Efficiency | IT Governance | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | Network Management | Network Management Software | Power Consumption Monitoring | Systems Management

TRIAL SOFTWARE - XenServer is the only free, enterprise-class virtualization platform. With powerful features such as live migration and centralized multi-node management, your datacenter is instantly smaller and smarter. For free. You can't afford not to download it now.
Posted: July 20, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Citrix XenServer | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Management | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Managers | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization