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February 9, 2012

Building Next-Generation Social Intranets for the Cloud

When you think about the evolution of the Web technologies inside the enterprise, it becomes pretty apparent that a lot the intranets deployed inside the enterprise are a little long in the tooth the... More >

Debating Philosophical PaaS Differences

As with any new movement, there is a lot of debate as to what constitutes the right approach to creating a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment. There are those like Salesforce.com that argue th... More >

February 8, 2012

Enterprise Social Networking: Talk Is Still Cheap

The trouble with social networks in the enterprise is that they are generally not that well integrated with any process or activity that actually drives revenue for the business. The objective for de... More >

Delivering Exceptional Web Experiences

Read this eBook for the latest in Web content management, social media support features, enhanced content support, improved search and search engine optimization capabilities, simplified editing and publishing of digital media, and integration with rich Internet applications.

Success Story: Leading German Construction Company Saves Money and Protects Data

Read this case study to learn how Leonhard Weiss protects and recoups significant investment in its computer hardware through a comprehensive endpoint security solution.

Agile Development Accelerates Journey to the Cloud

One issue that IT organizations consistently encounter when weighing their cloud computing options is that most of their existing applications were not developed with the cloud in mind. Most existing... More >

February 7, 2012

Mobile Computing and Mitigating Risk

As it becomes clearer that mobile computing and the cloud are two ends of the same spectrum , IT organizations are increasingly coupling these technologies. Most IT organizations have little experie... More >

Building the Modern Data Center in the Era of the Cloud

IBM is announcing today that it designed a 900,000-square-foot data center in India that only took 10 months to build. Created for Tulip Telecom Ltd., the facility, known as “Tulip Data City,” cons... More >

February 6, 2012

Taking the Complexity Out of Managing Data Storage

A lot of midmarket IT organizations these days are drowning in a sea of data. It used to be that only large companies with dedicated storage administrators struggled with storing large amounts of dat... More >

Salesforce.com: A Million Cloud Apps and Counting

The battle for control of the cloud is ultimately going to be determined by the platform that wins the hearts and minds of the most application developers. With that goal in mind, Salesforce.com is... More >

February 3, 2012

Tracking Super Bowl Sentiment in Real Time

There’s obviously a lot riding on the outcome of the Super Bowl game between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots this Sunday night. But what’s at stake goes well beyond who gets to cla... More >

Making Hadoop an Integral Part of the Enterprise

While there’s obviously a lot of interest in the Hadoop data management framework as an alternative approach to storing massive amounts of data, more than a few enterprises have found the fact that... More >

February 2, 2012

Zen and the Art of IT Infrastructure

Like any complicated ecosystem of machines, the art of managing a well-run IT environment comes down to maintaining balance between all the elements of the environment. Unfortunately, thanks to the r... More >

Time to Rethink IT Systems Management

Managing IT on a daily basis has never been more challenging. With the advent of virtualization, the number of virtual and physical servers that IT managers are being asked to regularly manage is in... More >

February 1, 2012

Project Management Meets CRM in the Cloud

More often than anyone cares to admit, salespeople are selling a services capability that doesn’t exist — at least not yet. This is usually because the customer has asked for something unique or the ... More >

Eliminating Server Consolidation Performance Issues

The history of computing could easily be defined by the shifting of bottlenecks between processors, storage and the network. Thanks to the rise in server consolidation made possible by virtualization... More >

January 31, 2012

Not All Mobile Devices Are Wireless-Network Equal

As the management of the overall IT environment gets a little more complex thanks to the rise of mobile computing and the "consumerization" of IT , the management of wireless networks is getting a l... More >

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