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November 20, 2009

Marketing Management Becomes a Service

The marketing department and the IT organization are frequently at odds on two fronts. The first issue has to do with the fact that the marketing department usually feels they don’t get enough attent... More >

The Sad State of Security

Every once in a while, a survey comes along that puts things in perspective. Such is the case with a survey published this week by the Ponemon Institute that basically highlights the fact that IT i... More >

November 19, 2009

Keeping Your E-Commerce Pants Up

One thing that drives the people who manage e-commerce sites crazy is spending an inordinate amount of money driving people to their sites, only to find they don't buy anything there. And they're not... More >

Software Forum: Information On Demand Virtual Experience

This interactive virtual forum presents leading IT experts providing the insights you need to turn your information into a strategic driver for innovation, business optimization and competitive differentiation.

Performance Under Pressure: The State of Enterprise Web Application Quality and Availability

This research study finds that Web application issues are an all-too-common problem and examines these Web-based enterprise application issues from two perspectives: that of an online customer and that of a site manager.

Composite Applications to Define Enterprise Software

Oracle has been quietly doing building out a set of reusable composite business processes that span multiple Oracle applications, including some of its most recent acquisitions. The basic idea is fai... More >

November 18, 2009

Mutual Need Drives SAP-Microsoft Alliance

Although any time that Microsoft and SAP cooperate on anything it leads to idle speculation about a possible merger, every now and again even these two giants actually wind up doing something that is... More >

The Harsh Economics of Cloud Computing

With every major vendor lining up to provide cloud computing services, the feeding frenzy is well under way. The only question is how many of them will survive what promises to be a rapid vetting pro... More >

November 17, 2009

New Survey Highlights Ignorance of HITECH Act

One of the problems that we seem to have as a society is that we pass legislation without people really comprehending how it will affect them. Now that the Health Information Technology for Economic ... More >

The Need for New Hierachies of End User Computing

Not too long ago, deciding what type of client to deploy was easy, but managing them was hard. As we go forward, it looks like managing them will get easier, but deciding what type of client to deplo... More >

November 16, 2009

Time to Cut the Client Cord

One of the most time-consuming, frustrating things that any IT department has to deal with is the provisioning and ongoing management of PCs and their resident applications. Likewise, among users' bi... More >

A New Era of Application Provisioning Freedom

One issue that regularly separates the IT department from the business is the fact that the end users need the IT department to provision access to specific files and applications. This, in turn, put... More >

November 13, 2009

IT and the Productivity Debate

During the good times, we used to be treated to former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan standing before Congress and attributing more than 10 years of economic growth to investments in IT that... More >

The Future of High-Definition Video Conferencing

Like all technologies before it, the future of high-definition video conferencing appears to be about to be defined by segmentation. At the top end of the market right now we have Cisco with its Tele... More >

November 12, 2009

When Disaster Strikes, Login Here

When it comes to disaster recovery, the reason that so many companies struggle so much usually has very little to do with the technology. There are plenty of solutions out there today that can make ... More >

Dis-Unified Communications

The trouble with unified communications is that for the most part, there is nothing very unified about it. Instead, most vendors sell a core system that requires all kinds of add-on packages in order... More >

November 11, 2009

Impulse Shopping Comes to Smartphones

IT organizations that support e-commerce applications have to get ready for more random behavior coming from the increasing number of smartphones tied into a social network. With more smartphones tha... More >

Application Grid

Learn more about this middleware layer that pools and dynamically provisions infrastruction application delivery resources to lower costs and improve efficiency.

Power Supply Solutions

Comprehensive power protection solutions.

Data Deduplication

Data manipulation strategies that make data stores more manageable and reduce the need for storage capacity and its associated costs.

Information Management

Tools, tips and solutions to help you manage your data more efficiently to tackle today's challenging economic environment.