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February 10, 2012

IT Systems Management Comes of Age with Social Media

Like it or not, social media is starting to influence the way we consume information, even in the relatively staid world of IT systems management.   For instance, Nodeable has come up with a w... More >

DBAs Need to Evolve into Data Scientists

Database administrators basically optimize database performance by managing the distribution of data across an environment that is complex to manage. That generally requires a lot of arcane skills, n... More >

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 >

How NHL.com Keeps Peak Application Performance for Their Fans

This on-demand webcast includes insight into the NHL's performance journey of managing application performance from the first mile to the last mile for users on a global scale.

Driving Data Center Efficiency Through Server and Application Consolidation

This white paper provides insight into technologies that help provide a better understanding of each virtualization tool and information regarding embedded and add-on management tools that help streamline operations and enhance server value within a virtualization strategy.

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 >

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 >