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March 5, 2010

Great Promise -- and Great Challenges -- of Unified Communications for Health Care

For a number of reasons, hospitals and other health care facilities provide the starkest challenges and most exciting opportunities for unified communications vendors and service providers.   Fi... More >

March 4, 2010

Too Many Options Can Be a Problem: SAN, NAS and the Cloud

  Nobody has to tell the CIO at the average enterprise that storage is in a state of flux. Indeed, when has it not been?   But over the past two years or so, it seems that the disparate for... More >

February 22, 2010

Video Is Important -- But Is It Part of Unified Communications?

One of the most important issues in the immediate future of unified communications is the role that video will play. The question is related to, but slightly distinct from, what role video will play ... More >

Maximizing the Return on Enterprise Mobility

This executive report assesses the current state of mobility management, explores the key ingredients of an effective mobility management plan, and suggests a path forward to maximize enterprise mobility.

Management Excellence: Leveraging Technology and Techniques

This white paper describes the techniques and technologies that organizations should master on their way to management excellence.

February 4, 2010

Treading Cautiously into Virtualization 2.0

  By now, most enterprises are well on the way to a fully functioning virtual environment. Initial server deployments are becoming commonplace, and many are starting to branch out into other dat... More >

January 25, 2010

Cisco Seeks a Path to Unified Communications Dominance

  Cisco wants to be all things to all people – or all communications channels to all businesses – according to industry observers.   “I would have to say that Cisco is really trying to pr... More >

January 13, 2010

Rise of the Dynamic Infrastructure

  In the rush to establish virtual-based cloud infrastructures, most eyes are on immediate prizes, like lower operating costs, improved scalability and more robust backup and recovery capabiliti... More >

January 4, 2010

Unified Communications and SMBs in Tough Times

  Small and medium-sized businesses are interested in unified communications, but are buying only gear that will help them in the here and now. Most have put presence-based packages with longer ... More >

December 21, 2009

Employee-Owned Computer Programs: Diving into Murky Waters

  Will the job of the future require you to bring your own computer, the way you provide your own transportation now?   Call it a mashup of market forces, but that idea has been generating ... More >

December 14, 2009

The Future of Fibre Channel

  Storage networking is a lot like a used car. Do you continue to pour money into an aging machine, or do you bite the bullet and upgrade to the newest model?   And if you decide to upgrade... More >

December 1, 2009

2010 Expected to Bring Careful Growth in IT Spending

  Though there have been signs of life in IT markets, everyone’s asking when enterprise spending will return – or if it will.   Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told an audience in South Korea ... More >

October 30, 2009

Wireless and the Coming Battle over Net Neutrality

One of the thorniest issues that the newly installed leadership of the Federal Communications Commission is dealing with is net neutrality. In the long run, it’s likely that the trickiest part of the... More >

October 26, 2009

The Cloud and the Network Infrastructure

It's all made to sound so easy: first virtualization, then the cloud, and then an IT utopia of unlimited resources and global operations.   The reality, of course, is quite different. As more an... More >

October 20, 2009

The Growing Sophistication of Smartphone App Development

Smartphones are more powerful, networks are faster and people are more willing to perform complex and sensitive tasks from the road. An important link in the chain of increased mobile productivity th... More >

October 12, 2009

Broadband Mapping: Treasure for a New Age

In the olden days, explorers paid a lot of money for maps that they hoped would lead to buried treasure. Things apparently haven’t changed too much from the days of Hernando Cortez and Ponce de Leon,... More >

October 5, 2009

Thaw Seen in IT Hiring

The good news, if there is any in this lousy job market, is that the unemployment rate in IT is only about half that of the overall market, which the U.S. Labor Department on Friday put at 9.8 pe... More >

Decision Management

Applications, management tools and industry advice on how to optimize your data for better business decisions.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Service-Oriented Architecture is the catalyst that allows today’s companies to respond to business demands faster and more effectively than ever.

Greening IT with Server Consolidation

Learn how virtualization reduces the TCO of managing your date, while contributing towards your sustainability efforts.

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Best-practice tools, strategies and technologies for determining and managing the data you need to make better business decisions.