Topics
Follow developments in key areas of business technology with our Topic pages. Drill down to find our best articles, blogs, interviews and community resources on your key issues, collected for quick and easy reference.
Business Alignment and Management
Keep all eyes on business goals to ensure IT serves the bottom line, making work easier and more fruitful
- [ Blog ] How to Utilize the Cloud in Your SMB and Mind the Pitfalls
- [ Article ] Six Tips for Formulating a Business Plan for Big Data
- [ WhitePaper ] Charting Your Path to Enterprise Key Management
Business Integration
Business integration aims to facilitate a company's functions
- [ Blog ] Cattle, Fraud and Integration: Big Data for the Rest of Us
- [ Article ] Automation the Answer to Big Data Question
- [ WhitePaper ] Appliance Power: Crunching Data Warehousing Workloads Faster and Cheaper than Ever
Governance
Policies, processes and management theories by which your business operates
- [ Blog ] Analytics Comes to Project Management
- [ Article ] Is the Network Finally the Computer? Five Key Forces Changing IT as We Know It
- [ WhitePaper ] Reducing PCI Compliance Costs and Effort with SafeNet Transparent Tokenization
Infrastructure
Optimizing every aspect of your company's technology, from laptops to ERP systems
- [ Blog ] The Cable Industry Turns up the Heat
- [ Article ] Cloud Computing Adoption Is Slow but Steady
- [ WhitePaper ] The 2011 Focus Experts' Guide to Enterprise Resource Planning
Mobile Technology
At the desk is the last place to find the modern employee
- [ Blog ] McAfee Report Finds Rise in Malware Across Platforms
- [ Article ] Mobile Work Force Sees Rise in Productivity, Stress Levels
- [ WhitePaper ] Embracing Next-Generation Mobile Platforms to Solve Business Problems
Security
There are hundreds of tools to do two simple things: Keep bad stuff out and good stuff in
- [ Blog ] McAfee Report Finds Rise in Malware Across Platforms
- [ Article ] Employees Bypassing IT as BYOD Takes Hold
- [ WhitePaper ] An Enterprise Guide to Understanding Key Management
Sourcing
Due to its impact on the bottom line, sourcing is an important function at any company
- [ Blog ] IT Unemployment Levels Low, Poaching Stakes High
- [ Article ] Mobile Work Force Sees Rise in Productivity, Stress Levels
- [ WhitePaper ] 21st Century Human Capital Management: Adapting to the Demands of Change
Vendors and Markets
Some vendors sell anything anywhere; others are limited by location or market segments
- [ Blog ] The Cable Industry Turns up the Heat
- [ Article ] Employees Bypassing IT as BYOD Takes Hold
- [ WhitePaper ] Oracle IT Reaps the Benefits of Storage Modernization
- APC
- Apple
- Box.net
- Business Intelligence Vendors
- Cable Operators
- CDW
- Cisco Systems
- Client Hardware Vendors
- CRM Vendors
- Database Software Vendors
- Dell
- Enterprise Software Vendors
- Fujitsu
- Global Markets
- Hitachi
- HP
- IBM
- Internet Service Providers
- IT Market Analysts
- LG
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Microsoft
- Middleware Vendors
- Mobile Device Vendors
- NetSuite
- Networking Vendors
- Open Source Vendors
- Operating System Vendors
- Oracle
- Processor Vendors
- Resellers
- Samsung
- Security Vendors
- Server Vendors
- Services Vendors
- Sony
- Storage Vendors
- Sun Microsystems
- Symantec
- Technology Markets
- Telecommunications Vendors
- Web Platform Vendors
- Yahoo
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CRM
Technology that allows you to sell more, provide better service and significantly improve your bottom line.
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Storage Management
Innovative storage management strategies that include hardware, software, in-house, and cloud solutions to better leverage your business data.
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Data Warehousing
Comprehensive storage solutions for better data access and retrieval, leading to better-informed business decisions.
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Application Infrastructure
Learn more about this middleware layer that pools and dynamically provisions infrastruction application delivery resources to lower costs and improve efficiency.
