Business Alignment and Management

Though IT in the past has been seen as an albatross around the neck of business, preventing quick adaptations to ever-changing markets, careful oversight keeps IT projects working toward business goals. The result can be true innovation, whatever the industry, as technology provides a more streamlined and effective way to do business. Staying focused on results unleashes a powerful way to make sure IT projects help the business respond to the market and take advantage of it.

Articles

Vendors and Carriers Work to Define Software-Defined Networks

The big initiative to SDNs is OpenFlow, which is a specification being developed by the Open Networking Foundation. Experts say that the evolution of SDNs still is in its early days. Indeed, new benefits still are emerging. More >

The Changing Face of Information Technology

To say that change is coming to the enterprise is like saying the sun will rise in the east tomorrow. But even while change has been a constant factor in data infrastructure since the first More >

BYOD Faces Many Challenges

There is a strong case to be made, based on security and privacy concerns, against allowing bring-your-own-device (BYOD) approaches in the enterprise. But excluding BYOD is not really an option. More >

Interviews

Setting the Terms of the IT Discussion

Few people would argue against the benefits of a streamlined, optimized IT infrastructure.

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Enterprise Architecture Standard Aligns People, Business Processes and Technology

Sven van Dijk says TOGAF is a method to both align business with IT and to integrate people and processes, as well.

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Systems Management in a Distributed World

Where once an enterprise need concern itself with a finite set of hardware and software components, today's organizations must coordinate activity across a range of platforms, architectures and infrastructures on public, private and hybrid clouds.

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