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Lotus Notes 8 Reference Guide IBM’s e-mail and collaboration solution continues to have a strong presence in the enterprise space. This guide will help you r users master the Lotus Notes 8 user interface, including the Action Bar and Calendaring tasks. Lotus Notes, IBM’s business-oriented client-server software, combines e-mail, collaboration tools, instant messaging, calendars and […]

Challenged by the deployment of Apple iPads in your enterprise?  It's not surprising when Gartner estimates that media tablet sales reached 19.5 million units in 2010, driven by sales of the iPad. Media tablets and the iPad will fuel even faster growth in the category of mobile PCs, already 55 percent of industry shipments in […]

This year’s collection of most important enterprise IT products highlights both relative upstarts and venerable mainstays of the IT industry. Among the upstarts are Convirture, a provider of open source, cross-platform virtualization management tools, Cloudera, a company that created most of the commercial momentum surrounding the open source Hadoop data management framework, and Karmasphere, a […]

‘100 SOA Questions Asked and Answered’ Excerpt Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has become a staple of enterprise software development. This book chapter introduces you to the basics of how SOA can help your team develop smart, scalable and secure code. “100 SOA Questions” brings together authoritative answers to the most crucial questions business, technical and architectural […]

Microsoft Office 2010 Reference Guide Microsoft’s expanded Office 2010 suite offers a range of new features, including the Ribbon interface. This reference guide will help your users master new-look Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook features, as well as some new applications. Office 2010 succeeds Office 2007 as Microsoft’s newest edition of its popular suite of […]

‘Microsoft Office 2010 Web Apps for Dummies’ Excerpt Cloud applications are all the rage for many business purposes, and Microsoft is right in the mix with Web versions of the its standard Office suite. This book chapter will introduce to Web-based cloud functionality for Microsoft Word. Office Web Apps complement Office, making it easy to […]

Windows Phone 7 is largely considered Microsoft’s last stand for mobile relevance. While initial reactions have been good, the first day of Windows Phone 7 sales was not strong. However, a slower uptake could end up being better for business. We’ve compiled a list of 10 of the most downloaded Windows Phone 7 business apps […]

Glassdoor.com, the site where employees anonymously post information about their companies, has released its 2010 Tech Industry Report Card, which lists the 12 top places to work in the tech industry. Facebook came out on top of the heap with employees saying they were “very satisfied” and giving CEO Mark Zuckerberg a 96 percent approval […]

The challenge with IT security today isn’t just that the bad guys get more sophisticated with each passing year, it’s that the number of people dedicated to maintaining security within the enterprise is either staying constant or shrinking at a time when the number of assets that needs to be defended is increasing. This situation […]

There’s no doubt that, from an economic perspective, the last year has been challenging for everyone. But within enterprise IT, 2010 will be remembered as a year of great transition. It’s hard to say that any one trend began or ended in the confines of 2010. But a slew of technology trends each saw at […]

Microsoft Windows 7 Reference Guide Microsoft’s new Windows 7 operating system offers a wide range of user-facing enhancements. This easy-to-follow guide will help users master tasks like keyboard shortcuts and desktop personalization. Windows 7 is Microsoft’s most recent version of its Windows operating system. Released on October 22, 2009, Windows 7 is the well-regarded successor […]

So, what exactly do top technology executives talk about when everyone is listening? A mix of technology and business topics made this year’s list of the Logicalis Top 10 Tech Trends to Watch for 2011, the company’s second annual study of the social media conversations of top IT executives. Conducted by Logicalis, an international provider […]