IT STRATEGY
How Open Source is Changing the Enterprise
If open source software hasn't already emerged as a commonly used tool throughout your enterprise, it likely will before long, according to a recent survey from North Bridge Venture Partners and Black Duck Software. Once associated with stigmas about its quality and... Read More »
The Ten Commandments of Disaster Recovery
How much can a flawed disaster recovery and business continuity plan cost you? Try an average of $90,000 for every hour of downtime among corporations, according to Strategic Research. Whether we're talking a hurricane, flood, terrorism or simply a loss of power, CIOs must consider every worst-case scenario and come up with a comprehensive failover and response strategy. In fact, the... Read More »
Seven Ways to Cut Data Center Costs
If CIOs are looking to reduce expenses in a big way, they may want to schedule a visit to their data centers—even if they may not like what they see. Indeed, these facilities consume enough energy worldwide to power 30 nuclear power plants or every single home in Italy, according to research from Green House Data. And they... Read More »
Using Flash Memory For Faster ERP Transactions
Pella Corp. replaced some of its storage area networks with flash memory arrays, resulting in cost savings and quicker applications and ERP transactions.
Read More »Health-Care Provider Embraces Virtual Desktops
Sunrise Health Region significantly increased clinicians’ productivity and reduced IT costs by switching to a virtual desktop infrastructure.
Read More »Software Gets More Insecure, Not Less
It's no surprise the enterprise is worried about security. For decades now, companies have been getting hit hard by cybercriminals who have tried to take them down, and it seems like there hasn't been a single time when any company was absolutely secure. Quite the contrary, every enterprise has suffered the effects of a security hack, and all of those firms have feared that their most... Read More »
Data Analytics Allows P&G to Turn on a Dime
Filippo Passerini provides an overview of the steps that P&G took to improve its analytic capabilities and harness the power of big data in real-time.
Read More »11 Best Practices For BYOD
As previously reported, six of ten mobile workers are using a personal smartphone for business purposes. In fact, the average mobile employee uses nearly three personal devices to do their job. Because three of four organizations allow for some form of BYOD policy, it's up to CIOs to make sure that internal users can perform their duties without compromising any company data or disrupting... Read More »
Assessing the Impact of Big Data
A new Cisco Connected World Technology Report based on a survey of 1,800 IT professionals in 18 countries finds that while everyone agrees the impact of big data will be huge, there are significant hurdles that need to be overcome before it gains mainstream adoption.
... Read More »Making Data Centers' Power Usage Visible
ARC Productions uses data center infrastructure management software to better understand how electricity is being consumed inside its data center.
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The Role of Standards in Cloud Security
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Ensuring Resources for Mission Critical Workloads
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Improving Security in the Public Cloud
One of the main concerns about moving data to a public...
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