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Giving Mobility a Seat at the IT Table May 03, 2011 
Enterprise mobility has matured past the point of early market penetration and the prototypical early adopters. Best-in-Class organizations have prioritized the management and security of their mobile infrastructure as a key objective for IT in 2011, consolidating their mobile operations under IT management.
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It's Cold Out There: Protecting Data Outside the Enterprise Firewall May 02, 2011 
Today's business has come to rely on mobility. Employees take their laptops home, work on tablets and collaborate anywhere via the Web. Unfortunately, these productivity advancements have paved the way for new cyber-vulnerabilities against an organization's private data and intellectual property. Can mobility continue to be a business benefit when attackers take advantage of security loopholes?
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The Transformational Approach to Instant IT Gratification April 25, 2011 
The pace of change, degrees of complexity, and explosion around the uses of new devices and increased data sources are placing new requirements and new strain on older data centers. Research shows that a majority of enterprises are either planning for or are in the midst of data center improvements and expansions. Deciding how to best improve your data center is not an easy equation.
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Disaster Recovery: It's More Than a Plan - It's a Process April 16, 2011 
Disaster recovery is a term often used in Information Technology circles to describe the necessity for backup technology systems to safeguard an organization's data. While this type of safeguard is absolutely a necessity to protect valuable data, and also reduce the amount of time your organization will need to recover from an incident, a true disaster plan goes far beyond backup servers and drives.
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5 Budget-Friendly Ways to Tighten Up the Data Center March 30, 2011 
As online shopping becomes a larger and larger part of global consumers' spending habits, they are demanding the highest levels of availability, performance and security. Your application cannot be unavailable, slow or vulnerable. Period. The single most important factor in keeping an application live and performing well is ensuring that your data center is running properly.
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Big Data, Big Open Source Tools February 25, 2011 
Enterprises are grappling with the skyrocketing amount of data they have to handle as that data proliferates into the terabyte and petabyte stage. Datasets that large are known as "big data" to IT practitioners. Relational databases and desktop statistics or visualization packages can't handle big data; instead, massively parallel software running on up to thousands of servers is needed to do the job.
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Tackling the VM I/O Blender Problem February 08, 2011 
Server virtualization technology offers lots of benefits for administrators looking to consolidate to make more efficient use of resources, improve management, and save on power, cooling and floorspace. However, deploying server virtualization technology may lead to a few surprises.
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The Top 3 Tech Trends Shaping 2011 February 02, 2011 
Three overarching, interrelated trends -- cloud consumption, virtualization and mobility -- present themselves as key industry themes for 2011. All have been increasing in importance over several years, and this year, all will reach a tipping point for businesses and information security providers alike.
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Okta Offers Cloud-Crazy Enterprises a Master Key January 31, 2011 
Businesses are signing on to cloud-based Software as a Service Web apps to cut costs, but that can give rise to another problem -- employees may have to sign on to multiple Web apps, and that could lead to security issues. Employees may forget the passwords for some apps, for instance; or someone could hack into a Web application user's account.
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Have It Your Way: Building a Cloud With Platform ISF 2.1 January 29, 2011 
Platform Computing last week released Platform ISF 2.1, which improves ease of use and automation for building and managing enterprise private clouds. Platform's cloud management software helps enterprises transition from internal IT to more productive and efficient private cloud infrastructure services that support multitier applications.
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Version Vexations: Keeping Big Linux Operations on the Same Page January 04, 2011 
Modern data centers with large number of Linux servers and heavy use of virtualization often don't have the tools they need to handle system version control and modeling. "Twenty years ago, most companies had tens of servers to manage," said Erik Troan, founder and chief technology officer of rPath. "When Intel took over the data center, that grew to hundreds or maybe thousands.
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Governing the Wild, Wild WAN December 27, 2010 
The latest BriefingsDirect podcast discussion focuses on the rapidly escalating complexity and consequent need for network management innovation in the age of hybrid computing. And that's because the emphasis nowadays is on "networks," not "network." Long gone are the days when a common and controlled local area network served as the workhorse for critical applications and data delivery.
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The Myths of Moving Cloudward December 21, 2010
CIOs are increasingly looking to move to the cloud to cut equipment and staffing costs. However, moving to the cloud can often be a difficult transition. It's not just a question of picking up your systems and going; enterprises need to do thorough and careful planning. They must rethink their existing approaches to IT and mustn't assume that cloud-based applications can be tapped easily.
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Putting the Data Center Under the BI Microscope December 18, 2010
The challenges that all enterprises face today are numerous -- store more data, provide more services, control costs, and now monitor and manage energy costs and carbon impacts. Today there is mounting pressure on CIOs and CFOs to deliver improved services while curtailing costs. To transition IT organizations into service providers for their businesses, CIOs must be empowered with new levels of visibility.
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Blowing Away Complexities With Full-Auto ALM December 13, 2010 
The latest BriefingsDirect podcast discussion examines a new book on application lifecycle management best practices, one that offers new methods and insights for dramatic business services delivery improvement. Join us as we explore the current state of applications in large organizations.
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How to Find the Weakest Link in the VoIP Chain December 10, 2010 
In today's world of converged communications, businesses are relying more than ever on VoIP-based technologies to fuel work group collaboration and drive advanced business processes that are expected to reduce costs and deliver significant ROI. But successfully achieving these benefits means VoIP-based communications must deliver high availability and near flawless call quality to both internal and external users.
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IBM Moves Service Desks to the Cloud December 08, 2010 
IBM has released the second Software as a Service offering in its Tivoli Live portfolio: its IT service desk. Called "Tivoli Live-service manager," this release follows last year's Tivoli Live-monitoring service, a SaaS app that manages the health and performance of IT resources.
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Keeping Your Megasite Ticking: Q&A With Facebook Engineer Robert Johnson December 07, 2010 
Since it arrived in 2004, Facebook has faced its share of unwelcome stories in the media, and it seems that security and privacy issues are a repeating theme. But when was the last time you heard about Facebook's site crashing? With more than 500 million active users worldwide, half of whom log in daily, Facebook chalks up some impressive statistics.
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Where IT Managed Services Often Go Wrong December 07, 2010 
Managing an IT environment can be expensive and challenging. As a result, some companies prefer to rely on service providers to assist with specific projects. Others prefer to utilize managed services for operational work and to establish better services, processes, tools and methodologies to leverage their IT infrastructure.
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What Is World-Class IT Support? December 03, 2010 
Aberdeen surveyed 240 users and managers of IT support to find out how organizations in this new world can ensure that workers are productive and customers enjoy their products. The 107 support managers who responded to Aberdeen's survey ranked the metrics they use to evaluate their IT support staff on a scale from one to five, where 1 was the highest priority and 5 the lowest.
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