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Energy conservation, improved performance and reduced cooling costs are just a few of the benefits of virtualization and consolidation.

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The key is to understand what needs protection and to find out what’s missing from your existing security strategies and solutions.
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Popular technologies like virtualization, databases and mobility could be as risky as they are useful to enterprise users in 2009.
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To truly become efficient, storage managers are addressing the nagging problem of duplicated data that eats up space in the storage and backup infrastructure. Here are some of the major players in the storage arena offering some form of single-instance storage, deduplication and even records-matching to get rid of those extra bytes and make way for new data.
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A look at the most disastrous security breaches of the past year.
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In these tough times, IT managers may need to freeze, trim or cut technology projects. Here's how to diagnose your project portfolio to make the right decisions.
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The technology challenges President-Elect Barack Obama faces are similar to the ones CEOs grapple with every day. But they also shine a new light on critical infrastructure, security and healthcare issues. How will he handle them?
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Two of the five this year’s most-improved vendors in our 2008 Vendor Value study are telecom vendors. But they seem to have improved at the expense of their competitors.
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Once again, Dell and Hewlett-Packard fought a tight race to the top of our 2008 Vendor Value rankings for hardware vendors.
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Cisco’s dominance is under serious challenge from a host of smaller, nimble companies, according to our 2008 Vendor Value study.
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The software vendor rankings in our 2008 Vendor Value survey reflected the changing face of the enterprise software market.
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Facebook’s Anti-Social Networking; Younger Workers Have a Bad Work Rep; Browser Beware: Clickjacking Is Coming
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The National Bureau of Economic Research said the U.S. economy slipped in to a recession in December of 2007. The NBER does not define a recession as two consecutive quarters of decline in real gross domestic product, as is the rule of thumb in many countries. Instead, it looks for a decline in economic activity, spread across the economy and lasting more than a few months.
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Baseline examines easy, practical technology strategies that will cut IT costs quickly and streamline IT management so you are more efficient in the long run.
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Baidu was accused of letting unlicensed medical services pay for prominent positions on its pay-for-performance (P4P) search platform, netting them more "clicks" for expensive but useless treatments. The claims sparked widespread public criticism of the Chinese search giant and dragged down Baidu's stock. And now Baidu's chief executive officer, Robin Li, has promised action.

 
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IT Retrenchment: Performing IT Project Triage
In these tough times, IT managers may need to freeze, trim or cut technology projects. Here's how to diagnose your project portfolio to make the right decisions.
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Before sending out a request for proposal for hardware to selected vendors, you need to have an agreed-upon rating/ranking system that is fair and objective, in order to help remove any bias or politics during the selection process.
Political skills in the workplace can determine one’s ability to perform at a high level, foster camaraderie and ultimately, be the difference-maker between a successful company and failing one. The following are common-sense management principles that can harness political energy between IT and business groups to foster highly-effective teams.
We are going to see a more nuanced approach to developing software on a global scale. It may cost less to develop software locally, but that does not mean there will be a movement of software development back to the U.S. Competitive factors such as total project cost, domain expertise and the quality of software will be the driving forces in software projects regardless of location.
In 2009, these technologies can provide companies with a competitive advantage in what is expected to be a very tough year on the bottom lines of IT budgets, IT management and IT vendors. However, even in an economic downturn those companies that invest, develop and capitalize on technologies that save money while improving the efficiency and effectiveness of business have an opportunity to grab significant market and mind share with new and existing customers.
While organizations have similar goals such as controlling costs and achieving data consistency, IT departments across government, corporations and nonprofits operate differently. IT management needs an overarching governance model like CobiT, ITIL, CMM and Six Sigma to ensure that investments in technology generate business value and mitigate risks.
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    In these tough times, IT managers may need to freeze, trim or cut technology projects. Here's how to diagnose your project portfolio to make the right decisions.
    The technology challenges President-Elect Barack Obama faces are similar to the ones CEOs grapple with every day. But they also shine a new light on critical infrastructure, security and healthcare issues. How will he handle them?
    Enterprises could save real money on technology, but most avoid changing the IT financial equation.
    What does today’s economic situation mean for IT shops—and their executives?
    Distributed development is pretty hard, and a lot of projects founder because of the difficulties encountered in those projects.

     

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