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  1. Data Breaches Are Expensive — and They Stay That Way

    07 Oct 2010 By : Keith Ferrell

    Dealing with the immediate aftermath of a data breach is only the beginning when it comes to dealing with the total cost of such incidents.

  2. Enterprise monitoring with open source

    31 Jul 2010 By : Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier

    Monitoring an enterprise environment need not be expensive, or lock you into a single vendor. Open source enterprise monitoring systems stack up favorably next to proprietary solutions — for free or at a much lower cost.

  3. Device convergence: The hunt for an IT singularity

    28 Jul 2010 By : Pam Baker

    If you thought device convergence ended when a Blackberry, PDA and a dumb phone squeezed into a single smartphone device, think again. Convergence is a never-ending story for enterprises and consumers alike.

  4. What License Management can do for your IT shop

    28 Jul 2010 By : Lynn Greiner

    When you buy a computer, monitor or printer, you have an object that can be labeled and counted. Software, on the other hand, is more of a challenge. It can be hard to track the copies of a program that are installed, and which versions are in use.

  5. Physical vs. Virtual Disaster Recovery: How Much Do You Need of Each?

    26 Jul 2010 By : Pam Baker

    Which is better: a virtualized disaster recovery center or a physical data center? But which provides greater resilience and versatility? Which is the better strategy? Or is a blended solution the best recourse? We explain the options.

  6. Faster, greener, cooler: Technologies for eco-conscious data centers

    23 Jul 2010 By : Alyson Behr

    For data centers, going green means adopting newer technologies and network design strategies, investing in new equipment that reduces power consumption while boosting performance, and scrutinizing facility efficiencies.

  7. Healthcare Providers Ramp Up IT As Deadlines Loom

    21 Jul 2010 By : Alison Diana

    Healthcare providers are investing in electronic medical records and healthcare information exchanges, in the face of looming state and federal deadlines. Here’s what CIOs need to know about key regulatory specifics that were only recently defined.

  8. Fire protection and the data center: Industry standard you didn't know

    20 Jul 2010 By : Lisa Nadile

    Whether you have a 200,000 square foot data center or a server rack with a few blades, your data island is a mission critical business component. Lose that data to a fire and you've lost the world with regard to your enterprise.

  9. The case of the disappearing carbon footprint

    20 Jul 2010 By : Alyson Behr

    At a time when green initiatives are ranked high priority on the global corporate mind, IT managers and decision influencers are reviewing existing IT infrastructure with new scrutiny and mapping it toward increased environmental responsibility.

  10. Improving IT Productivity Means Change

    20 Jul 2010 By : Brenda Kerton

    Making an internal IT change to improve your organization’s productivity means changing what people in your organization know and do. Manage the human side of change enables you to achieve the productivity improvements that are planned.