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CIO's 50 Most Popular Articles

Wed, August 06, 2008 - From 9 Reasons Why Application Developers Think Their CIO Is Clueless to Six Free BlackBerry Downloads You Don't Want to Miss to 5 Things You'll Love about Firefox 3, take a look at the most popular articles from May through July.

CIO's 50 Most Popular Articles

Fri, April 18, 2008 - From programming language dos and don'ts to must-have BlackBerry tips and downloads toexpert advice on how to be more successful, take a look at the most popular articles from January through March.

Microsoft's New Live Software

Thu, March 29, 2007 - On November 1, Microsoft unveiled its software-as-a-service strategy, an effort to provide a more seamless connection between customers and their business and personal data by offering a range of services accessed over the Web by various devices.

Critical to Quirky: Everything the CIO Needs to Know

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Technology Topics Definitions and Solutions

Mon, March 05, 2007 - Sometimes we all can use a refresher course - or we need to make sure our team and our colleagues are all on the same page. The following tutorials will give you and your counterparts a jumpstart on the fundamentals behind a variety of hot IT topics.

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Mobile Middleware Strategies

Learn why a mobile development platform is critical to be able to support today's complex enterprise mobility strategies. Learn what to look for in a mobile development platform and how apply these tools whether you're developing a dedicated app for one device or multiple apps running across multiple devices.

Native & HTML5 Mobile Apps: Not an either or, but a where and when

Learn how developers are using HTML5 and native development methods to build mobile apps. Get practical insights on how these tools are being used, what's driving their usage, and how to choose the best development approach for your business.

The Evolution of Enterprise Mobile App Development

Driven by explosive growth in smartphone and tablet sales, enterprise mobility has become an essential part of business. Organizations across industries are developing internal- and external-facing mobile applications that drive revenue, build brand loyalty, strengthen communication with partners, and enhance employee productivity. Learn how keeping pace in this market requires an agile, flexible, and iterative approach to application development.

AlertBoot Case Study

When AlertBoot switched to the cloud it needed a load balancing solution that would support its migration and prevent as much downtime as possible. The company chose Riverbed® Stingray™ Traffic Manager to use while transitioning its infrastructure to an entirely virtualized environment. The move was a complete success, at one-third the cost of comparable hardware solutions.

Gilt Groupe Case Study

With over 5,000 requests per second during peak periods, online retailer Gilt Groupe could lose a large percentage of its daily profits in just 10 minutes of downtime. After choosing the Riverbed® Stingray™ Traffic Manager as its load balancing solution, visits to the site have increased thanks to improved customer satisfaction. Real-time traffic views and tracking also make it easy to strategize and plan for the future.

See Tickets Case Study

With 85 percent of its ticket sales made online, See Tickets needed a robust, secure, highly accessible website. The company chose the Riverbed® Stingray™ Traffic Manager to ensure that its site was always online and fast, even during extreme peaks in traffic. Now the company's valued customers receive optimal online service.

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Leverage automation today to reduce IT complexity

Date: Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 2:00 PM EDT

Whether your B2B complexity is caused by multiple technologies due to M&A, business or application specific needs or traditional under investment, the net effect is usually the same: high cost and lower productivity. Enabling business-to-business (B2B) integration using point-to-point EDI translators is usually time intensive and cost prohibitive.

Join IDC's Maureen Fleming and SAP for an insightful Webcast on the different approaches companies are taking to B2B integration and how you can ask the right questions to reassess you B2B approach.

Delivery Management -- Extending Lifecycle Management

Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2012, 1:00 PM EDT

Siloed organizations continue doing the wrong things and doing things wrong, leading to increased costs, project delays, lower quality, and time-to-market delays. Providing a collaborative platform where the whole organization can prioritize, share and manage deliveries with more transparency can help the organizations make more informed decisions at all levels, and greatly improve communications and traceability between teams. Hear from application lifecycle management experts how to increase delivery efficiency and effectiveness with a new approach to Delivery Management.

Operational Analytics - Changing the Competitive Dynamics of the Business

Date/Time: June 5, 2012, 11:00 a.m., EDT, 4:00 p.m. BST / 3:00 p.m. UTC

Please join us for this webcast, as Dr. Barry Devlin, Founder and Principal, 9sight Consulting, describes what operational analytics can do for your business and reviews an architectural approach that will enable you to make it a reality.

BMC Control-M - Single Point of Control Demo

With BMC Control-M, you schedule and manage everything - down to the very last platform and application - from one simple interface. It's the foundation of workload automation, really - the ability to run application and business processes as one. Siloed job schedulers can't do it. BMC Control-M can.

Sun Chemical Customer Success Story

Sun Chemical, the world's largest producer of printing inks and pigments, quadrupled its complex batch environment with zero extra headcount using BMC Control-M's Automated File Transfer features.

Spear Phishing and the Modern Cyber Attack

Learn how IT teams can protect against spear phishing tactics. Harry Sverdlove, chief technology officer of Bit9 offers a frank discussion about spear phishing - the most common technique used in today's advanced attacks. Learn how spear phishing works and three recommendations for IT to protect against modern threats.

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