The Enterprise Data Center Recipe

80% of the IT budget is consumed by mundane keeping the lights on activities. This tech dossier examines the components of a truly efficient data center with expert guidance on how to standardize, simplify and automate. Learn how you can free more budget for innovation and strategic projects.

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Improve Service Levels while Cutting Costs

Identification of underperforming processes for databases, operations, systems, storage and capacity management is the first step to service optimization. But where do you start? This paper will help you identify the areas for improvement and explains how IT workload automation can significantly reduce complexity and IT staff inefficiencies.

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Reduce Windows 7 Costs by 60%

Getting ready for a Windows 7 upgrade requires careful planning. To start, youll need to ensure application and hardware compatibility, give careful consideration to VDI and learn the advantages of new tools to automate the migration process. This tech dossier provides expert advice on deployment best practices and highlights experiences of early adopters.

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Conquering Decision Making

Don Maruska, author of How Great Decisions Get Made, gives advice on making great decisions and overcoming decision-making obstacles.  Read More »

Making the Best 'Right' Decision

Sometimes there can be more than one right answer to a problem. But the option you choose can say a lot about the values of your company—and your leadership. Making these "right versus right" choices can be one of the hardest tasks any manager can perform. But Joseph Badaracco, the John Shad professor of business ethics at Harvard Business School, says there are some simple methods you can apply to help you answer these tough questions. (10:47)  Read More »

A Conversation with Craig Donohue, CEO of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange

Craig Donohue discusses his top business priorities, the role technology plays in supporting those priorities, his relationship with his CIO, and his worst IT-related nightmare. (13:11)  Read More »

The CIO's View: Time-to-Value Through Automation

IT professionals are being asked to deliver faster "time-to-value" than ever before. An IDG Research survey found that CIOs are eager to invest in technologies that will enable them to get new applications and services up quickly, achieving faster time-to-value.  View Now »

5 Steps to Successful IT Consolidation

Learn how to reduce IT management overhead, ease revision control, guarantee data security, scale systems more quickly and reduce server and software costs.  View Now »

Sponsored by  Riverbed

Successful Mobility: Access and Performance Anywhere

Today's workforce is truly mobile. At the office, from customer sites, even at home or in a hotel - their connectivity and application performance needs remain the same. But even though their requirements don't change, the challenges in meeting their expectations do.  View Now »

Sponsored by  Riverbed