Slideshows

Steampunk Technology: A Fantasy World of Machinery and Style

Steampunk design melds Victorian-era design, industrial technology and modern know-how into a fantasy world of machinery and style, and has taken root in everything from computers to iPhones.

12 Cool LinkedIn Features You Never Knew About

There's a lot more to LinkedIn than just connecting with the people you know. Here's a look at 12 features, from a business card digitizer to a resume builder, that enhance your LinkedIn experience.

15 Must-Have Android Apps, According to Twitter

CIO.com's Al Sacco asked his tech-savvy Twitter followers for recommendations on the best Android apps available today, and they answered with gusto. You won't want to miss any of these must-have Android downloads.

10 Infamous Hacks and Hackers

From low-profile intrusions to statement-making break-ins, here are 10 headline-making system intrusions (and the culprits behind them).

5 Desktops in the Cloud

Desktop-as-a-Service is an interesting way for IT execs to provide cloud-based Windows desktop sessions, as well as shared resources such as storage. DaaS can help companies roll out new desktops and support Bring Your Own Device policies.

8 Ways to Customize Windows 8

Here are eight ways that you can customize your installation of Windows 8 Consumer Preview.

10 Ways to Make Android Faster, More Productive and More Secure than iPhone

With a little tweaking, you can speed up and optimize Android in ways that will make iPhone users' heads spin.

What Will Apple's HDTV Look Like?

A look at some of the best guesses about Apple¿s long-rumored HDTV.

Camera Phones: A Look Back and Forward

Is it a camera that also has a phone, or a phone that also has a camera? The short -- and continuing -- history of camera phones.

9 Cloud Development Platforms on the Rise

These turnkey development services get your apps up and running quickly, saving you from infrastructure tedium.

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Gartner Report on BYOD: Media Tablets and Beyond

This research assesses the impact of the growth in media tablets and other "off desktop" form factors entering IT deployments and makes recommendations on building an enterprise management plan based on industry best practices.

BYOD Policy Implementation Guide

This BYOD implementation guide from Absolute Software provides three simple steps to legally secure and manage employee-owned devices within a corporate environment.

The most simple & secure solution for Intranet access from mobile devices

The promise of enterprise mobility means that employees are more productive and address business issues in a timely, untethered manner.

Protecting Against Database Attacks and Insider Threats: Top 5 Scenarios

Read this new eBook to learn the top five scenarios and essential best practices for preventing database attacks and insider threats.

Thinking Outside The Data Warehouse

This high level, business problem focused eBook uses 5 customer scenarios to show how people and organizations are tackling real issues using IBM solutions.

Establishing a Strategy for Database Security is No Longer Optional

The options for securing increasingly valuable databases are very broad and deep, and can be confusing. This research provides an overview of three categories of controls that should be implemented to ensure that enterprise data is protected in the most efficient and effective manner.

Webcasts »

Set It & Forget It - Apple Devices in the Enterprise

Ben Snyder, Desktop Support Analyst at Under Armour, discusses how this fast-growing company with thousands of mobile employees uses an automated process to manage its mix of PC and Apple devices from a single console.

Distributed Database Security with Real-time Monitoring

View this demo and learn how IBM InfoSphere Guardium database activity monitoring can help protect your sensitive data in distributed DBMS environments with a holistic approach to data security and compliance.

InfoSphere Warehouse Packs Demo

These flash modules make warehousing more tangible and relevant to business users through detailed explanations of the InfoSphere Warehouse Packs.

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.

Virtualization Success is a Team Effort

As greater numbers of datacenter servers transition from the physical to the virtual world, the components of virtualization success come to the fore. What scores of organizations have discovered is that success is derived from an optimal pairing of the right software platform with the right hardware platform.