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How to Evaluate Enterprise Search Options

An enterprise search platform delivers many benefits, including improved employee productivity, but there are dozen of vendors and three different approaches -- specialized, integrated and detached -- to consider. Here's how to find the product that best fits your company's search requirements. Full Story »
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Rethinking How We Learn at Work

It's time for CIOs to rethink just how workers should be equipping themselves to learn in the years ahead. The first place to look for learning innovation is the Web.

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Yum Brands’ Recipe for Global Collaboration

The KFC and Taco Bell franchisor wants to make its internal global collaboration and social-networking site a must-visit destination for employees

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How Social Networking Creates a Collaboration Culture

Thanks to Facebook, people have become willing to share information, creating a workplace culture ready for collaboration. But CIOs need to deploy the right tools.

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Online Collaboration: How Merck Uses Virtual Worlds for Global Meetings

Merck Research Laboratories’ scientists share their research online using virtual meeting software

Analyst Corner

CIOs: Empower Your Employees’ Use of Consumer Tech

If you embrace employees who mine new technology to serve their customers, you’ll benefit the business.

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Five Advantages of Unified Information Access (UIA)

A detailed look at the top five most important reasons the world's most visionary enterprises are upgrading to Unified Information Access.

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How Content Management Systems and Enterprise Search Promote Product Innovation

By integrating its content management system with enterprise search tools, BioMérieux hopes to uncover opportunities to develop new products

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How Content Management Helps An Orchestra Keep In Tune With Customers

The San Francisco Symphony is using content management tools to digitize its century-old archive and create new ways to connect with its audiences.

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Mobile Web Conferencing: Next Big Smartphone Trend?

Mobile web conferencing isn't for everyone - but IT leaders should remember that some of the most prominent business users are the ones who want it. Here's a look at why IT should support this niche feature.

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IBM Offers Symphony on Keepod USB Devices

IBM announced Tuesday that its free Lotus Symphony office productivity suite is now available on Keepods -- thin USB devices made by the Italian company NSEC.

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Confessions of an Apple Manager-Turned-iPhone App Creator

Former Apple employee Dave Howell, now the CEO of startup Avatron Software, talks about the early days of the App Store, his Apple experience and how he plans to do battle in the iPhone's wild frontier.

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IBM Showcases New Analytics Capabilities

IBM will announce a range of additions to its already-burgeoning portfolio of BI (business intelligence) tools on Monday during its annual Information on Demand (IOD) conference in Las Vegas.

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How to Build a Business Case For SharePoint

A business case for SharePoint should clearly articulate the hard ROI, soft ROI, and the risks that the system will mitigate.

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How to Determine the True Cost of Microsoft SharePoint

A list of the many costs involved in implementing and supporting Microsoft SharePoint, including ones you might never have expected.

 
Half the respondents to a new survey on collaboration are using FTP servers-servers that are based on aging protocols that were not designed to be useful to virtual teams. Something far better is needed-and is actually available.
For your IT organization to keep pace with the business, you need a new, faster approach to infrastructure deployment-an approach that increases agility and accelerates time to application value. That's HP Converged Systems. Built on Converged Infrastructure, these systems deliver the industry's first portfolio of pre-integrated, tested, and optimized infrastructure solutions for applications running in virtual, cloud, dedicated, or hybrid environments.
Even though virtualization has brought positive change to enterprise IT over the last decade, some skepticism remains about how valuable virtualization can be in the way companies deliver and run business applications. Uncover the truth about how you can run your business critical applications with confi dence without sacrifi cing
availability or service quality-and at lower costs.
This IDG whitepaper highlights key findings based on the Quickpoll Survey conducted with more than 300 Enterprise and Commercial IT decision makers worldwide about the state of their virtualization of business critical applications. This paper answers such questions as: What drivers are pushing companies to extend virtualization beyond servers? and What value are they realizing? Central to the paper are key results that expose risks of the past (fears of limited ISV support, performance impact) no longer are a factor for companies moving to 80+% virtualized.
This guide focuses on key considerations for IT Architects who are in the process of migrating Java applications from UNIX to Linux as part of their VMware server consolidation project.
This IDC white paper explains how much of the Enterprise IT community is at a crossroads in extending their journey to the private cloud: Companies must virtualize their business critical applications in order to reap the benefits of cloud computing. The paper also includes two case studies and a sidebar highlighting the experiences of three enterprises with virtualizing their business-critical applications, which include Oracle and Microsoft SQL databases, SAP and enterprise Java, and a Microsoft Exchange email system.
Download this webcast to learn about the design considerations for virtualizing SQL workloads, performance and scalability information and high-availability options, as well as support considerations
Download this webcast to learn the virtual hardware design considerations for Exchange 2010, deployment using the building block approach, options for high-availability and disaster recovery and support considerations.
Virtualizing business-critical applications has become a key focus for organizations as they move along their virtualization journey. With the launch of VMware vSphere® 5, VMware is helping customers accelerate the deployment of business-critical applications, including Exchange, SQL, SAP and Oracle.
Want to say goodbye to missed SLAs? VMware can help you virtualize mission-critical applications such as Oracle, MS Exchange and SharePoint to achieve dramatic improvements in uptime, performance and responsiveness. In this webcast, we'll discuss the key benefits of virtualizing your agency's most critical applications and Oracle databases as a necessary first step in fulfilling OMB's mandate to move IT services to the cloud. With VMware, you'll be on the way to quick, effective and full compliance.
The complexity, cost and technological bloat of traditional Java EE application servers are often barriers to running a lean and efficient IT organization. Increased need for scalability and rapid application delivery are driving businesses to reconsider the platform they use for application deployment. By combining the portability and agility of the Spring framework with a lightweight application server, your organization can meet business demands while staying within budget constraints. VMware vFabric™ tc Server is a modern, lightweight Java application server based on Apache Tomcat. It improves developer productivity, control and manageability-and is the most flexible platform for virtualizing Java applications and workloads for the cloud. View this webcast to learn about real-world examples of companies that have adopted VMware vFabric tc Server and how to plan for future cloud deployments.
Traditional disaster recovery solutions are often too expensive, complex and unreliable to meet business requirements. As a result, IT departments are hesitant to expand disaster protection beyond their most critical applications, largely because they are uncertain whether the quality of the protection is really worth its cost. VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager 5 is the market-leading disaster recovery product that addresses this situation for organizations of all kinds. It complements VMware vSphere to ensure the simplest and most reliable disaster protection for all virtualized applications.
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