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Time Management: 6 Ways to Improve Your Productivity

Workplace performance expert Jason Womack offers six of his most effective tips for better managing your time and giving your productivity a jolt. Full Story »
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iPhone App Spotlight: Abukai Expense Reporting

No one looks forward to monthly expense reporting. With new mobile apps hitting the market, though, this unavailing task could be a thing of the past.

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New Year’s Resolutions 2012

IDG Enterprise CEO Michael Friedenberg shares his top ten resolutions for 2012.

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Forrester to CIOs: End the Mac Prohibition

Many companies continue to outlaw Macs, yet Macs are increasingly making their way through the back door. Will IT concede defeat and end the Mac prohibition?

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5 Things CEOs Will Love About the iPhone 4S

While Apple's newest iPhone, iPhone 4S, is an incremental upgrade, business users will like the new features - and will be glad Apple left one feature out.

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How Effective Leaders Can Make Principled Decisions When It Matters Most

Wharton School Professor Michael Useem says every leader has guiding principles. In his new book, The Leader’s Checklist, he offers 15 principles that are important when making difficult decisions.

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Mobile Startups: Tip of the Iceberg, Say Venture Capitalists

At this week's DEMO Fall 2011, mobile startups trying to bridge the physical and digital worlds often didn't aim high enough and received mixed reviews from venture capitalists and former entrepreneurs.

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How to Organize Your Office and Boost Your Productivity

The average executive wastes six weeks every year searching for paper, according to certified professional organizer Ellen Delap. Maintaining an organized office where you can find items quickly and easily saves time and makes you more efficient, effective and productive. Here, Delap outlines some strategies and tools anyone can use to keep a home office, commercial office or cubicle organized and effective.

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Enterprise Startups: A Long Road Ahead

This year's crop of DEMO startups targeting the enterprise space face big challenges.

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iPad Goes to Hollywood

iPads are fast-becoming a familiar sight on the sets of "Mad Men," "How I Met Your Mother," "The Mentalist," "CSI" and others. Thank the Apple geeks for bringing some excitement to the awkward Silicon Valley-Hollywood marriage.

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The Magical World of Tablets and Touchscreens

For disabled computer technician Kevin Berg, touchscreen tablet technology has untangled him from the constraints of the trackball and desktop computer screen.

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CIO Alert: Five Cures for What Ails IT

IT groups often struggle to stay efficient as a business grows and evolves. Here are five tips for CIOs needing to improve budgeting and vendor relationships and align IT and business priorities. First step: Go to lunch.

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Google Apps Quick Tip: How to Work Offline

No Internet access? No worries. With Google's new offline capabilities, you can still be productive in Gmail, Docs and Calendar.

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Can the iPad Cure What Ails Us?

At Texas hospitals, iPads and iPhones sever the desktop computing cord allowing doctors and nurses to spend more time with their patients.

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5 Google Apps Features Guaranteed to Boost Productivity

From creating custom surveys to collaboratively whiteboarding, here are five Google Apps features that promise to save you time.

 
Custom malware frequently goes undetected. According to Forrester Research, the best way to reduce risk of breach is to deploy file integrity monitoring (FIM) tools that provide immediate alerts. This white paper has been brought to you by NetIQ, the leader in solving complex IT challenges.
This white paper describes the business challenges and opportunities that are driving interest in Identity Governance while discussing considerations your organization should make to help achieve project success.
This paper explores the concept of content-aware IAM, describes the integrated architecture for this new approach, and highlights the benefits that this approach provides.
One of the key strategies that IT teams are pursuing to reduce capital costs while boosting asset utilization and employee productivity is the transition to highly virtualized data centers. However, IDC finds that expectations for further boosts in IT asset use and operational efficiency often surpass the actual results for a variety of reasons. These problems can quickly overwhelm any hoped-for benefits as the scope of virtual server deployment expands.
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.
The nature of the blade platform makes system management, monitoring and provisioning easy and efficient. Access this resource to learn how blade migration will save your data center time and money while increasing performance.
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
Many enterprises have discovered that the use of virtualization to support desktop workloads creates a range of significant benefits. These benefits include price efficiencies, improved IT management and greater agility and choice for end users.

This VMware sponsored webcast with IDC will provide both quantitative measurement of the business value -- defined as the expected ROI -- and qualitative analysis associated with the use of VMware View™. IDC will also provide an analysis of the View Composer and ThinApp™ features of VMware View, including the business value of these solutions and an overview of how they work.

Attend this webcast to learn about:
- Challenges and barriers that might impede the adoption of desktop virtualization
- Navigating roadblocks to facilitate a strategic implementation
- Optimizing qualitative and quantitative benefits to IT and your business
Applications are changing - they're increasingly web-oriented, global in nature and run from multiple device types. Additionally, the volume of data is growing exponentially every year. How do you ensure your applications have fast, accurate, up-to-date information in this new world? Modern applications are data-intensive; delivering data the old way using monolithic databases isn't working. What's needed is a modern approach to data. One that scales-out as needed and delivers predictable high performance, but without sacrificing data consistency or integrity.
VMware View™ 5 simplifies IT management while increasing end user freedom by delivering desktop services from your cloud. Building upon VMware's leadership in desktop virtualization, VMware View 5 delivers a high-performance user experience while giving IT greater policy control.

View this webcast and find out how VMware View 5 can help you:
- Deliver the highest fidelity experience of desktop services across any device and any network
- Simplify and automate IT management, security and control of desktop services
- Reduce the costs associated with your desktop environment
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.
Learn how to reduce IT management overhead, ease revision control, guarantee data security, scale systems more quickly and reduce server and software costs.
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