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This Week's Issue
Featured Whitepapers
- Improving SQL Availability and Performance: 6 Key Questions to Consider Before You Scale Up
- Policy Control & SDN: A Perfect Match? - by Heavy Reading
- Storage Infrastructure as a Service The Best of Cloud and On-premises Storage
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- Taneja Group: Overview of Virtualization and Cloud Market Vendor Landscape for SMBs
Featured Reports
9 Conference Calling and Social Apps
April 17, 2013
In this installment of our quarterly series, we look at two complementary technologies that we expect to see come together in the not-too-distant future: advanced conference calling and enterprise social networking.
Research: 2012 Application Delivery Specialists Staffing Survey
December 12, 2012
For a technical position that's also close to the operations side and the end user, consider the role of application delivery specialist. Although definitions vary, it's a position in high demand from companies transforming their development approaches and deployment technologies, with 10% of delivery-focused survey respondents saying they plan to increase staffing in this area by more than 30% in the next two years. That's why only 21% expect to fill these positions easily.
Research: App Dev 2012 Staffing Survey
December 12, 2012
Just 8% of respondents to our InformationWeek 2012 State of IT Staffing Survey involved with hiring or managing IT personnel see demand staying flat vs. 38% who will increase staffing by more than 10%. Read on for trends in compensation, hiring criteria, skill sets and training for the IT industry's hottest specialty.
Strategy: 18 Mobile Productivity Apps
October 18, 2012
Our Quarterly Review of Business Apps is designed to help enterprises cash in on mobility's ability to boost efficiency. In this inaugural issue, we offer selections in four areas: IT management, portability, workflow and convenience.
Best Practices: Top Mobile Productivity Tools for Finance
September 21, 2012
Mobile-enabled sales and service tools are improving workforce metrics across industries. Here are seven case studies to show how mobility can transform financial services firms in retail and business banking, capital markets, insurance and wealth management.
Is Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Right For SMBs?
November 27, 2010
A local Boy Scout chapter found that Microsoft's workflow software, while most often used by large enterprises, was the most efficient way to roll out its collaborative website.
InformationWeek 500: Insurers Go Beyond Quick-Fix Cost Cutting
September 15, 2010
In a soft market, insurance CIOs focus on IT-based process efficiency projects.
InformationWeek 500: Energy Companies And Utilities Aim To Squeeze Out More Efficiencies
September 15, 2010
With oil and gas prices down, companies are focusing on process efficiency and maximizing margins.
InformationWeek 500: Manufacturers Look To Cut Costs, Not Service
September 15, 2010
Business intelligence tools and collaboration software are being used to improve productivity.
InformationWeek 500: New Regs Require Banks To Revise Tech Priorities
September 15, 2010
The aftermath of the financial meltdown has financial firms rethinking their operational practices, business models, and offerings. IT has a major role in all of it.
InformationWeek 500: Logistics And Transportation Companies Are Focused On Efficiency
September 15, 2010
Smart companies have changed business processes and used IT to do more with fewer people.
InformationWeek 500: IT Companies Lead The Way With Web Technologies
September 15, 2010
They're showing their customers the way with software as a service, wikis, blogs, and social networking.
InformationWeek 500: Consulting Companies Focus On Telecom
September 15, 2010
This small, tech-intensive industry is ready to improve telework and expand use of high-end collaborative apps.
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Workflow User's Guide
August 21, 2010
Office 2010 can act as the front-end to a full-featured enterprise content management solution using the metadata and workflow capabilities of SharePoint 2010.
Network-Attached Storage User's Guide
August 14, 2010
Features on the latest NAS devices transform them into full-featured, multi-purpose computing devices which can act as media, print, and file servers, surveillance devices, and Web hosts.
Microsoft Office 2010 Collaboration User's Guide
July 31, 2010
Tips for collaborating via the new co-authoring and virtual presence features Microsoft has built into its Office 2010 suite, to kick your teamwork into high gear.
Top Vacation Spots For Geeks
July 02, 2010
Anyone can head for the beach, but if space flight, astronomy, or science fiction/fantasy movies (Lord of The Rings, anyone?) mean anything to you, try these destinations instead.
Top 10 Cloud Computing Complaints
June 26, 2010
Leading industry experts respond to gripes that IT professionals have about the security, cost, and portability of cloud computing in the enterprise.
Image Gallery: 8 Online Storage Solutions
June 19, 2010
Keeping desktop, laptop, and mobile data synchronized, protected, and sharable is simple with solutions like Amazon Web Services and Jungle Disk, Backblaze, Carbonite, CrashPlan, Dropbox, Mozy, SpiderOak, and SugarSync.
Online Storage Buyer's Guide
June 19, 2010
Web-based storage providers, including Jungle Disk, Backblaze, Mozy, and CrashPlan, keep your data secure and accessible with backup, synchronization, and file sharing features.
Review: Microsoft Office Web Apps
May 29, 2010
We weigh the online versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to see how they stack up as standalone productivity apps -- and against Google Apps.
Image Gallery: Microsoft's Office Web Apps
May 29, 2010
By themselves, the Microsoft's Office Web Apps may not reshape the computing world. In combination with other features of Office 2010, however, these humble Web services may help Microsoft to turn the tables on its online challengers, like Google.
Samsung Boosts Manufacturing, R&D Investment
May 18, 2010
Rising demand for semiconductors and memory products calls for new and improved production facilities and intense R&D efforts.
Google, Intel, Sony Prep 'Smart TV' Platform
May 18, 2010
Intel has been actively gearing up for the past year to provide both silicon and software to Internet-enabled TV ventures.
Sony Consumer Division Buoys Earnings
May 17, 2010
Sony's $1.4 billion loss in consumer products and video games offset by $1.7 billion profit in the financial services division.