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2010
January 18: Application Outsourcing: Where SaaS Is Headed In 2010. In the past few years the buzz meter has moved from ASP to SaaS to cloud computing. In this InformationWeek Analytics report, Michael Biddick takes a break from the cloud hype to poll companies on their application outsourcing strategies.
Virtualization Management. We'll test server virtualization management tools, with an emphasis on virtual machine configuration, deployment, sprawl management, policy control, and chargebacks.
Dark Reading: Building A Secure E-Mail Environment. Most security discussions focus on defending the corporate network, and many companies overlook one of the most common threats: email. We look at security threats posed by email systems, as well as the tools and services that can mitigate them.
January 25: Beyond E-Mail: The Future Of Enterprise Messaging. We dig into the messaging market. Can core systems like Exchange and Lotus Notes adapt quickly enough to new communication demands? Or will the cloud and upstart alternatives carve out a dominant place in the enterprise?
Enterprise Wi-Fi: Strategies, Features, Security. We look at IT's attitudes toward the use of wireless and provide solid advice to help plan for the growth of this productivity-enhancing technology.
Telepresence. Could moves by Cisco and other players big and small, technology advances, and the expensive hell that is airline travel today combine to finally bring teleconferencing mainstream? We'll look at what it takes to set up a functional, easy to use teleconferencing system for a distributed enterprise.
February 1: State Of Enterprise Storage. The latest InformationWeek Analytics State of Storage survey looks at storage trends, including new areas like deduplication, tiering, SSDs, storage virtualization, and cloud computing.
Unified Communications-Enabled Software As A Service. Vendors are addressing the challenge posed by UC's complexity by offering managed services and systems integrated with SaaS applications. We'll look at these new offerings and assess whether they really help improve UC's business case.
Security Salary Trends--Sneak, Specialized Peek From The IW Salary Survey. Thousands of IT pros participate in InformationWeek's annual salary survey. This report will take a look at how they're faring in the difficult economic environment.
February 15: The New Business Of Outsourcing. We'll explore the changing relationships IT groups have with their outsourcing vendors through the filter of cloud computing, as well as compliance and data privacy laws.
Mobile Broadband: Beyond Smartphones. Netbooks and other non-smartphone devices are potentially superior platforms for mobile broadband networks. Here's how to match the best devices to end-user needs.
Cloud Contracts And SLAs. High-profile outages in cloud-based services have brought into sharp relief the risks of basing mission-critical applications and services offsite and across the public Internet. Service-level agreements can help CIOs protect their companies.
February 22: Data-Centric Protection. Data is fluid. Protecting it is difficult and our defenses must continually evolve. Here's what information security pros must do to tightly align defenses with data types.
Windows 7: Deployment And Management Tools. This Rolling Review series looks at the various products available for deploying and managing Microsoft's newest operating system.
Dark Reading: Database Activity Monitoring. With the rapid growth of multivendor, multi-instance database environments, it is becoming increasingly difficult for companies to tell where data is coming from. One of the most promising solutions is database activity monitoring. We look at how it works, who should use it, and how to avoid implementation pitfalls.
March 8: Governance, Risk, And Compliance For The Cloud. When deciding whether to outsource part of the technology stack to a third party, CISOs must consider whether an outside vendor can do a better job than internal IT.
Blade Server Wars. Cisco's recent innovations in blade servers upped the ante in a major way. Here's a look at where today's blades are and where they'll be in 12 months.
Portfolio Management. Project portfolio management tools, whether in-house or outsourced, are a worthy investment. We'll discuss how to choose the best ones and then make sure they're used properly.
March 22: Data Center Trends. How can we green the data center, accommodate private clouds, manage virtualization up and down the stack, and wisely adopt new technologies, while keeping an eye on Cisco, HP, IBM, and other tech titans that are increasingly poaching on one another's turf?
App-Aware Network. Switch vendors have been plotting for years to sideline servers by making their devices application-aware. We look at the latest trends.
SaaS E-mail Providers. Many companies are looking to SaaS for e-mail to cut costs and meet storage, archiving, and disaster-resiliency challenges. We'll examine what vendors are offering, as well as the pros and cons of going online for e-mail.
March 29: Salary Survey. The recession has brought more fragmentation than usual to our 2009 U.S. IT Salary Survey. Will 2010 show further division?
2010 Business Intelligence And Information Management Priorities Survey. We examine attitudes and agendas on information management, business intelligence, and related support for enterprise applications and processes.
Dark Reading: Securing On The Bleeding Edge. This report will examine the cutting edge of security and rate the next strategic technologies that the truly paranoid can deploy to stay ahead of attackers.
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