Research: BC/DR and the Cloud
11/11/11   |       

These days, automatically replicating and archiving data to an offsite provider is as simple as plugging in a network storage appliance and filling...

IT Pro Impact: Windows 8
10/31/11   |      

Many IT organizations are still in the midst of efforts to move to Microsoft’s Windows 7 and as such are not ready to jump into a Windows 8 m...

Fundamentals: Application Virtualization
10/24/11   |       

Disk images are a convenient way to quickly deploy new VMs, but what happens when you need to distribute complete application stacks to multiple, p...

Fundamentals: Virtual Machine Backups
09/27/11   |      

We provide best practices for backing up VM disk files and building a resilient infrastructure that can tolerate hardware and software failures. Af...

Research: Enterprise Content Management
09/20/11   |       

Organizations are drowning in email, Office files, PDFs and more. All this unstructured information is expensive to store, hard to search, and may ...

IT Pro Ranking: WAN Optimization Appliances
08/29/11

We surveyed nearly 500 business technology pros and found that, for companies looking to maximize expensive bandwidth, WAN optimization works&mdash...

IT Pro Impact: VMware/vSphere 5
08/19/11

This hot new technology is overshadowed by poor licensing policy choices. Our survey finds IT committed to virtualization but re-evaluating its hyp...

Fundamentals: HTML5
08/10/11   |    

Native Web applications may enable cool functionality, but it comes at a high cost: Threatening the open Web with irrelevance and perpetuating vend...

Strategy: SaaS Integration
07/20/11   |       

Application integration has always been a tough problem. Now add to the mix the security challenges of running services off-site and the inherent d...

Research: IT Automation
06/06/11

IT’s juggling frantically to keep current services running even as business customers pile on new requests. Automation is an important tool ...

Research: 2011 State of the Data Center
05/06/11   |       

Data centers face increased resource demands and flat budgets. IT can do more to boost efficiency, but now is also the time to rethink the assump...

2011 Salary Survey: Application Development
04/26/11   |       

Prospects for IT professionals in the development and softwa...

2011 Salary Survey: Government
04/25/11

Median annual salaries for staffers and management in the federal IT sector are up, as is confidence in job security. However, budget cuts and sala...

2011 Salary Survey: Networking and Data Center
04/24/11

Network and data center staff and management demonstrate a high level of satisfaction, despite earning less than their IT peers in other discipline...

Strategy: UPMC's Data Center Migration
04/22/11

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center undertook an enormous 18-month project to integrate a suburban data center into two other facilities. I...