Briefing Centers and Technology Resources Brought to you by the InformationWeek Business Technology Network

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Application Consolidation & Global Sourcing Briefing Center

Discover the latest techniques and technology for streamlining the application development process. Visit the Application Consolidation & Global Sourcing Briefing Center today!

Data Deduplication and Replication Briefing Center

Keep expenses down with new ways to enhance your IT infrastructure. Explore how cost-effective storage solutions like data deduplication and replication enable efficient backup, recovery and data archiving.

Byte & Switch’s Back-Up and Recovery Channel

Discover data backup and recovery best practices and other useful information at Byteandswitch.com. Check out news, expert blogs and premium content.

Byte & Switch’s Storage and Virtualization Channel

Discover data storage virtualization best practices and other useful information at Byteandswitch.com. Check out news, expert blogs and premium content.

Sophos Labs Insights at DarkReading.com

Find solutions for assessing endpoint security, stopping data leakage and combating other modern threats. Visit our expert bloggers and see what they have to say about today’s latest computer and network security threats. Download premium content. Visit today!

IT Operational Advantage

Visit the boardroom for the latest in achieving competitive advantage with IT operations. Explore our IT management virtual boardroom and lounge. Discover new efficiencies and a community for professional growth. Visit today!

The ECM Compliance Warehouse

Explore the latest in content collection and archiving, advanced classification, records management, e-discovery, podcasts and much more! Discover better returns on your investment with our ROI calculator. Check it out today!

Beyond Business Connectivity Resource Center

Are you aware of all the value to be had with modern communications technology? Discover the latest in data networking, VOIP, Hosting and more and see how they can help you save money while delivering higher quality services or products. Visit our very cool site today!

Agile Technology for Financial Firms

Find out how the best and brightest on Wall Street are planning for and building their IT infrastructure. View industry leading news, video and other premium resources today!

Enabling Fast Remote Application Delivery

A $499 value free for a limited time! Explore a range of technologies that empower IT to bring offsite employees, partners and customers the business resources they need quickly—and without breaking the bank. Claim your copy today!

Data Storage Trends and Challenges

A $499 value free for a limited time! Discover what 328 IT pros had to say about the trends and challenges beyond data storage: making useful sense of your data. Get it while it’s free!

Strategic Security – A Struggle for Balance

A $499 value free for a limited time! Want to know the state of strategic security? Read what 600 strategic security professionals agree and disagree about when it comes to critical decision making and resource allocation. Abscond with your free copy today!

The Rise of Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

A $499 value free for a limited time! True security arises from the nexus of systems protection and data loss protection. Discover everything you need to know about the emerging art and science of data loss protection. Snag your copy now!

Defining the Cloud at Informationweek.com

Discover the shift to delivering IT through a utility model. It is poised to change the business technology landscape forever. Get the latest strategic thinking and practical approaches to cloud computing. Visit Defining the Cloud today!

Database Security Tech Center

Dark Reading's Database Security Tech Center is your portal to all the news, product information, technical data, and other information related to the topic of database security. Written for database administrators and businesspeople as well as security and IT professionals, the Database Security Tech Center is a single community dedicated to protecting one of the most sensitive assets in cyberspace: the company database. Explore the tech center today. Read our premium content!

TechWeb’s Financial Technology Network

TechWeb's Financial Technology Network delivers accurate, thought- provoking content to the financial industry. Our editors provide unparalleled industry coverage enabling banking, insurance, Wall Street and trading executives to gain a deeper understanding of the business and technology strategies that are shaping the market and driving competitive advantage. Explore our network today!

Application Consolidation & Global Sourcing Briefing Center

Static application requirements, compounded by tremendous pressures created by global sourcing for application development, are a recipe for frustration, software defects and long development cycles. Instead, test drive applications before they're built. When requirement definitions are accurate, developers succeed. Visit today!

Desktop Virtualization Briefing Center

Massive IT budgets worldwide have been devoted to managing desktop computing environments, yet IT still struggles to keep pace. Desktop virtualization allows organizations to reduce operational costs, improve service levels, satisfy compliance requirements and even deliver a better user experience. Discover how virtualization can bring these benefits to bear for you. Check it out today!

Security Management Solutions Center

Discover all you need to protect your enterprise from the latest security threats. Need help with identity lifecycle management, data protection, compliance issues? Visit the Security Management Solutions center today for whitepapers, best practices, videos and more!

Application Performance Management Solutions Center

Enterprise applications need speed, functionality and uptime to succeed. Unearth the latest and greatest in application performance management, SOA insights and keeping customers happy with great services. Visit the solutions center today for all you need to know for continued success.

Service Assurance Solutions Center

Assuring the services your customers and employees need are available when they need them is a critical and difficult task. The Service Assurance Solutions Center is your singular location for all the information you need to transform your business into a more efficient and reliable money making machine. Find resources for IT management and infrastructure professionals. Visit today!

IT Automation Solutions Center

Do you need to do more with existing resources, respond to business requirements faster than before, standardize the automation processes, reduce errors in increasingly complex data center environments, control costs or ensure application and service availability? Check out these great resources for IT pros. Visit the IT Automation Solutions Center today!

Mainframe 2.0 Solutions Centers

This isn’t your mother’s mainframe. Discover how CA is changing the way mainframe management is done with advanced tools and techniques. Visit the Mainframe 2.0 solutions center today!

Tech Specialist Profile Series

Welcome to the Tech Specialist Profile Series where you'll find in-depth resources and perspectives on virtualization, a strategic solution that can help you lower operating costs, simplify IT environments, and combat IT sprawl. Tune in to executive interviews and explore whitepapers and case studies to help you avoid common pitfalls and build strategies for using less hardware, less power consumption and more. Check it out now!

Open Source Business Intelligence Briefing Center

Business intelligence and performance management become even more critical when economic pressures require tough decisions about where to cut costs or shift resources. Utilizing the Open-Source Eclipse Business Intelligence Reporting Tools (BIRT), Actuate enables you to take advantage of cutting-edge BI tools. This site is designed to help you address your organization's urgent information needs with open-source BI. Go now!

Email Downtime Risk Assessment

With effective email management services, you can reduce the risk of downtime and lower total cost of ownership. Take this opportunity to quickly assess your organization’s email environment and obtain an action plan to ensure high availability and disaster recover capability. Go now!

Software Security Assurance Briefing Center

Criminal hackers are no longer targeting networks or operating systems: they are now directly attacking applications. This means businesses need to be able to efficiently and cost-effectively find and fix the vulnerabilities in the software applications they build and buy. Learn about the latest best practices and technologies for creating and deploying secure applications. Visit today!

Cloud Optimized Services Briefing Center

Interested in simplifying and streamlining your datacenter? Today's cloud-optimized solutions enable businesses to respond quickly to change. These SaaS-enabled services reduce the risk of downtime, protect data, and virtually eliminate maintenance chores. Learn how a cloud-based IT model can aid key functions, from desktop and email management to online backup and software inventory. Visit now!

Transaction Performance Management Briefing Center

Companies wanting to maximize value from their IT investments are turning to Application Performance Management tools. Today's leading APM technologies track business transactions across the enterprise to identify bottlenecks before they affect service level agreements. Use this site to learn how managing transaction performance gives businesses a clearer view into their IT infrastructure, enabling them to deliver better service with less overhead.
Take a look today!

10 Steps For Stronger Application Performance

Unless business processes are seriously disrupted, IT generally just puts up with sluggish apps. So what if it takes a salesperson a few extra seconds to access an inventory database, right? Wrong. Subpar application performance has an impact—on employee productivity, perception of IT, and the expectations customers and partners have about your organization's overall ability to deliver. We can—and must—do better. Here's how...

State of Open Source Adoption

When selecting applications to meet growing business needs, enterprise IT organizations have more options than ever. But has the overabundance of commercial, open source, and hybrid software choices really made our lives easier, or just added more complexity to an already lengthy evaluation and buying process? Read the State of Open Source Adoption today!

State of Security: What Keeps Infosec Pros Up At Night?

This InformationWeek Analytics Report, offered compliments of Symantec, details how security managers can prioritize their defense efforts and plan for the coming year. Read it today!

A Unified Front: Exploring What Executives Really Think Of Security

This InformationWeek Analytics/Dark Reading Report details the landscape of where agreement exists, and where IT and executives continue to differ, on how to promote information security. Read it today!

SophosLabs Insights into Security

Stay up to date with the latest in security news, trends and analysis. Don’t be breached! Discover expert blogs, whitepapers and more! Visit today!

The Security Services Tech Center

Dark Reading's Security Services Tech Center is dedicated to delivering the latest news, product information, analysis, and opinion on security services and outsourcing. Our goal: to help your organization make the right decisions about security services. Visit us today!

Next Era Business Intelligence Tech Center

Next-era business intelligence is about putting actionable insight in the hands of the many without the cost, complication and IT constraints that have long held BI back. The idea is to support better decision making at all levels of the organization, whether in the executive suite or among sales and service reps meeting directly with customers. Visit us today!

Network & Application Performance Briefing Center

To ensure the quality and consistency of application delivery that the business expects, you need to see and control how applications and networks are performing. Yet most IT organizations struggle to achieve the visibility they need to deliver applications quickly and securely across corporate networks, the Web and wireless connections. Learn how to gain the necessary network intelligence to enable a headquarters work experience anywhere.

The Scanner How To Center

Discover practical information about using scanners in your business and how to make them work for you. Get scanning cases studies, helpful instruction and best practices. Visit the Scanner How-To Center today!

Dynamic Business Process Management

Discover better business processes for better business outcomes. Get whitepapers, webcasts, best practices and information the 2009 IMPACT event – the world’s leading SOA conference. Visit today!

RiskTech – Smarter Risk Management for Financial Services

What kind of changes should companies address to improve their risk management practices? Get news and expert insight when you visit RiskTech.financetech.com.

Symantec State of the Data Center

What is the state of data center technology? What are the most successful companies doing with their data centers? What technologies are the investing in?
Find out when you read Symantec’s State of the Data Center research report, a $499 value. Yours free for a limited time!

Application Consolidation & Global Sourcing Briefing Center

How can you use visualization to minimize software development issues and bring a new product to market with greater speed and efficiency?

Discover the secrets to application consolidation and the solutions to other common software development issues. Visit the Application Consolidation & Global Sourcing Briefing Center today!

Leadership through E-Learning Briefing Center

What are the business benefits of e-learning in high-growth companies? Discover how companies are using e-learning to hone the skills of their IT managers and maintain consistent growth.
Visit the Leadership through E-Learning Briefing Center today!

Software as a Service Briefing Center

Thinking about or executing an SaaS implementation? Use the state of the art information available at the Software as a Service briefing center. Make sure your implementation is a success. Check it out today!

Optimized Cloud Computing Services

Interested in simplifying and streamlining your datacenter? Today's optimized cloud computing solutions enable businesses to respond quickly to change. These SaaS-enabled services reduce the risk of downtime, protect data, and virtually eliminate maintenance chores. Learn how a cloud-based IT model can aid key functions, from desktop and email management to online backup and software inventory.

Microsoft Platform Solutions Community

Visibility and transparency into Microsoft's enterprise solutions. Join the dialog today!

Surviving and Thriving in 2009

In an economic downturn, CIOs must find the right balance between cost cutting and transformational initiatives. Wipro's service suite, called Performance And Capital Efficiency (PACE), helps companies lower costs while improving service levels and operational efficiency. This site is designed to help you optimize business processes and applications, consolidate infrastructure and leverage emerging business models to meet today's challenges. Check it out now!

EcoTech - Unearth your Green Strategy

Discover money saving green strategies for your financial services firm. Learn how other companies are benefiting from breakthroughs in green technology. Go paperless. Master new markets. Stay on top of industry trends. Visit today!

Go Parallel: Translating Multicore Power into Application Perfromance

Discover the state of multi-core computing. Browse this site for for expert blogs and commentary on how the technology companies have adapted and will be adapting to to multicore technolgy. Vist and explore today!

bMighty.com - IT Power for Small and Mid-Size Business

A new website devoted to filling the information needs of IT professionals working in small to midsize businesses (SMBs). Coverage includes: wireless technologies, hardware and software, networking, emerging technologies, security, IT services, and e-business. Subscribe to our free newsletter to stay informed daily.

The Data Center of the Future

Get the latest news and information about data center virtualization, design, energy efficiency, switching, and more from our Data Center of the Future concierge site, brought to you by Cisco and TechWeb.

DB2 Magazine and DB2mag.com

DB2 Magazine is a solutions-oriented magazine that gives IT professionals the strategic and technical information they need to work successfully in the IBM Data Management environment. Each issue contains a variety of features on technical and business-level topics for the DB2 community, plus tips and techniques in columns on data mining, programming, system administration, content management, and more. DB2mag.com offers a complete archive of DB2 Magazine articles, plus Web-only features, a monthly email newsletter, and links to other DB2 resources.

Information Agenda

Meet business imperatives with trusted information. Visit this site to discover the information agenda approach, best practices, enabling technologies, blogs, whitepapers and more.

InformationWeek Reports

InformationWeek Reports is an easy-to-navigate resource center that helps you analyze and make purchase decisions for today's technology solutions. At this site, you have exclusive access to the original InformationWeek reports in an easy-to-read format. You'll get the latest information you need on infrastructure, security, wireless, storage & servers, messaging & collaboration, application & data integration, network & systems management, and IP communications.

As mobile devices become more prevalent and deeply ingrained in employees' work lives, the question of how to deploy, secure, and manage them has become an increasingly pressing problem for enterprise IT departments. Based on a survey of more than 300 IT managers, this report examines the needs and attitudes of enterprise IT departments around the procurement, deployment, securing, and provisioning of mobile devices. It provides insight into many of the questions facing IT managers today, as well as baselines for constructing a mobile device management strategy and choosing a solution.

Internet Evolution: News & Anaysis on the Future of the Internet

At Internet Evolution we believe that the next huge leap forward in the history of the Internet is happening now – and the goal of our site is to gauge its likely impact on every aspect of life as we know it. This site provides news, analysis, commentary, video, and reports on what we might expect from the Internet in years to come.

Telecommuting Briefing Center

Productivity and flexibility have been the traditional forces behind telecommuting — or teleworking, but rising gas prices and the worldwide financial crisis are making the practice not only more attractive but an employee requirement. Companies must embrace teleworking to maintain a competitive edge. Learn about the substantial costs savings and productivity benefits and ROI associated with implementing a secure remote access strategy.

Smart Enterprise Magazine

Smart Enterprise Magazine, the result of a unique alliance between CMP Technology and CA, is dedicated to helping CIOs and other business-technology executives become transformational figures in their organizations, thanks to the latest thought-leading reporting, insights and perspectives from IT industry experts.

Small Biz Resource: Tools, Tips, Dollars and Sense for Small Businesses

Small Biz Resource is an online community for people working in small businesses and "SoHo" small/home offices, providing useful how-to's, guides, tutorials, webcasts, advice and exclusive interviews on topics like IT, equipment purchases, marketing, finances, expansion, security and much more.

Smart Enterprise Exchange: Peer Strategies and Resources for IT Executives

Leveraging the expert perspective of Smart Enterprise Magazine, Smart Enterprise Exchange is a peer-to-peer membership program that operates at no charge to qualified senior IT executives. Smart Enterprise Exchange is focused on providing you with the highest quality resources along with select opportunities to connect with your peers. It is not a social network, where you are constantly asked to stay linked to people or sites of very little value, but a membership of equals who share your concerns, needs and business interests. Members are sent monthly emails, flagging the latest site postings and upcoming events. You’ll be able to visit the Web site or attend an event at your convenience, contribute content and ask for advice on specific challenges.

TechWeb Digital Library

The TechWeb Digital Library is one of the largest and most comprehensive multimedia resources targeting the business technology market. Here you will find thousands of white papers, case studies, webcasts, and research reports providing the in-depth market coverage you've come to expect from the TechWeb Network. Search by IT category, industry or keyword for immediate access to the information and perspective you need to deliver maximum value to your projects and to your customers.