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Intelligent Workload Management Briefing Center

As government IT managers build next-generation data centers around virtualization and cloud computing, they need tools to reinforce their forward-thinking strategy. Learn how the latest Linux and open source technology can enable government customers to control assets intelligently, while maintaining security and shaving costs. Visit today!

Efficient Enterprise Migration

Efficiency and effectiveness are key themes in enterprise IT departments today. That's why companies are seeking out computing infrastructures that provide users optimal services at lower costs. Find out how migrating to Windows Server® 2008 R2 with Hyper-V™ can lead to enhanced performance, scalability, virtualization support, reduced power consumption, easier management, tighter security, and loads of other benefits. Visit today!

Mobile Workforce Management in the Cloud

A mobile workforce brings productivity and continuity benefits, but can exact a price on efficient IT management, security, and regulatory compliance. An emerging mobile workforce management approach, delivered through cloud-based services, protects data assets wherever they reside, while simplifying the management of mobile and remote systems and keeping systems in compliance with relevant government and regulatory requirements. Visit today!

Future of End User Computing Briefing Center

Be more productive—at a lower cost—with End-User Computing solutions from Novell. Are your people working individually or collaboratively? Either way, Novell’s next-generation capabilities drive new levels of productivity. And we can help you provision, manage and secure the necessary devices and applications they use to get the job done. Visit today!

bMighty How-to Server Center

Discover useful small business server best practices and stay out in front when it comes to ensuring new efficiencies and productivity with server technology. Visits the how-to center today!

Government Data Center Cloud Computing Briefing Center

Government agencies are under intense pressure to reduce costs, improve services, and increase transparency. Innovative use of IT is a logical solution, but such agility has proved frustratingly elusive. Cisco has developed a strategy to improve data center operations and optimize infrastructure, enabling government agencies to leverage the benefits of cloud computing and employ technology to its greatest potential for public service. Check out the briefing center now.

Next Generation Data Center for Government and Education

Get the information you need to make an intelligent, business building decision about the next steps for your data center. Spend a couple of minutes with this engaging new tool. Check it out now.

Leadership Through e-Learning Briefing Center

It's never been more important to develop leadership skills in IT organizations and the business at large. Continuing to nurture technical and business talent at all levels of the organization delivers real pay-offs in everything from cost-savings to competitive advantage. Visit today!

Data Center Simplification Resource Center

Explore Data Center Simplification. Understand the challenges faced in today's data centers, and learn effective ways to simplify your data center and control costs while meeting the business needs. Go now!

The CIO Revolution: A New Manifesto

Newly liberated CIOs across the U.S. and around the world are igniting giant bonfires to torch their decades-old plaques proclaiming "The CFO Is My Customer" and have seized the offices of their CEOs, demanding to be able to spend more time with customers. Get the manifesto today!

Business Service Management Briefing Center

IT organizations committed to more closely managing and optimizing their technology resources now have better tools than ever, thanks to the growing discipline of business service management (BSM). HP's Business Service Management Briefing Center offers regularly updated news, technology briefings, and Webinars to show enterprises how to successfully adopt BSM and bring greater efficiencies to their IT and business operations. Check it out now!

Application Quality Briefing Center

Budget cuts, fewer resources, new technologies and processes - it's tempting today to look at testing quick fixes. Ultimately though, this could expose your business to more cost, time and risk. To avoid making these costly mistakes, HP - the industry leader in application testing - developed this collection of best practices and research on testing processes and tools to help you deliver the most value in today's difficult times. Enhance the quality of your applications. Visit today!

5 Steps to Data-Centric CyberSecurity

It’s becoming progressively more challenging to protect sensitive data and systems, and agencies that outsource major applications to the private sector are further abstracting system boundary and perimeter concepts. The answer is a shift in thinking away from yesterday’s security approaches and toward data-centric protection via technologies like encryption, data loss prevention and strong access controls. See for yourself. Read the analytics paper today!

Enterprise IT Communities

Join the community where IT professionals share ideas and expertise on topics that meet changing business needs. Start exploring one of five communities to access exclusive InformationWeek research, plus articles, white papers, videos, and the insight and expertise of other members. Join today!

Business Agility Realized

Need to capitalize on your changing business environment? Gather the information you need to improve business process management and discover new flexibilities and the value of optimized connectivity and integration. Visit the business agility resource center today.

Optimize Performance with Data Warehousing and BI

Optimizing performance is a business imperative in an uncertain economy. Business intelligence and data warehousing can help organizations fine-tune their sweet spots and create competitive advantage. Learn more about Oracle's business intelligence, enterprise performance management and data warehousing solutions.

Dr. Dobb's Microsoft Reference Center

Windows 7 and IIS instructional videos. Get hands on instructions from Microsoft insiders. Discover tips and tricks for the Windows 7 Scenic Ribbon, IIS Application Request Routing and much more. Visit the Microsoft on Doctor Dobbs Journal videos on demand today!

Mobile Linux Developer ZoneCenter

Download the Moblin Developer Tool Kit and Quick Start Guide free today! Visit the MoblinZone for free downloads, whitepapers and everything you need to know about developing with Moblin. Go now!

Enhancing Insurance and Banking Customer Satisfaction

Discover the information you need to make your banking or insurance customers happier – and more valuable. Grab premium whitepapers, calculate possible ROI, and stay informed with our industry leading blog. Visit the Insurance and Banking Customers Satisfaction Resource Center today!

Transaction Lifecycle Management Briefing Center

Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM) software solutions can deliver sustainable ROI through business transformation that's both effective and non-disruptive. SmartStream is the industry leader in TLM, offering solutions that can help organizations become more efficient, customer focused and compliant. Read more about SmartStream solutions here.

WiPro's Performance and Capital Efficiency (PACE) Solution

Executives! Drive transformation and change in IT and engineering groups while reducing costs and capital expense. Discover solutions for process optimization and product engineering. Visit today!

Virtualized IT Resource Center

Are you taking full advantage of the virtualization opportunity? Discover how to simplify application deployment, manage desktops more efficiently and maximize the value of server based computing. Visit the Virtualized IT Resource Center today!

How to Bridge the IT Alignment Gap

Learn the four keys for successfully integrating application and infrastructure organizations; the secrets to developing a long-term strategy for integrated decision making and solutions-based IT investments; how to create a business plan that targets strategies for lowering IT costs and improving SLAs; and how to avoid the biggest mistakes companies make when trying to align their IT departments. Read it all today!

InformationWeek Analytics: Government 2.0: Technology Leadership Redefined

Obama’s directive to his CTO: increase transparency, provide more opportunities for citizens to participate in government and encourage collaboration among agencies. How are CTO’s doing. Find out in our latest research. Free for a limited time!

The Government CIO 50

InformationWeek's first-ever analysis of top CIOs in federal, state, and local government, and how they’re embracing new expectations. Get it free for a limited time.

On Demand IT Governance

Discover a wealth of resources for perfecting IT governance. Check out these whitepapers, ebooks and interviews rife with information to help you eliminate IT complexity and deliver accountability and strategic alignment. Read some great content now!

Application Performance Management Solutions Center

If you can’t monitor the experience of your end users, how do you know they are satisfied? In today’s environment, it’s more important than ever for companies to protect web-generated revenues and to ensure that customers are well-serviced and satisfied with their online experience. Visit the APM Solutions Center today.

Security Management Solutions Center

Discover how to cost -effectively guard against internal and external threats, protect assets and ensure customer privacy and regulatory compliance. Start exploring today.

Mainframe 2.0 Solutions Center

Unearth how businesses can leverage the highly efficient mainframe platform to address current economic conditions maintain service quality despite the aging of the skilled mainframe workforce. Start digging today!.

IT Automation Solutions Center

Explore new concepts, strategies and management solutions for increasing IT staff productivity, raising service levels and reducing costs for routine operations and maintenance activities. Start exploring below.

Service Assurance Solutions Center

Get research and expert advice on managing the business services and applications that IT supports through real-time performance monitoring; automated event correlation and root cause analysis, integrated change and configuration management; and assisted remediation. Get going now!

Technology Information for Banks, Insurance Companies and Capital Markets Firms

Join this group for access to exclusive InformationWeek research on IT strategies for financial services companies, plus related news and opinion. Join today!

InformationWeek Analytics Research

Dramatically improve the value of your decisions with industry leading research from InformationWeek. Start improving today!

Technology Solutions for Federal, State and Local Government Agencies

Keep up with the latest news, opinion and research about IT strategies in federal, state and local government Join this group for access to exclusive Informationweek research on IT government strategies, plus related news and opinion. Join today!

Configuration Audit

Unmanaged change potentially opens the door to outages, security hacks, compliance breaches and long and costly audit processes, but change done right opens the door to business acceleration. Upgrade technology without sacrificing performance during times of change. Visit the Configuration Audit briefing center.

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!

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!

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!

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!

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.
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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!

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.

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!

Microsoft Platform Solutions Community

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

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.

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.