Computerworld Reports
Learn-Fast Guide: It's All About You
(Source: Computerworld) Is your career in sync with the current megatrends: business alignment, globalization, the consumerization of IT, web 2.0 and beyond? In this guide, you'll get advice about how to make yourself more valuable, how to make the global talent pool work for you and how to make sure you "get found" when you put yourself out there.
Computerworld Technology Briefing: Meetings @ the Speed of Business
(Source: Microsoft) For large organizations, Web conferencing gives a major boost to collaboration among far-flung offices. For smaller companies, experts say Web conferencing is no longer a luxury but a necessity for everything from webinars to customer presentations. But the real value lies in saving soft costs and in increases in productivity.
Learn-Fast Guide: Get Up to Speed on Green IT
(Source: Computerworld) Whether it's in the front office or the server room, green thinking can save energy, trees and money. From the Editorial Staff at Computerworld, here's the latest thinking on greening your operations.
Case Study: Trinity Health Care
(Source: Fujitsu) Learn how Trinity Health improved patient safety and care by deploying a mobile computing system that delivers access to clinical applications at the patient point-of-care.
Computerworld Technology Briefing: An open-source path to optimal virtualization
(Source: Novell/IBM/Intel) Looking for a virtualization strategy that offers both the flexibility and reliability to meet the demands of mixed-source environments? Look no further than the fast-emerging open virtualization approach backed by some of the biggest names in enterprise computing. Together they are pointing the way toward higher data center performance without higher costs.
The Untethered Worker
(Source: Computerworld) Today's roaming employees expect to be able to work in a conference room, airport, customer site or coffee shop. This report - covering wireless LANs, mobile applications and cellular networks - tells you how to get the job done, avoid chaos and maintain security!
Price for this Report: $195.00 |
Computerworld Executive Briefing: Automating Network Management
(Source: Computerworld) This briefing looks at the basics of network management, which tend to get lost in the dizzying array of products and processes. It also examines new tools that are on the way to help IT executives deal with management in the new era of automation.
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Sold on SOA
(Source: Computerworld) It's
the hot technology for most large companies, but business, technical and cultural issues must be addressed for a successful SOA implementation. Get the whole story, from the big picture to the how-to-do-it details, in this Executive Bulletin. Download this Executive Bulletin (a $49.95 value) for Free, compliments of Fujitsu.
The Greening of IT: Save Energy, Save Costs, and Save the Environment
(Source: Computerworld) Saving the environment may be politically correct, but saving money is always correct. Why not do both? From slush as a coolant and roof-top gardens to installing electric meters, different organizations have found different solutions to the energy crunch and the high cost of computing. This Executive Briefing,
created by the Editorial Staff at Computerworld, explains sustainable computing, the pros and cons of recycling programs, and the small steps toward energy savings that lead to big rewards.
Price for this Report: $195.00 |
SCSI Inflection Point: The New Era of Serial Attached SCSI
(Source: Seagate) This paper will help you better understand the significance of this inflection point, as well as the specific challenges presented by parallel SCSI and the corresponding advantages of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS).
Our Hottest Security Tips
(Source: Computerworld) Risk - it's everywhere. And no one knows that better than IT security professionals. Disgruntled employees, fired employees, clueless employees who succumb to social engineering, passwords left on Post-it notes, wide-open instant messaging and increasingly powerful hacker tools in the hands of teenagers. This bulletin will help you address those risks with sage advice for protecting corporate assets in a dangerous worlds.
Price for this Report: $49.95 |
WLAN Security Update
(Source: Computerworld) Whatever mobile technology you use, creating and enforcing a security policy is essential. Download this new Computerworld report to learn about the latest encryption and authentication technologies that will help to protect your organization.
Achieving World-class IT Management
(Source: Computerworld) IT managers have to stay on top of the latest and greatest management theory as well as the latest and greatest technology trends. This Executive Brief focuses on the tools needed to maintain and assess the business value of IT resources: managing a diverse work-force in a global environment, overseeing projects that are succeeding as well as those aren't, negotiating software deals, and much more.
Price for this Report: $195.00 |
Storage: Looking Forward
The storage manager's job has been turned upside-down by new technologies. Read this report to get up-to-date on what's happening in the storage market.
Price for this Report: $195.00 |
IT Management Survey: Security
Technologies may rise and fall, systems may be upgraded, and job responsibilities may expand, but there's one thing that remains the same: Dealing with security threats. The following report details the security challenges IT managers like you are facing, and what they are doing to protect their systems. Included in the survey are data on the use of classification schemes, encryption, device restrictions, third-party auditors, chief risk officers, budgets, and technologies used to boost enterprise security. It's based on a 2006
Computerworld survey of more than 500 IT professionals.
Price for this Report: $195.00 |
Software as a Service
The more heavily organizations rely on everyday applications, the less attention they want to pay to them. Rather than paying expensive support staffs to manage complex applications, many customers would just as soon pay an outside organization to buy the software, maintain it, upgrade it, debug it and make sure it's up and running whenever the organization needs it. This concept, once known as the application service provider (ASP) model, has returned and is now called "software as a service."
Price for this Report: $195.00 |
IT Management Best Practices: Changing Role of the CIO
This Computerworld Executive Briefing offers a look at the changing role of CIOs, especially as they look for new ways to align IT strategies with business goals and seek to educate corporate CXOs about how technology can improve a company's bottom line.
Price for this Report: $195.00 |
Spyware
This Computerworld survey of 577 IT managers finds widespread awareness of spyware, but responses on how to counter the threat were mixed.
Price for this Report: $195.00 |
Return of the ASPs
The second wave of application service providers is now breaking upon the enterpprise IT shore. Unlike the first wave of ASPs in the late 90s, the current crop of outsourced application service providers is more savvy about customer needs and business trends. This executive bulletin will describe some of the common issues that IT managers will encounter when planning outsourced technology projects, ranging from evaluating service providers to exiting a failed ASP relationship.
Price for this Report: $49.95 |
Middleware Goes Mainstream
After years of conflicting and often proprietary approaches, vendors have agreed on standards that deliver middleware's promise: An easier, less expensive, more flexible way to connect the "silos" of information created when different companies (or different departments in an organization) use different applications to store critical information.
Price for this Report: $195.00 |