Mobile communication technologies are evolving quickly and new customer demands arise almost every day. At the same time, the economic downturn has impacted budgets, so that cost efficiency now tops the corporate agenda. Service providers must now must not only test and develop new services to meet customer demand, but do it within tight budgets. 

The USDA Rural Utilities Service and NTIA jointly announced the availability of funding and application requirements for the broadband initiatives contained in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. Read on to learn about the RUS grant program, its requirements, and how Motorola can work with you toward an RUS approved grant. 

View this webcast to gain insight into how upgrading your aging infrastructure can grow your bottom line. 

This paper argues that while the current economic climate might suggest delaying data center upgrades, the opposite will save you money. Learn how upgrading to Sun Fire servers can put more on your bottom line. 

F5 Data Manager helps you understand your file storage environment. This trial version will perform an inventory of your environment and enable you to run detailed reports that analyze which file types are being created, who is creating them, how quickly they age, and which resources they consume. 

The range and complexity of government information technology (IT) investments makes assessing their returns a daunting prospect. This white paper presents a public ROI assessment framework that addresses the shortcomings in the available methods and models for assessing public returns. 

In this series, Craig Mathias explores the various ways mobility solutions can be used successfully and cost-effectively in your enterprise. 

Many IT professionals are looking to IT Service Management (ITSM) to deliver quality IT services that meet the needs of the business under these tough conditions. Regardless of the size of your business, you can deliver superior service quality to your business with the HP approach to ITSM and the HP software and services that support it. 

This Forrester Research paper will show you how analyzing your options for upgrading to Windows 7 can save you down the road. One of the first steps IT managers should take is to determine their firm's Windows 7 licensing strategy and how it fits into their broader Microsoft relationship. 

The objective of this paper is to present the buyside with a framework in which to understand the changes in the U.S. trading market, to offer a vision for the trading platforms that will support this new world and to explain why the future belongs to independent broker-neutral systems supplied by software firms rather than sellside brokers. 

In this month's issue, find out which aspects of licensing need special attention in the virtual world. Also in this issue, make maintenance easier with a little bit of planning, and learn what to do when virtualization fails. 

In this transcript, senior enterprise IT architect Nelson Ruest breaks down some of these scenarios, with details on how Hyper-V can provide benefits in test and development situations and business continuity. 

In this videocast, senior enterprise IT architect Nelson Ruest breaks down some of these scenarios, with details on how Hyper-V can provide benefits in test and development situations and business continuity.