In this exclusive podcast, listen as Steve Mallard, IT manager and computer IT master teacher at the Tennessee Technology Center, discusses IT consumerication and Mallard's advice on how to prepare students for careers in IT. 

This chapter discusses the process of evaluating and purchasing backup products. Also discussed are the issues to be aware of during this process, such as recovery deadlines, scalability, security, and more. 

The Internet enables prospects to search for you rather than the other way around. You must place expertly crafted content wherever prospects might be searching. Marketers are leveraging a new methodology called Intelligent Content Strategy to attract more prospects that are looking for their solutions. 

This guide from Sybase is full of examples of mCommerce at work. The benefits range from speeding up economies to life-changing improvements. For merchants, operators and banks, the new channel offers another way to grow business and revenues while meeting the financial needs of customers. 

Improving the overall quality of your company’s decision-making process results also improves the overall effectiveness of your business. This paper explains how reporting will help your organization make better decisions, and how on-demand reporting allows you to accomplish this task in a fast, cost-effective, and easy-to use manner. 

The benefits of solid-state storage are well known at this point: It’s fast, it’s cool and it barely uses any power. But are you getting the biggest bang for your buck? Explore the March 2012 issue of Storage Magazine to learn how this technology is changing data center storage and gain insights on other hot storage topics today. 

In this video demonstration, you'll learn how a BI solution, along with an enterprise manager, helps you ensure system availability, maximum security and the highest performance for your BI system. 

The CRM buying process can be reduced to a set of 10 steps that will help you pare down the field of potential solutions to a few vendors who are the best fit. This guide will allow you to move through 10 sets of steps. 

Midmarket organizations considering physical server upgrades must evaluate their environments, sift through offerings and integrate the servers with existing tools. This e-book will guide you through these complex efforts by covering three components: determining needs and requirements, understanding your options, and putting it all together. 

Improve performance, implement security procedures, and institute server redundancy that is invisible to the user by leveraging the strategic point of control that exists between the servers in the data center and the Internet. 

As budgets stay tight and finance professionals become more involved in technology buying decisions, be better prepared to defend your business case through the use of financial metrics and Return on Investment (ROI) calculators. 

Discover what IT can do to embrace consumerization - the latest IT trend. Learn how to get the best of both worlds: letting your employees pick their device of choice and the security your network needs.