We know that the future of work will require significantly more collaboration, and it will be dramatically more distributed. This white paper explores how IT is at the forefront of making this future successful, overseeing the use of such technologies as smart phones, webcasting, screen sharing, and more. 

Watch this on-demand webcast to hear James Ware, executive producer of the Future of Work ? Unlimited, talk about the issues and challenges surrounding remote collaboration and offer guidelines for succeeding in a world characterized by mobility, dispersion, technology and relentless change. 

Theo Pozzy of Portland General Electric speaks about how his company is responding to government regulations and the importance of identity management. Using service management, Theo is able to satisfy increasing security regulations and stay compliant. 

The inaugural issue of BI Trends & Strategies offers sound advice to help you in ensuring your organization is on track to keep up with the rapidly changing landscape of BI and analytics. In this issue, readers will learn about a big data definition and the impact it will have on BI and data warehousing, agile development methodology and more. 

Protecting computer systems with Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) hardware is part of a total data center solution, but power management software is also necessary to prevent data corruption after extended power outages. 

The planning sequence described in this paper covers the design of the data center's physical infrastructure layer, whose job it is to house, power, cool, and protect the data center's computing and network functions. 

This white paper describes an improved method for measuring TCO for data center and network room physical infrastructure, and provides examples on how to relate these costs to the overall IT infrastructure and evaluate cost control strategies. 

Virtualization can have major consequences on the data center physical infrastructure (DCPI). Higher power densities can challenge the cooling capabilities of an existing system. Reduced energy consumption may actually worsen the data center's power usage effectiveness (PUE). Learn more about the particular effects of virtualization inside. 

Electricity usage costs have become an increasing fraction of the total cost of running a data centers. This paper explains how achieve electricity savings and provides examples of methods that can greatly reduce electrical power consumption. 

This interactive data center, brought to you by our editors, explores 5 aspects of data center efficiency and provides tips and best practices to help companies make effective investment and configuration decisions. 

Standardization and its close relative, modularity, create wide-ranging benefits in NCPI that streamline and simplify every process from initial planning to daily operation.