This summary of findings from Forrester Research will help shed light on how to evaluate, select and work with technology consultants on IT consolidation projects in order to pick just the right consulting resource for your particular application and challenge. 

This report from Knowledge Peers and Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), reveals what leaders of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (SMBs) think of IT – its strategic value, its potential, and the changing way in which it is being used in their organisations. 

Somewhere between our in-depth consultants’ guides and our short AnalystNotes that discuss specific aspects of IT careers, there is a need for an up-to-dateoverview of IT career structures. This is it. 

In this expert briefing, veteran IT industry consultant Chris Evans drills into the specific challenges that storage managers face when implementing virtual desktop infrastructures, and provides practical tips to help guarantee a VDI project that meets expectations and delivers on its projected ROI. 

In this webcast, IT consultant Andrew Kutz discusses the elements of virtualization backup that are most frequently overlooked and how to automate the most common virtualization backup tasks. 

This edition of SharePoint Insider offers insight on how to keep workers across the world connected and tips on how to overcome the potential pitfalls of doing so. It also details how you can take collaboration to the next level by creating an extranet environment that extends SharePoint 2010's capabilities to customers and busines partners. 

This quarters figures compiled by jobadswatch.co.uk show that during the fourth quarter of 2010 the IT jobs market for permanent staff being recruited by software houses and consultancies is up by 8.1%. The growth in demand for IT staff in this sector shows 27.3% more vacancies being advertised than a year ago. 

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is a powerful inventory, assessment, and reporting tool that can securely inventory small or large IT environments without requiring the installation of any agent software. This paper explains how to utilize it to "map" your infrastructure for Windows 7 and Server 2008. 

This paper from the Open Group, documents an approach to enhance the TOGAF enterprise architecture methodology with the SABSA security architecture approach to create one holistic architecture methodology. 

This exclusive research reveals what IT professionals really think about technology, their employers, and their careers 

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. This podcast describes how marketers are leveraging a new methodology called Intelligent Content Strategy to attract more prospects that are looking for their solutions. 

Download the Open Group Service Integration Maturity Model (OSIMM).