Cloud computing offers a way to control runaway capital investment, technology turnover and expertise retention issues by offering ways IT itself can be outsourced as a service. Yet it also poses new risks. This Enterprise Management Associates report explores five questions about cloud computing primarily as an externally provided offering. 

Use SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys to categorize text responses whether you conduct surveys to support business, education, or government decisions, or for your academic research. No matter your field, you now have a way to combine your qualitative and quantitative analyses using a single advanced but easy-to-use desktop software program. 

Moderated by Mark Lowenstein, Managing Director of the Mobile Ecosystem, the leading consulting and advisory firm focused on next generation mobile communications products and services, this podcast features the top ten questions asked by service providers when considering an open source BSS solution. 

With ITIL becoming more prevalent in the midmarket, important questions have arisen. What kind of training is necessary to implement ITIL? How does a midmarket company go about instituting such a framework? What is the return on investment? Find the answers to these questions and more in this guide. 

This paper will answer questions about what a Center of Excellence (CoE) is and how it could benefit your organization. It will provide answers to questions such as; where is the most effective starting point? and, how do you build your quality management processes, architecture, and governance policies to grow along with your organization? 

In this e-book, experts share their advice on the things that can make or break a project. Readers will discover what the current market for managed hosting is like, what to include in an SLA, and the key considerations when selecting a hosted provider. 

Executives, managers, and business users need the ability to quickly discover, collect, analyze, and share relevant information and they need to be able to answer their own questions as they have them. Read this quick report to learn more about a solution that addresses just these needs. 

This whitepaper looks at the ecological impact of a business's entire IT infrastructure and provides the CIO with a holistic prospective to a business's carbon footprint. 

In the summer of 2008, Dell commissioned a study by Forrester Research to determine the current state of iSCSI adoption, the applications that it is commonly used for, drivers for adoption, experience of adoptors, and attitudes of those who have not yet adopted the protocol. Read the fascinating findings here. 

VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) acceleration has become increasingly important, because most desktop users work remotely from the data center and are likely to experience availability, security, and performance issues. 

Edwin Yuen, senior technical product manager for Integrated Virtualization in the Windows Enterprise Management division, answers questions about Microsoft Virtualization Solutions. 

This report presents a spreadsheet cost model to help you calculate your fully loaded on-premise email costs and compare it against cloud-based alternatives. Bottom line: Cloud-based email makes sense for companies or divisions as large as 15,000 users. 

David Strom addresses four different questions that IT managers have about understanding how bandwidth-consuming applications interact over their networks, and how individual applications can be controlled for particular use cases.