This videocast covers the practical considerations of encryption, including where to implement it and how to use it, and its role in organizational security and compliance goals. 

Small and midsize companies with strapped IT budgets and limited IT resources do not have to be limited to inflexible, inefficient IT infrastructures that offer unreliable IT services. Instead, smaller companies can empower their IT environments through virtualization, optimizing assets and realizing new opportunities for efficiency. 

Imanami's GroupID revolutionizes how IT manages groups. Your company's distribution and security groups will never again be out of date. Membership will always be accurate and outdated groups will be removed from Active Directory. Automatically. 

This paper is divided into two sections. The first half of the paper describes the business challenges of three JBoss Enterprise Middleware customers and how they gained business benefit from the use of JBoss Enterprise products and services. The second half of the paper provides insight into the JBoss Enterprise SOA platform. 

In November 2008, Sterling Commerce commissioned Forrester Consulting to investigate the value of a comprehensive integration solution (CIS) that encompasses the bulk of the enterprise’s integration needs. Forrester also conducted an online survey of key IT roles in selected geographical locations. This paper discusses the results of these studies. 

Data growth is the only absolute constant in IT and, arguably, is the inevitable cause of most operating problems. We must begin to look outside of the data center—to the business processes and applications driving much of the data growth that will be impacting our spending over the coming months and years. 

Why do most organizations continuously fail in utilizing knowledge? In this podcast, learn from case studies that illustrate how you can optimize the value of knowledge in your organization through improving e-discovery and data retention practices and eliminating wasteful and under-utilized tools. 

To curb server proliferation and rising electrical costs, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center moved its virtualization infrastructure to the Windows Server 2008 operating system with Hyper-V technology, using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to manage its server landscape. 

Demand for new and upgraded data centers will continue to grow, despite the economic downturn. Careful planning can help IT and finance managers get the most from data center investments and build a flexible foundation for enterprise growth. 

The Dell Latitude XT2 is a business-grade convertible notebook, offering multi-touch finger and digitized pen controls. Read this full NotebookReview.com review for a features and performance analysis of the Dell Latitude XT2. 

IT service management has matured from managing trouble tickets to provide valuable insights across all functions of a business. What is its appeal to the CIO? 

With the DXi6500, IT departments improve backup and restore performance, enhance overall reliability, improve backup in virtual environments, provide improved DR, reduce management overhead, and lower costs. 

In Windows Server 2008 R2, the improvements to failover clusters are aimed at simplifying failover clusters, making them more secure, and enhancing their stability. Cluster setup and management are easier. Security and networking in failover clusters have been improved, as has the way a failover cluster communicates with storage.