The Open Group IT Specialist Certification Program (the Program) is designed to validate the existence of those qualities and skills in a professional that enable the effective development, implementation, and operation of IT solutions. 

This 12-page Buyer’s Guide to Security aims to help CIOs and senior IT professionals decide when to rely on what is provided by infrastructure suppliers and when to turn to IT specialists. 

This has been a landmark year for Oracle, the technology company headed by the charismatic and staggeringly wealthy Larry Ellison. Ellison, who is 65, has been chief executive officer since he founded Oracle in June 1977. He was listed the sixth richest person in the world in 2010. 

This white paper introduces a new type of virtual solution designed specifically to improve maintenance, management and mobility in today's virtual infrastructures. By minimizing latency across long distances, this technology allows for the quick and efficient delivery of data and applications from one server to another - all with minimal downtime. 

In this white paper, Philip Howard reviews the current market for data integration platforms, paying particular attention to open source offerings from Talend. 

In spirit, both traditional and agile project delivery embody similar principles and practices that aim to deliver measurable results 

Deduplication has been one of the hottest technologies in the storage industry for almost three years and has grown into a mainstream technology from the large enterprise down to the small business and remote office. Read this white paper to learn the important questions for SMB managers to ask. 

This white paper discusses important questions for IT managers to ask as they consider deploying deduplication in a midrange data center. 

The term “managed hosting” describes the provision of a ready to use IT stack including hardware and infrastructure software for thedeployment of applications. 

Dell has a full line of the latest sever and storage hardware and software to enable you to consolidate and virtualize your environment, control your costs, and satisfy all of your IT needs. To learn more about the newest line of single- and dual-socket servers and storage in the Dell lineup, please read on. 

Join moderator Gary Beach, publisher of CIO Magazine, and Michael Corcoran, Information Builders CCO, for an informative panel discussion on operational business intelligence (BI) and the keys to a successful deployment. They'll speak with technology experts from Pershing LLC and Holland America Lines about their BI projects. 

Small and medium size businesses often thrive by being high-value specialists. The dilemma is how to stay specialized in a particular niche yet grow aggressively. In this white paper, learn about multiplication as a growth strategy. Discover the risks and effective methods of mitigating them to ensure a successful implementation.