As new challenges continue to arise related to mobile devices, legislative pressures, social media, and the continued degradation of core security, learn 5 key predictions for strategies and trends in IT and security operations in 2012. 

The Smartphone market is characterised by increasing competition on one hand and healthy growth prospects in the medium-term on the  other. Barriers to entry are high for most players, owing to the global nature of the  mobile industry and the consequent financial strength required to enter the market. 

In this Tech Talk, Ed Walsh, Virtual Iron's President and CEO speaks about the dramatic impact that server virtualization is having on network storage vendors and end-users. 

This report, the second in a series of studies looking at the impact emerging online applications have on B2B technology marketing, finds that blogs and Real Simple Syndication (RSS) are catching on more quickly than previously thought. 

This paper shows the industry-wide acceptance of SIP and the recent advances of the open source software projects related to Voice over IP (VoIP). Read why the author firmly believes that the VoIP open source is still in its infancy, but its acceptance and product maturity will grow rapidly over the next few years. 

SaaS start-ups and established vendors are rushing to keep pace with the demand for hosted applications that target the specific needs of industries, as well as the end-to-end application chain. In this e-guide, readers will learn some of the necessary details around SaaS-based enterprise resource planning (ERP). 

Because perceptions of converged infrastructure (CI) often vary in the IT industry, HP and Intel contracted Forrester Consulting to survey IT decision-makers internationally on benefits and barriers to implementation of CI. Learn the results of that survey in this white paper. 

Many enterprises looking to increase the flexibility, improve the scalability, enhance the availability and reduce the costs of data storage have turned to SANs. The Compellent SAN enables businesses to continuously integrate new disk drive, switch and network interface technologies without having to replace existing hardware or software. 

Independent software vendors (ISVs) that embed DataDirect drivers can leverage DataDirect’s expertise to improve data connectivity.  Using DataDirect helps them reduce cost and risk so they can focus on innovation and competitive advantage. 

This chapter discusses the process of evaluating and purchasing backup products. Also discussed are the issues to be aware of during this process, such as recovery deadlines, scalability, security, and more. 

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

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

If all storage array vendors buy disk drives from the same small set of disk manufacturers then why is there such a big reliability gap between storage vendors? This white paper seeks to gain insight into this question.