Until now, custom enterprise applications have been accessible only to large, financially strong enterprises. Small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) and organizations have had to settle for packaged software, which, though affordable, requires the business or organization to adapt to the software, rather than vice versa. All attempts to accelerate enterprise application delivery, including middleware, frameworks, enterprise mashups, and composite applications, have fallen…

DR (disaster recovery) planning itself is the biggest challenge. Deciding where to fail over, how fast systems must be brought online to avoid business impact and what infrastructure will be bought/leased/borrowed to provide the DR platform is a large-scale project that will require the assistance of multiple persons and departments.

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The amount of electronic data flowing through organizations is growing at an incredible rate. Much of this information is collected and stored. According to a whitepaper published by Osterman Research, 75 percent of the information end users need to do their jobs is stored in email. The consequences of this are numerous...

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Checklist Gives Hospital CIOs, Data Center Managers a Benchmark for Comparing Remote Data Center Management Tools

IT pros managing hospital data centers with massive mixed network environments, long lists of remote access protocols and applications, multiple user interfaces, and what often feels like way too many tools are increasingly searching for remote access management solutions that are both efficient and secure to use as well as cost effective to…

In order to ensure business continuity and the ability to recover operations in a disaster, it is critical to have two copies of your company’s data located a good distance apart. Getting the data to the recovery site can be a challenge, however...

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As more and more private clouds are deployed, organizations will face the requirement to implement chargeback or at least show back. Key to implementing chargeback is...

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Just as organizations faced regulatory and legal pressures to archive and discover emails over the last decade, they now face those same pressures to preserve their social media communications. Most, however, are not doing so. As a result...

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