WHITE PAPER - When an IT skill falls out of favor, it rarely ever comes back. Here's our list of 10 dying IT skills. If any of these skills are your main expertise, perhaps it's time to think about updating your skill set.
Posted: May 13, 2009 | Published: May 13, 2009


Topics:  COBOL | Code Management | IT Best Practices | IT Departments | IT Governance | IT Industry | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Managers | IT Service Management | IT Services | IT Systems | IT Workforce | Programming | Programming Languages

WHITE PAPER - This white paper contains advice on improving application performance. It also gives 10 tips for building and managing a performance center of excellence.
Posted: February 9, 2010 | Published: February 9, 2010


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Performance Management | Application Performance Management Software | Applications Management | Software | Software Best Practices | Software Quality Assurance

WHITE PAPER - This document lists ten common changes in enterprise environments, all of which can chip away at your security and compliance in ways that you might not realize. Some are obvious; some are subtle; all can have a negative impact.
Posted: August 2, 2010 | Published: August 2, 2010


Topics:  Compliance (Systems Operations) | Inventory Management | Mobile Device Management | Network Applications Software | Network Security | Patch Management | Risk Management | Security Hardware | Security Policies | Software

WHITE PAPER - This Hurwitz and Associates whitepaper shares the successes, challenges and future plans of three companies - Sogeti Group, Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), and Scotiabank.
Posted: September 11, 2009 | Published: September 11, 2009


Topics:  Business Development | Business Intelligence | Business Management | Software | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Infrastructure | Software Quality Assurance | Software Selection

WHITE PAPER - Read this paper to learn how the new IBM DB2 created global temporary tables feature helps improve performance and manageability.
Posted: September 1, 2010 | Published: September 1, 2010


Topics:  Application Infrastructure | Application Performance Management | Application Performance Management Software | Software | Software as a Service | Software Best Practices | Software Implementation | Software Infrastructure

WHITE PAPER - Proper software asset management (SAM) requires setting policies for corporate standards, software evaluation, purchasing, usage and compliance monitoring. This white paper explains how to do that.
Posted: October 7, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Inventory Management | IT Managers | IT Spending | Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance | Software | Software Asset Management

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes the methodology for analyzing the TCO for software solutions and concludes with an in-depth analysis of SCCM TCO for a variety of use cases.
Posted: August 31, 2010 | Published: August 31, 2010


Topics:  Configuration Management | Cost Benefit Analysis | Endpoint Security | Software | Software Configuration Management | Software Implementation | Software Maintenance | TCO

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes what you need to know in order to make an informed decision about IBM i high availability strategies so that your business requirements for Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) are not compromised.
Posted: August 13, 2010 | Published: August 13, 2010


Topics:  Hardware | High Availability | RPO | RTO | Server Virtualization | Software | System i

WHITE PAPER - The industry has preached the need for software security and secure coding for several years now. After all, if software is designed securely from the start, it means fewer problems down the road. Read this paper now to learn more.
Posted: July 21, 2010 | Published: July 21, 2010


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Data Security | Payment Card Industry | Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard | Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Compliance | SaaS business intelligence | SaaS ERP | Software | Vulnerability Assessments | Vulnerability Management

WHITE PAPER - Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series iSCSI SANs help to reduce the cost and complexity of IT Consolidation and uniquely integrate with VMware® Infrastructure to enable the fully virtualized IT environment.
Posted: May 14, 2009 | Published: May 14, 2009


Topics:  iSCSI SAN | Network Best Practices | SAN | Software | Software Development Life-Cycles | Storage Best Practices | Storage Consolidation | Storage Hardware | Storage Infrastructure

WHITE PAPER - Risk is a function of the likelihood that a potential vulnerability will be exploited, and the resulting impact of that exploitation. In IT systems, risk can be introduced from the internet, servers, networks, malicious insiders, and even lapses in physical security. This whitepaper provides IT risk management best practices.
Posted: June 7, 2010 | Published: June 7, 2010


Topics:  Application Security | Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) | Risk Assessment | Risk Management | Software | Software Best Practices | Software Testing | Vulnerability Management

WHITE PAPER - This white paper identifies the many challenges companies face when implementing International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in corporate reporting and explores tightly integrated solutions that together centrally manage data and metadata on a unified platform--the first step in implementing a complete performance management solution.
Posted: September 16, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business Management | Data Management | Financial Reporting | Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) | Oracle (Product) | Software

WHITE PAPER - Read this white paper for an examination of a new software development language and technology called SequenceL, as well as a description of how it works, why there is a need for it and how well it performs in parallel environments.
Posted: September 8, 2010 | Published: August 26, 2010


Topics:  Hardware | Hardware Management | Parallel Processing | Programming | Programming Languages | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Software Development Tools | Software Engineers

WHITE PAPER - Access valuable resources at each stage of the software lifecycle! Software Assurance offers a broad range of benefits in oneprogram, combining the latest Microsoft software with aroundthe-clock phone support, partner services, training and ITtools that can help your organization deploy, manage andmigrate Microsoft software.
Posted: June 30, 2010 | Published: June 30, 2010


Topics:  CIOs | Software | Software Asset Management | Software Best Practices | Software Licensing | Windows | Windows Server Software

WHITE PAPER - Technology barriers have prevented enterprises from adopting Java-based approaches for mission critical applications with extreme and predictable computing needs. However, recent advances throughout the entire Java stack have overcome these barriers to position Java to power the next generation of enterprise computing.
Posted: September 10, 2009 | Published: October 23, 2008


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Performance Management | Applications Management | Java | Java Applets | JavaScript | Kernels | Programming Languages