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IT Service Management Moves to the Cloud

As organizations become decreasingly skeptical about the cloud, they are increasingly willing to outsource ITSM to a SaaS provider. Doing so lowers costs, improves flexibility and easily accommodates ITIL framework principles.

Feb 5, 2013 9 mins

ITIL SaaS Technology Industry

How the Social Campus Enables Tomorrow’s Workers Today

Collaboration is the key to getting anything done. Social technologies are all about enabling that collaboration. Combine social with mobile and sprinkle in technologies like VPNs and SSO, and the idea of 'social' moves to a whole new level

Jan 30, 2013 7 mins

System Management Virtualization iPad

13 Healthcare IT Trends and Predictions for 2013

From meaningful use of EHR software to moving HIPAA to the new millennium to big data, it's going to be another busy year for healthcare information technology. Count on these 13 things happening in 2013.

Jan 23, 2013 9 mins

Data Breach HIPAA Regulation

EMC Offers Online File Sharing With On-Premise Storage Product

EMC is building on its acquisition of the Syncplicity file-sharing and collaboration service by combining it with its Isilon scale-out NAS to provide the enterprise what the storage giant claims provides the convenience of a cloud-based file-sharing

Jan 15, 2013 4 mins

Collaboration Software Compliance Small and Medium Business

Channel Partners Poised to Help Enterprises Build Software-Defined Networks

Enterprises replacing legacy network infrastructure are increasingly turning to software-defined networks, which can automate an entire network fabric. Having helped hosting companies and academic institutions, a variety of resellers, system integrat

Jan 15, 2013 9 mins

Enterprise Architecture System Management Technology Industry

Gartner Cloud Computing Magic Quadrant Pits AWS Against the World

Say what you will about Gartner Magic Quadrants, but there's little doubt that IT organizations use them to evaluate technology. The firm's last two analyses of the cloud service provider place Amazon Web Services head and shoulders about t

Jan 14, 2013 7 mins

System Management Virtualization Web Development

Forrester Outlines How IT Organizations Will Control the Cloud

Developers love the cloud because it makes their jobs easier. Rather than fight this trend, and risk obsolescence, Infrastructure and Operations should accept it. A recent Forrester Research report offers five hints for controlling the cloud without

Dec 13, 2012 7 mins

Developer Private Cloud System Management

How IT Departments Can Prepare for a Software License Audit

As revenue for new software licenses is down, software vendors are focusing more on licensing audits to recover some of that lost income. Here's a look at some of the steps a corporate IT organization can take before the auditors arrive to maint

Dec 7, 2012 6 mins

Compliance IT Governance IT Leadership

Employees Engage in Rogue Cloud Use Regardless of Security Policies

Studies show that employees are engaging in rogue use of the cloud, even when IT organizations say they have clear formal cloud policies and penalties for violation of the policies.

Nov 13, 2012 4 mins

Compliance Data and Information Security Regulation

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