IT Spending Research
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What’s a CIO to do About the Rise of Shadow IT
Sponsored by: Tier 3 and VMwareDo you know how much shadow IT exists within your company? Most IT leaders don't. But that doesn't mean you're powerless against it. View today's on-demand webcast to learn how rogue IT is impacting organizations, as well as how CIOs can control the risk it creates.
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Whitepaper: 7 Software Development Roadblocks Tormenting IT Leaders Today
Sponsored by: Blueprint Software Systems Inc.This white paper outlines seven key roadblocks that impede software development success, and offers strategies for IT leader to make project failures, missed deadlines, rework and overruns a thing of the past.
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Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit 2013
Sponsored by: GartnerThis brochure introduces the Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit 2013, an event for IT and business leaders. Inside, find details on this summit and learn how it can help you reduce IT costs amidst a changing business landscape.
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Transcript: The Changing Role of the CIO
Sponsored by: Hewlett-Packard CompanyThis presentation transcript addresses the key challenges new CIOs face, their priorities in the role, how they can balance legacy systems with the need to drive change, and more.
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How to Beat a Cloud Skeptic: Four Steps Towards Rationalizing the Great Cloud Debate
Sponsored by: Quest Software, now a part of DellBecause the cloud represents a wholesale shift in the way IT services are delivered, IT professionals looking to embrace the cloud will inevitably encounter skeptics who resist the move. This white paper details four key steps to dispel skeptics' fears so your organization can take advantage of the cloud's many benefits.
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Customer Case Study Super Group
Sponsored by: CherwellFrustrated with their current IT service desk, Super Group, a broad-based supply chain management business, was on the lookout for a system that provided ITIL out-of-the-box, could be adopted and modified to meet changing business needs, and was cost effective and efficient. Read this case study to find out where they turned.
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CIO Challenges: The Best Defense is a Good Offense
Sponsored by: ORACLE APACRead this white paper to learn how CIOs are building a foundation for a much more agile business that holds the potential for working in a more flexible way and enabling faster innovation by actively evaluating and experimenting with newer technologies.
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The Changing Role of the CIO
Sponsored by: Hewlett-Packard LimitedThis presentation transcript addresses the key challenges new CIOs face, their priorities in the role, how they can balance legacy systems with the need to drive change, and more.
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Dell/Intel Thought Leadership video: IT Reinvention and Cloud Computing
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc.Cloud computing provides companies with the means to tailor solutions to specific needs and deliver on-demand services for a more agile, flexible and scalable business. Discover how the growing needs of businesses are driving cloud adoption and the reinvention of IT in this webcast.
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Importance of Schedule and Cost Control
Sponsored by: Global KnowledgeCreating an accurate budget and schedule are essential for evaluating the progress and performance of your project. In this white paper, get tips for how you can develop and manage project baselines so that your projects are on time and within the budget.
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How to embed innovation in the corporate culture
Sponsored by: ComputerWeekly.comThis paper from Kurt Salmon identifies the common inhibitors to innovation and how to overcome them, and sets out some important principles that can help organizations establish innovation more firmly within their normal operations.
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CW+ XpertHR: Computer staff salary survey
Sponsored by: ComputerWeekly.comAlthough pay levels are unlikely ever again torise as fast as they did at the end of the 1990s when fears about the “millennium bug” stoked thefires of an already over-heated job market – or to fall as fast as they did when the bug failed to bite– employers are acutely aware of the need to keep a close eye on short- and long-term pay trends.
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CW+: Quocirca report: Effective public sector citizen communication
Sponsored by: ComputerWeekly.comThe UK public sector is in the midst of a period of transformation and improving citizen engagement will be key to the success of this change.
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Security on a Budget
Sponsored by: Global KnowledgeThis expert white paper establishes the ultimate IT security goal: the most reliable preventative and detective security system possible with the least amount of capital expenditure. From common sense solutions to revolutionary concepts, instructor James Michael Stewart challenges IT pros to explore his methods of saving money on company security.
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Presentation Transcript: College of Virtualization - Lessons in Implementing a Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery Plan
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc.This SearchDisasterRecovery.com presentation transcript will give you a crash course on how to implement a cost-efficient disaster recovery plan. You'll hear an overview of disaster recovery and recieve some general advice to get you started on the business and technology considerations that are going to be crucial to you.
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The Cloud: Benefits Beyond ROI
Sponsored by: NaviSite, Inc.This essential resource explores the benefits of cloud computing that extend beyond simple ROI calculations. Find out how your organization can leverage the soft benefits of the cloud to enhance overall productivity and accelerate time to market.
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6 Ways to Reduce IT Expenditures in the Next 3 Years
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®This paper considers six ways SMBs can trim IT costs: private clouds, storage virtualization, disaster recovery, business intelligence, backup and data protection, and Windows 7 migration via virtualization.
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Spirit Incentives
Sponsored by: SunGard Availability ServicesIn this case study, explore how Spirit Incentives chose a cloud service to help it meet evolving business needs. Discover how this move to the cloud was accomplished in 10 days and how it enabled the company to consolidate services, reduce costs and better utilize its staff and applications.
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Running IT as a Business: Seven Steps to Aligning IT with the Business
Sponsored by: SAS Institute Inc.This white paper outlines the 7 steps to aligning IT with the business. Find out what they are and how they can help your business provide customer-driven results.
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Expert Insight: Cloud Computing Defined
Sponsored by: HP & Intel®What is cloud computing? It depends on who you ask. In this e-guide from SearchCloudComputing.com, our experts lay out the various types of cloud models, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). They reveal how virtualization and cloud computing are linked, as well as how to best use these technologies in your infrastructure.
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How to Implement Change Management Processes and Ensure a Successful ITSM Project
Sponsored by: OnX Enterprise SolutionsAll IT organizations face the constant and sometimes contradictory struggle to improve both the efficiency and quality of the IT services they provide. In this e-guide from SearchDataCenter.com, our experts share 10 considerations to keep in mind when implementing change management processes.
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Opting Out of the Upgrade Arms Race
Sponsored by: StarThis paper examines the true cost of the upgrade cycle and evaluates the business case for in-house IT versus fully outsourced.
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What is IBM Service Management?
Sponsored by: IBMRead on for a breakdown of IBM Service Management’s components and learn what questions should be asked to determine if it may benefit your organization.
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Presentation Transcript: Utilize Desktop Virtualization to Migrate to Windows 7 in Time and Under Budget
Sponsored by: Quest Software, now a part of DellIn this presentation transcript desktop virtualization expert Patrick Rouse will detail how companies can dramatically reduce the time, cost and complexity of migrating to Windows 7 by leveraging core desktop virtualization features of Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7 and Quest vWorkspace.
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E-Guide: Special Report: 2010 Data Storage Spending Plans Among European IT Professionals
Sponsored by: EMC Backup and Recovery SolutionsIn an effort to gauge where storage professionals in Europe are planning to spend their budgets in the coming months, we recently conducted a Purchasing Intentions survey among our European readers, similar to the Purchasing Intentions survey conducted twice a year by Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com. Read on to learn more.
