Smaller Business UC Hurdles: User Adoption, Policies
4/2/2008
To get maximum value from unified communications, smaller businesses must find ways of integrating UC into existing business processes to spur employee usage, but they can't risk overlooking the need for shrewd security and access policies.

IT Survival Guide
10/1/2007
The basics on how to get through your next technology project. Come up to speed quickly on network access control, open source, virtualization, VoIP, and more.

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Hunting the Elusive CIO Dashboard
3/3/2008
CIOs want a clear view of disparate IT data, and vendors are starting to offer the tools they need to get there. Here's what IT must do to be ready.

Application Performance Management: The Final Word
2/18/2008
We spent months in our Real World Labs putting nine APM suites to the test. These products represent the full spectrum for data collection, reporting, correlation and integration. Some required agents, while a few did their jobs without placing clients on endpoints. Five made our Shortlist. This special InformationWeek report gathers our Rolling Review Kickoff, all nine full reviews, and our Wrapup in one document. It's the only place to find our Analyst Assessment scorecard.

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How To Get To A Better Data Warehouse
3/10/2008
Are you frustrated by the inefficiency, rigidity, and latency of a first-generation, hub-and-spoke-architecture data warehouse? Here's a six-step guide to evolving to a streamlined, robust Kimball Dimensional Bus Architecture that will reduce time to reporting, lower data latency, and deliver more detailed, analytically useful information.

Intelligence on the Go: Mobile Delivery of BI
5/19/2008
Many BI vendors now offer modules that let you deliver just about any report to smartphones, but as a major retailer, a health care provider, and a major government agency have discovered, practical, tactical wins are the key to mobile success.

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XAM Standard Plans For The Future Of Storage
8/11/2008
Standard accommodates variety of media, helping enterprises manage long-term retention.

Amazon S3 Crash Raises Doubts Among Cloud Customers
7/28/2008
The company's Simple Storage Service suffered a similar outage lasting about two hours in February, an incident that at the time led many to question its dependability.

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Is Software as a Service Ready To Kill Microsoft Office?
12/4/2007
Is now the right time for small and midsize companies to adopt SaaS replacements for Microsoft Office and workplace collaboration tools? BMighty.com looks at how encouragement from Google, Adobe, Zoho, and even Microsoft, some companies are saying "Yes" to cheap -- or even free -- online, on-demand alternatives. Also five things you didn't know about SaaS.

SaaS Could Gum Up Open Source's Code-Sharing Model
5/26/2008
Advocates are concerned SaaS providers will transform but not contribute their innovations back to the community.

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Next In Line
8/18/2008
Internal candidates are insular and inexperienced, external ones are overburdened with expectations and don't know the ropes. What's the best way to replace a CIO? Two words: Think ahead.

How CIOs Are Dealing With A Tough Economy
7/28/2008
Plan A: no new hires, hold off on infrastructure upgrades; Plan B: an IT inventory to target discretionary projects.

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At National, IT Is The Business In More Ways Than One
9/15/2008
SOA and collaboration efforts put electronics giant at the top of the InformationWeek 500.

Power To The People
9/8/2008
Employees want their apps on their terms, on any hardware. And they want them now. Here are the technologies that will let IT deliver.

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A Tipping Point For The Trusted Platform Module?
06/30/2008 - 07/07/2008
To achieve widespread adoption, TPM must overcome challenges to encryption key management.

Tech Road Map: EKMI
06/30/2008 - 07/07/2008
Oasis' open Enterprise Key Management Infrastructure initiative promises less-complex encryption. But will vendors get on board?

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Buh-Bye Groupware: The Rise of Lightweight Collaboration Tools
4/30/2008
A number of new collaboration tools -- both standalone and delivered on-demand, with many based on Web 2.0 technologies -- enable smaller businesses to collaborate and share information and files in real time, without the typical, related costs or IT management overhead. Learn how companies are putting them to work.

Web 3.0: What's Next After What's Next
2/19/2008
Even as small and midsize companies struggle with Web 2.0, it's time to look ahead at the even newer opportunities and challenges posed by Web 3.0 and the next generation of Web tools and techniques. In this three-part series, we look at where the Web was and where it is now.

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Rolling Review Wrap-Up: Patch Management
6/23/2008
We spent six months putting five patch management systems to the test. See which one is best for your environment.

Face Down The Log Monster
6/2/2008
As the compliance beast seems to grow before your eyes, managing logs is even more important-if no less complex. But technology is not the only answer to easing this burden. You also must seek legal advice and sharpen your business strategies. PLUS: We review four top log management systems!

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3Com's RFI Focuses On Stackable Switches
7/28/2008
Company's architecture offers flexibility, forgoes chassis entirely.

HP ProCurve Powers A Unified Switching Architecture
7/21/2008
Solid solution taps ProCurve switches and management software, hitting all requirements in our RFI.

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2008 NAC Survey: Adoption Slows, Battle For Framework Dominance Still Joined
7/14/2008
InformationWeek Analytics surveyed nearly 500 business technology pros about their use of network access control. Here's a summary.

NAC Plus Smart Switches Equals Better Control
06/30/2008 - 07/07/2008
New capabilities make the technology better than ever for access control and compliance reporting.

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Virtualization Thrives In Smaller Companies
12/11/2007
Virtual servers save real money on hardware and time on maintenance for stressed IT departments at small and midsize businesses. Bmighty.com also provides five rules for going virtual.

Analytics Summary: VMware Security
06/30/2008 - 07/07/2008
As IT groups spawn new virtual machines at a breakneck pace, security is too often an afterthought. Can VMware's dominance of the enterprise server virtualization market buy us some breathing room?

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Intelligence on the Go: Mobile Delivery of BI
5/19/2008
Many BI vendors now offer modules that let you deliver just about any report to smartphones, but as a major retailer, a health care provider, and a major government agency have discovered, practical, tactical wins are the key to mobile success.

Code Of The Road
8/8/2008
Web 2.0 technologies, including Google Gears, are making it easier than ever to mobilize your business applications. We take a look at what's available and how businesses are using these technologies to keep their people moving.

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The Virtually Survivable Business
9/8/2008
If you have server virtualization in place, you have a powerful disaster-recovery tool at your fingertips.

Self-Healing Storage Systems Boost RAID Capabilities
08/04/2008
No-maintenance RAID arrays are more efficient and offer higher performance.

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Startups In The Cloud
9/22/2008
Young companies are quickly establishing themselves as software and service providers in the cloud. Here are 20 you should know.

10 Ideas To Power Up Your Green IT Agenda
9/22/2008
As IT teams scramble to figure out a green strategy, here are some ideas to fuel the brainstorming

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Guilty Until Proven Innocent
9/22/2008
Positive security could be the way of the future--or an unmanageable nightmare

One Web, One Web ID
9/1/2008
Users want a single Web ID, but businesses are hesitant. So far, OpenID is closest to making this happen, and it's a long way from widespread use.

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