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- 11 Qualities of Successful IT Managers
- To succeed as an IT manager, and to advance your career into the executive sphere, you need some very specific traits--11 to be exact. From needs assessment to team building, read this TechRepublic guide for a description of the skills you need to be at the...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., IT Manager, Team Management, Professional Development, Games, Management, Career, Personal Technology
- White papers 2008-08-20
- Are IT managers buying into 'green'?
- At the Business Goes Green conference in San Jose, Calif., last week, Christopher Mines, senior vice president of Forrester Research, talked about the importance of changing the procurement process to be more eco-friendly. He told attendees that green practices will help refresh infrastructure IT and provide a longer life cycle...
- Tags: IT Manager, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, Green, Forrester Research
- Videos 2008-06-27
- IT Hiring Kit: IT Manager
- All new version! The IT Hiring Kit for IT Managers has been updated with new questions, answers, and a revised candidate assessment spreadsheet! The IT Hiring Kit for IT Managers will help you interview, evaluate, and select suitable candidates for a new IT Manager...
- Tags: Information Technology, IT Manager, Strategy, Management
- Download resources 2008-04-11
- Those scoundrels, Part 2. Brit IT managers aren't feeling the heat when it comes to reducing power consumption
- Those bloody good fellows at 1E, which sells a power management utility for Windows called NightWatchman, revealed some data this week that suggests a troubling number of IT managers in its native country aren't yet tuned into the virtues of curtailing the electricity usage of the computer fleets under their...
- Tags: Green Technology, 1E Ltd., Power Consumption, IT Manager, Survey, Marketing Research, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
- Selecting strategic technologies in 2008
- Analyst Gartner suggests that a strategic technology has the potential to significantly impact the business during the next three years - something that is likely to be particularly pertinent in 2008, as IT managers aim to implement crucial technologies under restrictive economic conditions.Read this white paper to see which strategic...
- Tags: IT Manager, Technology, Benefits, Human Resources
- White papers 2008-03-03
- To form an us
- As regular readers know one of the big problems I see IT management facing every single day is the inability to identify and correct the misinformation senior executives pick up from the media and then unconsciously rely on to override our carefully researched and thought through recommendations. ...
- Tags: Paul Murphy, Data, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, Forbes, Notebooks, Analyst, IT manager, Desktops, PC, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- 10+ tips for new IT managers
- Moving from a purely technical net admin role to a managerial position can be a long and winding road full of pitfalls. IT pro Steven Crane has become quite familiar with that road during his many years in the industry. He offers these tips to help newly appointed IT managers...
- Tags: IT manager, Road, TechRepublic Inc., Blogging, Strategy, Internet, Management
- Download resources 2008-01-14
- NetBackup Desktop Laptop Option: Technical Product Overview
- All organizations have critical data on desktops and laptops that should be protected and many IT managers will acknowledge that this data is not adequately protected today. The NetBackup Desktop Laptop Option can address this gap in an efficient and reliable manner. In addition to providing continuous data protection and...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Data Recovery, Data Protection, IT Manager, Laptop Computer, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Notebooks, Storage Management, Data Management, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Storage
- White papers 2007-12-01
- SmartWrite - Accelerating SAN-Over-WAN Performance
- At the core of providing data services is the ability to copy, move, and replicate data locally and over long distances. However, SANs have limited distance capabilities (~10 km) and IT managers need to share, protect, and move data over distances greater than that. Routers and switches that link SANs...
- Tags: SAN, QLogic Corp., IT Manager, SmartWrite, Storage Area Networks (SAN), WANs, Storage Management, Storage, Networking, Hardware
- White papers 2007-10-18
- Like to fail? Write custom code.
- Alan Zeichick's blog describes a Managed Objects survey claiming that IT managers are more likely to blame software for IT downtime "if their organization relies heavily on home-grown applications," as opposed to off-the-shelf software.From the survey:Within organizations relying on more home-grown applications than off-the-shelf offerings, more than 80 percent of...
- Tags: Michael Krigsman, home-grown application, Application, IT manager, SAP AG, software, Alan Zeichick
- Blog posts 2007-08-10
- IT Manager's Tool Kit, Third Edition
- Make better use of your time. Leverage the grassroots advice and proven time-saving tools collected in TechRepublic's IT Manager's Tool Kit, Third Edition. Proven peer-authored advice and over 30 templates cover a variety of management topics to help you overcome staffing, financial, disaster planning, and other technology challenges. ...
- Tags: IT Manager, Tool, Productivity, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
- Download resources 2007-08-03
- The 10 most dangerous species of IT manager
- From the wilds of the IT jungles, TechRepublic columnist Jeff Dray takes an offbeat look at the 10 most dangerous species of IT manager. Find out if your manager or you fit into the species he describes.This download is also available as an article.
- Tags: Species, IT manager, Strategy, Management
- Download resources 2007-08-02
- Enterprise Mobile Device Platforms
- IT managers are increasingly being asked to provide mobile access to corporate email, business applications and other critical network resources. The cost of providing and supporting access to these resources is significant and IT managers should give careful consideration to the associated costs and capabilities before deploying an enterprise mobile...
- Tags: Mobile, IT Manager, Mobile Device, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Linux Sockets Acceleration: Maximizing Efficiency and Performance in the Data Center
- The datacenter is undergoing a major paradigm shift driven by a need to scale up performance efficiently. Raw scale-out architectures are giving way to new scale-up architectures driven by blade servers, and multi-core host processors. Virtualization is driving server consolidation on these new platforms. In this paper, efficient networking for...
- Tags: Data Centers, Data Center, Efficiency, Linux, IT manager, Performance, Storage, Server Consolidation, UNIX, Operating Systems, Virtualization, Open Source, Data Management, Hardware, Linux Sockets Acceleration, Servers, Software
- White papers 2007-03-01
- 9 things IT managers should think about in 2007
- The new year represents an opportunity for IT managers to evaluate their accomplishments and sift through their less successful projects and relationships in an effort to get things moving in the right direction. IT consultant Shannon Kalvar offers some advice that will help you keep things on track in...
- Tags: IT manager, Strategy, Management
- Download resources 2006-12-20
- 10 IT manager resolutions for 2006: A look back
- Last December, IT consultant Shannon Kalvar prepared to kick off the new year with a list of ambitious improvement goals and best practices for becoming a more effective IT manager. Now, as the year winds down, he revisits his resolutions and assesses how well he and his peers were...
- Tags: IT manager, Resolution, Strategy, Management
- Download resources 2006-12-14
- Emerging Security Threats Demand Comprehensive Infrastructure Monitoring
- Leading IT operations must demonstrate their impact to the company's bottom line. While protecting intellectual property and customer confidence is paramount in terms of dollars and future growth, new threats to corporate data appear every day, adapting quickly as profit drives ingenuity. To stay ahead of the rise in targeted...
- Tags: Monitoring, Threat, IT manager, Security, Productivity, FireScope
- White papers 2006-11-06
- Top 10 ways IT managers can support knowledge transfer
- Effective knowledge transfer requires the guidance of IT managers who understand how to build and support peer mentor relationships. By identifying the best mentors, clarifying roles and expectations, and providing tools and communication strategies, managers can facilitate learning and information sharing on their teams. Steve Trautman, author of Teach...
- Tags: IT manager, Knowledge, Mentor, Strategy, Management
- Download resources 2006-10-17
- 3Com Solutions: Prescription for a Vital Network Health Check
- IT managers build, maintain, and in many cases stake their reputations on the networks they support. No one knows their network better than they do, or has a bigger stake in the network's performance. However, a network health check, performed by a third party with specialized equipment, can augment the...
- Tags: Network, 3Com Corp., Health Care, IT Manager, Networking, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-03-01
- TechRepublic Pro's Business Case Template: New IT Manager
- IT managers are a critical part of the IT team and the organization. Oftentimes, the top IT manager is a member of the executive staff. In that role, the IT manager must be able to communicate effectively with other executives to affect budgets, staffing levels, and service level agreements for...
- Tags: IT manager, Business Case
- Download resources 2006-02-24
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