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Best Practices for Software Selection

Selecting an enterprise software solution requires a significant investment of an organization's time, energy, and resources. Due diligence during the selection process requires time and resources that must be subtracted from core operations. As a result, the cost of an enterprise system begins before a software package is even selected...

Tags: Selection, Best Practice, Technology Evaluation Centers, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Management, Software

White papers 2008-09-15

RFP Letters Toolkit 2009 (Windows)

Tips, templates, and samples provided in your free RFP Letters Toolkit, 2009 Edition help you write professional letters you can use in order to disqualify, decline, reject, or accept proposals in response to a Request for Proposal RFP, as well as to protest against unfair, biased contract award. Whether you...

Tags: RFP, Microsoft Windows, Technology Evaluation Centers

Software downloads 2008-02-20

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Pliant talks up lower energy consumption, cost savings of its new enterprise flash technology

Start-up storage vendor Pliant Technology has begun shipping a new class of enterprise flash drives to OEMs for evaluation and qualification that should become available in commercial format by the end of September 2009. The technology, called Lightning, is a cache-less enterprise flash format that is designed...

Tags: High-performance Computing, Cost Savings, Watt, Cloud Computing, Storage, Leadership, Hardware, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-15

News to know: Salesforce.com; Office; SOA; Facebook

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Salesforce announces Twitter app; further validates power of cloud Ed Bott: Next Office version to ship in 32-bit and 64-bit versions ...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Apple iPhone, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Information Technology, Microsoft Office, Apple Inc., SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Browsers, Digital Music, Strategy, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Personal Technology, Management

Blog posts 2009-03-23

Data breach costs, customer churn up a bit; Repeat offenders abound

Data breach costs, customer churn up a bit; Repeat offenders aboundPrevent most net breaches!!!Our system prevents a majority of Network Breaches while keeping the Networks "UP," Provides a Real Time Global Administrator that sits transparently over other OEM's Network Management systems (i.e., IBM Websphere, HP OPenview, SCADA, etc), the system...

Tags: NETWORKING, Enterprise software, network, SCADA

Discussion threads 2009-02-02

Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC) - "Seeing the Big Picture: A Corporate Guide to Better Decisions through IT"

Executives simply do not have the relevant information required to make the best decisions in a timely manner. They must thus find a way to create an accurate, actionable 360-degree view of their enterprise. Real-time visibility provides not only a means to verify and justify results, but also full confidence...

Tags: Information Technology, SAP AG, Decision, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2009-01-01

Moore's Law making data centers more 'green'

At the Business Goes Green conference in San Jose, Calif., last week, Allyson Klein, eco-technology initiatives manger at Intel, talked about how Moore's Law is helping driving energy efficiency in the data center. Klein also discussed Intel's association with SPEC, the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, and how the two organizations...

Tags: Data Center, Intel Corp., Moore, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Intel, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Videos 2008-06-20

Seeing the Big Picture: A Corporate Guide to Better Decisions through IT

Executives at small and midsize companies make critical business decisions every day based on the information available to them. This information can come from a variety of sources: opinions from peers and colleagues; a personal sense of intuition or business judgment; or data derived internally or externally to the organization....

Tags: Information Technology, SAP AG, Information, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management

White papers 2007-12-04

The cost of mainframe Linux

Here's the opening bit from a widely quoted network world report by "layer8" on IBM's recently announced plan to save $250 million by replacing 4,000 small servers with 30 mainframes: Talk about eating your own dog food. IBM today will announce it is consolidating...

Tags: Linux, Data Center, Network, Intel X86, Mainframe, Server, IBM Corp., Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-08-15

Green Grid lays out 2007 roadmap

The Green Grid consortium outlined its 2007 deliverables and technology roadmap. But first the group needs to nail down metrics on data center energy efficiency. Green Grid is a non-profit consortium launched in February that includes technology heavyweights such as Intel, AMD, Dell, Sun and IBM to name a few....

Tags: Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-08-07

Leading Payment Processor Achieves Global PCI DSS Compliance With the RSA enVision Platform

As the third largest integrated payment processing service in North America, NOVA processes over 1 billion transactions annually for nearly 1,000,000 merchant locations and is rated the number 1 processing network by MasterCard for speed, availability and reliability. Because of NOVA's worldwide heterogeneous data centers, they needed local data capture...

Tags: RSA Security Inc., Payment, PCI, Payment Processor, Operational Accounting, Finance

Case studies 2007-07-01

Qualcomm CIO: Norm Fjeldhim - Transcript

Dan Farber: Norm thanks for joining meNorm Fjeldheim: Thank you Dan.Dan: Now Qualcomm is a company that deals with the wireless world, phones all over the world. But as a company are you totally wireless? Norm: Yeah we have seen a big shift in our employee base...

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Blog posts 2007-05-08

Qualcomm CIO: Norm Fjeldhim - Transcript

Dan Farber: Norm thanks for joining me Norm Fjeldheim: Thank you Dan. Dan: Now Qualcomm is a company that deals with the wireless world, phones all over the world. But as a company are you totally wireless? Norm:...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Employee, Phone, Information Technology, Qualcomm Inc., Norm, Wiki, Strategy, Online Communications, Management, Administrator

Blog posts 2007-05-08

Energy Flow in the Information Technology Stack: Coefficient of Performance of the Ensemble and Its Impact on the Total Cost of Ownership

The industry is in the midst of a transformation to lower the cost of ownership through consolidation and better utilization of critical data center resources. Successful consolidation necessitates increasing utilization of capital intensive "Always-On" data center infrastructure, and reducing recurring cost of power. A need exists, therefore for an end...

Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, Information Technology, TCO, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2006-03-21

School Library 2.0

School libraries are in danger of being cut out of existence. Christopher Harris suggests a rethinking of school libraries along Web 2.0 lines. Following Tim O'Reilly's W2 fundamentals, Harris offers the foundations of School Library 2.0. Such a revisioning would make libraries not expendable but the central hub of the...

Tags: School

Blog posts 2006-02-08

Project Portfolio Management for New Product Development: Tracking the Project Cycle from Idea to Launch

Besides being relevant to professional services organizations PSO and internal information technology IT departments, project portfolio management PPM software is applied in multiple vertical markets in the area of new product development NPD. In industries ranging from manufacturing and high technology to consumer goods and biotechnology, PPM solutions help manage...

Tags: APQC, Project Portfolio Management, New Product Development, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Product Marketing, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Marketing

White papers 2006-01-06