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SOA Can Make Your Network Sing

Scalable systems at the heart of Service Oriented Architecture help keep apps and services across your network in tune.

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Vendor Landscape: Competitors Catch Up to VMware

Aggressive competitors have caught up to VMware in x86/x64 server virtualization. Citrix has emerged as a legitimate alternative to VMware for data center to desktop virtualization and the year closed with Microsoft releasing an improved Hyper-V. Mea...

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IT Leadership: Seize the First One Hundred Days

New IT leaders are often met with political and skills-based challenges for which they aren't prepared. Follow Info-Tech's one-hundred day plan to kick-off your new IT leadership position. Not only will you start off on the right foot, but you will a...

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New On the Job? Leverage Those Professional Networks

Professional networks offer access to information and experience that would otherwise be challenging to tap on one's own. Begin to foster a network for support, professional growth, and lifelong advantage. ...

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Gauge Perceptions of Your New IT Department's Health

Some aspects of IT health will be obvious when you take on an IT leadership role. Other aspects will be well hidden or inaccurately reported. Quickly gain an overall diagnosis of IT department ills and implement fact-based mechanisms for long-term ca...

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Make an Early Mark by Launching a Service Attitude Revolution

IT leaders often encounter a problematic relationship between IT and the business when taking on a new leadership role. This rift can hobble an IT leader's chances for long-term success. An essential early step in healing a weak relationship is to ch...

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Set a Few Metrics in the First 100 Days

Establishing metrics can be a sizeable undertaking. New IT leaders need to get their hands on some solid numbers fast to help build credibility and identify key areas for change. Get a few descriptive metrics in place in your early weeks on the job t...

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New Leaders: Send a Message with an Executive IT Committee

Executive IT committees can take a lot of pressure off new or existing IT leaders by forcing business leaders to set IT investment priorities. Learn the lessons offered by experienced IT leaders and use the Info-Tech charter-building template to get ...

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IT Leadership: Seize the First One Hundred Days

New IT leaders are often met with political and skills-based challenges for which they aren't prepared....

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Stress Testing Your Disaster Recovery Plan

You have a disaster recovery plan (DRP), but will it hold up in a real crisis? Testing the DRP is essential to determining whether it is under or over built, and whether the infrastructure is appropriate. Use this research note to help put your DRP t...

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Storyboard: Benefits and Costs of Desktop Virtualization

Desktop virtualization redefines how desktop computer services are delivered in the enterprise by offering the best of both worlds: centralization plus full desktops for more types of users....