PNA interviewed Autonomic Software's customers to determine their key criteria for evaluating configuration management solutions and their experiences using Autonomic Software's solution.

Dell claims that its management solutions, based on Symantec Altiris, do more than HP's to simplify management. PNA explores the validity of these claims?

IT organizations need as much predictive value as they can get if they are to improve their problem resolution processes. The latest release of Integrien Alive enhances its automated intelligence and analysis.

Getting to grips with information governance, a key component of a broader business strategy, gives organisations a much stronger chance of longer term success as well as protecting the business from costly errors...

With virtualization close to the top of every CIO's to do list, we undertook the task of finding out how well server, storage and desktop virtualization is currently understood and where it is being applied...

The management of operational IT is not without its challenges, indeed it can be a thankless task particularly when considered as a whole. The good news is that the day to day burden can be reduced by applying some simple, practical measures...

Existing IT management strategies have enabled organisations to take control of their infrastructures. The game has moved on however and it is time to raise the sights of IT management strategy...

As markets become more complex and dynamic, is the traditional periodic and retrospective management reporting approach adequate for running the business, or do we need a rethink?

Now that mobile email is moving into the mainstream, with technology and services widely available to businesses of all sizes, organisations looking to either invest for the first time or review their current arrangements are...

It is too simplistic to make blanket cuts or restrict use and opting for cheap alternatives may lead to a loss of busi¬ness value. what best practices should companies adopt to meet their total communications needs and avoid unnecessary costs?

As this report shows, organisations that use the tools available for improving the security of the applications that they develop spend less on IT security overall and, as a result, are less vulnerable.

In this paper, we examine the flexibility that WPARs offer IT professionals in their virtualized UNIX server environments, and we review how WPARs are different from other partitioning technologies and how WPARs complement existing environments.

The Medical Imaging Informatics Innovation Center (MI3C) highlights state-of-the-art imaging solutions and seeks to drive innovation in the field not only through its sponsors, but by third parties as well.

While remedies exist, present business practices do not encourage the prioritisation of power reduction within one of the most power hungry areas of a business-the data centre

The Average Inc. could do quite a lot to improve the ways it uses technology in order to reduce risk, ensuring business continuity, and to cut unnecessary cost.