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ALSO CALLED: Computer Service Industry, Information and Communications Technology Industry, Information and Communication Technologies Industry, Information Technology Industry, Computer Services Industry, ICT Industry, IT Services Industry, IT Service Industry DEFINITION: ICT (information and communications technology - or technologies) is an umbrella term that includes any communication device or application, encompassing: radio, television, cellular phones, computer and network hardware and software, satellite systems and so on, as well as the various services and applications associated with them, such as videoconferencing and distance learning. ICTs are often spoken … Definition continues below.
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Sun HPC Virtual Tradeshow sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. VIRTUAL TRADESHOW: Performance Computing (HPC) is business ready. HPC can give your organization a competitive advantage through shorter development cycles, better decision making and lower costs. Download this webcast to discuss new technologies, accomplishments, and collaborations in HPC, networking, storage, software, and data management. Posted: 23 Sep 2009 \| Premiered: 23 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Budgeting \| Business Continuity Planning \| Data Management \| Disk Backups \| Economic Environment \| High Performance Computing \| Parallel Processing \| Solid State Disks \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Strategic Planning

Reality Check: The New End-to-end Application Performance Management Imperative Virtual Seminar sponsored by Compuware Corporation VIRTUAL TRADESHOW: What Application Performance Management tactics and best practices can you apply to ensure a good end-user experience? What process and strategy can you institute to enable your IT organization to align with the business? What can you do to prepare for the additional complexities that virtualization, cloud and SOA can bring to your environment? Posted: 14 Sep 2009 \| Premiered: 14 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Application Infrastructure \| Application Life-Cycle Management \| Application Monitoring \| Application Performance Management \| Applications Management \| Network Applications Software \| Network Performance \| Predictive Performance Management \| QOS

Data Center Architecture Decisions: A Free Virtual Seminar Focused on Dealing with Data Center Growth in a Down Economy sponsored by Data Center Decisions VIRTUAL TRADESHOW: Attend this free virtual event and hear from top data center experts who will provide you with a coherent strategy to consolidate your data center, build a new facility or make an educated decision on the cloud model best suited for your environment. Posted: 10 Nov 2009 \| Premieres: 10 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Construction \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| IT Infrastructure

Secure your future now: run your business critical applications on industry standard platforms sponsored by Microsoft, Intel and HP WEBCAST: This webcast explores the business benefits of migrating from expensive, proprietary server architectures to cost-effective, industry-standard architectures. Gain insight into how this transition can enable your organization to increase reliability, availability and serviceability. Posted: 30 Oct 2009 \| Premiered: 30 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Enterprise Applications Software \| Enterprise Architectures \| Microsoft Office \| Open Source Software \| SAP (Product)

Michael Dell on Dell and VMware: Driving a New Era of IT Efficiency sponsored by Dell, Inc. VIDEO: VMware is enabling the next generation in IT by delivering the industry’s first cloud operating system. Dell and VMware are working together to bring customers the latest in enterprise computing innovations. Posted: 24 Nov 2009 \| Premiered: 24 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Enterprise Computing \| Enterprise Systems \| Operating System Virtualization \| Operating Systems \| VMware

Protecting Data on the Edge sponsored by Zenith Infotech VIDEO: According to industry statistics, the majority of a typical company's data doesn't reside on data center storage -- it lives on the "edge." The edge may be desktop PCs, laptops or even smart phones and PDAs. In this videocast W. Curtis Preston describes the most effective techniques, tools and best practices for protecting edge or mobile data. Posted: 08 Jul 2009 \| Premiered: 08 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Backup Server Hardware \| Backup Software \| Backups \| Business Continuity Planning \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| NAS \| Remote Offices \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Security \| Storage Virtualization Software

What's NOT "Green" in the Data Center? sponsored by IBM VIDEO: Are the products you see advertised real, or is it mostly hype? Robert McFarlane, Principal Data Center and Financial Trading Floor Consultant, goes over the products and methods that aren’t as green as they'd like you to think and summarizes ways to extend the life of your data center. Posted: 23 Nov 2009 \| Premiered: 23 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Cooling Equipment \| Data Center Cooling \| Data Center Design \| Green Data Center \| Power Consumption Monitoring \| Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)

What’s Really “Green” in a Data Center? sponsored by IBM VIDEO: Robert McFarlane, Principal Data Center and Financial Trading Floor Consultant, runs through what it means to really have a green data center and offers suggestions on what you can do to get there. Posted: 23 Nov 2009 \| Premiered: 23 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Cooling Equipment \| Data Center Cooling \| Data Center Design \| Green Data Center \| Power Consumption Monitoring \| Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)

PODCAST: Beyond the Checklist: Leveraging PCI DSS to Achieve High Performance IT Security and Risk Management sponsored by Skybox Security PODCAST: PCI DSS is an opportunity for security professionals to leverage compliance initiatives to improve security and risk management. The podcast illustrates how organizations must go beyond 'checklist' compliance to improve security and IT efficiency - through automation, prioritization, and focused attention on the most critical issues. Posted: 24 Sep 2009 \| Premiered: 24 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard \| Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Compliance \| Risk Management \| Security \| Security Management \| Security Threats

The Other Green - Storage Efficiency and Optimization sponsored by Symantec Corporation VIDEO: This session will look at various techniques and strategies to optimize either on-line active or primary as well as near-line or secondary storage environment during tough economic times, as well as to position for future growth, after all, there is no such thing as a data recession! Posted: 25 Sep 2009 \| Premiered: 25 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Cooling Capacity \| Cooling Equipment \| Energy Efficiency \| Green Data Center \| Green Storage \| Power Supplies \| Storage Best Practices

The Alcatel-Lucent Multi-screen Experience sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent VIDEO: This video demonstrates how our Multi-screen Experience enables the seamless movement of content and services across devices. It shows how with its unique ability to bring consumers more freedom and simplified consumption, multi-screen will create growth through a constructive intersection of content, advertising and communication industries. Posted: 09 Jun 2009 \| Premiered: 09 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Mobile Device Management \| Mobile IP \| Telecommunications Carrier Systems \| Telecommunications Industry \| Telecommunications Service Providers \| Telecommunications Services \| Telecommunications Software

Trends in the Storage Market: Open Storage sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. VIDEO: This Videocast presents the idea and strategies of Open Storage and the key benefits it delivers to storage architectures. Learn more about Open Storage and how it can help your organization build a highly scalable, reliable, and affordable enterprise storage system. Posted: 08 Jun 2009 \| Premiered: 08 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Green Storage \| Open Source Software \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management

A Close Look at BPEL sponsored by IBM VIDEO: BPEL is an XML-based language that defines the execution of a business process. It is used to implement a particular flow through computer services. Now an OASIS standard, BPEL grew out of separate initiatives at IBM, Microsoft, and BEA to create an orchestration language for business processes. Posted: 13 Nov 2009 \| Premiered: 13 Nov 2009 TOPICS: BPEL \| Business Process Management \| Business Processes \| Programming \| Programming Languages \| XML

BPMN Basics, Organizing Your Business Processes sponsored by IBM VIDEO: Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a newer language but has been the focus of much attention from business and IT. As business processes grow more complex, BPMN provides a structured way to organize them. But it is important to know the basics before selecting a BPMN solution. Posted: 13 Nov 2009 \| Premiered: 13 Nov 2009 TOPICS: BPEL \| Business Process Management \| Business Process Modeling \| Programming \| Programming Languages \| SOA

Green IT Through Better Hardware Utilization sponsored by IBM VIDEO: This videocast highlights how to go green in your data center with better hardware utilization. Watch as industry pro David Payne discusses some of the challenges of this approach as well as how to start reducing energy consumption at the hardware level. Posted: 01 Jul 2009 \| Premiered: 01 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Consolidation \| Data Centers \| Energy Efficiency \| Green Data Center \| Hardware \| Hardware Management \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Consolidation \| Virtual Appliance

Podcast- The Importance of User Workspace Virtualization in Desktop Virtualization sponsored by RES Software PODCAST: In this podcast featuring industry expert, Brian Madden, learn how to meet user needs when virtualizing desktops. Discover how to reduce costs and simplify desktop management by installing a master operating system that all users share. Learn how to get a personalized user workspace even when sharing a master virtual desktop image. Posted: 25 Sep 2009 \| Premiered: 25 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Data Centers \| Desktop Management \| Desktop Virtualization \| IT Management \| Server Management \| User Experience \| Virtual Desktop Infrastructure \| Virtual Machine \| VMware \| VMware Server \| Windows \| Windows Server Software

Future-Proof Your Compliance Program sponsored by IBM VIDEO: The regulatory environment is constantly changing, so creating a streamlined and flexible program is every security pro's first goal when it comes to compliance. Check out this videocast for best practices on forming a comprehensive compliance program. Posted: 29 Jul 2009 \| Premiered: 29 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Compliance Audits \| Compliance Best Practices \| Data Governance \| Data Security \| Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) \| Information Security \| Laws \| Outsourcing \| Regulations \| Regulatory Compliance \| Risk Assessment \| Risk Management \| Security \| Security Best Practices \| Security Infrastructure \| Security Management \| Security Policies \| Service Level Management

Open Storage Implementation sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. VIDEO: IT professionals have been looking to flexibly scale, reconfigure, and or repurpose their storage infrastructures to reserve their allocated budget. The product presented in this Videocast combines open-storage software with industry-standard hardware, enabling you to reduce your reliance on high-priced systems and save up to 90% on storage costs. Posted: 08 Jun 2009 \| Premiered: 08 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Green Storage \| Open Source \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management

Business Process Modeling with UML sponsored by IBM VIDEO: In this screencast, get the background on UML and BPM and see a demonstration of how activity diagrams can be used to model business processes. Posted: 13 Nov 2009 \| Premiered: 13 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Business Process Modeling \| Business Processes \| Programming Languages \| UML

Understanding How Technology Can Support Manufacturing Quality sponsored by Apriso Corporation PODCAST: In this expert podcast, industry analyst Simon Jacobson discusses the best starting point for a quality improvement initiative within a manufacturing plant, explores what types of software and technology can be used for support, explains why the IT team plays a key role in its success, offers tips on how to reduce error rates, and more. Posted: 02 Nov 2009 \| Premiered: 02 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Business Process Reengineering \| ERP \| ERP Software \| Manufacturing \| Manufacturing Software \| Quality Control \| Supply Chain Management

Web Compatibility and Performance Testing in a Multi-Browser World sponsored by Gomez VIDEO: The browser wars bring fresh challenges for web designers and developers. This session enables you to understand JavaScript behavior and performance across browsers, as well as consider object load order differences. Posted: 09 Oct 2009 \| Premiered: 09 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Application Development \| Application Performance Management \| Applications Management \| Java \| JavaScript \| Software Testing \| Software Upgrades \| Testing

What's new in VMware vSphere? sponsored by Dell and VMware VIDEO: Are you wondering about VMware's latest ESX product? Watch this interview with Eric Henderson, Director of Technical Services for the IT consulting firm New Age Technologies as he discusses VMWare's vSphere. Posted: 19 Aug 2009 \| Premiered: 19 Aug 2009 TOPICS: Application Monitoring \| Applications Management \| Cloud Computing \| High Availability \| VMware

Creating a Data Classification Procedure sponsored by Red Hat VIDEO: You know you have to protect your sensitive data, but in order to do that, you have to find it. Data classification consists of identifying what information is confidential, then deciding how to store and secure that information. In this video, Adrian Lane of Securosis gives insight into the data classification process. Posted: 20 Oct 2009 \| Premiered: 20 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Data Classification \| Data Collection \| Data Governance \| Data Security \| Regulatory Compliance \| Security

RAID FAQ sponsored by Nexsan Technologies PODCAST: Twenty years old, RAID has become a standard and transparent feature. What is RAID, and how does this technology fit into the storage landscape? This expert FAQ podcast answers common questions about RAID, explores the different levels of this technology, and overviews the implementation stages and obstacles. Posted: 25 Nov 2009 \| Premiered: 25 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Disk Mirroring \| Fault Tolerance \| High Availability \| High Performance Computing \| RAID \| Solid State Disks \| Storage Media

PODCAST: Future Proofing your HP Business Critical Infrastructure sponsored by Forsythe PODCAST: In this podcast, get a firsthand look into a virtual platform that is designed to meet your current and future IT demands. Learn how to right-size system capacity and improve workload scalability. Discover industry best practices to increase agility of applications and systems. Posted: 19 Oct 2009 \| Premiered: 19 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| IT Best Practices \| IT Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Server Virtualization \| VM

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IT INDUSTRY DEFINITION (continued): … of in a particular context, such as ICTs in education, health care, or libraries. The term is somewhat more common outside of the United States. According to the European Commission, the importance of ICTs lies less in the technology itself than in its ability to create greater access to information and communication in underserved populations. Many countries around the world have established organizations for the promotion of ICTs, because it is feared that unless less technologically advanced areas have a chance to catch up, the increasing technological advances in developed nations will only …
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