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ALSO CALLED: IT Strategy, MIS, Management Information Systems, IT Management Leadership, Information Technology Management, Information Technology Strategy DEFINITION: IT (information technology) is a term that encompasses all forms of technology used to create, store, exchange, and use information in its various forms (business data, voice conversations, still images, motion pictures, multimedia presentations, and other forms, including those not yet conceived). It's a convenient term for including both telephony and computer technology in the same word. It is … Definition continues below.
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The Hidden Costs of Enterprise Mobility sponsored by iPass Deutschland GmbH WHITE PAPER: Mobile technologies are virtually indispensable tools for businesses of every size, and that is causing an associated increase in spending for mobile voice and data communications services. Read this brief paper to learn what you can do to rein in the hidden costs of mobility and reduce costs for your organization. Posted: 01 Dec 2009 \| Published: 01 Dec 2009 TOPICS: Enterprise Resource Management \| Enterprise Systems \| IT Management \| IT Managers \| Mobile Device Management \| Mobile Device Management Software \| Mobile Workers \| Notebook Computers \| PDA

Dell Client Migration and Deployment Services sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel WHITE PAPER: While PC prices continue to fall, the total cost of using PCs remains high, when the cost of the deployment activities themselves is considered. To help companies optimize their PC deployment process, Dell has developed a series of offerings that can be used to simplify the deployment process and reduce the time needed to deploy PCs. Posted: 25 Nov 2009 \| Published: 25 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Computer Hardware \| Enterprise Computers \| IT Asset Management \| IT Management \| IT Managers \| IT Services \| Systems Management

Understanding Alternative Compute Models sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel WHITE PAPER: Thanks to recent advances in technology, IT has a range of centrally-managed compute models from which to choose. This white paper describes the variety of compute models available, how each works, and the advantages and limitations of each model for key vectors such as security, manageability, and power consumption. Posted: 25 Nov 2009 \| Published: 25 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Application Hosting \| Blade Servers \| Desktop Virtualization \| Enterprise Computing \| IT Management \| Operating System Virtualization \| Terminal Server Hardware \| Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Strategies and Best Practices: Reduce IT Costs with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and IBM Software sponsored by Red Hat WHITE PAPER: CIOs are focused on raising the ROI of IT, expanding business impact, and making innovations real. This whitepaper focuses on two high return options–license cost optimization and migration to a lower total cost infrastructure to deliver the same or better business value. Posted: 24 Nov 2009 \| Published: 24 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| Desktop Virtualization \| IT Management \| IT Spending \| Linux \| Linux Desktop Environment \| Lotus Notes \| ROI \| Software Licensing \| TCO

Increasing Competitiveness and Reducing Costs in Today's Economy sponsored by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite, illustrates its relevance to small and midsized business customers, and provides the resources to help you evaluate how your business might benefit from the service. Posted: 24 Nov 2009 \| Published: 24 Nov 2009 TOPICS: CIOs \| Collaboration \| Collaborative Applications Software \| Communications Software \| Customer Data Management \| Customer Service \| IT Management \| IT Managers \| IT Spending \| Productivity \| ROI \| Small Businesses \| SMBs

Controlling Costs and Driving Agility in the Datacenter: Optimizing Server Infrastructure with Microsoft System Center sponsored by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd WHITE PAPER: To help control costs, improve business agility, and remain secure and in compliance, many IT organizations are taking steps to transition to a truly dynamic infrastructure. Microsoft® System Center is a family of leading IT management solutions that helps IT departments proactively plan, deploy, manage, and optimize an IT environment. Posted: 23 Nov 2009 \| Published: 23 Nov 2009 TOPICS: IT Asset Management \| IT Governance \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| IT Managers \| IT Spending \| IT Systems \| Regulatory Compliance \| Server Management

A Unified Approach to Managing the Virtual Infrastructure sponsored by Forsythe WHITE PAPER: Managing the virtual infrastructure end-to-end is becoming more challenging as virtual environments continue to grow and more data center elements meld into the "cloud". This whitepaper will discuss the push for continued virtualization and the "cloud", and present you with questions that will help you create the best organizational strategy. Posted: 23 Nov 2009 \| Published: 23 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Business Service Management \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| ITIL \| Server Virtualization \| Systems Management

The Secret of Migration Success: Developing an Effective Migration Strategy sponsored by Forsythe WHITE PAPER: In this report, we examine the pressing need within organizations and businesses for migration to advanced platforms, as well as the businessbuilding opportunities companies can leverage from the transition. Posted: 23 Nov 2009 \| Published: 23 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Applications Management \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Centers \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| Network Performance \| Operating Systems \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization

Future-Proofing Your HP Business Critical Infrastructure: How Tukwila Might Just Force You to Rethink Everything sponsored by Forsythe WHITE PAPER: Read this whitepaper to learn how truly future-proofing your environment involves a comprehensive approach and engagement with newer technologies and methods, aligning them with overall best practices —and strengthening your ability to innovate. Posted: 23 Nov 2009 \| Published: 23 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| High Performance Computing \| IT Management \| Microprocessors \| Server Virtualization \| Service Level Management \| Systems Management

Managing Windows Server 2008 R2 sponsored by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd WHITE PAPER: Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 represents a significant milestone in Microsoft's ongoing efforts to help customers streamline the management of their unique IT infrastructures. Read this white paper to learn how to manage Windows Server 2008 R2. Posted: 23 Nov 2009 \| Published: 23 Nov 2009 TOPICS: IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| IT Managers \| Microsoft Hyper-V \| Server Management \| Systems Management \| Virtual Machine \| Windows Server Software

Managing the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud with CA sponsored by CA WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how innovative management solutions from CA add comprehensive support for Amazon EC2 with real-time automation, application performance, service, and database management. Posted: 20 Nov 2009 \| Published: 20 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Applications Management \| Cloud Computing \| Data Center Management \| Database Management \| IT Management \| IT Spending

EMA Impact Brief: CA Spectrum Service Assurance Bridges Service Management Gap sponsored by CA WHITE PAPER: Read this brief paper to learn how the new CA integrated service management product offers real hope for beleaguered IT organizations that are trying to bring together the pieces to build an integrated service management story. Posted: 19 Nov 2009 \| Published: 19 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business IT Alignment \| Business Process Management \| Business Systems \| Dashboards \| IT Management \| IT Service Management \| IT Services

IT Economics: CA Infrastructure Management Reduces Operational Costs and Increases IT Efficiency sponsored by CA WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the key infrastructure management challenges facing IT managers today. It then discusses how IT teams can improve the economics of infrastructure management by taking advantage of integrated, automated performance analysis and fault isolation technologies. Posted: 19 Nov 2009 \| Published: 19 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Applications Management \| Business IT Alignment \| IT Management \| IT Managers \| Operational Support Systems \| Server Virtualization

More Functionality, Less Infrastructure: Managed IT with Double-Take Flex sponsored by Double-Take Software WHITE PAPER: Double-Take Flex provides increased functionality by using your existing technology infrastructure, saving you time and money when deploying new computers, protecting workloads and migrating existing workloads to new platforms. Posted: 16 Nov 2009 \| Published: 16 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| IT Management \| Managed Security Services \| Server Hardware \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Management Services \| Storage Resource Management

A Practitioner’s Guide to More Efficient Network Management sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn the four key initiatives for attacking network management inefficiency and how automation solutions from HP can help. Posted: 13 Nov 2009 \| Published: 13 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Business Process Automation \| Business Processes \| Change Management \| Configuration Management \| IT Management \| Network Configuration Management \| Network Management \| Network Performance

End-to-End Service Management in the Virtualized Environment: Delivering on the Promises of Virtualization sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: This paper proposes an approach for IT to manage virtualized environments and shows how HP Business Service Management software enables IT operations to link specialists and specialized tools into day-to-day operations while keeping promises to business users. Posted: 13 Nov 2009 \| Published: 13 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| IT Management \| IT Service Management \| Linux \| Software Virtualization \| UNIX \| Virtual Machine \| VM

Optimizing Business Service Management (BSM) in a Challenging Global Economy: Delivering Service Quality While Improving IT Efficiency sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: This IDC White Paper examines the roles of virtualization and automation in improving operational efficiencies. Delivering end-to-end service visibility across both physical and virtual infrastructures is a key requirement for preventing service outages or failures. Posted: 13 Nov 2009 \| Published: 13 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Business Service Management \| Change Management \| Configuration Management \| Data Center Management \| IT Management \| IT Managers \| IT Service Management \| Server Virtualization \| TCO

CRM Built for IT: The Executive Guide to Selecting CRM that Meets IT Needs sponsored by Pivotal CRM, a CDC Software solution WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides everything the CIO and IT team must know to evaluate a CRM system based on the critical business and technical issues that matter to IT directors and chief information and technology officers. Posted: 11 Nov 2009 \| Published: 11 Nov 2009 TOPICS: CIOs \| CRM \| CRM Best Practices \| CRM Services \| CRM Software \| CTOs \| IT Departments \| IT Management \| IT Service Management \| IT Utility Services \| TCO

Low Rate Financing: Get Competitive Rates on Virtually Every IBM Brand sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: With all these great products available at such incredible rates, it's easy to see why Low Rate Financing is the best way to get the IT solutions your organization needs. Read this brief paper to learn more. Posted: 11 Nov 2009 \| Published: 11 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| Financing \| Hardware Selection \| IT Management \| IT Spending \| Software Selection \| Spend Management

Whitepaper-- IBM InfoSphere Software: Trusted Information sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how you can use IBM's InfoSphere software, and integrated platform for trusted information, to align business and IT, accelerate your projects for faster time to value, leverage your existing infrastructire, and adapt to the changing needs of your business. Posted: 11 Nov 2009 \| Published: 11 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| Business Processes \| Data Integration \| Data Management \| Information Management \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| Master Data Management

IT Survey Results: Top Priorities Through 2010 sponsored by BMC Software, Inc WHITE PAPER: What will be most important to IT organizations over the next 12 months? It's probably no surprise that cost control or reduction in spending is the key priority. This white paper looks at the near-term activities of the IT organizations surveyed by TechTarget, along with their constraints, issues, motivating factors, and strategies. Posted: 09 Nov 2009 \| Published: 09 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Change Management \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| IT Management \| IT Management Services \| Server Virtualization

Ten Things You Should Know about Windows 7 vs. Windows XP sponsored by Global Knowledge WHITE PAPER: So you’re an XP shop and your organization skipped Vista, but is considering taking the plunge to the latest revision of the Longhorn platform: Windows 7. Here are ten things that you should probably know as you get familiar with this new Windows client. Posted: 06 Nov 2009 \| Published: 06 Nov 2009 TOPICS: IT Management \| IT Systems \| Operating Systems \| Windows \| Windows Security \| Windows Vista \| Windows XP

Making Enterprise Architecture Work sponsored by Infosys Technologies Limited WHITE PAPER: A robust governance framework is imperative for effective Enterprise Architecture (EA). Our framework helps you assess performance and chart a continuous improvement course that deepens the impact of your EA program. Posted: 04 Nov 2009 \| Published: 04 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Business Architectures \| Business IT Alignment \| CIOs \| Enterprise Architectures \| IT Governance \| IT Management \| IT Managers

Embedding Architecture into the Organization sponsored by Infosys Technologies Limited WHITE PAPER: Our experience suggests that Enterprise Architecture (EA) governance determines the impact of the architecture team to a great degree. We describe and manage EA governance along six dimensions. Posted: 04 Nov 2009 \| Published: 04 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| CIOs \| Enterprise \| Enterprise Architectures \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| IT Managers \| IT Systems \| Strategic Planning

Desperate Times Calls for Strategic Measures: Get the most out of your SAP ERP System sponsored by Atos Origin WHITE PAPER: In this paper a veteran SAP consultant argues why now is the perfect time implement a Business Process Lifecycle Management (BPLM) enabled ERP system. Posted: 04 Nov 2009 \| Published: 04 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Business Process Automation \| Business Process Management \| Business Process Modeling \| Business Processes \| ERP \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| Microsoft Office \| SAP (Product)

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IT MANAGEMENT DEFINITION (continued): … IT (information technology) is a term that encompasses all forms of technology used to create, store, exchange, and use information in its various forms (business data, voice conversations, still images, motion pictures, multimedia presentations, and other forms, including those not yet conceived). It's a convenient term for including both telephony and computer technology in the same word. It is the technology that is driving what has often been called "the information revolution."
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