IT Best Practices Reports

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: Companies are starting to reach the maturity stages of their digital transformation initiatives, but for many, it's still unclear what a transformed enterprise will look like. In this expert eGuide, find out what's in store for digital transformation in the future – and take a peek at the outcomes.

Posted: 07 Sep 2018 | Published: 06 Sep 2018

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: In this expert e-guide, find out how CIOs and IT decision makers across industries are prepping their infrastructure systems for the future, employing tools like hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), IT automation, and even outsourcing to help them keep up with skyrocketing performance demands.

Posted: 03 Sep 2018 | Published: 03 Sep 2018

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: In this expert-written guide, familiarize yourself with the fundamentals of cloud management, including the key performance metrics, cost and billing factors to keep an eye on, and the ins-and-outs of cloud management platforms that can offer a remedy.

Posted: 03 Sep 2018 | Published: 03 Sep 2018

EGUIDE: In this expert guide, Alan Earls, contributor to SearchITOperations.com, walks you through using the Kubernetes configuration for container deployment. Inside, you'll find expert instruction on properly applying Kubernetes' nodes, pods, schedulers, and volumes to bypass orchestration challenges, and more.

Posted: 27 Feb 2018 | Published: 19 Feb 2018

EGUIDE: A handful of startups and top-tier players have introduced container-driven bundles that could determine a new delivery and support approach for hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI). Read this expert guide to see highlighted several HCI appliances built for containerized apps that should be on your radar.

Posted: 16 Aug 2017 | Published: 11 Aug 2017

EGUIDE: AWS is restructuring the ways we value certain IT skills. Read this e-guide to learn which skills you will need to survive in the AWS IT landscape and how to make yourself standout from the rest of the herd.

Posted: 16 May 2017 | Published: 12 May 2017

EGUIDE: In making the switch to Agile, many organizations adopted some Agile practices, but never became completely culturally Agile.The same can be said of DevOps adoption today. You can't implement just a few DevOps practices and expect results. Read this e-guide for 7 tips to change the culture of your development and operations teams.

Posted: 18 Apr 2017 | Published: 18 Apr 2017

EGUIDE: In this expert e-guide, explore how to use remote monitoring and management and other automated tools to manage hybrid cloud environments. Discover how to evaluate both commercially available and homegrown automated tools, enable custom integrations to unify monitoring tools with ITSM, monitor legacy systems, and more.

Posted: 01 Mar 2017 | Published: 27 Feb 2017

DATA SHEET: Each year, Computer Weekly asks CIOs and senior IT decision makers what they will be investing in during the 12 months ahead. Access this infographic to find out the key spending priorities for 2017 in the Middle East.

Posted: 23 Feb 2017 | Published: 23 Feb 2017

EGUIDE: Data center admins have a seemingly never-ending to-do list when it comes to infrastructure monitoring. From server to equipment monitoring, it's a practice that's often difficult to juggle. Read on to view five tips to fine-tune your data center monitoring, including how to increase security and scalability.

Posted: 14 Feb 2017 | Published: 13 Feb 2017

EGUIDE: Are you ready to face the changes coming to the tech world in 2017? In this expert guide by Senior News Writer Beth Pariseau, learn why many CTO's are focusing on container automation and DevOps optimization this year.

Posted: 03 Feb 2017 | Published: 03 Feb 2017

EGUIDE: Learn how to implement a collaborative, lightweight ITIL approach in your infrastructure, and adapt ITIL to suit your priorities by unifying ITSM and DevOps under one framework. Download now to keep a close eye on DevOps pipelines by strategizing your budget to secure container initiatives, and more.

Posted: 02 Feb 2017 | Published: 31 Jan 2017

EGUIDE: Here, experts illustrate the evolution of multi-use virtualization tools, and you'll discover how to benefit from a hybrid approach that combines physical, virtual, and application visibility with automation and deep infrastructure analysis. Read on to also learn how DevOps is reshaping IT vendors' offerings.

Posted: 02 Feb 2017 | Published: 31 Jan 2017

EGUIDE: There are strategies for putting cloud workloads in the right places. With cloud orchestration and automation tools, a multi-cloud environment can thrive. Download this eGuide, composed by IT industry experts, to learn how.

Posted: 12 Jan 2017 | Published: 12 Jan 2017

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide offers three essential strategies to ensure IT workers are proactively managing your IT infrastructure, rather than spending the majority of their time reacting to problems as they arise. Also, learn about the most popular IT performance management infrastructures, and how they can be affecting the service of your enterprise.

Posted: 11 Jan 2017 | Published: 11 Jan 2017

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide offers 10 professional tips to improve the management process of IT assets and IT support in your data center. Walk through these tips and see first-hand how they can improve upon the strategies you already have in your data center while also offering a fresh new perspective.

Posted: 28 Dec 2016 | Published: 18 Dec 2016

EGUIDE: This eGuide addresses the growth of ITSM methods, tools, and processes. Also, engage in seven CIO tips for existing and upcoming ITSM changes that are reconstructing IT services, how to manage all of these developments effectively and ways in which you can keep your enterprise relevant.

Posted: 31 Oct 2016 | Published: 24 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: This eGuide offers 10 of the best practices when it comes to managing IT assets, loading server resources onto rack spaces, configuring infrastructure or even handling IT support.

Posted: 26 Oct 2016 | Published: 17 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: Feedback about a DevOps environment on the back end is as important to its success as automated tools are on the front end. In this expert e-guide, we explore how to make the communication path between DevOps and IT a two-way street. Inside, discover how tools like container management, ChatOps, and more can bridge the gap.

Posted: 07 Oct 2016 | Published: 06 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: As breaches continue in healthcare, it's imperative that CIOs know what best practices and technologies they should be implementing to safeguard their organization. Discover the proven practices that best stave off healthcare cybersecurity vulnerabilities based on advice from four CIOs attending HIMSS 2016.

Posted: 01 Aug 2016 | Published: 28 Jul 2016

EGUIDE: Selling business executives on the value of big data analytics apps is becoming a to-do list item for more IT managers. In this e-guide, we analyze the platforms different companies used to implement Hadoop-based analytics and BI apps. Find out which ones worked for them so you can make a more informed decision about your future in big data.

Posted: 27 Jul 2016 | Published: 25 Jul 2016

EGUIDE: In the following e-guide, learn key business practices that will ensure your company is properly sorting through software licensing complexities. Read on to uncover exclusive insights on how to choose the correct software provider while also managing software costs.

Posted: 08 Jul 2016 | Published: 05 Jul 2016

EGUIDE: In the following e-guide, learn what it takes to drive and exploit new innovation in your business. Read on to uncover two exclusive case studies involving both Facebook and Cambia Health Solutions and their approach to innovation.

Posted: 07 Jul 2016 | Published: 05 Jul 2016

EGUIDE: When it comes to contract negotiations, CIOs hold more sway than they think. Next time you negotiate with suppliers, ensure you get a better price from likes of SAP, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle. Access this expert guide to discover vendor negotiation tips for midmarket CIOs working with these vendors from Forrester Senior Analyst Duncan Jones.

Posted: 29 Jun 2016 | Published: 28 Jun 2016

EGUIDE: Find out how white boxing servers have led to converged infrastructures becoming a hot alternative and why convergence is providing a way to end white boxing. Also, experts share their hands-on experiences of whether or not converged infrastructure products lived up to their hype.

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 | Published: 04 Feb 2016