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WHITE PAPER: When an IT skill falls out of favor, it rarely ever comes back. Here's our list of 10 dying IT skills. If any of these skills are your main expertise, perhaps it's time to think about updating your skill set.

Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 13 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper addresses twelve common issues that network administrators should examine when troubleshooting network problems.

Posted: 12 Dec 2008 | Published: 12 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about a core set of marketing-related metrics that can be understood and tracked by every executive, especially those in marketing. These metrics are necessary to keep executives, especially in marketing, on top of financial, market, and customer trends, as well as sales and marketing benchmarks.

Posted: 05 Jan 2010 | Published: 05 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: Existing agile methods often focus on small, single-team projects, overlooking the broader impact of large programs. This paper outlines a distinct planning framework that has been successful in large-scale agile software development projects and relies..

Posted: 19 Jun 2007 | Published: 19 Jun 2007

WHITE PAPER: A company’s overall success largely relies on the software team’s success. Organizations that embrace this concept experience less frustration, fewer errors, and faster planning and development cycles. Read this guide to learn about seven essential tips to help you be more successful with requirements management and software development.

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 | Published: 08 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: The incredible growth in the amount of electronic data generated for both business and personal use has resulted in higher costs for data storage and backup. Several factors have lead to these spiraling cost increases, including storage of larger files, multiple backups, and enforcement of industry regulations. How often is your company backing up?

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 | Published: 11 Jan 2010

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

ANALYST REPORT: Dell commissioned Principled Technologies to analyze the features and performance of the Dell Latitude E6400 notebook system running Windows 7. This system and several comparison systems were tested. In this analyst report, you'll learn more about this Dell solution and discover key findings as a result of testing these systems.

Posted: 25 Nov 2009 | Published: 25 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the Sun GlassFish™ Portfolio - an open platform for rapidly deploying Web applications throughout the enterprise - and explains how its use can help organizations to create cost-effective services solutions.

Posted: 05 Jan 2010 | Published: 05 Jan 2010

WEBCAST: Before you can analyze your data, you must prepare it for analysis. SPSS Statistics Base offers an array of techniques and features to help users validate data in order to ensure complete, effective, and accurate analysis. This webinar will show you some of these techniques so you can be certain you are getting the best information from your data.

Posted: 04 May 2009 | Premiered: 04 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines how the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server allows companies to accelerate database performance, handle change and growth in scalable and incremental steps, and deliver mission-critical data availability and protection.

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This Sun BluePrints™ article shows how to apply the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array as storage for database indexes in order to accelerate application performance.

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 | Published: 24 Dec 2009

WEBCAST: In this TechTalk, you'll learn how to configure smartphone users for access to your Citrix XenApp farm.

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 | Premiered: 01 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: Manufacturers are feeling new pressure on their operations from many directions. Dynamic market needs, increased compliance requirements, more distributed manufacturing operations, rapid product innovation, lean manufacturing, and the transition to new IT technology all manifest themselves on the plant floor and throughout the enterprise.

Posted: 26 Jan 2009 | Published: 26 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: Managing the complexities of today's operating systems, business applications, and networks challenges even the most knowledgeable IT professionals. ACO PAGER is proven technology, capable of processing thousands of mission-critical events daily. The software is pre-configured, easy to install, and greatly improves staff efficiency.

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 | Published: 08 Apr 2009

TRIAL SOFTWARE: Active Directory becomes very complex to manage in Windows networks. Administrators leave, users are given elevated privileges, applications require special accounts - very soon you have an Active Directory full of security weaknesses.

Posted: 15 Apr 2009 | Published: 15 Apr 2009

TRIAL SOFTWARE: Businesses today grow and change at a frantic pace, making Active Directory (AD) management one of the most time-consuming IT tasks. AD administrators struggle to keep up with requests to create, change or remove user access to various network resources.

Posted: 15 Apr 2009 | Published: 15 Apr 2009

TRIAL SOFTWARE: AdminStudio® allows IT to quickly prepare reliable virtual and MSI packages for error-free rollout with leading software deployment solutions. A complete application readiness toolset, AdminStudio also provides automated tools to help ensure application portfolios migrate smoothly to Windows 7. Download this free 21 day trial now!

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 | Published: 12 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: Effective and efficient management of master data within the manufacturing sector is a key factor in reducing TCO, providing accurate global spend analysis and improved reporting and decision making. Implementing SAP's Master Data Management solution into an organization enables the backbone of a complete data governance model to be established.

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009

CASE STUDY: Guardianship Program is involved in all decisions like paying bills, medical treatments, rent for each person in its system and to manage this they implemented an Oracle Database and Oracle Developer Tool.

Posted: 28 Jan 2009 | Published: 28 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: Memory issues in Java applications can cripple performance and cost your business time and money - so proper Java memory analysis is crucial. In this Quest white paper, discover an easy-to-follow process that guides you through the Java Virtual Machine heap to help find and fix memory leaks.

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 | Published: 14 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper presents the key characteristics of successful agile managers as they introduce and scale agile methods. Learn what agile managers can do to help their teams and organizations adopt agile development practices to deliver real...

Posted: 02 Oct 2008 | Published: 02 Oct 2008

SOFTWARE DEMO: Altor is the leading provider of security for virtual data centers and clouds. This link provides you with full access to Altor security software running within a VMware environment hosted on our site.

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 | Published: 05 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an introduction to System i high availability for companies that want to understand this technology and evaluates whether such a solution can become a cost-justifiable component of their backup and recovery strategy.

Posted: 02 Apr 2008 | Published: 02 Apr 2008

WHITE PAPER: It's no secret that application performance drives business performance. But to achieve the level of application performance your business demands, you need total visibility into your network infrastructure so you can identify and monitor all your applications and resolve the issues that impede performance.

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 20 Apr 2009