Software Development

Five Things About Windows Server 2008 You Might Not Know

When an IT skill falls out of favor it rarely ever comes back; here's a list of 10 dying IT skills.

Mimecast delivers Software-as-a-Service based enterprise email management including archiving, discovery, continuity, security and policy. By unifying disparate and fragmented email environments into one holistic service that is always available from the cloud, Mimecast minimizes risk and reduces cost and complexity, while providing total end-to-end control of email.

With the explosive growth of online video, traditional SEO has taken on a new dimension: video search and discovery. De-mystify the world of video search with a practical framework for video SEO and increase the value of your video content.

Despite the fact that Software Executives are pressured to do more with less and cut costs to the bone, many see offshoring as a "threat."  They know they need to go offshore - but where? And with who? What they want is an easier, better, more effective and safer way to use offshore programming resources.

The right domain name can mean the difference between success and failure. Find out how to get it right the first time by following five simple steps.

In this ever-changing world of software development, it's critical to keep up with technologies, methodologies and trends. Discover five tested and proven software development practices your team should be utilizing to accelerate software delivery.

Doug Gold, chief financial officer of CoreObjects, a Los Angeles-based product development company with multiple locations across India, talks about how his company is overcoming the challenges of visibility and control within distributed software development projects.

Jake Sorofman, Vice President of Marketing for 6th Sense Analytics interviews Rusty Weston, editor in chief of CMP Media’s Global Services magazine, a premier publication focusing on the trends of off-shoring and outsourcing. The discussion focuses on the trend of globally distributed software development.

During this podcast, you’ll hear from Thomas Koulopoulos, founder of Delphi Group, managing director of Perot Systems Innovation Labs, and author of Smartsourcing. A widely recognized authority on IT, innovation and the globalization of business, Tom was named one of the industry’s six most influential consultants by InformationWeek magazine.

Social and business networking sites are changing the way people talk online. Sites like Facebook, MySpace and Bebo help friends stay in touch while LinkedIn and Plaxo mainly connect business users. They are very popular but present new challenges to IT managers. They seem to have come out of nowhere. For example, Facebook currently has 70m users, 40% of which are located in the US.  The rapid growth of such sites is part of the problem. Companies risk being caught off guard.  Learn how to protect your business from threats posed by online social networking in this 7 Step Guide for IT Managers.

“8 Ways Every Solution provider Can Profit from Rollouts Now” demonstrates how rollouts are creating strong sales opportunities for solution providers of all sizes. Importantly, it also addresses how solution providers have finally “cracked the code” of transforming this high-volume business, which is extremely service intensive, into a high-profit business via innovative on-site service delivery models that let them find the contract IT service professionals they need, right when they need them.

IT Managers Talk About The Pains And Frustrations Of Routine Administration, Maintenance And Upgrades. Hosted services (also known as cloud computing, Software-as-a-Service or SaaS) are a good example and the subject of this paper.

This white paper examines the challenges of presenting products and projects in the renewable energy sector and introduces the many advantages of 3D visualization to help achieve your company's commercial objectives.

Succeeding in today's economy not only means utilizing technology to create intelligent, instrumented and interconnected solutions, but leveraging technology to optimize costs and do more with less. This brochure describes how the 3 key attributes of IBM's application foundation help deliver higher quality of service at a lower cost than JBoss.

Marketing operations is in the midst of a major revolution. While the tools of marketing have changed dramatically over the past 25 years, the operational systems and processes have remained relatively stagnant. Most organizations use desktop productivity tools and e-mail to plan, deliver and ultimately execute their marketing activities.

How Quality can Accelerate "Speed-to-Market". Read this white paper to find out more.

As a strategy for creating a flexible and agile IT, service-oriented architecture (SOA) has gained considerable momentum in recent years, largely due to the advent of standards-based Web services.

ElectricAccelerator improves the software development process by reducing build times, so development teams can reduce costs, shorten time-to-market, and improve quality and customer satisfaction.

Dell servers have been optimized to help provide strong support for the latest ESX release, VMware ESX 3.5 Update 2, including enhanced performance for virtualized environments based on support for six-core Intel Xeon processors. Organizations that do not approach server virtualization with a clear plan risk developing a chaotic, inflexible infrastructure that wastes energy and resources.

Building a scalable, secure, and highly available SaaS infrastructure can be a daunting undertaking for a software company. This step-by-step guide lets you know what you need to consider.

Strong Version Control as a Foundation to System Management

Faced with increased information privacy legislation, organizations must secure their online, automated business processes with partners to meet corporate governance obligations. A network-based approach provides significant advantages because it is application–independent, needing no modification to web services applications, and reduces the TCO for IT systems.

The cloud services market is now directly addressing the needs of application developers, with an emerging class of services that provides fast, on-demand provisioning; instant scale up and down capabilities, and support for multi-tier application architectures, as well as workload migration capabilities and a pay-as-you go model.

The cloud services market is now directly addressing the needs of application developers, with an emerging class of services that provides fast, on-demand provisioning; instant scale up and down capabilities, and support for multi-tier application architectures, as well as workload migration capabilities and a pay-as-you go model.