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According to research by the Burton Group, VMware remains the only vendor whose hypervisor offers 100 percent of the features that it deems as necessary in order to handle "enterprise-class,... Read more...

If there is any message for the CIO this year, it's this: Get smarter faster. And one way to do that is to tap into existing tools that will help you comply with outside and inside forces for doing... Read more...

When it comes to big costs to the network, software maintenance fees always top the list. Companies will spend $160 billion this year alone on software. They will then spend another $100... Read more...

Perhaps the only thing that enterprises find more threatening than security vulnerabilities are the potential penalties for falling out of compliance. There is a consensus emerging that these two... Read more...

When it comes to dealing with risk management issues, think policy first and technology second. Build a defensible case. Once you have a policy in place, technology--in the areas of Identity and... Read more...

Modern communications includes multiple phone numbers, inboxes and contact routes, and it's difficult to discern which of these messages are important or urgent. What's more, all of these... Read more...

Securing the configurations on all PCs within the enterprise--even unconnected devices--is a difficult task, but critical to the security of the enterprise and the most important step in doing so... Read more...

Wireless data access is quickly becoming a requirement for enterprises that want to remain competitive. The most popular platforms through which corporate users are accessing data wirelessly are... Read more...

The NY Stock Exchange has a huge project ahead of it now that it has become a publicly traded entity. Due to that change, it will now have to meet the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements and as a... Read more...

As one IT expert acknowledges, change is always painful and so is the process of change management. But there are some best practices that CIOs can follow to ease the hurt, at least a little bit.... Read more...