IT Management

Stay Ahead of the Curve with New System x and BladeCenter Servers

With the portfolio of Intel® Xeon® processor-based rack, blade and iDataPlex servers from IBM System x and BladeCenter, your business has access to even more processing power, memory, storage and reliability. IBM's newest System x, BladeCenter, and iDataPlex servers add extended functionality on top of processor improvements to our leadership line of servers from just one year ago. You get an unbeatable combination of performance and value designed to give your business the IT performance you need.

Join us for a webcast on March 16, 2010 at 10:00 am PST / 1:00 pm EST to learn how the latest innovations from IBM System x and Intel will offer customers:

• Lower entry points to enterprise technology
• Reduced energy costs
• Best in class reliability and availability with predictive failure and redundancy

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Creating an Effective Training and Development Department

Knowledge and technologies in nearly every field are increasing exponentially, so how should companies respond? On the one hand, they need employees to stay on top of the information avalanche; on the other, they cannot commit unlimited resources for training and development.This ExecBlueprint describes in detail how four learning officers from diverse industries are managing this vital function in their respective organizations. Here they discuss the dual role training and development must play to serve the company's present operational needs as well as develop its future products and leadership.

Training Vs. Hiring: Developing Your Staff When Hiring Is Not an Option

In today's down economy, employee retention and development may be the last thing on your company leaders' minds. Fearful of the future, they feel reluctant to add more staff even if they have the work, while your employees, also fearful, are hanging onto their jobs. You may have experienced, even, that your training budget has been reduced so that the company can fund more seemingly urgent areas. This ExecBlueprint offers today's HR manager some practical strategies for fostering continued employee morale, engagement, and growth for times good and bad.

Lessons Learned in Successful Implementation of Enterprise Learning

Many companies believe that learning is one of the primary experiences their staff should be having as an employee. An effective enterprise learning system must be structured and implemented with much forethought so that it not only supports organizational learning, but also the vision and objectives of that company. Our authors here suggest numerous ways of increasing effectiveness, and warn against jumping to new methods without an understanding of context. They discuss benchmarking, ROI, challenges in delivery and retention, and provide interesting points on how to increase the chances of success before training even begins.

Everyone into the Pool

Storage virtualization pools multiple storage devices into a virtual single storage resource, thereby reducing tedious administrative tasks.

Unified Communications Calls Out

Today's fast-paced environment requires people to find, communicate and collaborate with each other quickly and easily.

Why security is best served in the cloud

With the web becoming the prime method of attack as other vectors are closed through security solutions, organisations are increasingly looking to beef up their security controls for web threats. But for many resource-strapped organisations looking to do more with less, managing an in-house deployment can prove to be too great a challenge.

Efficiency and Cost Control in Network and Application Management

Industry analyst Enterprise Management Associates white paper discusses how to shift from being efficiently reactive to problems towards a proactive, preventive approach. Learn three key strategies to gaining efficiency and cost control in network and application management.

CSO Insights Sales Performance Optimization - 2010 Key Trends Analysis

The 2010 Sales Performance Optimization Study (SPO) represents CSO Insights' 16th annual assessment of the major decline in the world of sales performance over the past year, what contributed to this drop in effectiveness, and insights regarding how and why some firms are outselling their peers through investments made in supporting sales teams, increasing process adoption and enhancing levels of relationship vendors have with their customers.

In total, data was collected on over 100 metrics related to sales performance, and more than 2,800 companies participate in the survey.