Denise Dubie

The buyout of what's called a "run-book" application provider could give the management software maker an edge over rivals such as CA and HP, analysts say. Get more details on the combined platform

The hardware specialist builds on its purchase of ACS by buying a company best known for offering remote monitoring to corporate users. The next challenge may be updating its support offerings

The study of more than 128 pre-owned network equipment dealers worldwide found 95 percent said they can deliver used network gear to customers within one or two days, which the group says is a contrast to the typical 10-week delivery cycle of OEM vendors such as Cisco and Nortel.

Server consolidation by reducing the number of physical servers while maximizing capacity in the data centre is a goal for many IT shops, as such practice helps reduce cost. In addition, less hardware helps lessen an organization's environmental impact. Here is a checklist to see if you're data centre is ready to be green.

Virtualization appeals to IT executives looking to maximize data-center operations, but they must ask themselves 10 difficult questions before rolling virtualization out to successfully adopt the technology, industry watchers say.

Kris Lamb, director of X-Force, IBM's primary security research organizaiton talks about what he sees as the most critical challenges and opportunities facing enterprise IT security managers today.

Successful at selling hardware, HP wants to make a bigger splash in the software arena, but with longtime rival IBM intending to do the same, the company faces a difficult battle

As telework initiatives spread, managers interested in adopting the flexible work model must set use policies, deploy enabling technologies and establish employee goals to guarantee their telework initiative is a success.