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Our special reports are culled from the industry's leading analyst firms to help you solve technical challenges, efficiently plan the expansion of your enterprise, cut costs and stay abreast of the latest technology trends.

Utility Computing: A Hard Sell
Saugatuck Technology
Is Utility Computing ready for prime time? In this special report by Saugatuck Technology, you'll get details on the question everyone is asking -- how quickly will pay-as-you-go services be adopted by companies and what are the key motivators and inhibitors for the adoption of this new computing model? Saugatuck shares their insight on the interplay between utility computing and other key IT trends such as Web Services and Business Process Outsourcing.

Autonomic Computing: Characteristics of Self-Managing IT Systems
Grid Technology Partners
The management of IT infrastructures has become extremely expensive and difficult - with many inefficient human touch points. To address this, large vendors such as IBM, HP and SUN have all started initiatives to create software and hardware components that are self-managing and self healing in order to address the problem of managing complex data centers. Find out what the characteristics of Autonomic Computing (AC) systems are and how they can reduce IT infrastructure complexity.

Defensive Positions: Countering the Growing Threats to Mobile and Wireless Security
ITworld.com
Just how secure is your wireless LAN? If it is based on the 802.11a standard, the short answer is "not very!". Should remote users be able to access highly sensitive enterprise data from PDAs, smart phones and the other devices of their choosing? Without a doubt, security is becoming a significant, front-burner issue for those who manage wireless networks and mobile worker network access. In this special report brought to you by ITworld.com, you'll learn several helpful and interesting facts from a trio of wireless security experts.

The Patch Problem: It's Costing Your Business Real Dollars
Baroudi Bloor, Inc.
Many organizations rely on their networked systems for all of their business needs. If these systems are not reliable and available, companies suffer and hard dollars are lost. Although applying patches to keep systems reliable is the right thing to do, many companies don't due to the overwhelming number of patches available, the lack of resources, and the potential risk from applying faulty patches. Intelligent patch management is a win/win proposition and a must for your company.

Uncovering Best Practices for Storage Management: Developing and Implementing a Storage Strategy
GlassHouse Technologies
Corporations that consider information to be a strategic enterprise resource are increasingly faced with having to expand the scope of their IT strategies to recognize information assets. Since IT strategies have traditionally been designed around IT initiatives, the need for a storage strategy to protect IT and information assets is frequently overlooked. This special report examine how the content of an IT strategy can be expanded to include consideration of storage, and link this to what is currently seen as best practices in storage management across different industries.

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