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Is Your Road to the Cloud Full of Holes? An IT Roadmap IT organizations are perceived by the business in one of two ways -- either as a cost center or a center of strategic value. Research has identified a common pattern of activity across organizations that have successfully shifted from a cost focus to delivering strategic value for the business. This paper combines those key findings from several studies into a three stage virtualization and private cloud centric road map for IT value transformation which highlights the objectives, challenges, required competencies, and success factors and success measures at each stage. View this resource now 5 Fragmentation Myths That Waste Time and Money Make no mistake about it, fragmentation will slow systems to a crawl. Fragmentation comes about when files are written in pieces and scattered randomly around the disk. Writes and reads slow progressively, consuming more time and energy and leading to significant performance vulnerabilities. Fragmentation has given rise to several myths. Follow any one of them and you can easily increase your cost of operations while lowering performance levels. View this resource now Migrating Apps to the Cloud: The Pros & Cons Modern hardware trends and economics combined with cloud/virtualization technology are radically reshaping today's data management landscape, ushering in a new era where many machine, many core, memory-based computing topologies can be dynamically assembled from existing IT resources and pay-as-you-go clouds. Arguably one of the hardest problems -- and consequently, most exciting opportunities -- faced by today's solution designers is figuring out how to leverage this on-demand hardware to build an optimal data management platform. Read this white paper to learn more. View this resource now Top Resources of the Week Oracle and the Case of the Missing Slides Read this commentary report from analyst Joe Clabbyst to learn more about Oracle's middleware offerings and Joe's opinions of their marketing methods. Joe, a third party, non-IBM employee, discusses some of Oracles product claims and points out holes in their systems product positioning. READ MORE >>> Microsoft & the Cloud: 5 Things Every IT Pro Should Know Many of the world's leading companies are making significant investments in cloud computing, and cloud computing continues to evolve. Essentially, cloud computing is a "pay for use" model similar to a utility company. Over time, Microsoft has steadily increased its investments in the cloud as well as partnered with major global companies on cloud-based initiatives. This white paper explores five things you need to know about Microsoft and cloud computing. READ MORE >>> Is Encryption Just a Pain in the App? 10 Ways to Simplify Gartner Research VP, Eric Ouellet, shares proven strategies to protect massive sensitive information stores. Learn how to deploy encryption without complexity in both traditional and cloud environments. Ouellet evaluates increased risks and new elastic architectures that are driving a need to encrypt enterprise systems such as databases, servers, storage and cloud. Discover successful enterprise systems encryption strategies that will get you the benefits of strong data security and overcome system performance concerns. With one download, you will get expert insights and actionable information about encryption strategies. READ MORE >>> The Future of Spam & Malware: 5 Predictions for 2011 While many decision makers are taking messaging and Web security threats quite seriously, a soft economy coupled with threats that are rapidly increasing in sophistication and severity means that many organizations are not keeping pace with the threats they face. This white paper focuses on the critical need to manage outbound content sent via various avenues including email, Instant Messages, text messages, tweets, and Facebook posts. This paper also discusses the threats that organizations face from spam, malware and other threats directed at their messaging and Web capabilities. READ MORE >>> eNewsletter Information To avoid any problems with your newsletter delivery, please add newsletters@response.webbuyersguide.com to your address book. Sign up for complimentary subscriptions to eWEEK, CIO Insight and Baseline magazines and receive a 360° view of today's technology arena. eWEEK gives you expert products reviews that helps you choose the best technologies. CIO Insight provides a high-level look at technologies and processes. And Baseline takes you to the front lines, with in-depth case studies. Subscribe today! If you no longer wish to receive The Best Of Web Buyer's Guide, unsubscribe here. Click here to Update Your Email Preferences Copyright © 2011 Ziff Davis Enterprise. All Rights Reserved. Ziff Davis Enterprise, 28 East 28th Street, New York, NY 10016 Privacy Policy