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Cloud Computing Uncovered: Fact vs. Fiction Cloud technology has enormous potential to enable highly efficient and dynamic IT infrastructures that are more elastic and responsive to potential disruptions and data loss. Virtualization technologies combined with new cloud management techniques enable IBM to provide a simplified "anywhere, anytime" self-service approach for the delivery and consumption of IT services. Read this paper to see how using a cloud-based approach for your IT can free you to reap immediate benefits of a specific technology instead of having to spend time, resources, and money focusing on how to implement it. View this resource now 24 Reasons Why Windows Built-in Defrag is Not Enough Like many "built-in" tools in Windows (such as WordPad, backup, image editing, etc.), Microsoft offers its operating system's customers a basic solution to common needs, while providing Microsoft partners, and even Microsoft itself, the opportunity to build more robust solutions. For example, Microsoft licenses their robust Word and Outlook applications, Adobe offers Photoshop, and enterprise ISVs such as Symantec, CA, and Acronis offer comprehensive data backup solutions. Built-in tools can be useful for home and casual use, but due to their limitations, a more full-featured approach is necessary for the demanding business, government and enterprise environments. You wouldn't expect your organization's design department to rely on Microsoft Paint. The point of that statement is that relying on tools that offer only basic functionality reduces the productive capacity of the user. Third-party programs typically offer solutions in the form of advanced features and functionality, which add value and reduce costs to an organization's bottom line. View this resource now Collaboration for Dummies: A 2012 Guide Collaborating can make the difference between business success and failure. Market and competitive conditions change quickly and companies need to be innovative. You can't thrive by using the same approach and solutions that your company used 20 years ago. That's where Collaboration For Dummies comes in. You discover new approaches to tackling collaboration projects, accessing information, and empowering your teams with the tools that help you succeed. View this resource now Top Resources of the Week Cloud Security: Who Can You Trust? Cloud computing offers new possibilities and new challenges. These challenges range from governance, through to securing application and infrastructure. Fundamentally it is important to be able to assure the security of these new models in order to build trust and confidence. The key to establishing trust in these new models is choosing the right cloud computing model for your organization. Place the right workloads in the right model with the right security mechanisms. This white paper explains why trust, reliability and security decisions are central to choosing the right model. READ MORE >>> Wired for Work: How All-In-One PCs Delivered for Digital Design Farefore Co. is a cutting-edge digital design firm that delivers interactive applications and information visualizations to clients such as some of the largest Fortune 500 corporations. Farefore brings together designers, artists, and technologists to produce commercial digital visualizations that balance beauty with functionality. They conduct their work using several hardware-intensive design applications. Multi-touch functionality is required to zoom in and out, quickly scroll, and interact with the visualization applications. In addition, Farefore wanted the PCs' look-and-feel to fit well with the design aesthetics of its creative work place. READ MORE >>> Cloud Computing 101: Get the Facts Today's IT realities make cloud computing a good fit for meeting the needs of both IT providers who demand unprecedented flexibility and efficiency, lower costs and complexity and support for varied and huge workloads and Internet users who expect exceptionally high availability, function and speed. Additionally, today's leading Web 2.0 initiatives face special challenges. With more Web 2.0 applications freely available to Internet users, and with more users uploading audio and video, two problems are commonly faced by companies like Google and Facebook: how to reliably store all their data and how to extract the maximum business value from their large volumes of daily Web traffic. READ MORE >>> Application Bloat: 3 Tips for Slimming Your App Portfolio Application portfolios have grown big, complex, and unwieldy. IT organizations bear high costs simply to sustain them, while IT productivity suffers as staff spends too much time integrating applications, dealing with large data volumes, and wrestling with redundant and duplicate applications. Besides gobbling up IT budget simply to "keep the lights on," these sprawling application environments prevent IT organizations from pursuing strategic enhancements and innovations that can drive value for the business. It's a vicious cycle that can materially impact business performance 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 product reviews that help you choose the best technologies. CIO Insight provides a high-level look at technologies and processes. 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