42% of Millennials are likely to quit a job because of substandard technology. 36% of workers believe their home technology is more advanced than what they use at work. 20 to 25% of the US workforce frequently works remotely.

Field workers endure the world’s toughest elements every day and it’s important for their PCs to be able to do the same. Here is how else you can help them stay effective in any environment.

In today's world, the speed and scale of business are pushing traditional IT to the breaking point. Your business expects your IT organization to deliver applications and services that are fast, predictable, scalable, and interoperable. That's a tough proposition. With all the complexity in today's data centers, IT agility is lost. It can take 18 months to deploy a new application environment- and timeframes like that are no longer acceptable. With today's evolving business models and changing workforce, things have to happen much faster.For your IT organization to keep pace with the business, you need a new, faster approach to infrastructure deployment-an approach that increases agility and accelerates time to application value. That's HP Converged Systems. Built on Converged Infrastructure, these systems deliver the industry's first portfolio of pre-integrated, tested, and optimized infrastructure solutions for applications running in virtual, cloud, dedicated, or hybrid environments.

The information explosion gives hackers, thieves, and malicious insiders a target-rich environment that perimeters cannot defend. To thread the needle between information protection and legitimate access, CISOs must focus on defending the content of files and communications, not just containers or conduits. Effective protection combines content awareness, policy-based protection, and strong authentication to discover and monitor sensitive information, protect it as it moves across networks, to mobile devices, and in the cloud, and deny illegitimate access without compromising the productivity of legitimate users.

This IBM publication provides information about IBM Social Business and includes details about the business need and the value of transformation to a social business. It presents a high-level Social Business component diagram, highlights key capabilities, and includes customer case studies that exemplify how some of these capabilities can be applied.

Everyone’s heard the line about the only inevitabilities in life being death and taxes. IT managers, however, would quickly assert a third absolute – higher storage needs. There’s no question data storage requirements continue to skyrocket, and there’s absolutely zero likelihood of that ending any time in our lifetime. Enterprises have successfully controlled their IT budgets and server sprawl issues with the help of virtualization technologies, but what’s next? Increasingly, organizations are turning to storage consolidation for virtualized server environments in order to reduce data center costs and inefficiencies.

More than 300 database and information security professionals were recently surveyed on their data security practices. The results were disturbing with 60% saying that a data breach is likely, or they're not sure what to expect, over the next 12 months. According to the report, despite well publicized successful attacks on databases and global regulations calling for data privacy protection, most organizations have still not put in place the controls needed to protect sensitive data and critical database infrastructure from abuse by insiders or attackers exploiting legitimate database access through SQL injection, stolen credentials, and other techniques. Download this complimentary copy of the 2011 IOUG Data Security Survey Report and see how your organization measures up.

With 1.5 billion instructions in one second (BIPS), while consuming less energy than ever before, Wintergreen Research says IT departments need to sit up and take notice of this hybrid system that combines the System z with servers. The ROI / TCO for data center computing depends on CIO willingness to make fact based decisions, removing emotion from the application platform decision making process. The platform choices depend on realistically evaluating the platform advancements of the various server technologies in the context of workload, utilization, development time, labor costs, and benchmarks.

The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University is a premier business school ranked in the top 25 nationally according to U.S. News and World Report. The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University wanted to decrease server deployment time for faculty special projects; reduce amount of physical hardware; reduce the power consumption across all infrastructure. The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University deployed VMware Infrastructure which decreases costs, streamlines server deployment, and reduces energy consumption.

Cloud computing is a paradigm shift for IT services and is not just a set of new technology and tools but is the change in the way we respond to the business problems today using technology. This paper discusses cloud service delivery models and how to choose your preferred delivery platform.