Few IT managers have the luxury of looking ahead more than a year or two. In this Internet.com eBook, Nicholas Carr, the author of Does IT Matter?, takes readers on a trip one decade into the future to see how IT as we know it will change and what those changes mean for IT professionals, hardware and software vendors, and corporations of all sizes.

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Electricity use in data centers is skyrocketing, sending corporate energy bills through the roof, creating environmental concerns and generating negative publicity for large corporations. "Going Green" means looking to technologies like virtualization, energy-efficient chips and racks, and implementing policies that extend beyond the data center to all of your organization's employees. Read more.

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Your mobile phone has to serve double-duty: both to keep you working when you're out of the office and to support the personal tasks you need it for every day. This eBook looks at the features you need on your business mobile phone, how mobile broadband is changing the nature of how you work outside the office, and looks at some of the e-commerce applications you'll be seeing on a business mobile phone coming to a pocket near you. Read more.

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Oracle Database 11g includes more features for self-management and automation, which makes it easier for customers to cost-effectively manage their data. Download this Internet.com eBook for an overview of some of the new features in 11g and for an overview of the issues you need to consider as you prepare for a database migration.

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If recent staffing surveys are correct, then IT hiring is a sellers market. In response, CIOs, tech executives, and their HR counterparts have to get more creative in their search for new talent. Download this Internet.com eBook for information on hiring and retaining talent in your IT organization.

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With the advent of Voice over Internet Protocol technology, your voice conversations can now share the same network with your business data. While this has the immediate benefit of reducing costs, the mingling of voice and data streams on your network enables a new generation of applications and functionality that can give your business a competitive edge.

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Every day, the Internet goes from being less of a luxury to more of a necessity for all of us. And with the worldwide growth of Internet usage combined with the nearly equal growth in mobile phone usage, more and more people will find the need to access the Internet through their mobile device. This eBook examines how the mobile Web is evolving, the tips and tricks you'll need to go mobile, as well as the basics of what you need to get started on the mobile Internet.

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Everyone talks about the business-critical nature of the Internet, but your most important corporate application is email, so taking it mobile is essential. This eBook examines the basics of workplace email to help in framing mobile email issues, discusses the factors showing how mobile email is poised to take off, and outlines strategies for implementing mobile email in your enterprise.

Is Software as a Service just hype, or is something really going on here? And if there is fuel behind these flames, what's different? Why has a model that languished for a decade suddenly gained steam? Download this eBook to see if your company can benefit as SaaS tries to change the face of the enterprise.

More and more IT organizations are beginning to adopt ITIL-based IT service management initiatives, and turnout at national, regional, and local events on the subject keeps growing. Yet, one of the main questions on people's minds is, "Where do we start?" Download this eBook for the answer to that question and for tips on ensuring a successful ITIL implementation.

Mobile devices are a critical part of almost every enterprise. When used properly, they make employees more productive and more accessible. Download this Internet.com eBook to see how mobile devices are evolving beyond calendar and communications applications and to learn how to choose, manage, and secure the mobile devices in your enterprise.

Updated for 2008: Learn where the jobs are in 2008, and how you can acquire the skills that will lead to a long, fruitful career in IT. Updated to include the latest IT employment reports and data and a guide to using IT headhunters, download this Internet.com eBook to see how the economy and the shifting IT landscape can affect your career in 2008.

Why is managing technical people difficult? Some would say techies are socially inept and simply can't communicate well. While that may be true in some cases, saying so doesn't help managers deal with techies any better: It just defers the problem. Download this eBook for advice on how to bridge the communications gap.

IT managers need a proven, steadfast process for sifting through the hundreds of choices available for each enterprise software market segment. Whether you are evaluating CRM or RFID solutions, the same basic selection process applies. There are a series of steps for ensuring a result that will survive the intense, long-term scrutiny this level of investment will certainly attract.

The new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for e-discovery change the game for storage and records retention, as well as ongoing litigation support within your company. It's critical that you are aware of the impact of these new rules, and understand their positive and negative consequences. Download this Internet.com eBook to see how you can prepare and how e-mail archiving technolgies can help.

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The sophistication and severity of attacks by hackers today, combined with the data-intensive needs of a mobile workforce, demands a security solution beyond a simple firewall. You need an Intrusion Detection and Prevention System to allow your workforce to get access to the information they need while at the same time stopping all types of threats, both real and imagined.

Wireless networks are a popular alternative or extension to a LAN. Using Linux, you can build a WAP that can do everything the high-end commercial products can do, as well as adding a firewall, logging, or running servers. In this guide, you will learn how to choose the hardware for building a Linux-based wireless network and configure the software for optimum performance and security.

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A sys admin in a large server room, or rooms, will most likely need tools to help him or her keep the servers running effectively. This is where software to manage, monitor, and configure the server infrastructure comes in to play. Download this free guide now from our editors at Enterprise Networking Planet and learn why the question is not whether you need some of the tools, but which ones and from whom.

If you're already into having control of your computing infrastructure, taking charge of your telephone network is a natural progression. Asterisk is an open source PBX that runs on Linux. It can free your organization from expensive commercial PBXs, and gives you complete control over your telephone services.

To be an effective network engineer or administrator, you need to understand the blocks on which all networks are built. In most cases that means a thorough understanding of IP addresses, subnets, CIDR, and TCP protocol. Download this free guide now and learn in-depth concepts covering the foundation of networking.

One of the most popular capabilities of Linux is its integrated support for sophisticated analysis and manipulation of network traffic, known as packet filtering because it examines and acts upon network traffic at the packet level. Current versions of Linux support packet filtering through the Linux kernel's netfilter framework and an associated user-level configuration command. Get this in-depth guide and learn how to create or fine-tune packet filtering rule sets on your systems.

Times are changing for IT professionals tasked with managing the datacenter. Issues of physical space, virtual space, and power and cooling have taken on importance as the amount of electronic data continues to grow and applications become more powerful. New tools like blade servers, dual and quad-core processors, and virtualization software are available to help. Down this eBook to see how your datacenter can keep up.

Voice over Internet Protocol is another way for small and medium-sized businesses to increase efficiency and cut costs. A well-planned and implemented VoIP system can provide call quality and reliability that rivals mobile phone or landline calls.

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This custom eBook from DevX and IBM Rational explains why choosing the correct architecture early in your development process is essential for success—both for your business and for you, personally, as a developer.

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As threats have evolved over the years, so has the firewall. But this essential security technology can only take your business so far. By thinking about threats both outside and within your organization, youll come to rethink firewalls within a larger overall security strategy. Read more.

Explore today's most intriguing manifestation of advanced malware: the botnet. Download this Internet.com eBook to examine the client side, the server side, and some of the more interesting uses of the power a botnet provides. Read more.

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As attack vectors have multiplied and security solutions created to mitigate the threats, keeping your business safe has become a complex and expensive undertaking. With the advent of Unified Threat Management Systems, you not only have a simpler way to manage security, you can also lower costs and be prepared for threats, both real and yet to be imagined. Read more.

Keeping your IT network safe from security threats requires your workers to develop an awareness of both the threats and the steps they can take to protect themselves. Organizations should develop a comprehensive policy that explains security expectations to the employees and takes into account teleworkers, laptops, and handheld devices.

Basic security measures such as file permissions and password policies do a great job of making your server secure, but its often the more obscure loopholes that allow unauthorized access to the system. Download this free guide now from Internet.com and learn a few simple strategies that you can use to increase the security of your Windows Server system, and subsequently your network.

Changing the default SSID or disabling SSID broadcasting are two of the most popular ways to help secure a wireless network, but by no means do they provide adequate security. Learn how to use encryption, VPNs, and basic laptop and PC security to keep your network and machines safe.

This guide will demonstrate how double-checking some standard aspects of the network and general security configuration of your systems can substantially increase system security. Learn which actions will increase your comfort level with the safety and security of the systems on your network.

Businesses spend a whopping $712 per worker, per year, in the battle against spam, but there doesn't seem to be any easy answers to the problem. Download this eBook to see what your IT department can do to reduce the nuisance of spam, and for tips on how your users can help you fight the battle.

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Virtualization has been something of a buzzword in storage for more than half a decade. It is defined in a variety of ways, depending on whom you ask. So what exactly is it? And how should it be implemented? This eBook from our editors at EnterpriseStorageForum.com and Internet.com explores some of the second-generation storage virtualization products from a number of vendors and compares their approaches. Read more.

Preparing for a disaster is more often than not part of the storage planning process, and without question it is one of the most difficult task, since it includes local hardware and software, networking equipment, and a test plan to ensure that you can recover from the disaster. Download this free guide from Internet.com and learn how to put your organization on the proper disaster recovery plan, now.

Many Storage solutions are aimed at large enterprises and are designed to address their concerns surrounding infomation lifecycle management and corporate compliance. But small and medium-sized businesses have storage concerns of their own. Download this Jupiter Online Media eBook for a guide to choosing a storage server and building a storage strategy for your SMB.

With storage needs growing at a breakneck rate, the need for tools that manage storage in a heterogeneous environment is more important than ever. Download this free guide now from our editors at Enterprise Storage Forum and learn to solve the puzzle of standards and acronyms that make up the modern storage management landscape.

Information lifecycle management blends storage and enterprise content management to massage corporate data from its inception until its disposal. But is ILM merely a marketing buzzword, or is it alive and real in daily operations? Download this free guide now from our editors at Enterprise Storage Forum and learn why ILM is important in more ways than you think.

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Regardless of industry, size, or age, businesses are awash in more data than ever before. Federal regulations require that data be stored, protected, and retrievable for a certain amount of time. Storage is also a growing area in IT, which means employment opportunities exist now, and should exist for some time. View more.

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While Java helps in fulfilling the promise of "write once, use anywhere", there are practical concerns developers need to address in developing their code, whether it's porting from another language, working in the best IDE or optimizing for today's multi-core computing environments. This eBook will help you in understanding these issues and how you can get the most out of your Java code.

Because dedicating physical test systems for each target environment is out of most development teams' budgets, virtual machines are the right solution at the right time. Download this comprehensive guide and learn how to build and work with virtual machines for a number of development tasks.

Software development is done differently at every organization. The process that one organization or person uses to develop software may work for their specific environment and situation, but may fail miserably in another set of circumstances. Despite the differences, there are fundamental roles that are filled at every organization where software is developed. Download this in-depth guide from the editors of DevX and learn more about these specific software development roles.

This Internet.com eBook uses easy-to-read tables to compare the features of popular open source database applications and popular Linux distributions.

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is seen as the next evolutionary step in software architecture to help IT organizations meet their ever more complex set of challenges. According to IBM, the SOA market nearly doubled in 2005 to more than $4 billion and could top $14 billion by 2009.