Essential Guides

TechTarget editors have curated a collection of “essential” articles on key IT topics. These articles have been packaged into guides which offer our readers comprehensive, problem solving content to help inform and guide their research.

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Enterprise records management strategy guide for GRC professionals

In this guide, find the latest enterprise records management strategies your organization needs to bring information governance into the big data age. Continue Reading

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5 ways ITSM automation is driving business value

Current trends in ITSM automation include the adoption of intelligent automation, ITSM as a service, digital labor, artificial ...

What is driving the evolution of ITSM processes?

At leading companies, ITSM processes are being redefined as 'cross-domain service management' and the ITSM team functions as ...

3 stages of ITSM and 5 ways to enhance your ITSM strategy

From help desk to service desk to business-aligned ITSM -- how evolved is your ITSM strategy? Dennis Drogseth explains ITSM's ...

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CoxHealth gains from outsourcing to Cerner ITWorks

Cerner partners with more than 30 organizations to deliver outsourced IT operation management. One of those systems, CoxHealth, ...

CRM in healthcare: A look inside its muddled world

By some estimates it could be nearly 20 years before healthcare manages true patient engagement. Here's why healthcare CRM is ...

The importance of EHR tools in today's healthcare industry

A strong EHR system can effectively acquire and centralize vital patient information like lab orders, medications, medical ...

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Compare IaC tools for hybrid, multi-cloud environments

Infrastructure-as-code tools come in two flavors: third-party and those native to a certain cloud provider. Keep these factors in...

Improve hybrid cloud monitoring through automation, alerts

To effectively monitor hybrid cloud infrastructure -- without being overloaded with data and alerts -- IT teams need to rethink ...

How Azure Cloud Shell can streamline resource management

Azure Cloud Shell's browser-based model frees IT teams from installation headaches but presents some formatting and timeout ...

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Nvidia partnership bolsters VMware live migration capabilities

As part of vSphere 6.7.1, admins can now live migrate virtualized workloads supported by vGPUs. The Nvidia and VMware partnership...

GPU-buffed servers advance Cisco's AI agenda

Cisco's latest UCS servers with Nvidia's GPUs aim to help larger IT shops more quickly run AI and machine learning workloads -- ...

Discovery functions, FIPS compliance increase DCIM security

Data center infrastructure management is one way to track security patches and unauthorized hardware access. There are a few ...

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5 trends driving the big data evolution

The speedy evolution of big data technologies is connected to five trends, including practical applications of machine learning ...

Containers key for Hortonworks alliance on big data hybrid

Hortonworks is joining with Red Hat and IBM to work together on a hybrid big data architecture format that will run using ...

Big data tooling rolls with the changing seas of analytics

Hadoop data tooling is expanding. A view holds that Hadoop is moving from alternate data warehousing to a full-fledged big data ...

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Mirai botnet creators avoid jail time after helping the FBI

News roundup: The Mirai botnet creators will not serve time in prison after they worked with the FBI. Plus, the Department of ...

CrowdStrike responds to NSS Labs lawsuit over product testing

CrowdStrike and the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization responds the allegations made by NSS Labs in a bombshell ...

State Department data breach exposes employee info

A State Department data breach involving the agency's unclassified email system may have been due to a lack of multi-factor ...