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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Post COVID-19 strategies for CIOs on leading through crisis

To see their companies through the current crisis, CIOs should consider these five strategies focused around IT budgets, ...

Workplace of the future undergoes last-minute alterations

Future of work plans entailed offices that fostered better employee engagements and productivity, while accommodating a small ...

Return-to-office plans stress safety, security, collaboration

As offices reopen amid myriad safety measures in COVID-19's wake, companies work to maintain continuity and productivity with ...

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Top 5 predictions on digital future in healthcare post COVID-19

Frost & Sullivan is offering insight on what to expect in the healthcare industry post-pandemic including the acceleration of ...

Pandemic helps to change telehealth policy -- slowly

Telehealth policy is changing, thanks to COVID-19, but providers worry some changes won't last.

Mount Sinai CIO: IT vision is unchanged despite pandemic

Kristin Myers talks about transitioning to the role of Mount Sinai CIO in the middle of a pandemic.

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Review the top sessions from recent cloud conferences

Build your own cloud conference from home. Watch sessions from the past year to learn about modern application architecture, ...

Test your cloud knowledge: VMs vs. containers vs. serverless

Take this quiz to help guide your choice between virtual machines, containers and serverless functions. Identify the uses, ...

Cloud lock-in fears aren't as prevalent as you might think

Enterprises are using multiple clouds, but not because they're afraid of lock-in. See why they're being smarter about cloud ...

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An introduction to DCIM software metrics and terms

Infrastructure management is no easy task. The right software can help admins track how efficient their server racks and ...

6 steps to prep your organization for ISO 9001 certification

ISO 9001 is a quality management standard. Before your team decides to become certified with an official audit, you should have ...

Honeywell touts quantum computer speed, but how fast is fast?

Honeywell has delivered what it believes is the industry's fastest quantum computer. But analysts say it will take more than ...

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Ahana brings PrestoDB SQL query engine to the cloud

Soon after announcing its seed round of funding, Ahana launched commercial support services for the open source federated SQL ...

Confluent enables infinite Kafka scalability in the cloud

Kafka gets data retention boost that can make it easier for users to store event streaming data for long periods of time, which ...

Fivetran raises $100M to advance enterprise data integration

The co-founder and CEO of Fivetran talks about what the vendor is doing to help organizations meet the challenges of enterprise ...

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Interconnected critical infrastructure increases cybersecurity risk

Separately managed but interconnected critical infrastructure sectors are not all bound to security requirements and may be at ...

Microsoft fixes Windows Codecs flaws with emergency patches

Microsoft addressed two vulnerabilities, one rated critical and the other rated important, after being alerted by a researcher ...

Snake ransomware poses unique danger to industrial systems

The new ransomware family known as Snake, or Ekans, is designed for organizations with industrial control systems and has already...