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Organizational agility means the ability to adapt swiftly to these changes. This brief examines how cloud (social, mobile, analytics) improves agility, and what it means to your business.

The top three reasons for moving to the cloud are efficiency, agility and innovation. Resource pooling makes cloud computing both appealing and dangerous. Managing cloud’s built-in risks can help you achieve its benefits.

A key benefit of cloud computing is on-demand self-service. Successful IT leaders know that usage-based IT can quickly become more expensive than what it replaces.

Today, with cloud computing, many key IT metrics are not aligned to the business goals of the customers they serve, incenting the wrong behavior in IT.

This brief explains how to use proven industry and operations (I&O) standard changes as templates for continuous cloud computing deployment and DevOps.

Investments in ITIL made by IT I&O leaders often show few results, raising questions about the value of ITIL and the quality of leadership.

In this report, review the 15 most popular certifications according to our more than 12,000 North American respondents to our annual IT Skills and Salary Survey. For each certification, you'll find a brief description, the average salary, and some insight into why it is popular.

You know you need to invest in training, but how do you get the best return on investment (ROI) from your training dollars? To help you make smart training decisions, we've put together this guide, which illustrates some alternative and little-known payment options, the types of discounts and promotions available with training and a suggested list of courses that give you excellent value.

Need to know the difference between copper and optical fiber? Want to learn what the acronyms PBX, PC, PCI, PCIe, PCM, PDA, and PDU mean? Our "Geek Speak v3.0" can teach you all this and more. An update to our popular v2.0 "Geek Speak", this white paper will teach you more than 925 popular IT words, phrases, and acronyms.

When we learn a concept for the first time, the newness of it tends to become embedded with the learning process. We remember the new idea's significance and forever after remember it as new. The initial impact of a discovery can prevent the concept from aging. At the same time, we realize how quickly technology advances.