Technology in the workplace is everywhere. Many organizations find that they are struggling to support and manage this proliferation of technology and provide support in a cost effective manner. It’s often impossible for organizations to keep up their staff up to date and fully covered for all the technology they have in daily use.

Look around your office. How many of your colleagues have iPods and thumb drives tucked into their briefcases? How many employees are routinely using Blackberries, iPhones and other “smart” handheld devices? Mobile phones have become hand‐held Wi‐Fi computers; and portable devices now have disk storage capacities that can go over 100 GB. As each of these innocuous items comes into contact with your network, it becomes an endpoint, a new point of vulnerability.

The current economic climate is challenging organizations to innovate and aggressively manage expenses. Some of the more costly items related to IT include personnel utilization, risk and system downtime. To address these challenges, many organizations, especially small and growing ones, turn to Managed IT Services to help meet their needs.

This case study profiles Advanced Logic Industries and contributed to our selection as Novell's Partner of the Year.

Many organizations are streamlining their office space requirements and moving to an increasingly mobile, distributed, digital savvy workforce. So how can a new or existing building differentiate itself in today’s market? It’s no longer just “Location, Location, Location”. It’s about adding value, generating additional service revenue opportunities, and giving tenants the resources they need to conduct business the way they want: often with a high reliance on internet access and mobile collaborative technology.

The article reviews how one local company saw quick and measurable impacts from a move to IP-based telephony solution deployed by Advanced Logic Industries

IT data centers use 1.5% of all the energy consumed in the United States, also almost twice the amount needed in 2000. “Going Green” is also a growing strategy for boosting corporate image and product marketing. Being environmentally conscious can be very good for business.

Quick overview: What is Virtualization and why is it needed?

Many underestimate the significant challenge of the proliferation and exponential growth in the amount of information generated by an organization. E‐Mail, instant messages, documents, databases and voicemail are all areas where information management and legal discovery can be issues.

The value of knowledge workers has never been higher. Yet as projects become more complex and teams become more dispersed, organizing projects, workers, and content in a meaningful way has become very difficult. A current trend to overcome this challenge is for businesses to use the same “Web 2.0” social networking techniques that are flourishing in the consumer community.

One of the most common budget line items being cut is travel. This can create a challenge: how to keep an organization’s opportunity pipeline healthy, maximizing interactions with clients, stakeholders, and key areas of the business ecosystem; all while trying to travel less.