IT Today: Illustrated Guide to IT Product Evaluation, Driving Factors for Software License Management, Smartphones and Tablets Take Over By James Alan Miller March 11, 2013 11:44 AM Tags : Today on TIP Tom's IT Pro: Slideshow: Dos and Don’ts of IT Product and Services Evaluation, VIDEO: Enterprise Data Encryption Explained, Tools Are Not Enough: Driving Factors for Software License Management, Smartphones and Tablets Beat Personal Computers in Market Share, and more. Slideshow: Dos and Don’ts of IT Product and Services Evaluation Make better better decisions by following these basic steps for objective IT product evaluations. VIDEO: Enterprise Data Encryption Explained Don't let your organization become a cautionary tale about poor encryption policy. Tools Are Not Enough: Driving Factors for Software License Management Get the right people, processes and procedures in place to enjoy continual success with your software compliance initiative. Smartphones and Tablets Beat Personal Computers in Market Share IDC research reveals smartphone and tablet growth has not only outpaced personal computers. Sponsored: Scaling Out with Converged Networks Networks need to be simpler, flatter and more capable of meeting the high-scale demands of dynamic workloads. VIDEO: Understanding Unified Communications Learn about Unified Communications and training opportunities in this growing area so vital to business success. Software License Management: ABC, 123, Do-Re-Me Software and hardware are to technology as yin and yang are to balance. Neither can operate without the other. However, tracking software can be a much more complicated endeavor. Moore’s Law In Pictures: An Illustrated History of the MicroprocessorConsider the orders of magnitude (and sheer manufacturing prowess) required to morph the very first 4-Bit microprocessors into the multicore powerhouses we use today. VIDEO: Threat Prevention: Exactly What Is It? We look at three sets of threat prevention products that will protect your environment at different levels of enterprise IT. Nvidia Unveils New Range of Pro Graphics Cards for Workstations The latest in Nvidia's Quadro line of professional graphics products will offer "unprecedented workstation performance and capabilities." Oracle Launches Next-Gen Database Appliance X3-2 Oracle Database Appliance now has a beefier, better-performing little brother in the hardware-software combination category. VIDEO: Cloud Services: No Buzz, No Bull Straight talk about cloud services. Evaluating IT Certification Programs: Great, Modest, and Negligible IT training guru Ed Tittel discloses how he evaluates certification programs to decide if he thinks they’re worth covering in general or in particular. Electronic Medical Record Spotlight: GE Healthcare's CPS We use GE Healthcare’s Centricity platform to illustrate what to expect and the sorts of questions to ask while developing your own Electronic Health Record strategies. More Recent IT News Oracle Releases Enterprise Healthcare Analytics Cloud ServiceVMware, Dell Collaborate on Converged Infrastructure for Reinvented VDI Centrify Launches BYOD Identity Management, Partners with SamsungDell Launches Enterprise-Grade FirewallsTwo More Java Vulnerabilities FoundIBM Introduces New Enterprise Mobile PlatformVeeam Offers Extended Support for vCloud DirectorTilera Debuts 72-Core 64-bit SoCRSA SecurID for Two-Factor Security: A PrimerVCE Expands Vblock Cloud Infrastructure SystemsHP Builds Up Virtualization Offerings with New Server, Storage HardwareSkype Integration for Outlook Lync ... and Xbox?Survey Says IT Underestimates Threat of APT AttacksiOS Bug Impacts Exchange ServiceHP Toys With Selling Android-based Mobile DevicesAmazon Web Services Redshift Now Available To All CustomersDARPA Pours $3M in Python Big Data ProjectDDoS, BYOD Creating Security Challenges for ITForrester's 15 Emerging Tech Trends Highlight Infrastructure PlatformsMariaDB Set To Overthrow MySQL's Linux ReignMicrosoft Releases 52 PatchesCISPA May Follow The Obama Cybersecurity Executive OrderDell and Cisco Compete to Join SDN BandwagonAdobe Flash Player Gets Another Emergency Security UpdateCisco Announces High Performance 4RU 40 GbE SwitchMellanox Updates MetroX RDMA InfiniBand and Long-Haul Solutions VendorStack Customer Review Site Out of Beta Recent Articles Slideshow: The History of the Desktop Operating System Join us for a journey back in time and meet those operating systems that laid the foundation for the computer as we know it today. Slideshow: Glad to Know You! Soon to Become Irrelevant Technologies We take a look at technologies whose days are numbered and are destined to become nostalgic memories of how we used to do things. OWASP's Role in Application Security: An Interview with WhiteHat VP Jim Manico A conversation with Jim Manico, Open Web Application Security Project board member and VP of Security Architecture for WhiteHat security. VIDEO: Big Data, Big Hardware, Big SoftwareAs data grows so must the hardware, software and access tools to give it meaning. VIDEO: Application Optimization Tune Ups Network Performance Before dismissing network performance problems as something you can live with, consider the adverse impact slow application response times can have on your business. Cartoon: King on IT: Yahoo! Employees Adjusting to New Telecommuting Policy It's back to the office this June for Yahoo!'s work-from-home employees thanks to edict from CEO Marissa Mayer banning the practice Sponsored: Converged Infrastructure Transforms IT Businesses deploying converged infrastructure technologies in integrated solutions that more tightly align and even accelerate the value of information technology to help drive better business results. GIS Career Opportunities for Healthcare IT ProsGeographic information systems and mapping knowledge provide IT pros with in-demand skills.Secrets to a Successful Healthcare IT Career An interview with Anastasia Adam, a leading Health Information Technology (HIT) account manager and recruiter. Illustrated Guide to Managing Business Data in Social Networks We show you how to make the most of social network technologies for business outreach and collaboration. DNA: The Newest Data-Storage Medium? Molecular and DNA Storage Devices- “Ripped from the headlines!” IT Buyer’s Guide: Electronic Health Records The need for healthcare IT to deploy Electronic Health products grows as the number of vendors pitching solutions to anxious customers rises exponentially. Recent IT Slide ShowsSlideshow: Ten of the Worst Security Breaches of All TimeSlideshow: CES 2013 - Noteworthy Announcements for the EnterpriseSlideshow: Buyer's Guide - Application Optimization AppliancesSlideshow: Hottest IT Certifications for 2013 Slideshow: Intel Processors Over the YearsSlideshow: Rugged Tech for the EnterpriseSlideshow: The Ten Most Influential People in ITSlideshow: Essential Open Source Tools for the System AdministratorSlideshow: Top Ten Major Security Breaches of 2012An Illustrated Guide to Making the Move to 10 Gigabit EthernetSlideshow: Essential Proprietary Network Admin ToolsSlideshow: Top Paying Technology Jobs by PositionAn Illustrated History of Hacking Through The YearsSlideshow: Gadgets for the System Administrator's ToolboxSlideshow: A Guide to Trading Your Laptop for a TabletCloud Acronyms Illustrated: SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and MoreAn Illustrated History of Hacking Through The YearsSlideshow: Horrifying Data Center DisastersSlideshow: Top 10 Cities for IT JobsSlideshow: Intel Processors Over the Years More Recent IT Features & Blogs Top 5 IT Certifications in HealthcareGetting Started with the Cloud: IBM SmartCloud EnterpriseVIDEO: Increase Your Internet Privacy With PETSBusiness Intelligence: Time to Analyze Everything?Cartoon: King on IT – Tech Companies Have Eyes for Whom at the Dance?The Stuxnet Lesson: Paying Attention to Dark Data Worth Your WhileWith Re-Launch Can Blackberry Make THE Comeback?Top Paying IT Certifications of 2013Retired IT Pro Reenters the Job MarketIs the Public Cloud Safe?Swimming with Sharks in the IT Fish TankCartoon: King on IT – The Dell BuyoutA Guide to Disaster Recovery in the CloudSponsored: Blade Servers Cut IT Costs VIDEO: Increase Security with Multi-Factor AuthenticationGetting Started with the Cloud: Rackspace Open CloudAdult Education for IT Advancement: You Get Back What You Put InCartoon: King on IT – Cybersecurity Job Anyone?Cartoon: King on IT – Cybersecurity DronesPublic Clouds: Matters Of The External ConnectionInternal Cloud Bandwidth Concerns: The Buyer’s Perspective Implement QoS for Better Network Performance and ReliabilityAvoid Network Performance Problems with Automated MonitoringVIDEO: Why Virtualize?When Application Tuning Becomes Network OptimizationApplication Control: How to Detect Performance BottlenecksVLANs, Subnets and Confusion – How to Monitor Complex NetworksSlideshow: Buyer’s Guide - WAN Optimization AppliancesA Crash Course in Network Performance Monitoring: A Manager’s GuideMaking It In IT: Advice for an IT Contractor from India Working in U.S.VIDEO: Ed's Story - From Mainframe to Virtualization James Alan Miller is Managing Editor of Tom's IT Pro. He is a veteran technology journalist with over seventeen years of experience creating and developing magazine and online content. Founding editor of numerous business and enterprise computing sites at the internet.com network, James headed up the After Hours section at PC Magazine, as well as hardware and software sections of various Windows publications. See here for all Tom's IT Pro articles written by James. Comment on this article ... Comment(s)| Comments