CIO Digest is Symantec’s quarterly magazine containing strategies and analysis for senior and C-level IT leaders around the world.

Each issue of CIO Digest includes an exclusive interview, an industry feature, a solutions feature, customer case studies from thought leaders around the globe, an update from Symantec Technology Security & Response, and more.

Geographic Eligibility: USA, Canada, Mexico, Selected International

Offered Free by: Symantec Corporation

Explore common challenges associated with server virtualization deployments and the ways Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V together with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager can help organizations maximize the value of server virtualization.

Citrix Essentials™ for Microsoft® Hyper-V™ adds advanced capabilities to Hyper-V to create, integrate, manage and automate virtual datacenters at half the cost of other solutions. Hyper-V delivers immediate benefits to organizations of any size or budget while Citrix Essentials provides the automation capabilities needed to transform datacenters into delivery centers.

When you’re ready, simply add Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V to your existing Hyper-V implementation to gain powerful new capabilities for your virtualization infrastructure, including lifecycle automation, dynamic provisioning for physical and virtual machines, native integration with storage platforms and storage management.

Offered Free by: Citrix Systems Inc.

Learn the key issues in the archiving industry, including some of the reasons for archiving messages and some of the drivers in the industry.

Email use is growing 20% per year, and e-discovery is driving the need to preserve communication. Unfortunately, preserving that communication is easier said than done. Learn about the most common issues reported by organizations like yours. You’ll get an overview of the current state of message archiving, and get the most effective methods and recommendations for addressing archiving’s biggest challenges.

Offered Free by: Sunbelt Software

This newly premiered publication is a one-stop source for storage strategies and management, offered exclusively by TradePub.com.

Planning for any kind of disaster means developing a strategy that protects your data and lets you recover it quickly so your business can keep moving. In its premier Fall 2006 issue, Storage Source Magazine’s cover story is about recovering from disaster and staying in business, including the strategies to make it happen. Other topics covered include:

• Business continuity in the event of a major disaster
• Compliance rules and how storage relates
• Continuous data protection
• Data protection in a four-phase plan

Subscribe now and continue to learn about valuable storage topics and strategies in each quarterly issue.

Geographic Eligibility: USA, Canada

Offered Free by: SourceWorks Media

The Resource for Users of IBM Mainframe Systems.

z/Journal is the only independent magazine dedicated solely to IT professionals in organizations using IBM mainframe computer systems (e.g. System z, S/390).

Geographic Eligibility: USA (Print or Digital Edition), Canada (Digital Edition Only)

Offered Free by: Thomas Communications, Inc.

IT Management in the Mainframe-Centric Enterprise.

Published bi-monthly, Mainframe Executive is an independent magazine for CIOs and IT managers that focuses on the role of the IBM mainframe computer system within the enterprise’s IT infrastructure.

Geographic Eligibility: USA, Canada

Offered Free by: Thomas Communications, Inc.

Identify dangers and learn to measure and quantify unplanned work to create a high performing IT organization.

You can’t see it. You can’t smell it. But it can be deadly, and may be in your IT organizations’ basement, silently killing your company. It’s called unplanned work, and CIOs and CISOs are losing jobs because of it.

Unplanned work by definition is any activity in an IT organization that cannot be mapped to an authorized project, procedure, or change request. Any service interruption, failed change, emergency change, or patch or security incident creates unplanned work, which can come as a high expense for any organization.

This paper reveals dangers and provides helpful scenarios and useful information to help you maximize effectiveness in your IT organization, including:

• Measuring Unplanned Work
• Quantifying Unplanned Work
• The Visible Ops Approach to Solving Unplanned Work
• How Ungoverned Change Effects Unplanned Work
• Implementing Visible Ops

Offered Free by: Tripwire, Inc.

InfoStor magazine provides innovative data storage professionals with insights and strategies to help them make informed storage investments and management decisions.

InfoStor is the leading source for storage professionals, covering the latest thinking on how storage technology is changing and the companies that are taking it to the next level. Its editorial is 100% storage, featuring topics including NAS and File Virtualization, FCoE, Virtual Servers and Storage, Storage Optimization, SSD Drives, Data Deduplication, Green Storage, iSCSI-based IP SANs, Cloud Storage, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, Email Archiving and e-Discovery.

Geographic Eligibility: USA

Offered Free by: PennWell Corporation

The Most Complete Coverage Of New Data Center Products & Technologies.

If you’re in charge of buying or recommending products for a data center, you need to be receiving your own complimentary copy of Processor. See what thousands of others have discovered by reading Processor bi-weekly: They make it simple to keep up to date with the latest products available to meet your enterprise’s needs. Each issue covers the latest technologies and trends that impact the data center while also providing information on manufacturers and dealers offering new, used, and refurbished data center equipment for sale.

Geographic Eligibility: USA

Offered Free by: Sandhills Publishing

Learn the key factors to consider when selecting an archiving system.

An email archiving system can provide a number of very important benefits for organizations of all sizes, including support for its legal and regulatory compliance obligations; its growing storage requirements; its knowledge management obligations and other obligations. This Osterman Research white paper discusses the several reasons to implement a messaging archiving system and provides an overview of Sunbelt Software’s offering focused squarely on the archiving space.

Written By: Osterman Research, Sponsored by Sunbelt

Offered Free by: Sunbelt Software