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The C-4 Era is Here

The C-4 Era is Here

In virtually every company one visits today, business and IT professionals are struggling to cope with the challenges perhaps best summarized as the C-4 issues: cost-containment, compliance, continuity and carbon footprint reduction...

Cost Containment is Job 1

Cost Containment is Job 1

The supposed immunity of IT budgets from recessionary pressures is a myth. Everywhere we look, Business IT organizations confront spending and hiring freezes, reductions in force, and postponed projects...

Regulatory Mandate Poised for Growth

Regulatory Mandate Poised for Growth

On the heels of recent economic events, legislative bodies are readying additional legal and regulatory requirements...

Continuity remains a Business IT Priority

Continuity remains a Business IT Priority

Business continuity remains a priority for companies despite the economic climate...

Green is also the Color of Money

Green is also the Color of Money

Carbon footprint reduction is more than just an environmental mantra. The "green" issue has taken on new importance as the cost of electricity has increased...

Strategic Priorities

Strategic Priorities

Tackling the C-4 issues returns us inevitably to fundamental questions: Does our infrastructure really match our business needs? Is our IT environment really manageable from the business process or application perspective? Are we using our IT resources as efficiently as we should to process, ...

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Broad Industry Support for C-4 Project Continues to 2010

Cost-containment, compliance, continuity and carbon footprint reduction remain priorities...

Registration for C-4 Cyber Summit Opens

The C-4 Summit Cyberspace Edition is officially open. To watch the videos and...

First Wave of C-4 Sponsors Announced

The C-4 Project and Cyberspace Summit would not be possible if not for the generous...

E-Storm Participates in C-4 Summit

The mainframe is still alive and kicking, and more and more companies with mainframes...

Media Sponsors Pick Up C-4 Feeds

It isn't deja vu. If you find some of the video clips aired here, as part of the...

A Moveable Feast

The C-4 Era is Here

Cost Containment is Job 1

Regulatory Mandate Poised for Growth

Continuity remains a Business IT Priority

Green is also the Color of Money

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Community

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C-4 Community Launched

C-4 Community Launched

Developing a strategy to cope with the C-4 issues may be a daunting task for...

Purpose-built Infrastructure

For the last decade or so, most businesses have been on a technology buying spree....

Intelligent Data Management

Purpose-building infrastructure, the first foundation of a C-4 Strategy, and...

Unified Infrastructure Management

Purpose-building infrastructure, the first foundation of a C-4 Strategy, makes...

Strategic Priorities

Tackling the C-4 issues returns us inevitably to fundamental questions: Does...

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The C-4 Microfactory will Aid Planners

The C-4 Microfactory will Aid Planners

In an effort to develop a tool that can support business and IT decision makers...

Are Ecosystems Dead?

Are proprietary "mainframe mini-me's" really the wave of the future...

Strategic Priorities
Strategy required Tackling the C-4 issues returns us inevitably to fundamental questions: Does our infrastructure really match our business needs? Is our IT environment really manageable from the business process or application perspective? Are we using our IT resources as efficiently as we should to process, share and host our data?
 

Purpose-Built IT

imagePurpose-building infrastructure means aligning technology with business processes - not stovepiping technology behind applications...MORE

Resource Management

imageUnifed resource management is all about platform and I/O management - managing IT as a set of common services...MORE

Data Management

imageIntelligent data management refers to the policy-based provisioning of services to data based on business needs...MORE