Tech Accelerators
TechTarget's Tech Accelerator packages help enterprise leaders understand the vital role IT technologies play in their companies' success. Each Tech Accelerator covers a major technology, from basic principles to the latest trends. Woven into each Tech Accelerator is a selection of our exclusive content: Readers can access in-depth features, news, technical tips and infographics that explain what the technology or service is, how to buy it, how to manage it and how to troubleshoot problems that may arise.
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What is cloud management? Everything you need to know
Cloud management refers to the exercise of control over public, private or hybrid cloud infrastructure resources and services. Continue Reading
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A guide to artificial intelligence in the enterprise
AI in the enterprise will change how work is done, but companies must overcome various challenges to derive value from this powerful and rapidly evolving technology. Continue Reading
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Data storage management: What is it and why is it important?
Effective data storage management is more important than ever, as security and regulatory compliance have become even more challenging and complex over time. Continue Reading
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Blockchain for businesses: The ultimate enterprise guide
Enterprise blockchain projects can easily run aground without the right navigational tools. Our in-depth guide will help ensure safe passage. Continue Reading
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What is iPaaS? Guide to integration platform as a service
This guide explains all about integration platform as a service (iPaaS), a set of automated tools that integrate software applications that are deployed in different environments. Continue Reading
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The ultimate guide to mobile device security in the workplace
Mobile devices are established as valuable enterprise endpoints, but organizations must take a measured approach and build out a strong security policy before deploying them. Continue Reading
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The ultimate guide to big data for businesses
Big data is the fuel for today's analytics applications. This in-depth big data guide explains how businesses can benefit from it and what they need to do to use it effectively. Continue Reading
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CI/CD pipelines explained: Everything you need to know
CI/CD can transform an organization, but there's a lot to consider. This comprehensive guide explains the CI/CD pipeline stages, benefits and challenges, best practices and more. Continue Reading
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Ultimate guide to team collaboration platforms
This in-depth team collaboration platform guide examines how to create a virtual environment that promotes secure user engagement, productivity and innovation. Continue Reading
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Ultimate IoT implementation guide for businesses
IoT can offer many benefits to the enterprise, but it can be a challenge to implement. Learn the requirements and use best practices for a successful deployment. Continue Reading
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What is container management and why is it important?
Container management refers to a set of practices that govern and maintain containerization software. Container management tools automate the creation, deployment, destruction and scaling of application or systems containers. Continue Reading
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Ultimate guide to cybersecurity incident response
Learn actionable incident response strategies that your IT and enterprise security teams can use to meet today's security threats and vulnerabilities more effectively. Continue Reading
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What is server virtualization? The ultimate guide
Server virtualization is a process that creates and abstracts multiple virtual instances on a single server. Continue Reading
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The complete Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) guide
SASE helps organizations manage and secure external traffic. But is it the best choice for your environment? Find out how to buy, deploy and manage SASE in this adoption guide. Continue Reading
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What is low-code? A guide to enterprise low-code app development
Learn how low-code concepts and practices code can help enterprise developers be more efficient, create valuable apps more quickly and contribute to broader business initiatives. Continue Reading
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Ultimate guide to digital transformation for enterprise leaders
This in-depth guide explains what digital transformation is, why it is important and how enterprises can successfully transition to this new business paradigm. Continue Reading
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Flash Memory Summit 2020 Sessions From Day Three
In this FMS on-demand content library, delve into storage trends and updates -- from computational storage to artificial intelligence and machine learning and more. Continue Reading
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Guide to cloud security management and best practices
This cloud security guide explains the challenges facing enterprises today, best practices for securing and managing SaaS, IaaS and PaaS, and comparisons of cloud-native security tools. Continue Reading
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What is data protection and why is it important?
Data protection is the process of safeguarding important information from corruption, compromise or loss. Continue Reading
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Flash Memory Summit 2020 Sessions from Day Two
TechTarget is hosting the Flash Memory Summit 2020 on-demand content library. Here, you can review presentations from day two of the conference and look at the Best of Show and SuperWomen in Flash Leadership award winners. Continue Reading
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What is enterprise content management? Guide to ECM
Enterprise content management (ECM) is a set of defined processes, strategies and tools that allows a business to effectively obtain, organize, store and deliver critical information to its employees, business stakeholders and customers. Continue Reading
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Guide to building an enterprise API strategy
In today's digital world, businesses increasingly rely on APIs to deliver data and services. Follow this comprehensive guide to build a successful enterprise API strategy. Continue Reading
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The ultimate guide to cybersecurity planning for businesses
This in-depth cybersecurity planning guide provides information and advice to help organizations develop a successful strategy to protect their IT systems from attacks. Continue Reading
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What is data science? The ultimate guide
Data science is the process of using advanced analytics techniques and scientific principles to analyze data and extract valuable information for business decision-making, strategic planning and other uses. Continue Reading
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What is hybrid cloud? Everything you need to know
A hybrid cloud is a cloud computing environment that uses a mix of on-premises, private cloud and third-party, public cloud services with orchestration between these platforms. Continue Reading
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Guide to colocation and how to choose a provider
It's important to thoroughly evaluate facilities, pricing and contract terms before choosing a colocation provider. Also, consider the challenges that come with going colo. Continue Reading
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What is SecOps? Everything you need to know
SecOps, formed from a combination of security and IT operations staff, is a highly skilled team focused on monitoring and assessing risk and protecting corporate assets, often operating from a security operations center, or SOC. Continue Reading
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Ultimate guide to recruitment and talent acquisition
It's no longer good enough to recruit for tomorrow. You need to take a long view and build a workforce for the next stage of growth. Here's how talent acquisition helps. Continue Reading
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What is zero trust? Ultimate guide to the network security model
Zero trust is a security strategy that assumes all users, devices and transactions are already compromised. The zero trust model requires strict identity and device verification, regardless of the user’s location in relation to the network perimeter. Continue Reading
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What is configuration management? A comprehensive guide
Configuration management (CM) is an information governance and systems engineering process to ensure consistency among physical and logical assets in an operational environment. Continue Reading
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Guide to building and executing an MSP business model
This managed service guide provides an overview of how to get started in the MSP business, covering the basics of building a service provider and the challenges in doing so. Continue Reading
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Flash Memory Summit 2020
Flash Memory Summit was virtual this year, spanning three days. Here, you have unlimited access to the exclusive Flash Memory Summit keynote presentations and sessions. Continue Reading
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Flash Memory Summit 2020 Sessions From Day One
Check out what happened during the first day of the Flash Memory Summit virtual conference. From storage technology trends and challenges to what IT pros should expect to see happen in the industry in years to come. Continue Reading
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What is virtual desktop infrastructure? VDI explained
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is a desktop virtualization technology wherein a desktop operating system, typically Microsoft Windows, runs and is managed in a data center. Continue Reading
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Enterprise 5G: Guide to planning, architecture and benefits
An enterprise 5G deployment requires extensive planning. Prepare for advances in wireless technology using this 5G guide that covers use cases, architecture integration and more. Continue Reading
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What is edge computing? Everything you need to know
Edge computing is a distributed information technology (IT) architecture in which client data is processed at the periphery of the network, as close to the originating source as possible. Continue Reading
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Technology a double-edged sword for U.S. election security
Technologies were weaponized to undermine the 2020 U.S. presidential election, but IT systems have also helped to identify fraud and verify results in a hotly contested election. Continue Reading
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What is a SAN? Ultimate storage area network guide
A storage area network (SAN) is a dedicated high-speed network or subnetwork that interconnects and presents shared pools of storage devices to multiple servers. Continue Reading
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What is DevOps? The ultimate guide
The word 'DevOps' is a combination of the terms 'development' and 'operations,' meant to represent a collaborative or shared approach to the tasks performed by a company's application development and IT operations teams. Continue Reading
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Guide to building an effective employee experience strategy
Here's how the physical environment, culture and technology shape the employee experience -- and the steps you can take to improve it. It starts with listening. Continue Reading
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What is public cloud? Everything you need to know
A public cloud is a platform that uses the standard cloud computing model to make resources -- such as virtual machines (VMs), applications or storage -- available to users remotely. Continue Reading
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Guide to building an enterprise unified communications strategy
IT needs a unified communications strategy for voice and video conferencing, chat and other tools. This step-by-step guide helps you implement, evaluate and manage UC in the enterprise. Continue Reading
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What is hyper-converged infrastructure? Guide to HCI
Hyper-converged infrastructure is a software-centric architecture that tightly integrates compute, storage and virtualization resources in a single system that usually consists of x86 hardware. Continue Reading
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The IT thought leader's guide to the future of work
Forward-looking IT leaders aren't waiting for the post-COVID-19 era to happen. They're shaping the technology trends and processes that will support future work environments. Continue Reading
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In-depth guide to machine learning in the enterprise
Enterprises are adopting machine learning technologies at rapid rates. In this machine learning guide, we break down what you need to know about this transformative technology. Continue Reading
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What is identity and access management? Guide to IAM
Identity and access management (IAM) is a framework of business processes, policies and technologies that facilitates the management of electronic or digital identities. Continue Reading
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Create your data backup strategy: A comprehensive guide
This data backup guide will help you if you're starting the planning process, looking for a refresh or seeking new options. Backup plans are critical in today's environment. Continue Reading
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What is customer experience management (CEM or CXM)?
Building brand loyalty among customers involves a customer-centric strategy and measuring feedback through voice of the customer data to improve customer experiences. Continue Reading
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Ultimate guide to business intelligence in the enterprise
Enterprise BI systems bring a variety of uses, business benefits and challenges to organizations, as explained in this in-depth business intelligence guide. Continue Reading
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Server hardware guide to architecture, products and management
Today's server platforms offer a host of options for SMBs and enterprise IT buyers; it's important to learn the essentials before making any purchasing decisions. Continue Reading
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The definitive guide to enterprise IT monitoring
This comprehensive IT monitoring guide examines strategies to track systems, from servers to software UIs, and how to choose tools for every monitoring need. Continue Reading
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Ultimate guide to network management in the enterprise
This network management guide explains the challenges of enterprise oversight, best practices for automating tasks, and the next-gen with AI and machine learning. Continue Reading
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Guide to preventing coronavirus phishing and ransomware
Malicious actors are taking advantage of coronavirus fears to wreak havoc on cybersecurity. Check out our guide to learn about phishing and ransomware threats and how to stop them. Continue Reading
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15 essential contact center software features
Looking for the best contact center software features? We review some of the most useful capabilities including data reporting, speech analytics, routing methods and AI. Continue Reading
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DRaaS guide: Benefits, challenges, providers and market trends
Disaster recovery once involved setting up an off-site facility and duplicating expensive storage gear. Today, DRaaS offers an alternative to traditional approaches. Continue Reading
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How to choose an HR software system in 2021
Experts share their best advice about selecting HR software and pinpointing the features and functions that matter the most. Continue Reading
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Data security guide: Everything you need to know
This data security guide digs into data protection and privacy compliance, explaining how to construct a proactive security strategy strengthened by best practices. Continue Reading
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A comprehensive test automation guide for IT teams
This one-stop test automation guide walks through the benefits and challenges, how to craft an automated testing strategy and how to compare tools. Continue Reading
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Flash memory guide to architecture, types and products
Flash memory, a staple of consumer electronics, is playing a wider role in enterprise storage. This guide offers an overview of flash, from current use cases to future directions. Continue Reading
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Complete crisis management guide and free template
This guide to crisis management and free template can help your business respond to an unplanned emergency, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic. Continue Reading
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Complete guide to unified endpoint management
IT staff uses unified endpoint management software to manage a range of devices within the organization. Learn about all the components of UEM in this comprehensive guide. Continue Reading
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Guide to work-from-home tech, IT support during the pandemic
This guide provides information on remote technologies that IT teams can quickly deploy to support employees who must work from home to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Continue Reading
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Ultimate guide to RPA (robotic process automation)
This comprehensive guide to robotic process automation explains what RPA is, where it's being deployed and how this disruptive technology is changing how work gets done. Continue Reading
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Guide to business continuity and pandemic planning
This guide explains the enterprise impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and how business continuity planning keeps organizations safe and in operation. Continue Reading
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Guide to supply chain management
It's no exaggeration to say supply chains sustain life as we know it. The world has seen what happens when the unimaginable breaks them apart. SCM can put them back together. Continue Reading
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The CIO role, from IT operator to business strategist
The CIO position has changed dramatically since its inception 40 years ago. This in-depth review traces the job's evolution and explains what is required of the CIO role today. Continue Reading
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What is BCDR? Business continuity and disaster recovery guide
Business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) are closely related practices that support an organization's ability to remain operational after an adverse event. Continue Reading
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UCaaS explained: Guide to unified communications as a service
Check out this one-stop UCaaS guide to find out how this cloud-based service works, how to buy and implement it, as well as best practices and insight into its evolution Continue Reading
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Comprehensive PowerShell guide for new and seasoned admins
PowerShell has emerged as an important IT automation tool for on-premises and cloud resources. This overview covers a range of topics to get you up to speed. Continue Reading
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The ultimate guide to ERP
ERP is the nervous system of modern businesses. Learn how it works, understand its risks and benefits, and get tips on deployment in this wide-ranging guide. Continue Reading
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What is data management and why is it important?
Data management is the process of ingesting, storing, organizing and maintaining the data created and collected by an organization, as explained in this in-depth look at the process. Continue Reading
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What is data governance and why does it matter?
Data governance (DG) is the process of managing the availability, usability, integrity and security of the data in enterprise systems, based on internal data standards and policies that also control data usage. Continue Reading
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What is cloud backup and how does it work?
Cloud backup, also known as online backup or remote backup, is a strategy for backing up data that involves sending a copy of the data over a proprietary or public network to an off-site server and storage system. Continue Reading
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What is cloud migration? An introduction to moving to the cloud
Cloud migration is the process of moving data, applications or other business elements to a cloud computing environment. Continue Reading
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SD-WAN explained: Ultimate guide to SD-WAN architecture
Evaluating SD-WAN architecture can be confusing, especially as the market grows. This guide helps IT pros learn SD-WAN basics, choose the best product and deploy it with confidence. Continue Reading