NextGen/IT Today is a Web portal that brings you the latest in actionable products that help transform IT and supercharge the IT value proposition.

In this day and age, IT does everything from supporting the management of business process costs to helping respond to changes in supply and demand through the identification of critical business process adjustments in as close to real-time as possible.

IT is at the heart of every business process initiative dealing with the external forces of globalization, commoditization, shrinking product lifecycles, and increased regulatory compliance. As a result, business processes are more automated and IT dependant than ever before.

Thanks to Moore's Law, the computational firepower of commodity systems continues to expand exponentially. There is another edge to that sword, however, as the complexity of solutions also grows exponentially. While IT can do more theoretically with commodity hardware, more and more, IT finds itself constrained from doing so by the cost burdens imposed by traditional IT management techniques.

"We see computers everywhere except in the productivity statistics." In eight words, Robert Solow, Nobel laureate economist, summed up an issue faced by many enterprises. CEOs, pressured to innovate and grow their businesses, were asking, "What is our return on IT investments?" Too often, the response was a deafening silence. These CEOs had stumbled upon The Productivity Paradox of Information Technology - a critical issue raised by Erik Brynjolfsson, the director of the Center for eBusiness at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

NextGen/IT Today concentrates on both the technology and management issues that IT must address in order to transform itself and break those constraints. Within the many publications under NextGen/IT Today, features and lab-based reviews take on the most challenging issues facing IT today, such as IT Service Management (ITSM), Virtualization, Grid computing Business Optimization, and IT Governance.

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