This Week: The top 10 tech tips of 2003

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A weekly newsletter published by TechTarget  December 22, 2003 >> Receive this e-mail as text  >> About this e-mail   In this Issue >> From the editor: A look at 2004 budgets Take our 2004 Spending Survey today! >> Featured Topic: The top 10 tech tips of 2003 The votes have been tallied! >> Expert Technical Advice: Performance and workload management We can help you realize the benefits of managing your workload. >> Site Highlights: Find solutions here Visit our Product and Vendor Guide today.  From the Editor: A look at 2004 budgets by Mark Brunelli, Site Editor The closer we get to the holidays, the more money I spend. It's inevitable. If I see something in a store that is perfect for anyone on my list, I have to buy it. Call it a big heart or stupidity. The point is: I'm not a person who should be making 2004 budget decisions. But you certainly are. There's been a great deal of talk recently about the economy. Most people feel it's getting better and will continue to do so in 2004. Whether the IT industry will share in this windfall is yet to be determined. We want to know what your 2004 budgets look like. Do you have more money to work with? What are your priorities? Are they different than this year? Take our 2004 Spending Survey today and let us know. Have a wonderful and safe holiday season. Until next time, Mark Brunelli, Site Editor  Featured Topic: The top 10 tech tips of 2003 The top 10 tech tips of 2003 by Mark Brunelli, Site Editor The votes have been tallied and our members have spoken. This week we feature the top 10 most popular and useful Search390.com technical tips of 2003. Enjoy! Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Performance and workload management Featured Expert: Steve Samson, Senior Technical Consultant, Candle Corporation Category:Performance and workload management Steve Samson is here to help you work through the headaches and realize the benefits of managing your workload. Click here to ask Steve a question. View all of Steve Samson's tips. This Week: In the forums >> TOPICS z/OS performance tuning Learn the ins and outs of performance tuning with this collection of expert technical advice. >> ASK THE EXPERTS The principles of capacity planning Search390.com's capacity planning expert explains principles and golden figures that can be used as a performance threshold. >> STORAGE TIP Avoid these storage ROI pitfalls At many shops, adding incremental storage is an operational expense that few people analyze deeply, if at all, from a cost-versus-benefit point of view. Storage is simply considered a cost of doing business, much like buying a few additional PCs might be. Tip of the Week: OK. OK. It's not quite jennicam.org, but if techie voyeurs out there wish to ogle CICS, in full web abandon, they should check out the University of Florida's CNS (Computing & Network Services), at http://www.cics.ufl.edu. Think of it as a Webcam peephole into a university setting. Since it is dedicated to nerds, CNS eschews coed dorms preferring instead silicon implements. Read this entire tip to learn about subsecond Web response using CICS Socket Interface as well as the minutiae of administrative and technical matters in a large computing service facility. >> Even dirty old CICS NERDs need love  Site Highlights Find solutions here Get help with your Legacy Systems Analysis and Upgrade projects in the Search390.com Product and Vendor Guide. Visit our Product and Vendor Guide today. Webcast: Managing Your MVS Production Environment for Faster ROI Lower your operations costs and increase productivity with an integrated approach to MVS production management. See advantages of the leading batch scheduler from BMC Software, CONTROL-M. View now. Artix overview Artix Mainframe Overview: Web Services Transformer and Web Services Developer Repurpose your valuable CICS/IMS-based mainframe assets in true service oriented architectures (SOAs). Learn about very high-performance mainframe integration using Web Services for CICS/IMS transactions - secure, reliable and easy to use. Read it now. Take our new poll! In which of the following areas will your company spend the most money in 2004? Cast your vote and share your opinion today. Vote now. Today's News Sign up for Today's News from Search390.com and get the latest and most relevant mainframe news delivered to your inbox. Sign up now. Data Center Futures See why our attendees give us a 100% approval rating and learn why Data Center Futures is the conference you must attend in 2004. Learn more. A B O U T   T H I S   N E W S L E T T E R This newsletter is published by TechTarget, the most targeted IT media. Copyright 2003 TechTarget. All rights reserved. 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