This e-book will explore the methods for optimizing sales efforts and working smarter to meet business needs in today’s economy. Continue reading to learn methodologies for increasing sales effectiveness and making this year a successful one for your organization. 

<p>This expert e-book provides strategies to reliably measure the energy efficiency of your data center. Learn how your organization can apply metrics in a consistent way allowing for improved power consumption.</p> 

With an increased demand for dynamic computing accessibility, pressure on your infrastructure is mounting. Fortunately, desktop virtualization provides a method for meeting these demands. Learn about workshifting, a new approach to end-user computing resulting from the advantages of desktop virtualization. 

Supply chains are the blood of your business - incredibly complex, yet vital to your success. This paper explores the relationship between partners and processes and the need to enable electronic data exchange with all your suppliers. Read this to learn about the limitations of traditional integration methods and new options that enable e-commerce. 

The more you know about built-in functionality in the .NET framework and ASP.NET, the less code you have to write, which ultimately makes your applications more maintainable. This white paper outlines several different tips to enhance developer productivity and reduce the amount of code that needs to be written in many cases. 

CA Technologies is one of the world’s largest independent software companies with revenues of $4.4bn (£2.7bn). The IT infrastructure supplier specialises in software products that help users manage their mainframes and distributed computing environments. 

<p>This expert e-guide outlines strategies for combining virtual server backup methods with traditional approaches for a more comprehensive VM backup system. Discover tips that will protect your virtual environment at no extra cost.  </p> 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at the IT challenges facing retailers, as consumers turn increasingly to web and mobile shopping channels. Oracle president Mark Hurd talks about how the supplier intends to simplify IT infrastructures. And new government CIO Andy Nelson discusses how he plans to transform Whitehall IT. Read the issue now. 

In this presentation transcript, learn how to implement a cost-effective, efficient disaster recovery (DR) plan with virtualization. Discover 4 different DR methods that work with virtualization to help prevent future disasters. Learn how to plan for DR by defining requirements and assigning application inventory to service levels. 

While plenty of file storage and sharing methods abound, what looks like a good deal on the surface can end up costing plenty in the end. Read this white paper to discover more about the true cost of “free” file sharing systems and file sharing best practices. 

Intel’s new data center strategies shift the emphasis away from reducing the number of physical data center facilities to, instead, focusing on approaches that leverage the full potential of their data centers worldwide, enabling a nominal cost savings of about USD 1 billion by 2014. 

Although hardware storage prices have come down, storage administration and software expenses still run about seven times the cost of storage hardware.