This week’s Computer Weekly examines the growing threat from smartphones being targeted by hackers and viruses as the devices are increasingly used for work. Hospitality giant Mitchells & Butlers talks about its migration to the cloud and the CIO of Airbus discusses his IT priorities and how he spends €500m a year on IT. 

This expert E-Guide from SearchServerVirtualization.com discusses some of the obstacles facing administrators managing virtual environments. Explore the "side effects" virtualization can bring to the data center and learn how implementing a few new tools can help alleviate some of these pain points. 

The Dell Energy Smart architecture provides a comprehensive, system-wide approach to balancing performance and energy use in new 11th-generation Dell PowerEdge servers - capabilities that are critical to simplifying IT and meeting the power and cooling challenges of enterprise data centers. 

This paper describes the Dell Reference Architecture, a blueprint or a starting configuration, for Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 in a virtualized server environment and provides guidelines for designing and sizing the storage for the same using Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage systems. 

In 2010, what are your plans for server virtualization? What key feature is most important to you when evaluating virtualization technologies for your organization? Take this survey to contribute your thoughts on server virtualization for SMBs! 

As users demand more remote access using a variety of endpoints, organizations must implement advanced authentication solutions to ensure the protection of their business. This webcast explores the importance of implementing risk appropriate, multi-layered authentication, and the key factors to consider when selecting an approach. 

Advances in storage technology directly affect Windows environments in terms of reduced costs, improved performance and greater manageability. Access this paper for a detailed look at these advances and what they mean for SMBs using Windows. 

This whitepaper provides an overview of the evaluation process a Global Fortune 500 corporation completed to test the various features included in Oracle Advanced Compression Option, as well as the impact on space and performance they experienced. 

In an era of advanced threats, having greater situational awareness is vital for detecting and mitigating attacks. Unfortunately, most organizations lack the capability for intelligence gathering and analysis. In this comprehensive report, gain guidance from top security leaders on how to get ahead with intelligence-driven information security. 

Discover the obstacles associated with supporting advanced technology in complex IT environments. Review what you should look for when considering support features and deliverables, and learn how specific support tools can enable improved problem resolution and minimize downtime. 

Recent advances in desktop virtualization, backup, processors and servers, load balancing, storage, and private clouds will help SMBs take the next big steps towards full virtualization. Learn more about these recent advances in this white paper. 

Not long ago, the average executive’s idea of a business forecast was a simple, spreadsheet-based extrapolation of previous performance. Today, however, business executives are recognizing the need to use the billions of data records stored within their company’s IT systems for more advanced analytics. 

More than 90% of Fortune 1000 companies are not confident that they can completely failover to their remote data center within one hour. Given that the costs of downtime can be measured in millions of dollars per minute, companies with unreliable disaster recovery processes are taking a potentially fatal risk.