<p>Companies must continue to provide basic business services even as they transition to a cloud environment. This white paper highlights a unified computing strategy that can address issues associated with assembling infrastructure components, multiple switching layers, and more.</p> 

<p>IT leaders and business stakeholders are uniting to push forth cloud computing initiatives. Though key concerns remain, the future for the cloud looks brighter than ever. Access this white paper to explore the latest cloud trends and adoption rates.</p> 

Read this white paper to learn why Gartner analysts believe cloud computing and event processing will completely change the face of enterprise IT architecture by 2015. 

More IT pros are looking to introduce a cloud infrastructure to their organization. However, as the definition and its potential benefits have morphed over time, knowing exactly what this technology offers is not always easy. This white paper highlights cloud computing to help you better evaluate this technology. Learn more here. 

A key part of making a successful transition to cloud and virtualization is your storage infrastructure, and more and more organizations are looking to unified storage solutions to facilitate that approach. This white paper explores the best practices for implementing unified storage. 

This white paper addresses Microsoft’s current stake in cloud computing and examines the most recent range of cloud-based product offerings as an indication of where Microsoft may be heading. 

While some larger organizations continue to manage internal data center, many business managers are able to increase service levels, cover more users, and lower response times by outsourcing their out-dated server farms to third-party data centers and cloud computing providers. This white paper will define data centers and explore cloud networking. 

This seven-page Buyer’s Guide to Cloud Computing by Computer Weekly journalists details the kinds of cloud offering that CIOs and senior IT professionals will need to take into account as they plan future outsourcing, hosting and application strategies. 

The major global telcos have led the competitive march from telecoms into cloud computing, and are now widely seen as credible players in cloud computing services including infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). 

This IDC white paper considers the concept of desktop virtualization, specifically as made available by VMware’s VDI and ACE. The document also considers the benefits and limitations of these technologies as well as the best use cases for each, exemplified through user case studies. 

This article from Gartner offers advice to public sector organisations thinking of deploying cloud computing and assess the progress made by governments in their use of the cloud. 

This report looks at the promise and issues of cloud computing as described today, along with the direction cloud needs to take in order to fulfil on its promise. 

Over the past 18 months we have seen the irresistible rise of a new phenomenon, cloud computing. This term is given by the IT industry to a new business model for computing, one where capacity for computer, storage and networking can be dynamically acquired, on demand,and paid for according to usage.