In this week's Computer Weekly, we find out how mainframe technology that was meant to be dead and buried is finding innovative new applications. We analyse the challenges facing the government's largest deployment of agile software development, and our Buyer's Guide highlights the firms making the most of social media. Download the new issue now. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, we talk to the CIO of the London 2012 Olympics about progress on the UK's highest-profile IT implementation. We ask customers about Oracle’s long-awaited Fusion Applications; review the latest version of Windows Server; and find out how the Blackberry outage affected corporate customers. Download the new issue now. 

Load testing is typically one of the last crucial tasks completed before launching a web application, and as a result it's usually done under pressure with tight time constraints. View this informative white paper to learn more about three tips that will help you save time, effort and money the next time you're load testing. 

It’s a fact: Information–both its availability and accessibility–is critical for the success of any business in a 21st Century economy. Yet most IT organizations are not organized around information, but around infrastructure of servers, storage, and applications. We are entering perilous times for data. Read this white paper to learn more. 

Uncover the mystery behind agile development by viewing this informative resource. It explains how agile can help large projects cut time to market by 50 percent and increase productivity by 25 percent. It helps promote disciplined project management among many other benefits. 

Discover a way to more easily allow your organization to access and use its applications in the cloud. This white paper discusses several challenges to achieving this goal and how an automated approach to application compatibility testing, fixing and packaging can help overcome these problems. 

In this white paper, uncover the three most important things you should know about service-oriented architecture (SOA) in order to be sure you are getting the most efficient and effective performance out of your enterprise application architecture. 

This podcast discusses how to achieve application rationalization through proper application portfolio management. Learn about the benefits of this strategy and how it can help better align IT with business goals, as well as cutting costs and providing substantial performance gains. 

This guide describes the Oracle compatibility features of Postgres Plus Advanced Server. Oracle compatibility means that an application runs in an Oracle environment as well as in a Postgres Plus Advanced Server environment with minimal or no changes to the application code. 

To embrace the new instant-on, mobile, interconnected business world, IT organizations need to transform their infrastructure and data centers to support agility. This video series features 10 expert tips for planning your IT transformation. Check out this brief video for tips 7-5. 

This white paper breaks load testing down into the following key activities: planning, configuration, scripting, execution, and analysis. 

While SharePoint 2010 offers your enterprise a fabulous tool for document sharing and collaboration, the migration process can bring some difficult challenges. Read this exclusive resource to learn the top 10 challenges surrounding an upgrade to SharePoint 2010. 

This paper covers features and benefits of the Splunk app for VMware and how it can add visibility to virtual environments within your organization.