EqualLogic firmware version 5.1 enables Dell EqualLogic PS iSCSI SAN arrays to leverage automated performance load balancing. This feature finds the most efficient location for data at the sub-volume level, enabling a more granular level of data management than traditional tiering approaches provide. Read this white paper to learn more. 

This week’s Computer Weekly kicks off our Buyer's Guide to data security by looking at the changing role of the IT security chief. We also examine why flexible working is proving so slow to roll out and we talk to the UK's air traffic control operator about its ambitious desktop virtualisation project. 

This paper explains how cloud computing is now also evolving in a private variant whereby enterprises set up cloud-like, centralized shared infrastructure with automated capacity adjustment that internal departmental “customers” utilize in a self-service manner. Realization of efficiency, performance, and agility benefits is reinforcing this trend. 

How do you manage performance for apps with 100 to 500 users and no budget for the extra servers to handle random load spikes? With elastic load balancing. View this webcast to learn how to cost-effectively run your applications & balance your load across virtual machines. 

This expert tip offers exclusive advice for properly managing your cloud environment. Discover why it is critical that you properly size your physical infrastructure and explore load balancing tactics and common misconceptions surrounding them. 

In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com and Dell, you will discover how to balance the storage and networking demands of today's virtual environments. 

The white paper explores the fundamentals of automated software testing, explains how such an endeavor is actually an investment for a company, and details how a company can get a return on their investment. 

<p>Read this white paper to learn what it takes to initiate a balanced and direct approach to testing and QA throughout the application lifecycle. Effective management will lead to better IT insight, happier clients, and reduced costs.</p> 

Named as one of Storage magazine’s “Hot Technologies for 2011”, automated storage tiering is an effective way to make efficient use of installed data storage resources, and to take advantage of the high performance of solid-state storage. 

This week’s Computer Weekly, we talk exclusively to Tesco CIO Mike McNamara about why the UK's biggest retailer is spending £150m on its online business. And, with the London 2012 Olympics only weeks away; we look at how IT testing is progressing. 

<p>This white paper offers an overview of key considerations for implementing a strategy to automate fax and email orders (plus EDI, web and other order sources) into your enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.</p>