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 second part of a three-part course series discusses best practices for installing, configuring and managing VMware vSphere 5 environments. Learn key tips on how to get the most from this advanced technology. 

This resource reveals five important considerations to keep in mind when planning desktop virtualization and discusses the ten most notable use cases for this environment. 

With database virtualization your database will be running on virtual servers, yet the applications querying it will see it as a normal database. Read on to learn the many benefits of taking this approach. 

This week’s Computer Weekly examines research that suggests CEOs want to invest in IT more than ever, but still see CIOs as technical experts and not business people. We review SQL Server 2012 and ask if Microsoft's database software is catching its competitors as well as concluding our Buyer's Guide to data security. 

Big data can present big problems. Just ask expert Wayne Eckerson, who takes some time in this first installment of a two-part video series to discuss the common issues surrounding the management of big data growth in a data warehouse. Learn why big data is more pivotal than ever, how you can gain a competitive advantage by analyzing it and more. 

Salesforce.com is the leader in enterprise cloud computing services, enabling organizations to manage every part of the customer relationship without having to maintain expensive, in-house applications. Read this case study to learn how Saleforce.com made room for new service and customer growth with Dell's PowerEdge servers. 

Now that smart phones are being used by professionals in fields ranging from field service to customer care, evaluating and selecting the optimal device has become more challenging. Read this white paper for an in-depth look at which smart phone features make work easier and why ruggedness is a requirement. 

Explosive data growth is causing storage costs to skyrocket, which is forcing IT organizations to look for more cost-effective archival and backup solutions. Oracle's StorageTek tape product family has maintained a market leadership position for many years and now includes the world's fastest and highest capacity tape drive. 

This paper shows the shifting mindset surrounding case management, offering up the results of surveys with 155 global case management influencers and decision-makers on how they view this concept. Learn why older process automation approaches based on archaic mass production concepts are no longer viable in today's era of people-driven processes. 

Data management technology is on the verge of a new era – and users who commit to its architectural innovations earlier will gain disproportionate rewards in performance, scalability, flexibility and cost. Read this white paper for a description of Oracle’s Exadata V2 solution, also known as the Sun Oracle Database Machine. 

In this third edition of the Customer Experience Exchange e-zine, Chris Maxcer delves into world of incorporating team-building activities into contact center agents' schedules, Vangie Beal discusses Dell's six-year investment in social media and Anna Fiorentino writes about why customer loyalty has dipped nearly 10%.