Professor Hans Werner Meuer, co-founder of the Top500 supercomputer list, presents a critical assessment of high performance computing technology and applications. 

This special eight-page indepent report from Computer Weekly, packed with graphs and diagrams, is essential reading for anyone doing business, or thinking of doing business with EMC. 

This special Computer Weekly report analyses the market for supercomputers, peripherals and applications, the supercomputer community, developments in technology, and offers a country by country comparison. 

<p>This special nine-page report from Computer Weekly analyses the challenges facing IBM, its financial performance, the services it offers.</p> 

Inside, discover how you can adopt a well conceived reference design to improve any data center project, as well as data center operations. Learn how to simplify and shorten the planning and implementation process and reduce downtime risks once up and running. Explore reference designs and their benefits. 

IT pros have a general understanding of virtual desktop infrastructures. But when it comes to designing a system, many are not prepared for the decision making that is involved with the process. This webcast highlights industry expert Gabe Knuth as he takes a look at the challenges of designing VDI and more. 

To meet today’s unpredictable challenges, changing requirements and technical growth areas, a modular data center design and strategy can yield significant benefits that provide flexibility to match short-term capacity requirements with long-term growth, and do so in a cost-effective manner. Read this white paper to learn more. 

A new, more flexible identity infrastructure is on the horizon. With the growing adoption of federation standards and protocols, such as SAML 2.0, OpenID, and WS-Trust, both enterprises and end users will benefit from enhanced security, increased privacy, and a better experience. Read this white paper for more information about the new system. 

<p>This paper explains how modeling information architecture (IA) can help reduce the costs associated with data management. Read this now and learn about the benefits of implementing IA and how Sybase's option offers modeling support for database design and enterprise architecture.</p> <p> </p> 

Siemens product lifecycle management (PLM) Software for life sciences can help medical device manufacturers manage compliance requirements while supporting greater collaboration, ultimately reducing costs while improving patient outcomes. 

<p>Without up-to-date servers in place, it is difficult for organisations to progress beyond a certain point in their virtualisation initiatives. This white paper explains how you can take your virtualisation project to the next level by deploying high-performance hardware created with this technology in mind.</p>