Outsourcing is the quest to offload either commodity or very specialized activities, so that staff can focus on work that truly adds value to the business. 

This week’s Computer Weekly contains an exclusive interview with JP Morgan COO India Gary-Martin about juggling multiple legacy IT systems while keeping the merchant bank compliant. We also look at how near-field communications technology promises to revolutionise consumer spending and we ask whether 2012 could be the year that APM becomes vital? 

Read this enlightening paper featuring research from IDC to learn more on the growing trend of predictive analytics, including how it differs from non-predictive business analytics projects. Also discover some of the changes in IDC research over the past eight years as well as some of the additional benefits from predictive analytics projects. 

Juniper  Research defines the Indian Sub  Continent as encompassing the following five countries: Bangladesh; India; Nepal; Pakistan; and Sri Lanka.Despite comprising just five countries, the region  – with more than 1.6 billion inhabitants  – includes nearly a quarter of the global population. 

Read this brief paper to learn more about the workshops that Fuse Source offers when taking on Fuse integration. 

Now is the time to realize all of the benefits of virtualizing your test and development lab. This chapter highlights some of the benefits of consolidating your test and development environments through virtualization, including costs savings, accelerated time to deployment and system consistency throughout your environment. 

<p>In this white paper learn why requirements driven testing (RDT) is so important, what potential areas of the software development life cycle are addressed by RDT, the benefits, and the implementation strategy that may be adopted to introduce RDT within the organization.</p> 

A VDI deployment must be carefully designed to ensure it delivers the scalability needed to support large-scale enterprise client computing requirements. Failing to plan properly for a VDI deployment could nullify all of your expected cost and effciciency benefits. Check out this brief white paper to make sure your VDI project is a success. 

In this Pocket Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com, Dell and VMware, discover the central tasks in the assessment and planning stages of a virtualization project. 

This video on application portfolio management introduces robust dashboarding and reporting tools which help you easily identifying opportunities to eliminate redundancies and replace software which doesn't provide the necessary cost benefits. 

In this Videocast, renowned storage expert, Jon Toigo, outlines the Green Data Project, provides an overview of green storage and explores other relevant topics. 

Planning and managing storage capacity in a VDI poses unique challenges. Check out this e-book to learn VDI best practices and hear VDI success stories before getting started on your project. 

Join us for this live eSeminar to learn important considerations in your virtualized server and storage environments.