As budgets stay tight and finance professionals become more involved in technology buying decisions, be better prepared to defend your business case through the use of financial metrics and Return on Investment (ROI) calculators. 

Storage capacity utilization metrics provide a framework you can use to analyze and manage SAN storage use across a diverse IT environment. Check out this white paper to explore how capacity metrics can help your organization with efficiency, capacity management, and risk management. 

IBM Cognos software helps K-12 organizations increase visibility and improve decision making, driving improved student performance, lowered cost of interventions, greater productivity, and lower operating costs. 

Read this Aberdeen report, based on responses from 117 executives of successful companies, to find out how best-in-class businesses are proactive in their asset management. Learn techniques for optimizing maintenance and operations, creating a culture of collaboration and so much more. 

This week’s Computer Weekly asks what chancellor George Osborne's Budget means for the UK IT community and if he can deliver his goal to make Britain "the technology centre of Europe". Also you'll find the final part of our private cloud Buyer's Guide and we examine the options for choosing the right WAN optimisation strategy. 

This white paper from Aberdeen Research takes a look at how applying analytics capabilities to workforce management can better align people to business goals and strategies to cut costs and improve performance. 

Access this essential resource to learn how one organization within the financial industry freed up nearly half a megawatt of power, extended the life of their data center, and reallocated budgets by implementing a vendor solution to efficiently and cost-effectively manage all assets. 

Read this case study and learn how Mitsubishi Corporation's European subsidiaries sought a system capable of automating planning and providing managers with the required information to make better-informed decisions. Discover how IBM Cognos offers them access to a centralised system, creates budget plans, reports and individual analysis. 

This comprehensive white paper discusses the tools you need for assessing the health of your organization’s IT in real-time. Read on to discover how predictive analytics plus real-time service models are combined for powerful metric abilities for analyzing and preventing IT disasters. 

Government leaders need to determine how to address their agency’s privacy and data protection challenges with a shrinking budget.  Read this IBM white paper, “Business Case for Data Protection” and see how top-level executives would handle such a scenario. 

If the worldwide health system is not in crisis, it is under intense pressure and cost cutting trends in the light of the global downturn are only set to continue. For most hospitals and medical establishments budget allocations for IT were expected to be smaller in 2009 than in 2008. 

This case study examines the City of Denver's document management issues and how implementing Alfresco Enterprise Content Management helped them overcome these challenges. 

<p>Given the competitive marketplace, evaluating source code analysis tools can be overwhelming. This case study highlights one recommended offering, the quality indicators it provided, and the results one organization achieved after implementing it.</p>