Online airline and travel group Meridiana fly needed a faster, more cost-effective way for its growing customer base to book reservations online. They turned to the Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager, which ensured a fast, responsive website that could cope with increasing high-demand. 

This benchmarking study from ESI International identifies the trends impacting the project management function in IT industry in three areas: PMO maturity, measuring and reporting on PMO effectiveness, as well as training involvement. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to the British Library about the enormous storage challenges of digitising its printed archive; we examine the state of the UK IT jobs market and the skills that are most in demand by employers; and we look at case studies of the best virtualisation projects. Download the new issue now. 

Read this paper to find out why the FAA's System Wide Information Management program selected four open source service-oriented architecture (SOA) components to combine with its other development and management tools to create an enterprise infrastructure that will be deployed between 2010 and 2015 to support NextGen satellite air traffic control. 

This expert e-guide offers an overview of SearchDataCenter.com's annual Data Center Purchasing Intentions Survey. Get insight into this year's trends around server hardware, operating systems and virtualization. Find out what your IT peers have made top priorities in their data centers this year and much more! 

Interest in offering employee-owned notebook programs (also referred to as "BYO", “BYOC” and “Bring Your Own Computer”) is growing due to better technology, rising user demand and increasing pressure on organizations to reduce costs. A realistic preparedness assessment is critical to meeting business objectives and avoiding additional costs. 

This essential resource outlines 12 steps to a secure and managable Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) program. Find out how you can leverage the advantages of IT consumerization while mitigating the risks. 

<p>It is vital to consider the effect BYOD will have on your network before allowing it in your enterprise. In this resource discover the new networking requirements of BYOD to help you embrace it for the better of your enterprise. </p> 

In this Gartner report, explore some of the key considerations for planning, administering and supporting mobile devices. Discover how organizations can prepare to embrace "Bring Your Own" mobile device initiatives to satisfy employee needs for flexibility while minimizing associated risks. 

The Corporate Executive Board IT Budget Benchmarking Survey assess IT spending,  staffing, and outsourcing levels at more than 175 organizations globally, representing roughly US$38 billion in IT spend. Download for the latest IT budget trends. 

Learn the top seven challenges of adopting a BYOD solution in your organization. Also uncover the differences between bring-your-own-devices and the consumerization of IT, two of the hottest topics in IT today. 

Users are driving the Bring Your Own (BYO) movement and demanding access to corporate resources from their own personal devices. Companies are recognizing the value of the increased flexibility and productivity from BYO but encounter numerous challenges such as ensuring corporate security and remote access when implementing programs.