Read this customer case study to see how Canadian mutual fund company AIC Ltd. leveraged Quantum's DXi™5500 disk backup solution featuring data deduplication and replication technology in order to drastically reduce backup time as well as cut storage costs and management. 

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. 

Most organizations strive for efficiency because it ties to cost savings and better performance, while helping to anchor competitive advantages. However, improving efficiency requires organizations to continually seek new methods of managing increasingly complex business processes. 

By turning to a virtual-ready infrastructure, IT has the opportunity to create a next-generation architecture that fundamentally changes the way data centers work for the future. In doing so, IT has the opportunity to transform its own value to the organization by making the infrastructure more flexible and ready to move at the speed of business. 

<p>As technology evolves, so too must your IT strategies. SAP users are finding that upgrades, migrations, and re-platforming efforts are playing a key role in reducing their costs. Read this exclusive paper to learn how you can ensure that your IT managers remain flexible and prepared to make changes to SAP software at the drop of a hat.</p> 

Oracle's Unified Storage Simulator makes it possible to install and manage a virtual storage system on any laptop or desktop and experience the power of Open Storage. 

This paper discusses embedded business intelligence and how it leads to improved decision making in a tough economy. 

Download this paper by Riverbed and discover a clear 5-step approach to making sure every consolidation project is successful. 

Watch this brief video to learn how Intel is striving to make cloud computing more accessible to businesses. 

The key to achieving cost-effective savings in the supply chain is to exchange information accurately and quickly in real-time. 

By enabling users to know every aspect of their business — relative to them; by enabling decisions to be made with confidence — balancing risk and opportunity; and by enabling users to act boldly — responding to events as they unfold, taking coordinated action, and learning and improving over time. 

This white paper details how organizations can leverage cloud-based storage offerings as part of their data protection plans. The paper also takes a closer look at the solutions offered by Riverbed that allow organizations to integrate cloud-based storage within solutions that address a growing set of data protection demands.