This paper offers a guide for presenting the relatively high costs of expanding physical environments and the savings components of virtualization. 

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. 

Measuring, monitoring and maintaining a data centre has often been viewed as a purely technical project. Business value can be significant - and explaining this can unlock budget for DCIM investments. 

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. 

HP Fortify on Demand is a SaaS testing solution that enables organisations to test the security of software quickly, accurately, affordably and without any software to install or manage. View this paper to get a look into how this automated on-demand service works, explore use cases, and determine if this approach is right for you. 

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. 

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. 

In the traditional IT approach, every new software application required a new server. This added costs to every project and deployment took days to weeks. This also drove server sprawl. Watch this demo for an animated explanation of how virtualization addresses common data center challenges. 

This seven-page Buyer’s Guide to Cloud Computing by Computer Weekly journalists details the kinds of cloud offering that CIOs and senior IT professionals will need to take into account as they plan future outsourcing, hosting and application strategies. 

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

As an IT manager you’ve always known the web is a dangerous place. But with infections growing and the demands on your time and budget rising, it’s time to revisit your strategy. This whitepaper discusses the major web threats and provides four rules to help you stay protected. When you follow them, these rules will also save you time and money.