Because Appleby operates data centers in several geographic regions, replication for disaster recovery purposes is one of the company’s top concerns. The company’s decentralized storage infrastructure seemed to make multi-site replication prohibitively costly and complex. Check out this case study to learn about the solution Appleby found. 

Access this case study to learn how one company deployed BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Express to provide the company with many of the same BlackBerry® smartphone features that employees were accustomed to using, without additional software or user license fees. 

Explore the results of a recent IDG survey gauging IT leaders’ perspectives on technology escrow agreements with software vendors, as well as the importance of including verification services within them. 

The Colonial Company, a diversified holding company in Montgomery, Alabama, was in need of a reliable data storage system that required less maintenance, less manual interaction and more automated features. Read this case study to learn how Colonial adopted a modern expandable storage platform and the benefits they realized. 

This white paper helps in better understanding all the different cost factors and includes a simplified calculator that will help influencers and decision makers to better estimate the true TCO of a SaaS versus a traditional software deployment. 

Access this case study to see how the City of Vaughan used the BlackBerry® smartphone to create two field-ready applications: the Mobile People Application, which accesses the city database of licensed individuals, and the CTS Mobile Viewer, which provides mapping and location information to consolidate their communication technology. 

This research from Freeform Dynamics, based on a survey of end users,  identifies the challenges faced by IT departments and suppliers on software licensing, and offers advice to organisations on dealing with software licensing. 

In this week’s issue of Computer Weekly, we look at the key trends and technologies that will be on IT leaders’ agenda in 2012. Our first Buyer’s Guide of the year examines how IT consumerisation will affect business technology; and Home Office IT director Denise McDonagh tells us why government IT isn’t working. Download the new issue now. 

In this videocast, senior enterprise IT architect Nelson Ruest breaks down some of these scenarios, with details on how Hyper-V can provide benefits in test and development situations and business continuity. 

This white paper provides an in-depth comparison of two of the top private cloud solutions available in the market using industry standard concepts and examining both licensing models. Review the pros and cons of each and discover which one outperforms the other. 

HP's Operations Manager 9.00 for Windows allows your organization to spend more time on strategic initiatives by using consolidated infrastructure monitoring tools. Download this evaluation copy and get a hands-on example of how this software works. 

Virtualization offers multiple ways to save money including hardware purchase, power and cooling costs over time and staff time needed when providing a test and analysis environment to name a few. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, we hear from Visa Europe CIO Steve Chambers on the technology behind the credit card transactions that retailers rely on. We examine the challenges facing the government's G-Cloud project; and we ask how Microsoft will cope when customers no longer want to purchase software licences. Download the new issue now.