The value of the IT market for smart cities globally is approximately $35bn, according to this in depth analysis from Ovum. 

When a full backup of the city's 125-plus servers became impossible overnight on a legacy tape system, Burbank went looking for a better answer. The city chose Quantum's DXi7500 Express disk-based backup solution with deduplication technology. 

The City of Ulm turns to Enteo v6 to rollout Windows Vista and applications on all clients with minimal effort and high degree of reliability. 

Discover the solution a city council used when redesigning its switching and telephony infrastructure that helped them support remote workers. Learn how they improved services and obtained substantial cost savings at the same time. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at the IT challenges facing retailers, as consumers turn increasingly to web and mobile shopping channels. Oracle president Mark Hurd talks about how the supplier intends to simplify IT infrastructures. And new government CIO Andy Nelson discusses how he plans to transform Whitehall IT. Read the issue now. 

Inside this exclusive podcast interview, hear how Paul Harder, director of technology of the nonprofit agency The Arc Greater Twin Cities, was able to act as an industry role model by taking advantage of the benefits of social media and foster positive relationships with the business. 

As a younger, tech-savvy generation infiltrates the workforce, they are bringing social technologies with them. Read this white paper to learn how social tools are becoming game changers in the workplace environment and how you can learn to embrace and incorporate them into your organization to foster higher productivity. 

Here five things about Windows Server 2008 that are the less obvious, more esoteric, yet useful features or quirks. The following is a brief list of some things that I tend to assume that many people know, and I am constantly amazed by clients and students who really don't know them. How many do you already know? 

Companies need to make significant investments in digital skills and technologies if they are to meet the needs of their customers, Booz&Co argues in this report. 

Research from KnowledgeStorm shows that a high percentage of leads that begin their research on the Web ultimately result in an active project. The technology vendors that nurture these Early Stage leads are often in a better selling position than those vendors that later "pile on" to more advanced, but also more competitive, leads. 

This podcast will focus on the content of a new KnowledgeStorm research report, the second in a series of studies looking at the impact emerging online applications have on B2B technology marketing. The research finds that blogs and Real Simple Syndication (RSS) are catching on more quickly than previously thought. 

Voice over Internet Protocol is the future of enterprise telecommunications. Find out if VoIP is the right choice for your company right now. Discover the benefits VoIP has to offer and how to overcome potential pitfalls during deployment. 

Although leveraging virtualization to support desktop workloads can improve IT management efficiency, costs, and capabilities, choosing the vendor that best fits your needs can be overwhelming.This white paper offers a detailed vendor analysis that offers a way to determine which desktop virtualization solutions most benefit your business.