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. 

<div> <div> <p>Access this white paper to discover how one city migrated from their aging mainframe to a Windows platform. Learn how your organization can save on maintenance costs and increase operational efficiency by making a similar move.</p> </div> </div> 

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? 

The benchmark study described in this whitepaper demonstrates Oracle Complex Event Processing's (CEP's) ability to provide both very high throughput and low latency on a single Exalogic compute node with a use case that is very typical of financial front office applications in capital markets. 

This free Sybase presentation provides a high-level overview of Complex Event Processing (CEP). It begins by defining CEP and its capital markets applications, and culminates with the powerful Sybase Aleri CEP platform and its features and benefits. 

The problem with becoming too comfortable with built-in SQL Server monitoring tools is that they're often used after problems have already arisen. Read this paper to discover how event notifications and extended events can help you drill down into SQL Server and proactively monitor your databases. 

Read this white paper to learn about the real-time analytics capabilities of complex event processing (CEP) and discover how this technology can be leveraged for business agility, particularly for algorithm monitiring in hte trading industry.  

Today's organization are demanding more advanced SIEM solutions based on the number of users – and the variety of user types – who have to analyze, investigate and administer security events. In this short video, gain insight from the President and CEO of Sensage as he explores these requirements and the necessity for a new interface of SIEM.