<p>You need to maintain control over your data center as it expands, regardless of where it is physically located. This white paper describes a management tool that can assist you in this process by gathering real-time data, enhancing infrastructure efficiency, and more.</p> 

This resource examines how the New York Philharmonic digitized their enormous collections to provide universal online access with a robust, scalable document management system. 

In this podcast, virtualization expert Anil Desai talks with WhatIs.com's Alex Howard about the many ways virtualization can be used to improve software testing and development. 

Service providers and network equipment manufacturers are adding automation to their pre-production testing process for a combination of reasons. This Market Snapshot will focus on the need for test automation of networks and connected devices, identify a path to automation adoption and provide an overview of the market. 

This paper is based on a SearchSoftwareQuality.com presentation, “Optimizing the Application Testing of Your Siebel CRM Environment,” sponsored by HP and Infosys. 

Traditional or manual testing methods are expensive, complicated, hard to repeat, and inadequate for the types of loads today's complex system architectures create. Read this paper to learn how an application performance testing solution that leverages virtual users and automation can provide you with robust, efficient performance validation. 

IRMC used VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure to virtualize its call center operations and support multiple call centers from a central data center, reducing IT costs while improving flexibility and competitiveness. 

This paper examines how proven test data management capabilities can help you deliver reliable applications and achieve maximum business value from you application investments. 

This paper provides recommendations and best practices for optimizing virtualization infrastructures when deploying the Oracle Optimized Solution for Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure. It covers deployment of software, hardware, storage, and network components. 

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. 

The CIO's role becomes more strategic as organizations use information to create a competitive advantage. This paper – using evidence from benchmarks created with IBM to test WebFOCUS' performance on System z running z/OS and Linux – helps CIOs to balance demands for information accessibility and processing power.