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

Although hardware storage prices have come down, storage administration and software expenses still run about seven times the cost of storage hardware. 

Find out what 1,900 B2B marketers in software, hardware and technology services industries revealed about what works for lead generation. Invite your entire team to view this free Webcast and learn about business-to-business email and search engine marketing strategies. 

This week’s Computer Weekly contains an exclusive interview with JP Morgan COO India Gary-Martin about juggling multiple legacy IT systems while keeping the merchant bank compliant. We also look at how near-field communications technology promises to revolutionise consumer spending and we ask whether 2012 could be the year that APM becomes vital? 

Sorting through smart phones, PDAs and ruggedized computers for business use is no easy task. Rather than trying to stay on top of all the new products, companies can follow five basic tips to find the best option. This white paper explains these tips and how they can be applied to assist the enterprise mobile computer selection process. 

Sign up today for this valuable webcast to learn how integrated Web-to-mainframe performance management can help you achieve higher levels of availability, performance and customer success rates. 

This paper examines the key communications challenges faced by organizations today and how web collaboration is delivering the right tools to help organizations meet their growth objectives. 

This Webcast, presented by MarketingSherpa and KnowledgeStorm, presents findings from MarketingSherpa's new report: "IT Marketing Benchmark Guide 2005-2006: Data for B-to-B Software, Hardware & Services Marketers." Learn what IT marketers revealed about their results and budgets and real-life numbers to help benchmark lead generation plans. 

Fujitsu has been an insular company, with a market centred in Japan. Does it have what it takes to reinvent itself as a well-represented global player, with cloud computing at its heart? 

In this informative E-Guide learn specifically how Hyper-V is designed to meet high availability requirements, how this technology is being used at the hardware level, role of a 64-bit operating system with virtualization and more. 

Dell EqualLogic™ provides storage virtualization features with PS Series arrays, offering higher storage utilization rates than alternative solutions.