This white paper discusses how to prepare your virtualized data center for a move to the cloud. Discover key tips and tools to leverage to ensure success, including unified networking, power management, scale-out storage and more. 

Advances in mobility and client computing technology combined with the ubiquity of social media are creating a culture of constant connectivity and anywhere access to information. This paper provides best practices for creating end user computing strategies that respond to an evolving workforce. 

Cloud-based manufacturing applications have exploded onto the market, and with so much hype, determining their suitability and usefulness can be tricky. Read this expert e-book to get tips on how the cloud can be leveraged for ERP, supply chain management, and global inventory management, and learn what to look out for in a still-maturing market. 

This paper will help you think through the impact of SSD, virtualization, and cloud computing on your storage planning and needs. 

Learn how your data center can take advantage of cloud computing to become more efficient, flexible, and responsive.  Listen in as Steve Sams, IBM Vice President and resident expert on data centers, describes the steps you need to take to plan for and deploy cloud computing in your data center. 

This seven-page Buyer’s Guide to Cloud Computing by Computer Weekly journalists details the kinds of cloud offering that CIOs and senior IT professionals will need to take into account as they plan future outsourcing, hosting and application strategies. 

Discover tips for evaluating and preparing a cloud-ready network in this essential resource. Find out how you can meet the key challenges for cloud networking by upgrading your network to reduce latency and gain visibility into your cloud environment. 

Watch this video to learn how one business was able to improve service delivery, monitoring and tracking by taking advantage of a new cloud system. Review the benefits they experienced, including improved supply chain management and faster service development. 

Questions regarding security, performance, privacy, risks, and actual cost and value have kept CFOs and other finance leaders from making the leap to cloud services. This paper delves into some of the risks versus the rewards of the cloud delivery model and sets out to determine if cloud computing is truly the silver bullet for finance. 

This paper discusses why CFOs should care about the cloud and how the approaches of IT and finance executives differ when it comes to cloud computing. 

Cloud technologies are reshaping IT – and that means big changes for CIOs. IT leaders are now expected to lead the transformation to virtual environments, with a focus on shared services models. This Innovator Series provides strategies for CIOs looking to convince their business counterparts of the value of a solid cloud computing initiative. 

This research from management consultants, Xantus, shows that while there is still a lack of clarity and a reluctance to fully commit to the cloud, there is a general acceptance from CIOs of the benefits and a growing commitment to develop those benefits. 

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?