This resource explores how two IT giants teamed up to fund IT in higher education facilities. Inside, learn how education leaders are discovering new ways to facilitate the effective use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in order to increase student learning and maximize the mission of their institutions. 

This report from Accenture looks at the challenges facing the public sector in offering digital services. 

The UK public sector is in the midst of a period of transformation and improving citizen engagement will be key to the success of this change. 

SAP in-memory computing is putting the "r" back in "real-time" computing by bringing together online transaction processing (OLTP) applications and online analytical processing (OLAP) applications at a lower total cost. Get an in-depth look at how this technology will impact business. 

The numbers of employees using some form of mobile technology while working has soared. The benefits to the organisation are well documented; employees are more contactable, will probably extend their working days and should be more productive. 

Data centers are doubling their energy consumption every five years. At this rate, by 2030, data centers could consume 12% of the world’s total energy. This can seriously affect your operational costs. Watch this video to hear how ‘green’ data centers from IBM® not only reduce your energy bills but also improve your overall IT efficiency. 

View the helpful blog post to learn how to build the most cost-effective applications using Windows Azure Storage (WAS) by understanding how bandwidth, transactions, and capacity are billed. 

Every year people come from around the world to hear from leading industry experts, vendors and Brian Madden himself on the state of the industry and where things are going. Now, for the first time ever, select sessions of BriForum Chicago 2011 are going online in our BriForum Online Academy. 

Learn more about BlackBerry PlayBook – a professional-grade tablet that will give you end-users what they want with the manageability and security CIOs are looking for. 

An increasing number of organisations are considering how online communities and team workspaces can help them be more collaborative both internally and externally with customers and partners. If you’re thinking about, or have already started developing a strategy for an online community. 

<p>Deploying EHR integrated practice management application can aid in replacing paper charts with electronic medical records and document 100% of patient encounters electronically! Download this case study to learn how Central Eye Consultants did it!</p> 

This brief paper outlines a social business cloud solution that provides integrated e-mail, social business capabilities and third-party applications, all delivered through cloud computing. Learn how it offers a security-rich environment that will allow your business to become a social butterfly in addition to reducing costs and complexity. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to the British Library about the enormous storage challenges of digitising its printed archive; we examine the state of the UK IT jobs market and the skills that are most in demand by employers; and we look at case studies of the best virtualisation projects. Download the new issue now.