While the cloud can offer many significant benefits, the security risks this environment introduces has IT pros hesitating. Luckily, with new technologies, you can maintain maximum security in the cloud and mitigate potential risks. Read this white paper to learn more about these platforms and the protection they can provide. 

Download the Service-Oriented Cloud Computing Infrastructure (SOCCI) Framework from the Open Group. 

Despite well-publicised concerns regarding security, compliance and data integration issues, banking institutions have begun embracing cloud computing across the services spectrum. 

In this paper, learn why centralized policy management, automated order processing and asset management, and end-user self-service are key ingredients for any organization trying to control the proliferation of wireless mobile devices and spiraling costs. 

This  guide from the Open Group, offers advice on assessing how cloud fits into your IT organisation 

As a consequence of tightening budgets and increasing uncertainties, government organizations are looking at how to leverage cloud computing as a model to ensure greater flexibility, lower costs, more-rapid provisioning and greater focus on areas that are more domain-specific. 

The latest trends, market research and analysis, on handheld PCs, smartphones, and the mobile payment market from KPMG. 

This research from Freeform Dynamics, based on a survey of end users,  identifies the challenges faced by IT departments and suppliers on software licensing, and offers advice to organisations on dealing with software licensing. 

XenServer enables consolidation of server and other infrastructure resources, by combining servers and storage into resource pools that can be apportioned to the applications with the highest business need. 

The definition of a mobile payment is often open to interpretation and can differ from source to source.    Juniper Research has a simple definition of a mobile payment as “payment for goods or services with a mobile device such as a phone, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), or other such device.” 

Adding mobile access and social collaboration to CRM delivers significant benefits, this report from Nucleus Research reveals. 

This special eight-page indepent report from Computer Weekly, packed with graphs and diagrams, is essential reading for anyone doing business, or thinking of doing business with EMC. 

Join the mobility experts at Mobility Partners and Sybase iAnywhere on January 24th at 2pm ET to learn how your organization can realize competitive advantage from your investments in mobility.