CIOs are more confident of securing technology budget increases than at any time in the last five years, according to the CIO Technology Survey 2012. 

In investment reporting, customers expect detailed reports of irreproachable accuracy, delivered with no delay or excuses. This whitepaper will serve as as a guide for Investment Advisors. 

This white paper reviews the results from a survey of 200 IT professionals that can help you optimize your cloud’s security. Key findings suggest that security plays a foundational role in the decision to implement a private cloud, protecting platform and infrastructure resources are top concerns and security drives outsourcing decisions. 

While some larger organizations continue to manage internal data center, many business managers are able to increase service levels, cover more users, and lower response times by outsourcing their out-dated server farms to third-party data centers and cloud computing providers. This white paper will define data centers and explore cloud networking. 

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. 

This week’s Computer Weekly examines research that suggests CEOs want to invest in IT more than ever, but still see CIOs as technical experts and not business people. We review SQL Server 2012 and ask if Microsoft's database software is catching its competitors as well as concluding our Buyer's Guide to data security. 

Coles sought out HP's SAP payroll services to simplify and lower costs. Read on to learn more about HP's SAP payroll services. 

Though building a private cloud can seem too ambitious for SMBs, selecting the right technology can make it possible for businesses to support private cloud on a single server. Find out about the key components of a successful private cloud in this resource. 

Nearly 95 percent of organisations buy, provide or both buy and provide outsourced services and functions, in which they face inherent risks created by new and unforeseen challenges. 

EquaTerra is pleased to offer to Computer Weekly readers a custom, European focused edition of the results from its 2Q10 EquaTerra global business and information technology (IT) services Pulse survey. 

This white paper from Aberdeen Research takes a look at how applying analytics capabilities to workforce management can better align people to business goals and strategies to cut costs and improve performance. 

<p>Deciding exactly how much to invest in security can be challenging for any business. Too great an investment can waste resources, too little can jeopardize the business. In this resource, explore the top security concerns for midsize organizations and how to determine a security approach that is both practical and effective.</p> 

Outsourcing is the quest to offload either commodity or very specialized activities, so that staff can focus on work that truly adds value to the business.