Typical IT departments feature islands of isolated infrastructure, leading to inefficient use of servers. The "application grid" concept allows data centres to run more efficiently, using less hardware and less software. This paper explains. 

Access this white paper to uncover the benefits of video conferencing in today’s highly mobile business environment. Discover the key-elements that make up a business-grade video conferencing system, how video conferencing adds to collaboration, and the ROI of video conferencing. 

<p>The widespread adoption of unified communications (UC) only proves its importance to the workplace. In this resource, uncover the benefits of and case for adding visual communications and video to your UC strategy.</p> 

<p>In this exclusive E-Guide from SearchUnifiedCommunications.com, learn more about the intelligent network and how telepresence and visual collaboration is changing the modern enterprise. Uncover the extranet and desktop video requirements driving 2012 telepresence trends and how the iPad is changing enterprise video-conferencing strategies.</p> 

<p>This video examines various types of collaboration, including conferencing, video, and instant messaging. Discover how integrating communications can increase resource utilization, strengthen security, and reduce costs.</p> 

Web collaboration solutions are emerging as one of the building blocks of those applications. 

Visit SearchUnifiedCommunications.com’s IT Decision Center that focuses on Business Collaboration technology in the marketplace today. Hear from the experts and get their advice on collaboration tools and management for businesses deciding on new solutions that can address everything from productivity, innovation, efficiency and cost-cutting. 

BYOD and the wireless revolution are changing the modern enterprise – are you ready? This resource explores how to ready your network for BYOD in order to reap the most benefits while simultaneously maintaining control over your network and corporate assets. 

This paper discusses several key differences between closed and open source software vendor management, providing advice for managing your deployments and investments in open source technologies. 

This white paper looks at the pros and cons of open-source software and helps organizations understand how to build a business case that is based on cost, schedule, performance and risks across the entire program lifecycle not just up-front program inception costs and considerations. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude talks about releasing government datasets to the public and why open data will drive the next industrial revolution. We also review the latest test version of Windows 8 and see how it shapes up for tablet computers and business users and much more.