Online airline and travel group Meridiana fly needed a faster, more cost-effective way for its growing customer base to book reservations online. They turned to the Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager, which ensured a fast, responsive website that could cope with increasing high-demand. 

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. 

Read this paper to find out why the FAA's System Wide Information Management program selected four open source service-oriented architecture (SOA) components to combine with its other development and management tools to create an enterprise infrastructure that will be deployed between 2010 and 2015 to support NextGen satellite air traffic control. 

The Boston Consulting Group shows how consumer tablets are creating new opportunities as the market grows and segments. 

Companies need to make significant investments in digital skills and technologies if they are to meet the needs of their customers, Booz&Co argues in this report. 

Dell's FastTrack for Windows Server® 2008 includes assessment, design and validation consulting performed in a phased, contiguous approach. FastTrack is Dell's recommended end-to-end service for customers that would like a validated, repeatable migration process necessary to deploy a best of breed, Windows Server 2008 solution. 

SAPinsider PROFILES magazine recently talked with Davis Bennett, Vice President of the Solution Delivery Center at SAP Consulting North America, about how SAP’s Rapid Deployment Solutions are creating a whole new way of driving value for SAP customers. 

This summary of findings from Forrester Research will help shed light on how to evaluate, select and work with technology consultants on IT consolidation projects in order to pick just the right consulting resource for your particular application and challenge. 

This case study examines the City of Denver's document management issues and how implementing Alfresco Enterprise Content Management helped them overcome these challenges. 

Learn about how Psomas, a leading consulting engineering firm, overcame challenges with its legacy disaster recovery and backup strategy. Upon implementing Riverbed Whitewater cloud storage gateway, the company was able to cut tape infrastructure costs by 60%, speed restore times, and improve nearly every aspect of its DR and backup strategy. 

<p>Many firms are now planning to run mission critical workloads on public cloud, according to this research from Forrester and BMC.</p> 

This podcast demonstrates how consulting services can help teams and managers rise above day-to-day business to put their application modernization needs into focus. Listen now to learn more.