Economies of scale, flexibility and costreduction – cloud advocates have made sure that we are familiar with these potential benefits, even if we have yet to agree on an exact definition of cloud computing. But doubters argue that none of these benefits will actually be available unless some fundamental security issues can be overcome. 

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. 

This paper outlines the critical requirements - reliability and availability, scalability, security, and performance - of an SMB messaging environment and describes and end-to-end messaging solution that meets those requirements. 

Download the Open Group Service Integration Maturity Model (OSIMM). 

Application performance monitoring (APM) is skyrocketing in popularity. This Gartner Magic Quadrant can help you gain a better understanding of APM, how it can benefit your application environment and how you should go about implementing it today. Read this now and also learn about specific vendor's strengths and weaknesses and what to be aware of. 

Effective negotiations and management of telecom contracts can have a measurable impact on a business’ financial performance. 

Discover how an innovative new software from VMware enables small and medium size businesses (SMBs) to obtain all the beneifts of server virtualization, without overspending. Gain insight into the benefits this new software promises and how it can lead your business to higher availability. 

This week’s Computer Weekly asks what chancellor George Osborne's Budget means for the UK IT community and if he can deliver his goal to make Britain "the technology centre of Europe". Also you'll find the final part of our private cloud Buyer's Guide and we examine the options for choosing the right WAN optimisation strategy. 

Many procurement organizations struggle to meet savings goals with an overworked staff using time-consuming, manual processes or outdated systems. Read this paper to learn how to better collaborate with key stakeholders, qualify suppliers, ensure a competitive bidding process, and negotiate contract terms with suppliers. 

There are lots enterprise resource planning (ERP) options and services that can help smaller businesses take advantage of the benefits of ERP while minimizing the risk of a system implementation. Read more inside to compare the performance results of SMBs with ERP to SMBs without ERP and discover exactly how beneficial the system can be. 

Read this paper to learn more about HP's business processes services for procurement. 

Check out this solution brief to discover how VMware equips SMBs with technology solutions that allow them to cost effectively optimize the use of their existing IT assets and resources as well as protect the systems, data, and applications that run the business, ensuring Always On IT.