When migrating to a cloud environment, you must carefully plan your strategy to ensure you get the most from your investment. This video introduces new platforms and trusted services that can accelerate and streamline your cloud transition. In addition, discover the benefits of leveraging a converged infrastructure approach. 

Managers in small and medium sized businesses used to treat IT as a luxur y they could only just af ford. 

Read this expert e-guide to learn how to successfully manage your ERP systems with one cohesive plan as your organization becomes more complex. Review five best practices that can help you get the most from your ERP solution. 

This resource explores the security challenges of mobile devices and provides a review of the security models of the two most popular mobile platforms in use today – Android and iOS. View now to uncover the impact these devices will have as their adoption continues to grow within enterprises. 

Now that you've reviewed the essential issues involved in any backup acquisition, this guide focuses on the specific considerations of enterprise-class tape libraries. You'll also find a series of specifications to help make on-the-spot product comparisons between vendors like Quantum Corp., Hewlett-Packard Corp., IBM, SpectraLogic Corp., and more. 

In this white paper you'll learn how to review the common causes of application downtime and discusses new technologies available to help avoid increasing costs during this downtime. 

Read this expert e-guide to learn best practices for building a successful ERP implementation strategy, including a list of must-have steps. In addition, discover six tips to follow that can help you effectively train your employees on the process. 

The first edition of Cloud Computing Review tackles the big questions about cloud computing, such as does the cloud really save you money? Find out about the hidden costs of cloud, as well as what you should pay attention to in cloud contracts. Plus, explore the link between enterprise applications and the cloud through a detailed case study. 

This paper reviews SAP's efforts over the last several years to expand and enhance its product lifecycle management (PLM) offerings. It describes their current PLM portfolio and how they bring their solutions to market. 

This white paper reviews the impact of cloud computing on data center networks and describes HP’s approach to building simpler, more secure and automated networks that fully meet the stringent performance, security, reliability and agility demands of the new data center in the Cloud. 

Dell's adaptive infrastructure management (AIM) framework has something competitors don't: support for heterogeneous hardware. In a nutshell, it's possible to have a completely automated infrastructure using all Dell gear, or a nearly completely automated infrastructure using an array of hardware from other vendors. 

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.