The value of the IT market for smart cities globally is approximately $35bn, according to this in depth analysis from Ovum. 

This paper presents an overview of strategies and practices for governing the transformation to, and the evolution of, SOA. In particular, it explores the role of governance throughout the SOA lifecycle as well as the technology enablers that help organizations develop and maintain an SOA that delivers measurable, sustainable business value. 

This week’s Computer Weekly, we talk exclusively to Tesco CIO Mike McNamara about why the UK's biggest retailer is spending £150m on its online business. And, with the London 2012 Olympics only weeks away; we look at how IT testing is progressing. 

Access this video to discover how your organization can benefit from converged infrastructure. Discover strategies to reduce operational costs, deploy servers more quickly and provide more efficient services. 

As the number of applications generating data increases, so does an organization's need to give users access to that data through a unified system compatible with multiple interfaces. Oracle Data Service Integrator is a solution that allows organizations to build data services that unify business processes for improved customer service. 

This Hurwitz and Associates whitepaper shares the successes, challenges and future plans of three companies - Sogeti Group, Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), and Scotiabank. 

This paper is an introduction to the Oracle Optimized Solution for Lifecycle Content Management, which offers integrated content management, tiered storage, and archival1. Included is a discussion of the business needs for an integrated solution and the value of implementing such a strategy. 

Oracle presents an entirely new opportunity for unprecedented levels of integration that contributes directly to the top-line benefits of IT technology can bring to the business, as well as bottom-line efficiencies and cost savings. 

The Oracle disaster recovery solution provides business continuity by replicating both the Oracle database and the entire Oracle Fusion Middleware infrastructure to a standby site. It protects the latest business data and maintains service availability during site maintenance events as well as system failures. Read on the learn more. 

For your IT organization to keep pace with the business, you need a new, faster approach to infrastructure deployment—an approach that increases agility and accelerates time to application value. That’s HP Converged Systems. 

In this white paper, learn how to improve your information management, increasing the ability to manage, secure, query, and administer information with high levels of performance. Uncover how Oracle Database 11g Release 2 includes a wide range of capabilities to allow for this intelligent management and analysis. 

This paper looks at the value of data de-duplication for optimizing data protection along with considerations about how to add it to your storage strategy most effectively. 

This paper explains how the HP Oracle Accelerate program benefits customers by providing a complete solution with an effective delivery mechanism that speeds deployment and improves business processes.