With rising energy prices and increasing building costs, a data center’s running costs can have a big impact on your operational expenses. Try our online data center energy efficiency self-assessment tool to gauge your current energy usage and see how you can help reduce your data center operational costs. 

Virtualization is very conducive to managing and deploying DR strategies because it eases many cost and complexity barriers. But reliable DR requires much more than just virtualization. Check out this 2-page white paper for a breakdown of virtualization DR tools and strategies and how they apply to your organization. 

IBM Cognos software helps K-12 organizations increase visibility and improve decision making, driving improved student performance, lowered cost of interventions, greater productivity, and lower operating costs. 

This week's Computer Weekly examines how the Football Association's IT director is using technology to help improve the prospects for the England national team. Our Buyer's Guide to government IT looks at the future of open source in the public sector and we report from Infosec 2012 on the rising number of cyber attacks. Read the issue now. 

Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise servers are designed specifically as general-purpose application, database, data warehousing, and consolidation servers. They are especially suited to address the needs of enterprise datacenters, with a goal of increasing performance and flexibility while consolidating systems to reduce datacenter costs and complexity. 

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 informative paper to learn how to choose the right BI tools to enable HR to increase productivity and cut costs. Learn why end-to-end human capital management (HCM) systems with built-in BI tools might be the best and easiest option for your organization. 

Access this exclusive resource to learn how data centre infrastructure management software tools can simplify operational processes, reduce costs, and accelerate information delivery. 

This article covers the top 10 tools available to help make virtualization management easier. 

<p>Increased travel costs have led many companies to look into collaboration technology for their organizations. This white paper examines the key capabilities of these tools and discusses the server architecture required to support them.</p> 

In this video, Tobin Gilman, Oracle Vice President of Product Marketing, explains how a unified business intelligence foundation, which includes production reports, dashboards, score cards, ad hoc queries, and OLAP analysis, delivers a logical representation of all your enterprise sources. 

Constant product innovation has contributed to a thriving equipment-manufacturing industry, however, fewer time-saving tools are available to QA than developer groups. As a result, testing is becoming an innovation barrier. This paper examines the innovation barrier: its causes, effects, & what’s needed to restore the vigorous pace of innovation.