Advances in mobility and client computing technology combined with the ubiquity of social media are creating a culture of constant connectivity and anywhere access to information. This paper provides best practices for creating end user computing strategies that respond to an evolving workforce. 

A look at alternative approaches to managing energy for cost and/or sustainability reasons in data centres. 

Read this white paper to learn how  the Oracle Optimized Solution for PeopleSoft Human Capital Management, mitigates the risk of deploying HCM solutions while delivering lower total cost of ownership (TCO), increased return on investment (ROI), and improved workforce productivity and performance. 

The CIO's role becomes more strategic as organizations use information to create a competitive advantage. This paper – using evidence from benchmarks created with IBM to test WebFOCUS' performance on System z running z/OS and Linux – helps CIOs to balance demands for information accessibility and processing power. 

If HR can achieve continuous real-time alignment of the workforce against strategic objectives, and incentivize managers to engage their employees without additional goal setting, HR can reduce business risk, improve results and create a more satisfied, high-performing organization. Read this paper to learn how to achieve this at your company. 

This white paper discusses strategic workforce planning for a changing business environment and methods for improving your business strategy. 

Strategic new business initiatives are bound to fail—and often do— if your employees aren't on board and performing at their best. Strong leadership is the key to ensuring this level of performance. Read this paper to learn how to create a high performance business environment at your company through effective leadership strategies. 

Many enterprises have discovered that the use of virtualization to support desktop workloads creates a range of significant benefits. This VMware sponsored webcast with IDC will provide both quantitative measurement of the business value -- defined as the expected ROI -- and qualitative analysis associated with the use of VMware View™. 

While virtualization offers costs and agility benefits, it can also increase the risk and complexity of your existing environment. Is your computer security strategy and software able to keep up? In this resource, get an in-depth look into the virtualization security challenges, and discover how to develop a strategic approach for risk mitigation. 

Storage infrastructures grow as the demand for information grows, but strategic storage solutions, from tape libraries to flash and disk arrays to unified storage solutions, can simplify the essential tasks of storing and managing enterprise data. 

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 not only offers the performance and management features that virtualization customers require for their data center workloads, but also provides a strategic alternative to proprietary virtualization to enable organizations to accelerate their innovation, increase manageability, and reduce costs. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude talks about releasing government datasets to the public and why open data will drive the next industrial revolution. We also review the latest test version of Windows 8 and see how it shapes up for tablet computers and business users and much more.