This paper encourages all businesses to consider a more formal "green" strategy in regards to client computing and the technology refresh cycle. The timing could not be better. There is also a business case to be made that the 'business as usual' environment could view the "green" initiative as a compelling event unto itself. 

The Internet enables prospects to search for you rather than the other way around. You must place expertly crafted content wherever prospects might be searching. Marketers are leveraging a new methodology called Intelligent Content Strategy to attract more prospects that are looking for their solutions. 

Your company’s success relies heavily on the quality of its core  business applications. Watch this webcast to see how Levi Strauss & Company cut costs and improved their operational efficiency with SAP’s application life cycle management solution (ALM). <br /><br /> 

Now that smart phones are being used by professionals in fields ranging from field service to customer care, evaluating and selecting the optimal device has become more challenging. Read this white paper for an in-depth look at which smart phone features make work easier and why ruggedness is a requirement. 

<p>Read this expert article to find best practices for keeping your iteration and release cycles in sync even as your Agile development projects becoming increasingly complex.</p> 

BI empowers companies with the ability to offer products and services at the lowest cost and with the greatest amount of efficiency and productivity possible- while returning the highest revenues and profits. Learn how BI can help you to establish a culture of measurement and begin a powerful cycle of continued improvement within your organization. 

This white paper describes how combining your front-end business strategy to downstream technical execution helps you overcome rapid technological changes, shortens product lifecycles and turns innovative ideas into profitable business opportunities. 

Learn an alternative to legacy service management solutions that is fast to deploy, easy to configure, and can help your organization realize faster time to value and lower total cost of ownership, both immediately and in the long term. 

Managing backup and recovery in today's environment is a multi-dimensional challenge with both near and long term business requirements. This paper explains 5 topics to think about as you design your long-term data retention plans. 

In this tutorial, learn about the latest developments on tape storage systems, LTO-5 and LTFS, the differences between backup software vs. archiving software, and and how tape is evolving into a long-term data archiving medium. 

In this one hour Webcast, presented by Jeff Ramminger, EVP KnowledgeStorm, learn how you can develop more effective content, make it available more efficiently and influence the most important decision makers at the right stages of the buying process. 

<p>Your talent management strategy can make or break the success of your organization, but this can be a challenging task if you’re a SMB that still collects documentation manually. Read this white paper to learn how to automate your paper-based procedures to improve your talent management life cycle.</p> 

This first issue of Cloud Development Digest, geared for Java developers, features the following three articles: "Java Platform as a Service Providers Vie for Developers’ Affection," "Cloud Architecture Key to Leveraging Cloud-Based Services," and "IaaS Management Tools and Test Cycles in the Cloud."