If ever a company was at a pivotal point in its history, HP is it. With the controversial departure of its CEO, a new leader at the helm, and with several significant recent acquisitions under its belt, the 70 year-old company faces significant challenges as it attempts to maintain its direction. 

This white paper explores how organizations can integrate an agile framework without exposing themselves to undue risk caused by the transition. 

This tutorial presents a framework and financial methodology for deciding whether an enterprise should replace its current "status quo" tape storage solution with a new "proposed" solution, and the economics related to that decision. 

This white paper explains the differences between the de-duplication approaches, discusses the strengths and limitations of each, shows how different backup tasks are likely to benefit from them, and talks about the business benefits. 

ITIL is becoming the next big thing in Information Technology. This paper outlines the origin of ITIL, who controls its contents, who are the biggest users, and why you should care. 

In a world of mobility, virtualization, and cloud computing, IT services are constantly changing. To serve the business more effectively, IT needs a new approach to managing operations. This white paper introduces a new methodology called business service management (BSM). Discover how this management approach improves your overall service quality. 

Over time, the information security/risk management profession has developed a variety of methods for assessing risk within an organization. 

<p>Most companies do not have time to thoroughly investigate all of the potential attack targets inside an application. This white paper explains how the use of software security analysis (SSA) and path methodologies can help you identify vulnerable code and improve application security.</p> 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at the IT challenges facing retailers, as consumers turn increasingly to web and mobile shopping channels. Oracle president Mark Hurd talks about how the supplier intends to simplify IT infrastructures. And new government CIO Andy Nelson discusses how he plans to transform Whitehall IT. Read the issue now. 

Over the course of several months in 2011, IDC conducted a research study to identify the opportunities and challenges to adoption of a new technology that changes the way in which traditional business solutions are implemented and used. The results of the study are presented in this white paper. 

This chapter sample, from the guide Mastering Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, co-written by Mark Minasi, Willem Kasdorp as the contributing author and published by Wiley Publishing, summarizes the defining features of Windows Server 2008. 

This paper from the Open Group reveals how banks can benefit from combining complementary industry frameworks on enterprise architecture. 

This white paper looks at traditional backup and recovery methods and why they do not work well in virtual environments, as well as the new backup and recovery methods that were developed specifically for virtualization.