This research from Freeform Dynamics, based on a survey of end users,  identifies the challenges faced by IT departments and suppliers on software licensing, and offers advice to organisations on dealing with software licensing. 

In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchDataCenter.com and BMC, you will discover best practices for comprehensive and cost-effective mainframe management, maintenance and upgrading. Explore cost-effective mainframe upgrades and gain insight into approaches essential for adding flexibility to today's mainframe applications. 

This expert tip takes a closer look at vSphere5 and analyzes the impact it will have on various businesses. Discover the prices for each edition and find out whether your peers are expected to eventually embrace this technology. 

This expert tip analyzes the impact of the cloud and offers exclusive advice to help organizations embrace this technology. Find out how the cloud can eliminate IT silos and discover what you need to know about licensing, support, and chargeback. 

Application performance monitoring (APM) is skyrocketing in popularity. This Gartner Magic Quadrant can help you gain a better understanding of APM, how it can benefit your application environment and how you should go about implementing it today. Read this now and also learn about specific vendor's strengths and weaknesses and what to be aware of. 

When IBM Cognos users complement their deployments with formal training services, end users become more productive, report building costs are reduced, and more end users adopt IBM Cognos tools such as BI and PM. 

There is a well-spring of features and capabilities of Microsoft's Exchange Server 2007 messaging platform. The longer you use it, the more treasures you can pull up from the deep. In this paper, we'll look at and discuss five things you probably don't know about Exchange Server 2007. 

This white paper looks at the pros and cons of open-source software and helps organizations understand how to build a business case that is based on cost, schedule, performance and risks across the entire program lifecycle not just up-front program inception costs and considerations.  

This white paper reveals the results of a spring 2010 survey conducted amongst over 1,200 developers, the goal of which was to document user satisfaction with the features of various tools and platforms for software development. 

This presentation transcript, brought to you by our editors, offers advice to help you successfully navigate the virtualization path. Hear how one company decided on a virtualization strategy and put the appropriate measures in place to effectively manage its virtual environment 

This white paper presents a cost/benefit analysis of VDI based on research, surveys, benchmarks, and analyst reviews. Find out how this architecture compares to traditional PCs and obtain key findings and best practices for success. 

Many IT administrators believe the cloud is staged to offer adaptable, flexible and scalable resources at a fraction of the cost. But with varying definitions, strategies and expectations, the cloud is still clearly in the developmental stages. Take a look at this white paper for an expert analysis of cloud computing. 

This white paper helps in better understanding all the different cost factors and includes a simplified calculator that will help influencers and decision makers to better estimate the true TCO of a SaaS versus a traditional software deployment.