Many companies have turned to virtualization technologies for their servers and in their data centers to simplify administration and to reduce management chores and operating costs while maintaining reliability and safeguarding against disasters. Companies are now looking to apply the same technology to their desktop computers. 

With organizations looking to deploy Windows 7 throughout their organization, IT pros need to know how to gauge the migration to allow for maximum benefits and opportunities throughout their IT shop. Check out this case study and explore how SAS Institute saw an immediate payback with their Windows 7 migration and more. 

While desktop virtualization and VDI are certainly becoming trendy, the reality today is that properly designing a system is still complex and a source of worry and confusion for many architects. 

In this white paper, we will discuss how SharePoint workflows work and how you can implement them to im­prove existing business processes. We will look at the existing predefined workflows that come with SharePoint and you will see how to create your own using the SharePoint Designer. 

Hot spots can seriously reduce the efficiency of an organization's computer equipment. Watch this webcast for expert tips on remediating your data center's hot spots and discover the costs associated with the task. 

According to Enterprise Integration Patterns author Gregor Hohpe, a new set of architectural techniques could help designers to better understand the elaborate conversation, workflow and event patterns that are seen more often these days. Read this e-guide to discover software that visually connects components in Apache Camel-based integrations. 

Read this paper to learn how to enable a fast, scalable, fault-tolerant distributed foundation for data management that runs dynamically across the many-machine, many-core, memory-based computing topologies that today's organizations are assembling from existing IT resources and pay-as-you-go clouds. 

This week’s Computer Weekly kicks off our Buyer's Guide to data security by looking at the changing role of the IT security chief. We also examine why flexible working is proving so slow to roll out and we talk to the UK's air traffic control operator about its ambitious desktop virtualisation project. 

Download the Service-Oriented Cloud Computing Infrastructure (SOCCI) Framework from the Open Group. 

IRMC used VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure to virtualize its call center operations and support multiple call centers from a central data center, reducing IT costs while improving flexibility and competitiveness. 

Effective Desktop Management begins with knowing what you have to manage. 

<p>When it comes to IT, Linux is everywhere. From smart phones to powerful computer systems, this flexible operating system addresses a significant number of usage models. Read this white paper to learn more about the universal platform and discover all the computer segments that it plays a role in.</p>