This week’s Computer Weekly, we talk exclusively to Tesco CIO Mike McNamara about why the UK's biggest retailer is spending £150m on its online business. And, with the London 2012 Olympics only weeks away; we look at how IT testing is progressing. 

Virtualized iSCSI SANs are increasingly being chosen for virtual data center deployments because they help simplify storage management and help overcome performance, scalability and cost barriers of traditional SAN architectures. 

This expert E-Guide from the writers at SearchServerVirtualization.com brings you up-to-date on the latest virtualization developments and explains how they can benefit your IT shop. 

This report from analyst, Freeform Dynamics, offers 7 key enablers of effective IT disaster recovery for IT department's in small and medium companies. 

Cloud-based backup is a compelling alternative to on-premise software or hardware solutions. Since your data is safely stored in remote computers in the cloud, it is impervious to all types of local disasters. Read this white paper to learn more. 

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. 

This white paper overviews the evolution of DR strategies for x86 computing, how VMware enables new strategies but also introduces new challenges, and how adopting the latest VMware vSphere platforms along with Veeam vPower allows you to proceed confidently on the journey to a legacy-free DR solution. 

This article shows how an application grid built on Oracle Fusion Middleware can not only prevent unplanned outages, but it can improve the overall performance of mission critical business applications. 

This webcast explores today's best practices for disaster recovery and the wide range of cutting edge technologies available to protect your organization. 

With the growth of virtual server deployments come new challenges to effectively protect virtualized data sets. Traditional backup and recovery methods become less effective as the virtual infrastructure scales, creating the need for more scalable… 

This white paper reviews proof points and best practices for file sharing disaster recovery. 

This paper is the second in a two-part series exploring the innovation barrier – the point at which testing can no longer keep pace with development in the equipment manufacturing industry. It examines the innovation barrier’s symptoms – from slowdowns in development to mounting quality issues – and the potential impact on equipment manufacturers. 

Read this paper to learn the many benefits of cloud computing as well as the 10 security concerns that need to be addressed when considering moving critical applications and sensitive data to public and shared cloud environments.