This special eight-page report from Computer Weekly analyses the challenges facing Microsoft, its financial performance, the services it offers, its place in the IT market and its future strategy. 

Many people are confused by Cisco’s NAT/PAT naming conventions, such as “inside local”, etc. so I have put together a few diagrams that might help. 

Packed with graphs and diagrams, the report is essential reading for any organisation working with, or thinking of working with Capita. 

This technical demo showcases tokenization of PAN data from an inbound invoice document. A sample deployment diagram shows where a tokenization broker fits into the back end application infrastructure and demonstrates different tokenization policy controls readily available within the Intel & McAfee product. 

<p>This special nine-page report from Computer Weekly analyses the challenges facing IBM, its financial performance, the services it offers.</p> 

This white paper highlights the rise of virtualization and explores what businesses today can do in terms of adjusting backup and recovery functions to maintain a functioning virtual data center. Learn what applications are most commonly virtualized today, discover the differences in backup between small and large organizations and more. 

This buyer case study presents a medical center's deployment and use of NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup. 

Deduplication adoption is growing at a pace very similar to that of disk-based backup solutions: ESG research shows that more and more companies are evaluating deduplication, with 38% of 2010 respondents using a data deduplication solution compared to only 11% in 2008. Read this comprehensive white paper to learn more. 

The Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR) in Australia was experiencing rapid rates of growth in data volumes - increasing around 60 percent annually - when they decided to increase their SAN capacity. They chose the IBM XIV Storage system. Read this and get the details. 

This white paper introduces a storage solution designed to meet today's data growth challenges - a unified architecture designed for IT managers with limited storage expertise, this technology facilitates complete storage consolidation and features a simple, application-driven approach to shared storage. Read on to learn more. 

Although scale-out storage technologies were once viewed as specialized infrastructure solutions that really only made sense in a few environments, today these platforms are making their way into mainstream IT. Check out this ESG market forecast to discover current trends and future predictions regarding the development of these solutions.    

Virtualization is a presence in nearly all enterprise data centers. But that doesn’t mean all companies are using virtualization to its best effect. The results of this recent research reveal the common characteristics of virtualization success, what barriers companies face, and how to get the most from your virtualization efforts.