This case study explores the journey that Suncorp took to eliminate IT inefficiencies, consolidate their seven existing data center locations into two and boost the production and cost-effectiveness of their IT operations. Read on to learn about the technologies they implemented in order to meet these goals. 

Setting clear expectations of your company and how you plan to achieve them is vital to your overall success. Read this white paper to learn how to effectively implement a goal management system by taking advantage of the best practices and methodologies inside. 

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 paper highlights the results of a study commissioned to derive what business execution practices are actually driving shareholder value. Read this now and learn why companies that aligned its goals, rated users on the achievement of them and leveraged business execution software to increase their execution achieved elevated stock returns. 

As economic cycles go through the ebb and flow of recession and boom, the underlying drivers of financial transformation in business enterprises also change. This is evident in the focus and direction of senior finance executives who have successfully steered their organizations through periods of recessions and prosperity. 

Faced with limited budgets and even leaner staff resources, small companies realize that making the most of in-house talent is critical to executing on strategic goals. Read this paper to learn how automating performance appraisal and measuring every employee against clear, objective goals can improve execution of a small company's strategy. 

Using a combination of VMware and NetApp you can create a unified and comprehensive solution that simplifies your entire Windows environment— applications, data, and infrastructure— enabling you to easily achieve your IT goals. Read this white paper now to learn more. 

In this presentation transcript, get help setting goals for your network before jumping into server virtualization, and discover how these goals can be applied to any sized business. Gain insight on connecting your network to a disaster recovery network, and considerations to make when migrating to the cloud. 

In this paper, you’ll find more details about the trends driving online marketing and advice on how to develop your online marketing strategy to reach goals and deliver maximum value from Web initiatives. 

This week’s Computer Weekly asks what chancellor George Osborne's Budget means for the UK IT community and if he can deliver his goal to make Britain "the technology centre of Europe". Also you'll find the final part of our private cloud Buyer's Guide and we examine the options for choosing the right WAN optimisation strategy. 

This white paper discusses the issues associated with decision services in an SOA strategy, highlighting how business rule management systems can be used to overcome these challenges. 

Get details on the dynamics at play around email archiving: SEC regulations, backup considerations and best practices for retention. Finally, find out which hardware and software products do a good job at email archiving. 

To meet the increasing pressures of high availability and performance requirements, many IT groups are adopting IT Service Management ITSM, and change and configuration management CCM strategies. This paper lays out successful approaches.