The enterprise must be ready to embrace technologies that facilitate the blurring of the boundaries between work and life, in order to maximise the productivity, insight, innovation and collaboration gained from investments in its people, as well as technology itself. 

This white paper details how organizations can leverage cloud-based storage offerings as part of their data protection plans. The paper also takes a closer look at the solutions offered by Riverbed that allow organizations to integrate cloud-based storage within solutions that address a growing set of data protection demands. 

This third part of a four-part series on hybrid clouds features insight from leading companies on how to rapidly incorporate private and public cloud applications into legacy application portfolios. This particular webcast focuses on mobile applications and security. 

Chris Wolf talks about the tools that are used to increase virtual server performance. Later, virtualization platform decision points are covered with emphasis on OS and application compatibility and support, high availability, automation and management. 

This week's Computer Weekly examines how the Football Association's IT director is using technology to help improve the prospects for the England national team. Our Buyer's Guide to government IT looks at the future of open source in the public sector and we report from Infosec 2012 on the rising number of cyber attacks. Read the issue now. 

In this first session, Wolf introduces principles of virtual infrastructure optimization and covers virtual machine placement optimization and bottleneck identification. 

In this video, Brian Carpenter, Director of Information Technology at Heritage Auction Galleries, discusses how they manage data center growth at their organization. He digs into virtualization and the degree to which they have virtualized their environment and how this is managed. Watch this video to learn more. 

In this presentation transcript, learn how to implement a cost-effective, efficient disaster recovery (DR) plan with virtualization. Discover 4 different DR methods that work with virtualization to help prevent future disasters. Learn how to plan for DR by defining requirements and assigning application inventory to service levels. 

Big data can present big problems. Just ask expert Wayne Eckerson, who takes some time in this first installment of a two-part video series to discuss the common issues surrounding the management of big data growth in a data warehouse. Learn why big data is more pivotal than ever, how you can gain a competitive advantage by analyzing it and more. 

Check out this white paper to learn about two network protocol models, TCP/IP and OSI. 

Schulz discusses threats, challenges and new strategies effecting storage and networking performance and capacity. 

Learn how your organization can cut data center energy consumption by 40 to 50%. This podcast discusses the building blocks to addressing energy efficiency challenges in data centers. Listen to find out how the right building blocks can help your organization capitalize with energy efficiency. 

Even with rising energy costs, learn how some organizations are benefiting from IT energy reductions of up to 40%. This podcast features IBM vice president, Steve Sams discussing the latest challenges and solutions for IT managers and CIOs around "greening" the data center.