Retail, like virtually all other industries, is awash with stories about the emergence of cloud computing. Much hasbeen written about the ability to remove cost or to greatly speed up implementations. 

This report from Gartner describes six distinctly different styles of "money-making CIO" that are likely to evolve between 2011 and 2020. 

This white paper explains claims-based identities and their many concepts for more scalable, dynamic security within Microsoft SharePoint. 

In today's unstable mortgage environment, the management of your loan documents, both paper and digital, has never proved more paramount. This brief paper outlines five common challenges associated with mortgage filing and offers up a five-step mortgage records management plan to help you save money and increase efficiency. 

This article from Gartner offers advice to public sector organisations thinking of deploying cloud computing and assess the progress made by governments in their use of the cloud. 

The demand for greater ecommerce capabilities is growing leading CIOs and IT professionals concerned with choosing the perfect vendor. Through this in-depth vendor analysis by Gartner, uncover the top 6 questions you should ask and the strengths and weaknesses of the top 20 e-commerce vendors. 

How can you adapt your enterprise information management to the lightning-fast pace created by big data, social media and mobile devices? View this presentation to learn why Gartner Research predicts that standardizing on a common and unified information management infrastructure will help organizations outperform their peers by 20% through 2015. 

Listen to this brief podcast now as Gartner analyst Mark McDonald discusses the roles of amplifiers in the enterprise, touching on how mobility, cloud computing, analytics and social media are driving companies today. Also learn how cost, complexity and duplication can hinder collaboration efforts. 

Learn how Gartner's criteria for next generation IPS helps organizations achieve effective threat prevention despite changes in network communications, new applications, and changes in the threat landscape. Featuring Greg Young, research vice president at Gartner. 

In this paper, learn why centralized policy management, automated order processing and asset management, and end-user self-service are key ingredients for any organization trying to control the proliferation of wireless mobile devices and spiraling costs. 

Check out this white paper for a breakdown of currently available tape technologies, and discover what upgrades tape has received in order to remain a valuable part of today's data center. Also included is a side-by-side comparison of several of today's tape solutions, and insight as to what challenges still exist regarding tape. 

Validated by leading analyst firms Gartner and Forrester, data virtualization is considered a “must have” in every enterprise’s data integration portfolio. This white paper discusses the five most frequently deployed data virtualization usage patterns. 

In this report the Taneja Group will first review the current barriers to wider adoption of VDI, and examine how Dell's EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN arrays can help customers with these problems. They will then validate these claims via benchmark performance tests and interviews, and finally test performance claims under additional scenarios.