Gartner analysts, William Clark, David W Cearley and Avivah Litan, explain how business can exploit context-aware computing and social media. 

Tim Zimmerman, Gartner research director offers some practical advice to organisations wanted to use iPads on their corporate wireless networks. 

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. 

This week’s Computer Weekly examines the growing threat from smartphones being targeted by hackers and viruses as the devices are increasingly used for work. Hospitality giant Mitchells & Butlers talks about its migration to the cloud and the CIO of Airbus discusses his IT priorities and how he spends €500m a year on IT. 

As today’s databases continue to grow in size, complexity and importance, organizations struggle to find the most appropriate strategy to keep them secure. In this Gartner report, uncover the essential controls and best practices for adequately protecting data bases and enterprise data. 

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. 

While businesses are seeing the value of becoming more open through social collaboration, there is a tightening of regulations impacting corporate governance and, subsequently, IT governance. 

This tip e-guide from SearchCRM.com features insight from Gartner's 2011 Magic Quadrant for social customer relationship management (CRM). Read this now to learn what challenges are cropping up in CRM, how social media is affecting CRM strategies and what the future of social CRM looks like. 

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

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. 

To help simplify enterprise desktop management, Dell and VMware have created a flexible, highly scalable desktop virtualization reference architecture based on Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN arrays, and powerful new VMware View 4 technology. 

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.