Consolidating and modernizing the IT that runs your B2B and file transfer environments – the backbone of your supply chain - can deliver big rewards: cost savings, improved efficiency, and revenue growth. Read this paper to learn the seven key success factors for a consolidation and modernization project and how to achieve them in your business. 

Object-based storage dispenses with the hierarchical file system, so there are no nested subfolders. Instead, it uses an indexed flatfile structure in which each object is given a unique ID. This issue of IT in Europe includes case studies of how object-based storage products are being implemented in Europe. 

This special Computer Weekly report analyses the market for supercomputers, peripherals and applications, the supercomputer community, developments in technology, and offers a country by country comparison. 

This report extract from the Corporate Executive Board, presents key facts and figures on the take up of consumer technology in the workplace. 

John Rakowski, advisor and analyst at Forrester, offers five tips on optimising and managing company datacentres. 

David Cotterill, head of innovation at the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP), explains how he using social media to help drive innovation in this short presentation. 

The digitisation index from Booz & Co reveals the business leaders and laggards in the digital technology and explains why it is vital to embrace it. 

Deloitte looks at the impact leadership has on company performance in the techonology media and telecoms sectors. 

Big businesses are planning to grow their mainframe computer capacity despite the downturn  this survey of 1,347 large mainframe users worldwide by BMC Software reveals. 

<p>Learn how to communicate more effectively with your boss in this guide from Dr Brian Sutton and Dr Robina Chatham. </p> <p> </p> 

This report from Capgemini, shows how organisations can navigate around ‘cloud confusion’  from suppliers pushing products rather than business solutions. 

This report from Deloitte argues businesses are again investing in IT to provide the differentiation and innovation critical from their competitors despite the downturn. 

<p>Businesses need to keep a close eye on the evolution of cloud based services to avoid wasting money and missing out on business opportunities.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p>