Here five things about Windows Server 2008 that are the less obvious, more esoteric, yet useful features or quirks. The following is a brief list of some things that I tend to assume that many people know, and I am constantly amazed by clients and students who really don't know them. How many do you already know? 

This is the first in an annual series of reports highlighting trends in the structural quality of business applications regarding characteristics such as robustness, performance, securit y, and changeability. 

IRMC used VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure to virtualize its call center operations and support multiple call centers from a central data center, reducing IT costs while improving flexibility and competitiveness. 

iland needed a fully redundant, cloud-ready solution that would provide customers with high availability, scalability, ease of management and financial efficiencies. This case study examines the solutions iland decided to deploy and the benefits achieved. 

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 nine-page Buyer’s Guide to Financial Services IT assesses the implications and challenges facing CIOs and senior IT professionals. 

As budgets stay tight and finance professionals become more involved in technology buying decisions, be better prepared to defend your business case through the use of financial metrics and Return on Investment (ROI) calculators. 

This white paper presents a cost/benefit analysis of VDI based on research, surveys, benchmarks, and analyst reviews. Find out how this architecture compares to traditional PCs and obtain key findings and best practices for success. 

Discover the impact desktop virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure have on your network. 

Desktop virtualization is continuing to gain traction throughout the business computing community. Read this exclusive white paper now for a detailed analysis of Citrix XenDesktop 5, one of the latest desktop virtualization platforms on the market. 

The cost and time associated with managing desktops is rising at a time when budgets are being tightened and IT staffing is strained. This is driving interest in the use of desktop virtualization, where virtual desktop machines run on servers within the data center. Access this white paper to learn more about the benefits of desktop virtualization. 

This paper outlines how one specific business intelligence (BI) platform can benefit your financial organization. Read this now and learn how CFO dashboards can be used to measure, monitor and optimize banking performance, why creating a risk intelligent enterprise is critical, how to efficiently manage customers and investments and so much more.