View this webcast to learn about management strategies for ensuring proper configuration, uptime and availability for business applications and middleware environments. Continue reading to learn more about the most common middleware management challenges and how open source offers are providing cost-effective solutions to them. 

This comprehensive, multi-media tutorial explores how desktop virtualization with Dell VMware can benefit SMBs in many different ways. 

Schalleur, Devine & Surgent (SDS) is a mid‐sized Certified Public Accounting agency with over 30 employees comprised of CPAs and other certified professionals based in Devon, Pennsylvania. 

Organizations running mature SAP or Oracle applications experience significant ongoing savings from third-party support.  Nucleus found Rimini Street customers can reduce their annual license maintenance fees by at least 50 percent and avoid upgrade costs while extending the value of their software investment. 

In the cover story of the April 2012 issue of Storage magazine, Lauren Whitehouse outlines best practices for cloud backup integration and the various methods for doing so. Also included in this issue are articles regarding virtual server management, storage for big data, the rising cost of disk drives and more. 

When it comes to the use of cloud services, business today is actually outpacing IT. However, with users clamoring for greater cloud access IT operations managers can no longer avoid addressing private cloud issues and developing a strategic course of action. 

Cloud computing is making its way into the public sector, enabling significant cost-savings and providing the tools to enhance communication, monitoring and security. Take a look at this videocast for an in-depth look at the use of the cloud in the public sector and learn about four basic models you can leverage for successful cloud adoption. 

Ovum analyses data growth, big data, disk shortages, public cloud storage, flash memory, and other storage trends. 

This essential resource breaks down must-have cloud capabilities and presents a comprehensive framework for choosing an enterprise cloud provider to meet your organization’s IT and business needs. 

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. 

2012 holds a lot of promise for today's data centers, with several new trends taking off at the same time. This presentation transcript follows the evolution of virtualization, cloud computing, and other recent technologies and projects the impact they will have on business infrastructures. 

Find out how IBM Case Manager and IBM Content Analytics can help public sector organizations more effectively manage case files and how government workers can do more work in a shorter period of time. 

The overriding goals for Data Centre Consolidation, the G-Cloud and the Applications Store for Government are:Reduce ICT costs;Provide open competition and create a vibrant marketplace enabling the best product at the best price;Create flexibility.