Professor Hans Werner Meuer, co-founder of the Top500 supercomputer list, presents a critical assessment of high performance computing technology and applications. 

This special eight-page report from Computer Weekly analyses the challenges facing Microsoft, its financial performance, the services it offers, its place in the IT market and its future strategy. 

This resource explores how integrated processes such as Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) give IT pros the ability to simply deploy new assets and plan for future growth, control energy costs, reduce risks and increase operational efficiency. Learn more about DCIM solutions here. 

LANsurveyor automatically discovers and diagrams network topology, generates network maps in Visio, detects new devices and changes to network topology, and performs inventory management for hardware and software assets. Download a free 30-day trial today to see why more than 45,000 network professionals trust SolarWinds solutions. 

Download this trial software to help you better develop and maintain your Java applications using AgitarOne. AgitarOne makes it easier to improve your code and reduces the development resources required to maintain it. 

This technical demo showcases tokenization of PAN data from an inbound invoice document. A sample deployment diagram shows where a tokenization broker fits into the back end application infrastructure and demonstrates different tokenization policy controls readily available within the Intel & McAfee product. 

Get details on the dynamics at play around email archiving: SEC regulations, backup considerations and best practices for retention. Finally, find out which hardware and software products do a good job at email archiving. 

Increasing data center efficiency is always the end goal for IT managers. Find out which criteria your management software tools need to have to reduce the time and tasks required to increase the efficiency of your overall IT infrastructure. 

In this first issue of Business Applications Digest, find advice from industry insiders on mastering the five success factors for enterprise resource planning (ERP) upgrades, choosing the best fit between 'best of breed' business intelligence (BI) and built-in ERP tools, and how to take advantage of the latest Software as a Service (SaaS) trends. 

Read this white paper to find out why 38% of businesses surveyed in 2011 had replaced their ERP solutions and find criteria for determining if and when you should upgrade or migrate to new software. Also, find tips on making a business case for an investment as well as selection criteria for choosing ERP that will meet your business needs. 

Read this white paper and learn how an IBM Rational solution can help your company build better software faster, using an integrated application lifecycle management (ALM) solution designed to support collaboration across distributed agile development teams. 

Manual testing still accounts for about 75% of all functional testing. However, innovation hasn’t come into play yet and manual testers find themselves struggling to keep up with the fast pace of change dictated by today’s world, using outdated methods and tools. Read this paper to learn strategies for modernizing your manual testing.