This white paper features results of a survey conducted by Gartner. The survey asked business intelligence (BI) leaders to explain their experiences with BI platforms from 25 vendors 

As a consequence of tightening budgets and increasing uncertainties, government organizations are looking at how to leverage cloud computing as a model to ensure greater flexibility, lower costs, more-rapid provisioning and greater focus on areas that are more domain-specific. 

In this paper, learn why centralized policy management, automated order processing and asset management, and end-user self-service are key ingredients for any organization trying to control the proliferation of wireless mobile devices and spiraling costs. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we mark the 10th anniversary of Microsoft’s Bill Gates announcing the Trustworthy Computing initiative, and ask if it has made IT more secure. We look at what Oracle’s latest developments mean for its software users running rivals’ servers, and conclude our Buyer’s Guide to IT consumerisation. Download the issue now. 

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

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) enables different programs, applications, and tools to interact via self-contained services that do not depend on the context or state of the other service. This white paper provides insight into the top-four worst practices for SOA integration, and how to avoid and/or overcome these worst practices. 

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. 

In this exclusive Gartner report, compare the top vendors offering public cloud IaaS with a graphical, easy to understand representation of each vendor's standing in terms of ability to execute and completeness of vision. Access the link within for a link to the full report. 

The Gartner storage research community outlines in their paper that many IT leaders are under pressure to virtualize their infrastructures, in part because virtualization cuts costs and improves IT efficiency.  However, IT leaders should virtualize their systems incrementally to ensure the most effective outcome. 

This paper evaluates application performance monitoring (APM) vendors in each of five categories of functionality: end-user experience monitoring; application runtime architecture discovery, modeling and displays; user-defined transaction profiling; component deep-dive monitoring in application context; and application performance analytics. 

Until recently, organizations implementing cloud technologies have been forced to weigh the security advantages of private  cloud against the elasticity and pay-as-you-go model of public clouds. Now, with a new private in-house cloud service offering from CSC, organizations will be able to enjoy the best of both worlds. 

Since data centers are usually built over a long period of time, businesses end up with several small data centers scattered over a diverse area. To make more efficient use of these facilities, it’s generally best to consolidate. This resource presents best practices to data center consolidation. 

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are among the biggest challenges for enterprises and their IT organisations to navigate. Conventional leadership and management techniques often are not enough.