This guide serves to show you how DBAs can solve some of the complex challenges associated with your changing databases, while optimizing database operations and ensuring business continuity. 

Access this white paper that presents the importance of application transformation, and the significant challenges IT can face from an aging application portfolio. 

Check out this resource center to find how-to articles, free trial software, discussion forums, educational videos and podcasts, and hands-on exercises to help develop your skills in technologies and products such as: cloud computing, Java, Linux, open source, Web development, XML, AIX and UNIX, business analytics, information management, and more. 

To learn more about who collaborates and why, Cisco recently conducted one of the first comprehensive studies of the personal and cultural factors associated with successful adoption of network based collaboration. Read the full report, and find out more about how collaboration transforms business. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, our special report looks at the benefits for IT leaders of working with tech startups, and offers advice to CIOs on how to find and make the most of innovative products from creative startup firms. We talk to tech startups and corporate CIOs to find out how to make the relationship successful. Read the issue now. 

This white paper introduces a next-generation converged cloud, which combines traditional IT with public, managed and private clouds, and discusses the benefits of an automated hybrid delivery model. Read on to learn more. 

Download this podcast today to learn how HMS took a strategic view of its PeopleSoft investments and hear a discussion about how you can drive the most from your application investments. 

View this white paper to learn how one company strengthened analytics by developing a focus on customised healthcare. It linked to relevant operational systems, how to optimise information flow and how to support the overall strategic control of the hospital at just the touch of a button. 

In this case study you’ll learn how one London finance company did the following: found malware other AV products weren’t finding; secured the environment; witnessing virus protection doing what it is designed to do. Read on to learn so much more. 

Read this exclusive e-book to find tips on how to build a case and gain approval for implementing a program to increase your data quality. Also find information on how to best assess and manage your data, as well as evaluating whether or not data quality software is right for you. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, we find out how mainframe technology that was meant to be dead and buried is finding innovative new applications. We analyse the challenges facing the government's largest deployment of agile software development, and our Buyer's Guide highlights the firms making the most of social media. Download the new issue now. 

SAP upgrades are a perennial challenge - especially for organizations with many instances or customizations. The struggling economy has also made it difficult to make a case for a technical SAP ERP upgrade. Read this paper to learn about six SAP upgrade tips and best practices for global environments which can help avoid costly downtime and issues. 

Today's data landscape calls for managing higher volumes of data and making decisions from that data at a faster pace than ever before.  Watch this brief video to learn about a visual analytics platform that can help you speed the process of finding answers in your data to make business-critical decisions.