Business continuity and disaster recovery can mean a rapid return to operations or financial downfall. This IDC white paper highlights the challenges and best practices for implementing continuity and recovery solutions, and details how Riverbed WAN optimization solutions enable firms to meet their recovery requirements. 

This report, Issue One: How Technology Marketers Meet Buyers' Appetite for Content is the first in the Connecting Through Content series, which explores content creation, distribution and lead nurturing through the dual marketers' and technology buyers' perspectives. 

As businesses strive to achieve ever more efficient data centers and leverage the cloud, many are turning to virtualization. This IDC report examines how organizations can streamline and mitigate the risks associated with virtualizing their data centers with preconfigured infrastructure. 

Learn how midsize companies can rapidly adopt Business Intelligence (BI) and Performance Management (PM) technologies while minimizing training, support and ongoing costs in this research note from Nucleus Research. 

This Technology Spotlight from IDC discusses the drivers, benefits, and challenges of creating virtual desktop environments, and examines a key technology that can help organizations successfully deploy virtual desktops. 

This Technology Brief discusses different approaches to data deduplication in the market today along with the pros and cons of each, and then matches some of the most common backup problems to a recommended deduplication approach. The brief close with a spotlight on Quantum's DXi7500 enterprise disk backup and replication system 

This special eight-page indepent report from Computer Weekly, packed with graphs and diagrams, is essential reading for anyone doing business, or thinking of doing business with EMC. 

<p>To enjoy the flexibility and resource savings of a private cloud, you need to know where to begin with building one. In this issue of <em>Cloud Development Digest, </em>find best practices and expert recommendations for implementing a private cloud.</p> 

Today's organisations are struggling to manage not only the physical aspects of their infrastructure, but also the virtual ones. This video examines a virtual appliance that can simplify data centre management by integrating physical and virtual tools and processes. 

While businesses are seeing the value of becoming more open through social collaboration, there is a tightening of regulations impacting corporate governance and, subsequently, IT governance. 

This document examines the current state of Order Management Systems (OMS) portfolio management capabilities, identifies major challenges and "pain points" that firms encounter, and outlines seven system attributes needed to overcome them. 

This week’s Computer Weekly, we talk exclusively to Tesco CIO Mike McNamara about why the UK's biggest retailer is spending £150m on its online business. And, with the London 2012 Olympics only weeks away; we look at how IT testing is progressing.