Cloud computing offers massive scalability -  in virtual computing power, storage, and applications resources - all at almost immediate availability and low cost, and business managers are demanding their IT operations assess the benefits this new computing model can represent. 

Watch the brief webcast to learn about tools that provide analytics support for improving your business operations- from manufacturing to finance. 

This informative paper describes a way to offload your complex workloads to a platform designed for delivering unconstrained analytics in order to improve data processing and stay on top of your business operations. 

The Security Forum is a membership group of security experts from both the customer and supply sides of industry, government, and academia, who share a common aim to raise confidence levels in IT business operations. 

Improve performance, implement security procedures, and institute server redundancy that is invisible to the user by leveraging the strategic point of control that exists between the servers in the data center and the Internet. 

This paper discusses the importance of information governance and how you can make it a reality within your organization. 

Read this white paper for a discussion of the business case for data archiving as the first step in an SAP ILM strategy; strategies for Data Archiving, Retention Management and the Retention Warehouse strategy for legacy decommissioning in SAP; and Dolphin’s best‐practices approach to an effective, long-term ILM strategy. 

In this exclusive ESG report, examine how your organization can leverage cost-effective scale-out storage to combat the ever increasing demands of your virtual environment. Learn about the key storage challenges organizations face today, and the pros and cons of adopting scale-up versus scale-out storage in your data center. 

Watch this webcast to learn the seven don’ts of social collaboration in your organization. Discover how to choose and deploy a collaboration platform, as well as the benefits you’ll realize. 

Read this brief paper to learn about a platform that offers end-to-end visibility, while transactions are in process. Learn how a customizable, operational dashboard enables real-time visibility into the overall state of operations and transactions across disparate systems and applications. 

This research from Freeform Dynamics, based on a survey of end users,  identifies the challenges faced by IT departments and suppliers on software licensing, and offers advice to organisations on dealing with software licensing. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to the British Library about the enormous storage challenges of digitising its printed archive; we examine the state of the UK IT jobs market and the skills that are most in demand by employers; and we look at case studies of the best virtualisation projects. Download the new issue now. 

Benchmarking, or the analysis of operational costs, productivity, and service levels in a comparative context of market standards, is a firmly established management tool.