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. 

Check out this ESG whitepaper and you will discover why enterprise-class fully-virtualized iSCSI SAN is more cost effective than legacy NAS, SAN and DAS in a virtualized environment and why ESG believes the Dell EqualLogic PS Series offers distinct advantages for virtual servers. 

This paper outlines the need for an application portfolio management (APM) solution and why a successful venture depends on an accurate picture of the portfolio. Learn why it's vital to understand which business processes your employees rely on and why the proper level of visibility leads to well-informed decisions about retiring or replacing apps. 

Each year, the Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com editorial teams – as well as a group of independent storage experts and IT pros – select the enterprise data storage Products of the Year in five categories. The February cover story announces the winners and why these new and enhanced products stand out from the pack. 

This white paper highlights the results of a Forrester survey exploring why hybrid cloud implementation is the preferred approach for forward-thinking organizations. 

Explore 3 approaches to building a cloud in this white paper. Discover why building an open cloud is the best strategy to unlock the full efficiency, agility, and cost benefits of cloud computing, and learn what the essential requirements of building an open cloud are. 

To protect your organization during unplanned downtime, you must have effective disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) plans in place. This expert e-guide provides best practices for creating a comprehensive DR strategy and discusses why contingent controls are a vital - yet overlooked - part of DR and BC. 

<p>Top five reasons why customers deploy Microsoft SQL Server on EMC VNX Unified Storage.</p> 

This white paper offers eight solid reasons why outsourcing your records management makes more sense than managing it in-house. 

Do you know how to execute? You'd better hope so. Execution separates the winners from the losers. Read this resource, taken from the upcoming book, 'Return on Execution,' and learn why a return on execution is the ultimate business difference-maker. Discover a method for measuring your return on execution and learn why business alignment is key. 

Listen to this podcast with Christopher Perretta, executive VP and CIO of State Street Corp., the Boston-based financial services provider, as he discusses building an industrial-strength private cloud. Learn why the security and integrity of data is as valuable as currency in the banking business and why a public cloud wouldn't cut it. 

In the September 2011 cover story of Storage magazine, Eric Siebert clears up some of the confusion as he looks at the characteristics of Fibre Channel, iSCSI and NAS and reviews the pros and cons of each for virtual environments. 

Now that smart phones are being used by professionals in fields ranging from field service to customer care, evaluating and selecting the optimal device has become more challenging. Read this white paper for an in-depth look at which smart phone features make work easier and why ruggedness is a requirement.