This benchmarking study from ESI International identifies the trends impacting the project management function in IT industry in three areas: PMO maturity, measuring and reporting on PMO effectiveness, as well as training involvement. 

CIOs are more confident of securing technology budget increases than at any time in the last five years, according to the CIO Technology Survey 2012. 

Whether you're a small organization trying to extend the value of the assets you already have or a larger data center pushing the envelope in automation, Dell and VMware can deliver solutions that make sense for your budget, staff, and business. 

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. 

In the traditional IT approach, every new software application required a new server. This added costs to every project and deployment took days to weeks. This also drove server sprawl. Watch this demo for an animated explanation of how virtualization addresses common data center challenges. 

This webcast will cover what an enterprise security manager should look for when evaluating UTMs. We’ll detail evaluation criteria, including performance, scalability and integration with the existing network infrastructure. 

Your IT organization needs WAN optimization that can be deployed anywhere, on any platform, and for the lowest cost. See how the new Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers can help. 

This report from Capgemini, shows how organisations can navigate around ‘cloud confusion’  from suppliers pushing products rather than business solutions. 

IT spending is often an issue for any organisation, but especially in harsh economic times it is even more important to see what benefit IT brings to the business. This report looks at the degree to which UK organisations understand what IT is doing for their business, and in particular how some companies measure this and benefit from it. 

Inside, learn how mainframe rehosting can help you operate legacy workloads on lower cost platforms or offload your organization’s processing requirements in order to cap workload growth. Discover the benefits of mainframe rehosting solutions. 

In this case study, discover how one health care provider employed a pay-as-you-go, cloud-based storage model to help them save hundreds of thousands of dollars on their long-term archiving and disaster recovery requirements. 

View this webcast to discover how to combine the portability and agility of the Spring framework for Java EE with a lightweight application server that gives you the flexibility to virtualize Java applications and workloads for the cloud while improving developer productivity, control and manageability and staying within budget constraints.