This expert e-guide offers step-by-step instructions for IT executives looking to deploy storage area networks in their organizations. Learn about SAN technologies and the many features and functions to look for when making your selection. Also, learn tips on how to configure your SAN post-deployment. 

This brief expert e-guide from SearchCIO.com explains how CIO Steve Cretney successfully pitched his case for a new cloud computing model at Lands' End. Read this now and also gain leadership intuition to help you sharpen your soft skills and convince your business' leaders to share your vision, too. 

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. 

The SearchCIO.com CIO Innovator Profile Series discusses how CIOs utilize technology to align IT and business goals. The CIO has become the key in supporting both sides of the organization, creating a socially responsible and efficient IT infrastructure. Uncover a plethora of exclusive content, including expert e-guides, videos and podcasts. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at the IT challenges facing retailers, as consumers turn increasingly to web and mobile shopping channels. Oracle president Mark Hurd talks about how the supplier intends to simplify IT infrastructures. And new government CIO Andy Nelson discusses how he plans to transform Whitehall IT. Read the issue now. 

This expert e-guide from SearchCIO.com offers advice on how to capitalize on cloud computing, social networking and big data for big payoffs in both their business and career by examining strategies for shared services, data analytics and consumerization of IT. 

Is it possible to eliminate the impact of distance?  This paper explores the 5 key principles successful CIOs are using to redesign IT infrastructure of any size.  Learn how to be prepared to adapt your environment in a way that supports distributed employees, anytime anywhere collaboration and the need for business continuity during a disaster. 

The CIO needs to ensure that the IT function is in a position to help the organization benefit from opportunities that present themselves, creating a flexible IT environment that can exploit existing and emerging technologies to best advantage. 

So you have a requirements plan. You have elicited functional, non-functional, and quality of service requirements. You have validated and verified them, and your stakeholders are satisfied. Now what? Read this paper to learn more about the tools needed for business process improvements. 

This week’s Computer Weekly asks what chancellor George Osborne's Budget means for the UK IT community and if he can deliver his goal to make Britain "the technology centre of Europe". Also you'll find the final part of our private cloud Buyer's Guide and we examine the options for choosing the right WAN optimisation strategy. 

Read this insightful paper now to learn about the challenges surrounding the proper management of transaction documents, the benefits of optimized transaction protection and leveraging partners for storage and retrieval, individual case studies and so much more. 

Your company needs to think about the likelihood and impact of various risks and the kinds of "coverage" you need. This E-Guide can help you with just that by outlining various types of data loss and availability risks that require data protection and how to protect your data from hidden threats.