This resource explains how you can lower costs and improve flexibility by migrating your mainframe to open system servers. Discover the three major factors driving organizations to consider migrating application workloads off mainframe environments to open systems solutions. 

This article from Gartner offers advice to public sector organisations thinking of deploying cloud computing and assess the progress made by governments in their use of the cloud. 

With the announcement of Android 2.2, code named "Froyo," Google targets the enterprisemarket for the first time. This release has features to enable devices that can be grantedsupport under the "appliance level" of the Gartner Managed Diversity Framework. 

Gartner research director, Valdis Filks, offers tips to help businesses get to grips with escalating storage costs. 

Improving the overall quality of your company’s decision-making process results also improves the overall effectiveness of your business. This paper explains how reporting will help your organization make better decisions, and how on-demand reporting allows you to accomplish this task in a fast, cost-effective, and easy-to use manner. 

Read this white paper to learn why Gartner analysts believe cloud computing and event processing will completely change the face of enterprise IT architecture by 2015. 

<p>Read this white paper for an overview of JBoss Enterprise BRMS – an open source system that automates decisions by using simple rules development, access, and change management. Learn about the features and benefits of this system, as well as why BRMSs are important for the success of your business.</p> 

Although business rules management can mean different things to different people in the same organization, this white paper reminds us the important thing to remember is it is about business not technology. Read on to get a greater understanding of the benefits of business rules management software in an open source environment. 

Read this expert e-book by BI visionary Wayne Eckerson and gain insight into the growing adoption rates of big data technology and learn why companies are finally recognizing its many benefits. Eckerson offers a comparison of open-source options and analytical platforms, and also dives into an analysis on the varying types of processing systems. 

Deploying open source projects safely and successfully in an enterprise environment requires thorough understanding and careful evaluation of each project. Read this paper to learn about the benefits, defining characteristics, and requirements for enterprise use of open source software technology. 

This week’s Computer Weekly kicks off our Buyer's Guide to data security by looking at the changing role of the IT security chief. We also examine why flexible working is proving so slow to roll out and we talk to the UK's air traffic control operator about its ambitious desktop virtualisation project. 

This expert e-guide discusses next-generation BI software, in particular customer relationship management (CRM) analytics and how these factors complement the SMB market.