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. 

This tip guide from SearchCRM.com shares Gartner's expert insights on the fragmented social customer relationship management (CRM) market and how it will continue to evolve in the next three years. 

This special eight-page indepent report from Computer Weekly, packed with graphs and diagrams, is essential reading for anyone doing business, or thinking of doing business with EMC. 

Dell EqualLogic PS Series XVS arrays present a better option for meeting service level agreements while helping reduce costs. Read about the benefits in this solution brief. 

A recent Gartner study unexpectedly found that Software as a Service (SaaS) enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems reinforce IT governance policies. In this expert guide, learn how SaaS ERP platforms can be customized, are simpler to use than on-premise ERP, and support better IT governance. 

Fujitsu has been an insular company, with a market centred in Japan. Does it have what it takes to reinvent itself as a well-represented global player, with cloud computing at its heart? 

As a consequence of tightening budgets and increasing uncertainties, government organizations are looking at how to leverage cloud computing as a model to ensure greater flexibility, lower costs, more-rapid provisioning and greater focus on areas that are more domain-specific. 

This paper evaluates application performance monitoring (APM) vendors in each of five categories of functionality: end-user experience monitoring; application runtime architecture discovery, modeling and displays; user-defined transaction profiling; component deep-dive monitoring in application context; and application performance analytics. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, we go behind the scenes at the datacentre that knows everything about you, at credit checking firm Experian. We analyse the government's new plans to change the way it works with IT suppliers; and kick-off our Buyer's Guide to outsourcing with a look at the latest trends. Download the new issue now. 

Until recently, organizations implementing cloud technologies have been forced to weigh the security advantages of private  cloud against the elasticity and pay-as-you-go model of public clouds. Now, with a new private in-house cloud service offering from CSC, organizations will be able to enjoy the best of both worlds. 

In this white paper, learn how segmenting the network infrastructure into smaller pieces can provide clarity on networking requirements and the ability to make better vendor decisions. 

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.