Professor Hans Werner Meuer, co-founder of the Top500 supercomputer list, presents a critical assessment of high performance computing technology and applications. 

This special eight-page report from Computer Weekly analyses the challenges facing Microsoft, its financial performance, the services it offers, its place in the IT market and its future strategy. 

<p>This special nine-page report from Computer Weekly analyses the challenges facing IBM, its financial performance, the services it offers.</p> 

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? 

There are some helpful things we can do with Cisco’s IOS to make our lives easier. This white paper will present some useful commands, followed (in parentheses) by their most concise shortcuts (at the time of this writing). 

Wouldn't it be great to have a management system that detailed your organization's performance in near real-time? Read this paper for senior IT management for an overview of the latest management system changes and additions, including sought-after predictive analytics. 

Read this brief paper and learn how IBM Cognos can lead finance teams into the next generation by offering driver-based budgeting with vastly shorter planning cycles, flexible rolling forecasts, faster and more reliable financial close and consolidation, tighter control over operational performance, swifter reporting capabilities and so much more. 

This white paper reviews key mobile trends and analyzes how performance testers must change their testing methodologies to ensure they are accounting for the changes caused by mobile usage. 

This report introduces best practices for understanding and improving the performance of mission-critical networked applications and provides pointers for what to look for in a measurement tool in a WAN optimized environment. 

Application performance monitoring (APM) is gaining traction in today's constantly changing and complex application environment. This paper outlines the increasing need for such a solution, offering insight into the five dimensions of modern APM, how to ensure a positive end-user experience, how to measure APM and so much more. 

About 50% of companies have an application performance monitoring (APM) system in place, and those that don't are likely losing customers and revenue. Quest Software has made vast improvements to its Foglight APM line, including supreme simplicity and virtualization capabilities. Read this and learn about the research behind these advancements.