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

Check out this brief white paper to learn about an offsite tape vaulting service that enables your organization to quickly recover your data in the event of a disaster or unplanned downtime, and also enables you to track where your backup tapes are at all times (i.e. in transit, handling/storage, etc.). Read on to learn more. 

This week’s Computer Weekly contains an exclusive interview with JP Morgan COO India Gary-Martin about juggling multiple legacy IT systems while keeping the merchant bank compliant. We also look at how near-field communications technology promises to revolutionise consumer spending and we ask whether 2012 could be the year that APM becomes vital? 

This security runbook guides you through all stages of securing your system. Discover the importance of a company-wide commitment to security. 

This special Computer Weekly report analyses the market for supercomputers, peripherals and applications, the supercomputer community, developments in technology, and offers a country by country comparison. 

Using a Visual Data Analytics Platform to Monitor and Manage Positions/Exposures in Real-Time Firms that engage in financial trading are exposed to counterparty risk (i.e., credit risk), market risk, and operational risk. 

This paper examines how virtualization has become such a hot topic that the number of virtualization techniques, tools, and technologies is into the dozens, and that’s just from Microsoft. Some of the benefits of virtualization include hardware cost savings, configuration optimization, less disruption, and easier reallocation of resources. 

Check out this expert E-Guide to learn about new vSphere Storage 1/0 control for virtual environments, how it eliminates storage bottlenecks, and how to configure it. Also learn about VMware’s latest release – vSphere 5 –and what it means for storage administrators. 

As VoIP usage becomes widespread, enterprise users will become subject to many of the same security risks that have affected data networks. This report highlights some of the potential security problems associated with VoIP and address what measures can be taken to secure enterprise VoIP deployments.