In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at the importance of IT strategy when budgets are under pressure. The first part of our Buyer’s Guide to virtualisation examines the barriers preventing many organisations from adopting the technology; and Transport for London’s CIO talks about how IT helps avoid Olympic travel chaos. Download the issue now. 

This eBook explores optimizing and analyzing data collected from each channel and how to apply the findings to a customer experience management (CEM) strategy. 

BI empowers companies with the ability to offer products and services at the lowest cost and with the greatest amount of efficiency and productivity possible- while returning the highest revenues and profits. Learn how BI can help you to establish a culture of measurement and begin a powerful cycle of continued improvement within your organization. 

In this week's issue of Computer Weekly, we look at the key technologies that retailers are turning to for IT-enabling customers' Christmas shopping. We examine research revealing the huge cost of application software that fails to meet requirements; and we talk to one of the pioneers of agile software development. Download the new issue now. 

This paper will address the key drivers for this market shift and includes real-world case studies from organizations that have made the move to phone-based authentication. It also introduces PhoneFactor, the leading provider of phone-based multi-factor authentication. 

Intel Ethernet controllers and network adapters are optimized to meet the needs of virtualized data centers. Read this whitepaper to learn more about Multi-Port Intel Ethernet Server Adapters and how they can help you optimize server virtualization. 

This paper introduces the new extensions in SQL Server Management Studio and the new Utility Explorer, and discusses the simple process of setting up a SQL Server managed server group. 

Data center power, cooling, and space requirements are becoming key IT challenges for organizations of all size; not to mention data protection demands, restore performance and longer retention times. Read this white paper to discover successful methods for meeting these IT challenges. 

Enterprise organizations, now more than ever, need a holistic solution that delivers multi-tier backup within an integrated infrastructure. Read on to learn more about Quantum’s specific solutions, and decide if they may be a good fit for your organization. 

Watch this webcast to examine the need for more VLANs, the use of software-defined networking in multi-tenant cloud networks, and how performance and compliance must be addressed in the private cloud. 

The private cloud is a shared multi-tenant environment built on a highly efficient, automated, and virtualized infrastructure. This paper takes a look at an architecture and implementation roadmap for a private enterprise cloud - designed by Intel - to increase agility and IT efficiency.