This 5-part series offers key tips and tools that can help prepare your organization for a workload optimized, integrated hardware and software appliance. Discover how to quickly on-board your applications so you can get the most from this advanced system. 

If you'e a small or medium business owner with more than one computer, it's time to consider investing in a server. A server will keep your data secure and organized and will help you run your business more efficiently and professionally. If you've reached one of the 10 thresholds in this article, a server could do your business a world of good. 

Gartner analysts, William Clark, David W Cearley and Avivah Litan, explain how business can exploit context-aware computing and social media. 

This article provides an introduction to Hyper-V virtualization, discusses the overall architecture and underlying technologies, and offers guidance on best practices for deployment on Dell PowerEdge servers. 

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

Programming is a journey between the real world and a computer. This article explains why object orientation is currently the best way we have of making the journey. 

<p>Businesses need to keep a close eye on the evolution of cloud based services to avoid wasting money and missing out on business opportunities.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> 

Read these articles to create a framework for stating your company's case for implementing a data governance strategy. 

With a potential economic crisis looming in the Eurozone, Gartner offers a checklist of questions that CIOs and CEOs should ask each other. 

Philip Dawson, Gartner VP offers best practice advice for organisations looking to virtualise their IT infrastructure. 

The inaugural issue of BI Trends & Strategies offers sound advice to help you in ensuring your organization is on track to keep up with the rapidly changing landscape of BI and analytics. In this issue, readers will learn about a big data definition and the impact it will have on BI and data warehousing, agile development methodology and more. 

<p>This Forrester Consulting research examines the total economic impact and potential return on investment enterprises may realize by using Cisco Catalyst Access Switches in their organization. Read now to learn how these switches address the major market discontinuities enterprises often face in their campus access networks.</p> 

Check out this video to learn about the latest hardware and software cloud developments from NetApp. In this video you'll learn about several of NetApp's emerging virtualization and cloud solutions that allow for reduced deployment risk, increased data center efficiency and a more flexible IT environment. Watch now to learn more.