Virtualization management has evolved significantly as products mature and IT shops become more savvy. This expert buying guide explores third-party tools in five key areas of virtualization management. Gain insights on what you should consider, whether you're a first-time purchaser or looking to upgrade. 

This guide from Sybase is full of examples of mCommerce at work. The benefits range from speeding up economies to life-changing improvements. For merchants, operators and banks, the new channel offers another way to grow business and revenues while meeting the financial needs of customers. 

The advent of new technologies, especially virtualization, is drastically changing the way the data center can and should be designed. This IT Decision Center provides purchasing guidance from our site experts along with answers from leading vendors in the market to the 5 most important questions you should ask any data center networking vendor. 

In 30 minutes, we'll introduce you to QuickBase, the leading, hosted workgroup application platform. 

EquaTerra is pleased to offer to Computer Weekly readers a custom, European focused edition of the results from its 2Q10 EquaTerra global business and information technology (IT) services Pulse survey. 

The CRM buying process can be reduced to a set of 10 steps that will help you pare down the field of potential solutions to a few vendors who are the best fit. This guide will allow you to move through 10 sets of steps. 

Midmarket organizations considering physical server upgrades must evaluate their environments, sift through offerings and integrate the servers with existing tools. This e-book will guide you through these complex efforts by covering three components: determining needs and requirements, understanding your options, and putting it all together. 

Read this paper by Global Knowledge instructor, John Hales, to learn how to build a home lab for VMware vSphere for study. This paper is broken down into three major sections; the first and most detailed is about the hardware required, the second is about the Workstation configuration, and the third is about installing vSphere and Virtual Center. 

In this essential e-guide, expert Brian Madden discusses some of the key differences between remote desktop access and mobile access. Find out how these solutions use different technologies for various use cases, and discover tools that enable the right remote desktop accessibility to fit your user’s needs. 

In this week’s issue of Computer Weekly, we look at the key trends and technologies that will be on IT leaders’ agenda in 2012. Our first Buyer’s Guide of the year examines how IT consumerisation will affect business technology; and Home Office IT director Denise McDonagh tells us why government IT isn’t working. Download the new issue now. 

Like many organisations, data at Bromford Group falls into two distinct groups. On one side is a Microsoft SQL database that tracks customer relationship management, records of tenants and properties. On the other side is all of the data that runs the business itself: Microsoft Exchange, corporate files, and network drives crammed with documents. 

In an environment where access to a secure computing device is governed and controlled by inherently secure protocols, the problem still remains of how access to untrusted environments such as the Web is controlled. 

The tough economic climate will accelerate businesses take-up of “disruptive technologies”, such as cloud computing and mobile working, CIOs at Computer Weekly’s 500 Club heard.