Among the challenges facing companies are geographically dispersed offices, mobile employees and the need for high availability and business continuity.  Learn how desktop virtualization and workshifting are viable solutions. Discover how these strategies will increase productivity, optimize performance and centralize management. 

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. 

The transition to IPv6 is unavoidable. How it will happen and the effects of it are the questions to ask now. 

Learn how IT leaders can foster visibility across their organization that arms the executive community with the knowledge needed to make proactive decisions — and identify and mitigate emerging risks and issues before they negatively affect the bottom line, customer satisfaction, and brand reputation. 

Data Deduplication has gained a lot of traction in the backup and recovery world over the past few years. This interactive classroom features exclusive lessons designed to get IT administrators up to speed on this technology and how it affects the entire IT market. 

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. 

Download this white paper for insight into how IT's value to business is being redefined and the benefits of IT's enhanced role. 

The use of virtual servers is common across IT infrastructures and over the next few years many will have moved their IT shop into some type of cloud—private, public or a hybrid of the two. But there is still some uncertainty as to the benefits that virtualization and cloud computing initiatives can bring. Learn more here. 

IT managers that fail to embrace on-demand services will hold back the organisation they are supposed to be supporting. Such services can save costs within IT, as well as provide new capabilities to the business that have previously been unavailable or unaffordable. 

This white paper will look at the role data migration plays as part of a tiered storage strategy and how IT departments can optimize data migration to make their tiered storage architecture more efficient and cost-effective. 

In this case study, explore how Spirit Incentives chose a cloud service to help it meet evolving business needs. Discover how this move to the cloud was accomplished in 10 days and how it enabled the company to consolidate services, reduce costs and better utilize its staff and applications. 

In Storage Tiering for Dummies, you will find out what storage tiering means, how it works, and why it makes sense.