Read this brief article to discover how this growing retail chain of "island fashion" utilizes their loyal customers and their information to keep their business going through the recession and beyond. 

Typical IT departments feature islands of isolated infrastructure, leading to inefficient use of servers. The "application grid" concept allows data centres to run more efficiently, using less hardware and less software. This paper explains. 

Keeping up with a quickly expanding business is difficult if you do not have the right tools. Read on to learn how Cricket Communications handled its growing business' operations with an enterprise application, data and operational management system. 

If you are unfamiliar with proactive chat or already have proactive chat software and want to learn how to make the most of it, then check out this white paper to gain a strong understanding. 

Neglecting to invest in an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution can significantly hinder continued growth and profitability for small businesses. Read this white paper to find out if your small business can afford ERP, and if you can afford to operate without it. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we mark the 10th anniversary of Microsoft’s Bill Gates announcing the Trustworthy Computing initiative, and ask if it has made IT more secure. We look at what Oracle’s latest developments mean for its software users running rivals’ servers, and conclude our Buyer’s Guide to IT consumerisation. Download the issue now. 

This paper outlines the things you must consider when thinking about the feasibility of replacing a WAN provider’s provider (P) and provider edge (PE) devices with routers. This paper examines these considerations in greater detail, to see where any potential problems might arise. 

In this white paper, learn how you can enable Oracle real application clusters (RACs) to run efficiently and as fast as, if not faster, than a single instance. 

People do not perform at their job for one of two reasons: either they can't or they won't. The second type of employee is the one we will address in this paper- the employee who chooses not to do his or her job for whatever reason. 

Although virtualization boasts many benefits, you may be wondering if it can help your organization. In this transcript, expert Lee Benjamin discusses the concerns IT pros have about virtualization and how to determine its worth for your company. Learn how Exchange 2010 supports virtualization and can be used to improve your backup strategy. 

This report provides an overview of the inherent risks when operating an insecure print environment and discusses the current market landscape while recommending some best practices for adopting an integrated information and print security strategy. 

Economies of scale, flexibility and costreduction – cloud advocates have made sure that we are familiar with these potential benefits, even if we have yet to agree on an exact definition of cloud computing. But doubters argue that none of these benefits will actually be available unless some fundamental security issues can be overcome.