The Corporate Executive Board IT Budget Benchmarking Survey assess IT spending,  staffing, and outsourcing levels at more than 175 organizations globally, representing roughly US$38 billion in IT spend. Download for the latest IT budget trends. 

This report from the Corporate Executive Board, based on extensive research with Chief Information Security Officers, identifies the top 10 security imperatives for 2012. 

This white paper offers key tips on how to successfully integrate Java-based applications deployed on WebSphere Application Server with C-based implementations by leveraging Java Native Interfaces (JNI). Discover the benefits of this platform and how it can simplify the process of creating, configuring and invoking shared libraries. 

This edition of BI Trends and Strategies opens with a piece by Lou Agosta on the need for data warehouses to adapt to new data types, innovation and big data. Alan R. Earls also offers advice for incorporating spreadsheets into your BI programs without problems and Richard Herschel calls for universities to step up their BI and analytics programs. 

This week’s Computer Weekly contains an exclusive interview with JP Morgan COO India Gary-Martin about juggling multiple legacy IT systems while keeping the merchant bank compliant. We also look at how near-field communications technology promises to revolutionise consumer spending and we ask whether 2012 could be the year that APM becomes vital? 

IT administrators estimate that close to half of all corporate data is held on employee laptops. However, data on laptops are normally the least protected corporate asset. To solve this, PeerSync provides centralized IT control for laptop backup. Download this trial software to experience this data solution. 

Storing files centrally at HQ causes slow file access performance for branch office users. Synchronized (mirrored) file servers with version conflict control is an ideal solution to enable fast LAN speed file access for all employees. Try out this free trial software to learn more about your data solutions. 

<p>How long should you keep your corporate data ? This report from Nucleus Research offers some scientific answers.</p> 

Research from KnowledgeStorm shows that a high percentage of leads that begin their research on the Web ultimately result in an active project. The technology vendors that nurture these Early Stage leads are often in a better selling position than those vendors that later "pile on" to more advanced, but also more competitive, leads. 

This Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to IT tools shows how you can use software and systems to improve the running of your IT department. 

Hosted unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) helps organizations deploy collaboration tools to their workers more quickly and efficiently than premise-based solutions. This whitepaper explores the benefits of hosted UC&C, how to get started, what to look for in a solutions provider, and more. 

This case study details how Webank utilized HP's Global Method for Business Intelligence Implementation to replace its old data warehousing system with a more advanced platform and saw huge business benefits.