Discover how VMware vSphere, the leading virtualization platform, can help your organization transition existing data centers to the cloud, streamline IT management and support business-critical applications. 

Read this white paper for an inside view of the industry-leading HP technologies of the HP CloudSystem. You'll also learn of three CloudSystem offerings and their major extensions. 

This white paper introduces a new executive scorecard that automates data collection and analysis from multiple sources, including third-party products, to provide a single view of IT performance metrics. 

IBM reduces the complexity of managing cloud environments by offering a complete portfolio of automated solutions for managing data and storage infrastructure, enabling better efficiency for business resiliency, and helping to reduce costs and improve security. 

Cloud computing is making its way into the public sector, enabling significant cost-savings and providing the tools to enhance communication, monitoring and security. Take a look at this videocast for an in-depth look at the use of the cloud in the public sector and learn about four basic models you can leverage for successful cloud adoption. 

This strategy guide will help IT decision-makers understand how converged infrastructure will facilitate such essential tasks as network support, stretching data storage resources, automating operations and streamlining systems management. 

The present need to radically cut public expenditure provides a once in a generation opportunity to transform the efficiency of the public sector. In order to achieve this, the public sector needs to radically change its current business processes to achieve greater efficiency. 

See how cloud-enabled networking can yield many benefits for remote branches and teleworkers, and learn an action plan for IT leaders to re-think their network strategy to save money in both the short- and long-term. 

The rapid growth of public cloud providers offering services present an obvious opportunity for IT managers looking for flexibility without excess spending. In this report, we examine the relative merits of public and private cloud services, and help IT managers to identify when is best to use each to support their IT strategy. 

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. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, we examine the economic benefits of plans to release more government data for wider re-use by software developers. We announce the winners of our Social Media Awards, and hear what the IT industry thinks of the new UK cyber security strategy. Download the new issue now. 

Uncover how monitoring technology can equip network administrators with the vital insights needed to govern and ensure availability of servers and applications, whether managed locally or in the cloud. 

Now is the time to start evaluating your IT infrastructure and the role private or public cloud services might play for your company going forward. This white paper discusses the promise of cloud computing as well as the three types of cloud services and primary deployment models.