This white paper explores the key drivers behind many consolidation efforts and points out the reasons why some organizations are putting off deploying virtualization. Gain insight into a holistic approach to ensuring security, high availability, and performance and discover the key technology components that comprise it. 

This white paper presents 13 somewhat common infrastructure decisions that can result in poor IT security. It is possible that your organization can improve its security in one or more of these areas. Take the time to assess your current security policy in each of these areas to see if there is room for refinement or improvement. 

In this week's special issue of Computer Weekly, we reveal the UKtech50 - our list of the 50 most influential people in UK IT. This year's winner is Mike Lynch, CEO of Autonomy, who talks in an exclusive interview about his hopes for the UK technology industry, and life at HP since the company's 7bn GBP acquisition. Download the new issue now. 

Active Administrator™ is a comprehensive and proactive Active Directory management solution. Active Administrator provides four powerful integrated AD management features within one console, including centralized event auditing and reporting, back-up and recovery, Group Policy offline editing and rollback, and simplified delegation of AD rights. 

Read this case study to see why EATEL selected HP’s StorageWorks SAN to boost performance of such essential applications as email and other business activities, while reducing the potential for catastrophic data loss. 

Fortrex, in conjunction with Solidcore and Emagined Security have compiled a PCI compliance report that reveals the cost of a breach can easily be 20 times the cost of PCI compliance, more than justifying the up-front investment. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, we hear from Visa Europe CIO Steve Chambers on the technology behind the credit card transactions that retailers rely on. We examine the challenges facing the government's G-Cloud project; and we ask how Microsoft will cope when customers no longer want to purchase software licences. Download the new issue now. 

This 12-page Buyer’s Guide to Security aims to help CIOs and senior IT professionals decide when to rely on what is provided by infrastructure suppliers and when to turn to IT specialists. 

Jericho Forum aims to develop and influence information and communications technology(ICT) security standards.  These will facilitate the secure interoperation of ICT to support collaboration and commerce over open networks, within and between organisations, based on a security architecture and design approach entitled de-perimeterisation. 

The Jericho Forum’s Collaboration Oriented Architectures (COA) enable enterprises that build COAcompliant architectures to operate in a secure and reliable manner. 

Access this resource for expert insight into how health IT leaders can face the network security challenges of today – and use these challenges as an opportunity to revamp their overall management strategy. 

Vyatta provides softwarebased networking and security software that uniquely satisfies emerging IT architectures that are leveraging virtualization, multi-core server platforms and cloud computing models. The Vyatta Network OS includes:Dynamic Routing (BGP, OSPF, RIP) Stateful Firewall IPSec VPN Intrusion Prevention SSL OpenVPN Secure Web Filtering 

Access this resource to learn more about the promised financial and business benefits of this emerging technology. Learn how to spot risks and make the best long-term decisions for your business.