In this white paper, Dan Moore, the senior vice president of professional services at IBM, Cast Iron reviews the current application environment in light of emerging trends, describes an ideal complete integration solution and discusses common sense best practices as well as pitfalls. 

Constant product innovation has contributed to a thriving equipment-manufacturing industry, however, fewer time-saving tools are available to QA than developer groups. As a result, testing is becoming an innovation barrier. This paper examines the innovation barrier: its causes, effects, & what’s needed to restore the vigorous pace of innovation. 

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. 

Oracle’s Sun Blade 6000 Modular System was designed from the ground up to deliver far greater efficiency than a corresponding set of rack-mount servers. Read this white paper to find out why organizations everywhere are considering blade systems a part of a winning strategy in the battle for space, power, and cooling. 

As organizations recover from the global recession and begin to look to more efficient and effective expansion of services provided to end-users, many organizations are struggling with how to thrive as IT environments become more and more complex. Learn how to deliver exceptional quality of experience during application delivery. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, we talk to the British Library about the enormous storage challenges of digitising its printed archive; we examine the state of the UK IT jobs market and the skills that are most in demand by employers; and we look at case studies of the best virtualisation projects. Download the new issue now. 

This presentation transcript reveals key findings from a recent consumerisation poll and provides recommendations and best practices to help organisations address these key topics. Obtain predictions for the future of the media tablet market and gain insight into five trends that are shaping the consumerisation landscape. 

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. 

The user experience associated with web applications relies in large part on the availability and management of their session data, its persistence, and its management. This white paper focuses on the topic of data availability and management for mission-critical web applications. 

In this first session, Wolf introduces principles of virtual infrastructure optimization and covers virtual machine placement optimization and bottleneck identification. 

This white paper is the first in a three-part series, each of which examines the challenge of implementing network security on equipment from Cisco Systems while maintaining the connectivity requirements of the business or enterprise. 

Schulz discusses threats, challenges and new strategies effecting storage and networking performance and capacity.