When the State of Kansas Division of Information Services and Communications mandated that all of its departments find ways to consolidate operations and boost staff productivity, its networking services group was ready for the challenge. Read this case study to see what they did. 

The Barkley ad firm implements consolidation, virtualization and replication to strengthen business-continuity and disaster-recovery planning. With the goal of getting to 100 percent availability, the firm uses HP's blade hardware, VMware's virtualization software and a variety of existing storage platforms. 

Device manufacturers are balancing control with innovation, a dynamic that often controls the mobile ecosystem. This is why the McAfee Mobile Security Report 2009 is taking a closer look at manufacturers’ security experiences, their concerns and priorities, and their approach to major security challenges that lie ahead of them in the near future. 

In this audio excerpt from his video presentation "Inside the cloud: Key security factors when considering managed services,"Jeff Reich discusses a few of the key technical risk factors involved with cloud computing. 

In a smarter planet, the most successful organizations will be those that successfully deploy their assets to address today's service, cost and risk issues as well as seize tomorrow's opportunities for growth, leadership and differentiation. Read this IBM white paper for more information. 

Trying to decide if online backup, or backup as a service, will be beneficial to your small-midsized business (SMB)? John Merryman, services director for recovery services at GlassHouse Technologies Inc., discusses the benefits and drawbacks of online backup today. His answers are also available as an MP3 download. 

Through IBM client interviews across several industries and other industry and workload analyses, this paper examines the benefits and costs of IBM's CoD offering for high performance business and technical computing. 

Adrian Mitu, of IBM, discusses the importance of service availability and performance. Companies need to be more effective at solving service problems-- by minimizing service downtime and reducing the number of incidents. 

This whitepaper will demonstrate why Data Services are a foundation requirement for enterprise SOA deployments by describing how just how valuable, and complex, business data is for the businesses that rely on it. 

Join Melinda Ballou as she answers how organizations can be successful and maintain high-performing business-critical software with fewer resources and strategies for successful quality adoption. 

To avoid a 7.96% increase in logistics costs, companies should follow the roadmap of Best in Class companies, which have been able to reduce costs or keep them flat via supply chain transformation. 

Business intelligence (BI) allows organizations to better understand, analyze, and even predict what's occurring in their company. 

The customer care and billing functionality in SAP for Utilities provides billing for routine retail service and complex billing for commercial and industrial accounts, flat-rate billing for unmetered energy and nonenergy products.