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The impact of data center and server relocation on application performance

Shunra | Published: 09:23 GMT, 30 January 12 | www.cio.co.uk

A proven strategy for project success

According to analysts, 88% of enterprises are currently in the early phases of either consolidating servers or executing a major data center relocation. These consolidations and relocations bring measurable benefits. For example, they reduce Information Technology (IT) costs, improve business continuity and and help comply with government and industry regulations.

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Deploying your applications in the cloud

Shunra | Published: 09:02 GMT, 30 January 12 | www.cio.co.uk

Strategies to proactively mitigate performance risk

Corporations worldwide are shifting technology resources and infrastructure to the cloud. These businesses expect to realise gains in operational efficiency and scalability as a result of the cloud's elasticity, and they expect to reduce capital expenditures on IT infrastructure.

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CIO Insights Research Synthesis

IBM | Published: 15:07 GMT, 08 December 11 | www.cio.co.uk

Customer Analytics: A leadership opportunity for CIOs to Drive Customer Centricity

Customer centricity is increasingly critical to strategies for corporate growth, elevating the analysis of customer data to a top priority for most enterprises. CIOs and their IT organizations are uniquely qualified to locate dispersed and disparate customer data, create effective analytics tools to interpret that data, and deliver meaningful customer information throughout the enterprise. But as custodians – not owners – of corporate customer data, IT must forge strategic relationships with customer-facing functions including marketing, sales, customer service, business development, and operations in order to develop effective customer analytics strategies, tools, and processes.

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Analytics: the widening divide

IBM | Published: 09:51 GMT, 09 November 11 | www.cio.co.uk

How companies are achieving competitive advantage through analytics

Analytics skills and tools competency enhances performance by applying advanced techniques such as modeling, deep computing, simulation, data analytics and optimisation improve efficiency and guide strategies that address specific business process areas.

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Business analytics and optimisation: the new competitive edge

IBM | Published: 16:47 GMT, 01 November 11 | www.cio.co.uk

Using the power of insight to shape business outcomes

Business analytics and optimisation as a whole is a new way of viewing, and enhancing, the value of existing, well established and widespread management disciplines.


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The financial economics of cloud email

This white paper evaluates cloud computing as a flexible alternative to your current IT capability that delivers tangible benefits including: projects delivered earlier, faster adoption to change, lower risk, reduced costs and easier to scale up or down services.

Beyond Dropbox: Requirements for Enterprise Secure File Sharing

This whitepaper explores the danger “Dropbox” type services pose for enterprises, and the security and compliance requirements for deploying enterprise-wide file sharing solutions.

Top 10 considerations for your IT operations management in the cloud

This paper explores ten questions every IT organization should answer to help determine their cloud based ITOM needs.

How to get your business ready for the 2012 Olympics

IT Manager: "I'm working on contingency plans to ensure that we can keep the business running whatever happens during the Olympics. Hopefully, it'll just be a case of letting people work from home but we need to be ready for anything".


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Voice Applications in the Cloud

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CIO Transformation Summit

CIO Roundtable:
The Private Cloud

Wed 29 Feb 2012
Tower 42, London, 7pm.

Join a select group of your fellow CIO's to discuss private cloud computing and how best to apply the private cloud to your organisation

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