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The key to cloud and virtual computing

TeamQuest | Published: 10:31 GMT, 03 February 12 | www.cio.co.uk

Managing and planning capacity In 2011 and beyond

The flexibility and cost alternatives provided by new technologies such as virtualisation, internal and external cloud computing, and different types of cloud-based solutions such as software-as-a-service (SaaS) present IT organisations with a choice of platforms to run an application or a business service.

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Optimising datacenter and cloud performance

TeamQuest | Published: 10:17 GMT, 03 February 12 | www.cio.co.uk

The new approach

As the worldwide economy continues to bring many business challenges, IT organisations remain under heavy pressure to contain costs while providing competitive advantages by delivering effective business processes and applications to customers and internal users alike.

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Resolving common challenges in virtualised environments

Symantec | Published: 11:04 GMT, 31 January 12 | www.cio.co.uk

Are you seeing the full benefits of virtualisation?

The adoption of virtualisation in the enterprise is transforming the way IT is deployed, managed and delivered to the business units. While virtualisation delivers many advantages, it is not perfect. As with the introduction of any new technology, there are challenges that need to be faced and overcome - not least of which may be the realisation that the link between workloads and physical platforms has been broken.

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A decision makers guide to hybrid and cloud computing

Rackspace | Published: 14:10 GMT, 25 January 12 | www.cio.co.uk

The process every enterprise should think through

In recent years cloud computing has made the difficult transition from marketing buzzword to credible technology. More and more IT organisations are achieving real cost efficiencies from cloud and hybrid solutions while improving their business agility.

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The financial economics of cloud email

Cobweb | Published: 15:52 GMT, 09 January 12 | www.cio.co.uk

Email - an essential business application

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.


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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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