Oil and Gas Industry

WHITE PAPER: Smart information technology (IT) practices reduce the environmental impact of conducting business, and help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) reduce expenses.

Posted: 02 Feb 2009 | Published: 02 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: By helping your data center more accurately visualize and control energy use, you'll reclaim facility capacity and optimize energy use en route to reducing costs for your organization. Read this white paper for the details.

Posted: 10 May 2011 | Published: 10 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, learn about an innovative planning, scheduling, and monitoring strategy designed to enable businesses in the energy industry to improve operational efficiency, reduce risks, and cut costs. Discover the benefits of a planning technique that provides real-time visualization into and support of business operations.

Posted: 22 May 2012 | Published: 22 May 2012

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: Cleantech is emerging as a suitable alternative source of energy or a means of reducing  consumption of expensive resources, this report from Grant Thornton reveals.

Posted: 01 May 2012 | Published: 01 May 2012

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: HP has been a pioneer in incorporating technology to improve energy efficiency and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) for IT systems in the datacenter, with solutions designed to reduce server management costs, increase utilization, and improve power and cooling.

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 | Published: 21 Feb 2011

EZINE: This issue of the e-zine, IT in Europe: Data Management & BI Edition, is rife with info on everything from BI to analytics and beyond. The opening article discusses how European finance professionals are using BI and analytics to analyse trends and cut costs, the second is on predictive analytics and the third is on master data management.

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 | Published: 09 Mar 2012

PRESENTATION: Professor Hans Werner Meuer, co-founder of the Top500 supercomputer list, presents a critical assessment of high performance computing technology and applications.

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 | Published: 20 Apr 2012

CASE STUDY: This case study showcases a highly efficient cooling system that enables significant data center savings. Learn more about this platform and hear from one company that implemented it here.

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 | Published: 23 Apr 2012

WEBCAST: This webcast discusses some of the information security challenges utility companies face, and provides an overview of how total security intelligence solutions from Accuvant and Q1 Labs can be essential components of a comprehensive, cyber-security program as mandated by the NERC-CIP, and other utility-focused, regulatory requirements.

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 | Premiered: 24 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Learn how to stay ahead of the competition in a global marketplace while increasing operations and adopting real-time systems and tools to allow instant decision-making.

Posted: 13 Sep 2011 | Published: 13 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: This resource explores how SCADA systems have inherent vulnerabilities that can be best resolved by adhering to security best practices, and how network security solutions can be used to mitigate the risk to SCADA systems

Posted: 15 May 2012 | Published: 15 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: This 2012 IT skills and salary report analyzes the responses of over 9,500 IT pros to explore the relationship between training, salary, and an employee’s sense of professional satisfaction. Find out which jobs pay the most and which employees are the most satisfied.

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 | Published: 30 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Events such as the financial crisis and the Gulf oil spill have provided fresh impetus for efforts to gain better oversight and coordination across risk and compliance functions. Read this white paper to learn how the integrated management of risk and compliance has developed among corporates in multiple countries and industries.

Posted: 27 Mar 2012 | Published: 27 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Mobile network sharing – whether it is sharing tower sites or radio access network (RAN)components – is not a new concept in the industry. Despite the challenges associated, its meritas a cost-effective way to deploy or operate a mobile network has been evident for years.

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 | Published: 25 Oct 2011

CASE STUDY: Petrobras needed to accelerate data replication from offshore drilling platforms back to the corporate headquarters. Download the case study to learn how Riverbed deployed Steelhead® appliances to reduce Petrobras’ backup window from 34 hours to four hours, improve application performance for remote workers to LAN-like speeds, and more.

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 | Published: 12 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Our IT division recruits permanent and contract professionals into financial servicesfirms, including investment banks, hedgefunds and asset managers, and companies inthe commerce and industry and professional services sectors. We recruit business technologists from support to CTO level.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, learn why enterprise resouce planning (ERP) systems are emerging as an alternative to project-based solutions (PBSs).

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jan 2012

EBOOK: Utilizing the latest procurement technologies can help improve your supplier performance, produce better products and improve resource allocation. Read this editorial e-book to get expert advice on the latest procurement technologies for today’s manufacturers.

Posted: 23 May 2012 | Published: 23 May 2012

EZINE: This week's Computer Weekly examines how the Football Association's IT director is using technology to help improve the prospects for the England national team. Our Buyer's Guide to government IT looks at the future of open source in the public sector and we report from Infosec 2012 on the rising number of cyber attacks. Read the issue now.

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 | Published: 30 Apr 2012

IT BRIEFING: Packed with graphs and diagrams, the report is essential reading for any organisation working with, or thinking of working with Capita.

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 | Published: 23 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Discover three best practices that will give you rapid, predictable deployment, greater automation and reduced risk, and true and effective governance for your next SAP transformation project.

Posted: 07 May 2012 | Published: 07 May 2012

EBOOK: Gain insight into CIO stories from 13 leading organizations that led to their 2012 IT Leadership Award nomination. Find out their thoughts on hot topics such as the biggest challenges they face in IT, predictions for the next big technology, and problems they see within corporate cultures. 

Posted: 22 May 2012 | Published: 22 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: This exclusive resource introduces the concept and evolution of “green IT”, and explores strategies organizations can take to become more energy efficient and improve data center management.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how to clear out the backlog of new and modified applications that development teams are racing to create—and streamline release processes- so you can promptly release application enhancements and immediately leverage them.

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 | Published: 03 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, we introduce geographic data services and discuss how they are employed in both operational and analytical business applications. The paper also reviews analytical techniques applied across many types of organizations and examines a number of industry-specific usage scenarios.

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 | Published: 22 Mar 2011

IT BRIEFING: Emerging markets offer huge potential for technology companies to expand. This report from Grant Thornton assess the opportunities in a range of emerging markets.

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 | Published: 23 Apr 2012