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HP Data Center Smart Grid: An HP Converged Infrastructure Innovation Primer
sponsored by HP & Intel®
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

HP & Intel®

Transforming Insight Into Action With Business Event Processing
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores key business event processing capabilities that are helping energy and utilities organizations to manage instrumented and intelligent utility networks detect outages, improve grid security, and prevent fraudulent use of energy.
Posted: 10 Oct 2011 | Published: 31 Dec 2009

IBM

Achieve Higher Quality Decisions Faster for a Competitive Edge in the Oil and Gas Industry
sponsored by Hitachi Vantara
WHITE PAPER: This brief resource profiles a storage and analysis approach that can help your organization meet the challenges of today's data-intensive business world and achieve a competitive edge. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 24 Sep 2013 | Published: 31 Jul 2013

Hitachi Vantara

Application Performance for Oil and Gas Seismic Analysis
sponsored by Dot Hill Systems Corp.
WHITE PAPER: The reference solution combines Dot Hill storage solutions, Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre, and Mellanox Infiniband to deliver a highly scalable and high performance infrastructure for oil exploration computing platforms, as well as other HPC applications.
Posted: 04 Apr 2014 | Published: 14 Mar 2014

Dot Hill Systems Corp.

Optimization Applications in the Energy and Power Industries - IBM ILOG Optimization White Paper
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper shows how mathematical optimization enables the rapid development and deployment of applications that address the energy and power industries’ most pressing issues, including climate change, grid utilization, market restructuring and Enterprise IT.
Posted: 14 Dec 2010 | Published: 14 Dec 2010

IBM

Realizing the Value of the Green Data Center by Integrating Facilities and IT
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the importance of managing energy consumption in data centers and how systems management technologies contribute to green management.
Posted: 06 Oct 2008 | Published: 04 Oct 2008

IBM

How to Protect the Increasingly Vulnerable Energy Industry
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Learn how an integrated security intelligence platform provides the necessary components to help energy and utilities companies automate compliance and risk management, detect and manage threats, and protect the smart grid from both security breaches and cyber-attacks.
Posted: 24 Mar 2014 | Published: 31 Jul 2013

IBM

Small Form Factor (SFF) SAS - Meeting the Demanding Requirements in Specific Markets
sponsored by Xtore
WHITE PAPER: SAS technology has been proven to be the most versatile storage solution in data transfer and high performance. Read this white paper to learn about a solution that renders the necessary performance needed for your client's expanding market requirements.
Posted: 22 Aug 2007 | Published: 01 Aug 2007

Xtore

Measuring the Business Impacts of Effective Data: Chapter One of a Three-Part Study
sponsored by Sybase, an SAP company
WHITE PAPER: This study of over 150 Fortune 1000 firms from every major industry or vertical explores issues associated with the lifeblood of today’s enterprises: data. The findings demonstrate the often dramatic impacts that even marginal investments in information technology can have when that technology addresses data quality, usability, and intelligence.
Posted: 02 Nov 2010 | Published: 02 Nov 2010

Sybase, an SAP company

CW Innovation Awards: Bharat Petroleum refines operations with a digital nerve centre
sponsored by TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
EGUIDE: In this case study, learn how Bharat Petroleum's massive IoT project will enable the company to respond quickly to equipment failure or hazardous incidents, and provides a single view of the company's entire value chain.
Posted: 27 Apr 2021 | Published: 28 Apr 2021

TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com

Building a World-Class Supply Chain – New Insights from Chemical & Petroleum Producers
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Learn what leading companies do differently to outperform their peers. From strategy decisions to investment in information technology and performance measurement systems, MPI’s latest research explains how your company can realize tangible returns though greater flexibility and improved delivery performance.
Posted: 22 Feb 2011 | Published: 22 Feb 2011

IBM

Statoil Pumps up Production Levels through Information Sharing and 'Smart' Practices
sponsored by IBM Line of Business
WEBCAST: Diminishing petroleum reserves and increasing worldwide demand for oil and natural gas continue to drive complex challenges. Solutions require fresh thinking, rigorous research and carefully calculated investments. Watch the video to learn more.
Posted: 03 Mar 2008 | Premiered: Mar 1, 2008

TOPICS:  Oil Industry
IBM Line of Business

Create Operational Flexibility with Cost-Effective Cloud Computing
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper details how the chemical and petroleum industry can use the cloud to take on challenges proactively and meet rising demands.
Posted: 11 Mar 2014 | Published: 09 Mar 2011

IBM

Investigating The Impact of Industry 4.0
sponsored by Aveva
EGUIDE: Since it was coined in 2011, Industry 4.0 has been used as a term for all of the technological advancements being used to fuel efficiency in the manufacturing sector. This e-guide combines 2 articles written by experts from TechTarget, each exploring developments in Industry 4.0 from a different angle. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 16 Nov 2023 | Published: 15 Nov 2023

TOPICS:  .NET
Aveva

Solution Brief
sponsored by HighByte
PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Manufacturers and industrial organizations can produce more than a terabyte of data every day, but without the right tools and processes to refine that data, they are sitting on an abundant asset that cannot be leveraged in a meaningful way. Read on to understand how you can unlock the potential of industrial data for your organization.
Posted: 21 Dec 2023 | Published: 21 Dec 2023

TOPICS:  .NET
HighByte

CW Innovation Awards: Sime Darby ups ante in service management
sponsored by TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
EGUIDE: In this case study, learn how Sime Darby Industrial's inService Suite has returned more than 100,000 hours to the company in a digitisation initiative that has improved efficiency and customer engagement.
Posted: 10 May 2021 | Published: 10 May 2021

TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com

CW Innovation Awards: SIA taps blockchain for loyalty app
sponsored by TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
EGUIDE: In this case study, learn how Singapore Airlines expanded its blockchain-based digital wallet, Kris+, into a broader digital lifestyle platform.
Posted: 11 May 2021 | Published: 11 May 2021

TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com

CW APAC, April 2021: Trend Watch: IoT in India
sponsored by TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
EZINE: In this handbook, focused on the internet of things in India, Computer Weekly looks at the country's potential as an IoT hotspot.
Posted: 26 Apr 2021 | Published: 26 Apr 2021

TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com

Demystifying Big Data: Facts vs. Hype
sponsored by TechTarget Data Management
EGUIDE: What is "big data" and why is the IT industry talking about it so much? In this expert e-guide, discover what Gartner Inc. says about the emergence of a big data hype cycle.
Posted: 30 Sep 2013 | Published: 27 Sep 2013

TechTarget Data Management

CW Innovation Awards: How Zuellig Pharma is fighting fake drugs with blockchain
sponsored by TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
EGUIDE: In this case study, learn how Zuellig Pharma is leveraging blockchain to help countries get up to speed with their vaccination programmes and counter the threat of counterfeit vaccines.
Posted: 28 Apr 2021 | Published: 29 Apr 2021

TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com

IBM® Cognos Financial Statement Reporting (FSR) and British Airways
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Through the years, accounting standards have changed and older processes need to be refined with the new complexities. This paper discovers how to maintain a master annual report without the risk of inaccuracies with data consolidation.
Posted: 01 Jun 2011 | Published: 01 Jun 2011

IBM

How the application integration landscape is changing
sponsored by TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
EGUIDE: In this e-guide, we discover how the industry is trying to make it possible to link applications together in order to share resources with ease. We take a look at how technologies like Distributed Computing and the Common Object Model have been refined into web services, service-oriented architecture and composable applications and microservices.
Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 19 Mar 2018

TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com

CW Middle East ezine July 2018
sponsored by TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
EZINE: What more does a region need to be recognised as a technology leader than its very own valley, of the silicon variety? Where once only oil flowed down Saudi Arabia's economic valleys, tech has now taken a grip. Read in this issue about the country's ambitions in the tech sector.
Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 12 Jul 2018

TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com

Royal Holloway: Lessons on catastrophe - differences and similarities between cyber and other forms of risk
sponsored by TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
RESOURCE: Cyber insurance is still in its infancy but has shown significant growth, with evidence for further expansion. However, a lack of past information and some idiosyncrasies make pricing difficult, as well as potentially amplifying risk exposure. This article summarises findings from a practical model that could be used in lieu of actuarial data.
Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 06 Jul 2020

TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com

Legacy Software Modernization in the Manufacturing Industry
sponsored by Accesa
WHITE PAPER: The main aim of any software modernization project is to help companies create new business value. However, the best investment can be working with what you already have. This guide makes the case for legacy software modernization. Get the details here.
Posted: 03 Dec 2020 | Published: 03 Dec 2020

All resources sponsored by Accesa

Operational Intelligence Adds to Business Smarts
sponsored by TechTarget Business Analytics
EBOOK: In this 3-part guide, SearchBusinessAnalytics explores organizations' operational intelligence initiatives and their impact on business processes in customer service, logistics, energy, and manufacturing.
Posted: 23 Feb 2015 | Published: 23 Feb 2015

TechTarget Business Analytics

Enterprise Cloud Strategy: Improve Agility While Avoiding Risk
sponsored by TechTarget CIO
EBOOK: In this SearchCIO.com handbook, industry experts describe the techniques they are using to determine what public, private and hybrid cloud computing options will most benefit business processes. Read on to discover how CIOs are tying cloud metrics to business value, 3 areas to consider when refining a cloud-first strategy, and more.
Posted: 25 Aug 2017 | Published: 25 Aug 2017

TOPICS:  CIOs
TechTarget CIO

Computer Weekly 50th anniversary special
sponsored by TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
EZINE: It's been 50 years since Computer Weekly's launch on 22 September 1966. To mark this achievement, we have compiled a special edition of the magazine to reflect on how much the British technology industry has contributed over that time.
Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 22 Sep 2016

TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com

The technological evolution of IT industry leaders: Part one
sponsored by TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
EGUIDE: This first part of this e-guide explores the technological evolution of Oracle, Cisco and Dell throughout the past two decades, including the technologies that have risen to the forefront, from real-time analytics and data management to Cisco's edge computing ambitions.
Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 26 Feb 2020

TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com

How Pioneer Valley Accountable Care uses Pings to Lower Costs and Improve Care Coordination
sponsored by Bamboo Health
WHITE PAPER: Pioneer Valley Accountable Care (PVAC) is an accountable care organization (ACO) located in Western Massachusetts serving Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) beneficiaries throughout the Pioneer Valley. Prior to implementing Bamboo Health's Pings solution, PVAC lacked standardized communication protocols with their skilled nursing facility partners.
Posted: 15 Sep 2022 | Published: 31 Aug 2022

Bamboo Health

A Computer Weekly buyer's guide to blockchain technology
sponsored by TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
EGUIDE: Blockchain technology is increasingly showing its value to business. In this 15-page buyer's guide, Computer Weekly looks at the challenges the technology still needs to overcome, how it's shaping the use of data and what it can do for information security professionals.
Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 16 Oct 2019

TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com

Improving Revenue Cycle Management in Health Care
sponsored by GE Healthcare
EGUIDE: Read this expert e-guide for answers to 5 FAQs about how revenue cycle management (RCM) systems are affected by EHR use and ICD-10.
Posted: 06 Mar 2014 | Published: 06 Mar 2014

GE Healthcare

Technology industry at the cross-roads: Transforming quote-to-cash operations
sponsored by TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
ESSENTIAL GUIDE: This report from PwC, highlights the urgency for technology companies to reinvent their existing operating models to meet the fast-changing buying process.
Posted: 05 Mar 2013 | Published: 05 Mar 2013

TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com

A Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to blockchain technology
sponsored by TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
EGUIDE: Blockchain technology is increasingly showing its value to business. In this 15-page buyer's guide, Computer Weekly looks at the challenges the technology still needs to overcome, how it's shaping the use of data and what it can do for information security professionals.
Posted: 23 Apr 2020 | Published: 23 Apr 2020

TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com