M&A

WHITE PAPER: Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are among the biggest challenges for enterprises and their IT organisations to navigate. Conventional leadership and management techniques often are not enough.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011

IT BRIEFING: This research from management consultants, Xantus, shows that while there is still a lack of clarity and a reluctance to fully commit to the cloud, there is a general acceptance from CIOs of the benefits and a growing commitment to develop those benefits.

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this report to read about an IDC study that found the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) to have a 438% ROI over three years, improving both IT and end-user productivity.

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 | Published: 14 Dec 2011

PODCAST: This podcast event provides important real-world perspectives on what virtualization is helping companies achieve, and offers suggestions on how to plan, deploy and managed virtualized environments.

Posted: 10 May 2011 | Premiered: 10 May 2011

EBOOK: This e-book describes how using a cloud-based suite of applications and services integrated with a community of experts and trading partners can fuel the collaboration needed to improve your performance and profits.

Posted: 04 Nov 2011 | Published: 04 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Technology has long been a critical element of M&A transactions. Done right, it can be a key driver of value, enabling business processes to operate more efficiently. Done wrong, it can have devastating consequences.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Learn how to reduce the risk of network failure, cover your assets, and increase operational efficiency with proper network management techniques.

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 | Published: 06 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Uncover the issues inherent to server virtualization, as well as information covering migration planning, executive sponsorship, virtualization support, and more!

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Did you know most companies adopt cloud for anywhere access, not for its cost-cutting potential? According to an independent global survey, 82% of companies save by adopting cloud, but most save less than 20,000 U.S. dollars. Explore more about the real drivers and benefits behind the adoption of cloud computing in this exclusive summary.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

EGUIDE: Virtual desktops don't necessarily bring cost savings, but they offer plenty of other benefits for well-suited organizations. Here's how to assess your organization's needs, consider options and costs, and sell management on desktop virtualization.

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 | Published: 07 Apr 2011

EBOOK: Mobile communications are common in today’s enterprises. The challenges of mobile expenses are daunting. This E-Book discusses the challenges and solutions needed to analyze mobile use and manage costs.

Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Published: 15 Nov 2011

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: This Tech Guide discusses mobile strategies in the enterprise: manageability, cost, business benefits and - most important - how employees are dictating the need for it.

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 | Published: 13 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: In recent years C-level executives in many of the world's largest and most successful organizations have been forced to introduce a wide range of cost-cutting measures as macroeconomic forces continue to create a challenging and uncertain trading environment.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Data center virtualization and cloud computing strategies are being rapidly implemented across IT infrastructures. This white paper describes how virtualization and cloud initiatives are creating new types of management challenges across physical and virtual data center environments and how you can overcome these challenges.

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 | Published: 13 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this guide, IDC Research Vice President Mary Johnston Turner looks to the past in identifying five steps for successful integrated cloud management. Based on the experiences of early cloud adopters, you'll discover how these strategies help IT organizations dramatically improve the time and costs of application provisioning.

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 | Published: 06 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: Cloud computing has emerged as one of the prevailing IT trends today. Cloud computing can help organizations become more nimble, reduce operating costs, improve application performance, and better allocate their compute resources. Inside, learn more about this emerging technology and what it can do for your organization.

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Published: 08 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: The mobilisation of Web 2.0 is fostering new partnerships and rivalries throughout the value chain.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Although leveraging virtualization to support desktop workloads can improve IT management efficiency, costs, and capabilities, choosing the vendor that best fits your needs can be overwhelming.This white paper offers a detailed vendor analysis that offers a way to determine which desktop virtualization solutions most benefit your business.

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 | Published: 01 Nov 2011

BROCHURE: The Gartner CIO Leadership Forum in London this March is a can't-miss, exclusive event for IT leaders, offering a clear look at what’s coming next in IT, peer-to peer networking opportunities, private Gartner analyst consultations, and more.

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 | Published: 30 Jan 2012

EGUIDE: Companies face complicated buying decisions whenit comes to buying host-based antimalware, starting with whether to purchase a protection suite, andwhat to include in that all-in-one package.

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 | Published: 16 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This IDC whitepaper begins with the history of virtualization. It explains the long-term viability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat's role in the acquisition and development of enterprise virtualization technology, new features in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0, and the next wave in enterprise virtualization—the cloud.

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 | Published: 23 Jan 2012

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: As budgets tighten in the face of increased business requirements for data center assets, IT organizations need to find new ways to manage their resources. New software now is available to make systems management the heart of a data center transformation initiative.

Posted: 10 May 2011 | Published: 10 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Compellent has unveiled new software and hardware capabilities designed in bid to expand its addressable market. Here, new hardware improves its ability to scale up capacity and performance, and updated software is designed to expand its scale-out storage story.

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 | Published: 30 Jun 2011

ANALYST REPORT: This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to assess the capabilities of vendors to support midrange to complex process improvement scenarios using business process management (BPM) software.

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 | Published: 05 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This IDC study assesses the capabilities of business process platform vendors to support midrange to complex process improvement scenarios.

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 | Published: 29 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Many organizations are scratching their collective heads over how to build andmature a business analysis center of excellence (COE). Where do we start?

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: The Hybrid Storage Pool architecture is a unique way to integrated flash-based SSDs into the storage system, providing for higher performance and lower power consumption compared with traditional approaches. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 | Published: 10 Oct 2011

EGUIDE: Managing multiple platforms for servers, storage, operating systems and network bandwidth is costly, inefficient and prone to errors.

Posted: 31 May 2011 | Published: 31 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Your IT department and your suppliers are at loggerheads. There is a culture of one-upmanship and awkwardness on both sides. It’s not quite war, but its getting there. What do you do?

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011