Natural Sciences

WHITE PAPER: This resource presents how IT solution providers can grow through a targeted approach to marketing and sales by focusing on specific industries or types of businesses.

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 | Published: 06 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Life Sciences is one of the fastest moving and most dynamic global industry sectors.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Customers are urgently looking for the WOW Effect to create awareness and transfer an innovative image. Most digital signage to date has been a video feed or a slide-show, where it is almost like a poster replacement.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: A common characteristic of people-certification programs in the marketplace is that most test or validate the existence of relevant knowledge. Few reach beyond this.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: The Open Group IT Specialist Certification Program (the Program) is designed to validate the existence of those qualities and skills in a professional that enable the effective development, implementation, and operation of IT solutions.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

IT BRIEFING: This global benchmarking study from ESI international identifies the key challenges and successes experienced by project and programme management offices (PMO) and draws recommendations for the future.

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 05 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses how one of the world’s premiere science companies leveraged an advanced cloud platform for its high-performance computing cloud.  Learn how this allowed them to improve performance, memory capacity and virtualization capabilities for their critical applications.   

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 | Published: 25 Jan 2012

JOURNAL ARTICLE: Programming is a journey between the real world and a computer. This article explains why object orientation is currently the best way we have of making the journey.

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 05 Jan 2012

EZINE: In this week’s issue of Computer Weekly, we look at the future of computer science education now the government has scrapped the current ICT curriculum, and what this means for the IT industry. We talk to an early adopter of the government G-Cloud plan; and we examine the key challenges for network architects. Download the new issue now.

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 | Published: 16 Jan 2012

CASE STUDY: This case study highlights how one company used cutting-edge software tools and training to help streamline service management and turn it from a bottleneck into a smoothly running operation that was more responsive to users' needs but without bloating costs or stretching precious IT staff resources.

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 | Published: 01 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: Steve Jobs, the man recognized as one of the business world’s most charismatic and organized presenters, was made to look disorganized when his WiFi network stopped working. The unexpected nature of Jobs’ bobble was what made it such a spectacle. This white paper is designed to be a lesson in avoidance.

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 | Published: 19 Oct 2010

EGUIDE: Something as seemingly trivial as a truck hitting a telephone pole can suddenly leave health care employees unable to access clinical applications and patient data. This tip discusses how providers can create, and update, business continuity plans to ensure that key systems and processes are maintained.

Posted: 20 Sep 2011 | Published: 20 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: There are many factors to consider when rolling out an EHR implementation, and one of the most important is getting your people behind the change. This paper provides insight into where your staff may be in terms of resistance to or support for a new EHR system, and the necessary tools, training and support to transition successfully.

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 | Published: 15 Sep 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Check out this presentation transcript to learn how traditional storage technologies like SAN and NAS are being turbo-charged to achieve higher performance, and how new approaches like object storage are taking over the web by achieving order-of-magnitude speed improvements with solutions like DDN’s Web Object Scaler (WOS).

Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Published: 15 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper discusses recommendations for embarking on a fact-based approach for selecting servers for hosting modern applications based on workload attributes. In addition, learn about hybrid cloud computing, a technology aimed at addressing the various challenges encountered in scaled out distributed computing implementations.

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 | Published: 12 Jan 2012

CASE STUDY: UT Dallas’ Center for Children and Families has been conducting a study on adolescents’ social networks and their impact on development. To assist in data collection, the team chose BlackBerry® hosted solution from Ceryx based on its ability to provide a controlled environment for their research.

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 | Published: 16 Sep 2011

EBOOK: Performing manual systems management activities can be a time-consuming task for IT pros. This expert e-book explains why many companies are considering automating this key process and offers detailed guidance for selecting the right platform for your organization.

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 | Published: 07 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Businesses, charities and local authorities are looking to cut their overheads by sharing their IT infrastructure, CIOs at Computer Weekly’s 500 Club heard last week.

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 | Published: 25 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: TGen has been a pioneer in the cluster computing industry for over 5 years. By deploying the DDN EXAScaler, TGen eliminated I/O bottlenecks and now fully has in place a storage solution for today’s and tomorrows’ sequence alignment. Read this case study to learn more.

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Many IT infrastructures were not built to support the explosive growth in today’s business environment including cloud computing and virtualisation capacity. Learn about the impact of virtualisation and the effects this emerging technology can have on the data centre physical infrastructure (DCPI).

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 | Published: 19 Jan 2012

EGUIDE: How can you navigate this sea of conflicting data to find the right cloud solution for your organization? Read this expert e-guide from SearchCloudComputing.com for insight and analysis on the most important differences in private, public and hybrid clouds.

Posted: 27 May 2011 | Published: 27 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Today’s IT pros are being challenged to convert their data centers from costly infrastructures into producers of business value. This resource explores how data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software tools can simplify operational processes, cut costs, and speed up information delivery.

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 | Published: 10 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: While some individual users are experimenting with cloud processing, other users have already fully committed to the cloud as an important part of their enterprise architecture and operation. Read this white paper to learn about the evolution of cloud processing and whether or not the cloud processing boom will continue.

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 | Published: 17 Nov 2010

EGUIDE: In this expert e-guide, find out how you can evaluate cloud computing services to find the best fit for your company. Review critical factors to consider, such as cost, SLAs, APIs, security and more.

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Health care is quite different from other sectors and, as such, backup and disaster recovery need to be considered in a different way. Access this resource to better understand the storage factors that must be considered when preparing for disaster recovery in a health care setting.

Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Published: 15 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Project management performance is improving but the environment is increasingly challenging. This final report from the ComputerWeekly Project/Programme Management Survey details the state of the art and offers insights and recommendations for greater project success.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011