Systems Life Cycles

WHITE PAPER: The cloud continues to drive both rapid ROI and new ISV business models.  Beyond the cloud, expect 2010 to bring greater use of analytics, automation, and CRM, and a permanent shift in structural unemployment.  Bid auf Wiedersehen to the vendors who still haven’t gotten it.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011

WEBCAST: In this webcast, join Gartner Research Vice President Phil Redman and Jim Sheward, CEO of Fiberlink, as they address the key components of an effective enterprise mobility strategy, the associated challenges, and how to keep up with the fast pace of change in mobility.

Posted: 21 Dec 2011 | Premiered: 21 Dec 2011

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: This seven-page Buyer’s Guide to Cloud Computing by Computer Weekly journalists details the kinds of cloud offering that CIOs and senior IT professionals will need to take into account as they plan future outsourcing, hosting and application strategies.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This White Paper describes a Decision Tree that could be used to help you discover where Cloud opportunities and solutions might fit in your organization. It is put forward for discussion, with the intention that this discussion, and validation in the field, will result in a practical tool for use by enterprises.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Although pay levels are unlikely ever again torise as fast as they did at the end of the 1990s when fears about the “millennium bug” stoked thefires of an already over-heated job market – or to fall as fast as they did when the bug failed to bite– employers are acutely aware of the need to keep a close eye on short- and long-term pay trends.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Different Emerging Information Technologies (EIT) have different impacts upon a business. Some EIT should be used as technical tools for supporting business to make business more efficient or effective; othersshould be used as strategic tools for leading, not merely supporting, a business to make a difference.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Retaining talented staff will be one of the biggest headaches for the IT department this year, despite the continuing economic downturn, leading CIOs heard. IT staff are feeling financially squeezed after several years of below-inflation pay rises, and many realise their only prospect of securing a higher salar y is to change employer.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This resource divides the data center management tools into four distinct subsets and provides definitions and examples of each. Learn how you can determine which physical infrastructure management tools are needed to operate a data center.

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 | Published: 10 Feb 2012

EZINE: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at the importance of IT strategy when budgets are under pressure. The first part of our Buyer’s Guide to virtualisation examines the barriers preventing many organisations from adopting the technology; and Transport for London’s CIO talks about how IT helps avoid Olympic travel chaos. Download the issue now.

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 | Published: 30 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Learn how SaaS-based service management can help you eliminate the cost and distraction of platform maintenance, minimize upgrade costs and disruptions, tailor to the business without complex coding, and more.

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 | Published: 04 Jan 2012