With the seemingly un-wavering boom in sales of smart mobile handsets, the opportunity for developing and selling mobile applications more sophisticated than ringtones and games is ever more appealing.

Today's data center is called upon to deliver a dynamic, realtime IT infrastructure that can support business transformation with increased scale, complexity, and diversity of workloads. IBM has positioned itself to address these needs.

IBM is advancing the Systems Management discipline in x86 environments to be consistent with its other hardware platforms. IBM has positioned itself to address the need for holistic Systems Management of x86-based servers as well as virtualization.

While many organisations focus on the office environment, there are opportunities to be uncovered by taking a wider view of printing - to include enterprise output - as a way to gain further cost benefits and drive business efficiencies.

As more and more human activity moves online, it is easy to think that geography no longer matters-surely the internet is without borders? Whilst in some cases this is true, more often than not online activity spills over into the real world.

As IT investments reach the end of their design life, the need to refresh them provides organizations an opportunity to bolster their competitive advantage through state-of-the-art IT technologies.

IT Managers tend to overlook one particular area of IT security, which is the privileged access that they grant to themselves and/or their colleagues in order to do their jobs.

Managed print services (MPS) offer organisations the opportunity to control costs, reduce the complexity of managing a heterogeneous infrastructure and improve business processes.

New authentication methods such as software, SMS and BlackBerry tokens are further taking the costs out of the use of strong authentication and opening up its use to a whole new range of possibilities.

Monitoring, measuring and reporting on the financial health of an organisation is a basic need that requires effective tools and processes to optimise the end result. The research in this report shows that most organisations still have much to do.

Network Centric Operations (NCO) recognises the demand for pervasive decision-making in the modern battlespace. NCO provides the ability to leverage information networks to generate a more dynamic and agile decision-making space.

End users benefit through improved device uptime, and manufacturers and their service partners can build proactive service relationships which can drive greater customer loyalty.

As organisations are increasingly reliant on data networks that encompass an ever-growing range and number of internet protocal (IP) enabled devices and applications, they need to more effectively administer and manage these assets.

Ideas are ephemeral and are easily crushed within the wrong environment. Creating a suitable culture, allied with a well implemented ideas management approach combined with strong leadership, is required.

Businesses of all sizes have to manage an increasing diversity of remote users and devices. The task ranges from simply keeping systems running to ensuring security, compliance and the achievement of environmental goals.