In February 2009, Quocirca interviewed 800 individuals across 8 geographies for their views on, and usage of, enterprise performance management (EPM) tools and processes. The research was repeated in December 2009 and there was a clear improvement.

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.

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.

In April 2010, many organisations will find that they fall under the UK's new Carbon Reduction Commitment legislation (now known as the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme).

Sybase IQ is a column-based relational database that has been designed specifically for analytics and business intelligence applications.

Bloor believes that storage virtualisation is here for the long haul and all organisations should therefore be planning to implement it.

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.

Across the mid-market, inefficiencies are compounded by the lack of visibility into pertinent data, of processes being adequately and flexibly automated, and for the performance of the business to be monitored on a constant basis.

The term managed hosting describes the provision of a ready to use IT stack including hardware and infrastructure software for the deployment of applications.

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.

Data encryption forms an integral component of a secure computing environment.

As different needs and issues converge on businesses and IT managers around managing costs and risk while creating an enabling environment, technology advances now mean that client-side computing can be more tightly controlled.

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.