Enterprises that seek a successful move to virtualization have a number of hurdles to overcome. Not all are obvious. This paper identifies seven key things that you must know if your business is to be successful in virtualizing your mission-critical applications.

Resistance to change is a natural occurring issue among employees in private and public sector organizations. One of the challenges of the Efficiency Unit of the Hong Kong Government is to help civil servants understand how their positions in the department influences the operation of the unit, and how changes can positively affect the overall performance of the department.

The Asia Pacific biometrics market has made hay against the background of escalating security concerns in the region. With the support of the government, biometrics is being considered for official government buildings, military installations, laboratories, and hospitals.

Healthcare IT spending in China is expected to grow from just over US$2 billion in 2009 to US$3.8 billion in 2012, says Springboard Research, a leading innovator in the IT Market Research industry. Springboard’s latest report, “China Healthcare Environment and IT Opportunity” notes that hospitals in China are now focusing on modernizing their IT infrastructure and IT facilities.

The Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine have tapped VBrick to provide streaming of live and on-demand video for training medical students and staff.

This case study elaborates on the road taken by the South Korean government towards the planning, development, rollout and continuing innovation towards achieving a collaborative environment between government and the public.

Karen Copeland, an industry principal with SAP's public sector practice, discusses the history of e-government in Australia. She shares her views of the role of e-government as a transformational tool for enabling the Australian government to not only communicate with citizens but to actively engage the public in policy-making, resulting in innovation that extends to its processes.

The case study details how Chyun Huei Health Technologies used Micro Focus ACUCOBOL-GT to develop an application that consolidated all IT infrastructure for the Taiwan Department of Health, which operates 28 hospitals across the country. The new centralized approach saved DOH US$6.1 million in ordering and inventory costs, US$17.2 million in application development costs, and US$1.7 million in maintenance fees.