Q&As


Q&A: Business Transaction Monitoring and Proactive IT Management

One way to keep problems from compromising your enterprise is to have a good monitoring system in place. We discuss the drivers and benefits of business transaction management, how it fits in your environment, and how your colleagues are using it.

Q&A: What You Can Learn by Monitoring Network Flows

We explain how to leverage data from switches and routers using flow monitoring.

Q&A: Enterprise Storage Challenges

More data means more storage -- and more headaches. We look at today’s storage challenges, the impact of open source storage solutions and server virtualization, and the storage trends to watch this year.

Q&A: Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence

SOA and cloud computing are hot topics in IT. Here's what you need to understand about how they're interconnected and how you can take advantage of their benefits.

Q&A: Disaster Recovery Considerations for Large Enterprises

Increasingly complex data center environments put an extra strain on your disaster recovery plans. How should you address performance, capacity, and management requirements and ensure your protection strategies are effective?

Q&A: How to Improve Performance from Cloud Computing

How to scale the data tier to get better performance.

Q&A: Ten Tips for Maximizing Data Virtualization

To help IT leaders make the most of data virtualization, Robert Eve, executive vice president of marketing for Composite Software, offers a list of virtualization suggestions.



Q&A: Assessing Cybersecurity's Past, Planning for the Future

Where is cybersecurity headed? We look at how regulation, social networking, and popular technologies (such as cloud computing) will impact your enterprise’s security management.

Q&A: Private Clouds Can Speed Data Access

A private cloud solution allows customers to access giant data centers themselves almost immediately after the data has been collected, thus addressing a long-standing need in the retail sector.

Q&A: Building a Private Cloud

We examine the benefits and uses of building a private cloud, and explain the implementation best practices.

Q&A: How Attestation Enhances Security and Eases Compliance

As the data experts, business users should regularly specify who has access to what data.

Q&A: IT and the Virtual Desktop

Desktop virtualization brings the computing power from the local workstation back to the data center, changing the entire computing paradigm.

Q&A: Managing Mobile Devices

From security issues to integrating heterogeneous devices, mobile device management is fraught with challenges.

Q&A: Application Performance Management and the End User

Managing application performance is all about how the end user perceives performance, and current tech trends are having an impact on that perception.

Q&A: Understanding Private vs. Public Clouds

The president and COO of a managed services firm that offers private cloud computing explains the differences between public and private cloud computing and what each is best suited for.

Q&A: BI Technology Holds Special Promise for SMBs

Up and coming technologies including in-memory processing and column–based databases, combined with advances such as inexpensive memory and 64-bit operating systems, are finally promising affordable BI to small and medium-sized businesses.

Q&A: Cloud Computing's Pros, Cons, and Potential

Consultant and TDWI instructor Steve Dine talks with BI This Week about some of the ins and outs of cloud computing for business intelligence.

Q&A: The Truth about Private Clouds

Truths and myths about private clouds.

SaaS BI Continues to Draw Interest, Traction

A recent survey sponsored by on-demand BI provider Birst finds that nearly half of respondents would consider a BI solution delivered as a service. Top concerns remaining around SaaS BI are complexity of integration, security, and opposition from IT, the survey found.

Going Green: Symantec Practices What It Preaches

Can a company that promotes its products with "green" benefits actually demonstrate those benefits in its own shop? At Symantec, the savings were, indeed, impressive.