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How Big Data is Driving Data Dispersal

Increasing data volumes makes RAID inadequate for storage integrity. Data dispersal can provide greater data protection and substancial cost savings for digital content storage.

How Better Prototyping Can Improve BI

BI projects are expensive, time-consuming, and risky. Advanced prototyping can bring IT and business users together.

Good Data Governance Finally Taking Hold

Enterprises finally seem serious about grappling with what makes for good data governance.

Analysts in Action: Getting Analytics Off the Test Track

Business intelligence vendors still seem to run on a test track while users just want to get on the road with data.

Designing Parallelism into the Data Integration Models

How data integration developers can include parallelism into data integration models.



Test Steps for Auditing Virtualization

How to review critical controls that protect the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of environment for the supported operating systems and users that rely on the environment.

Auditors, Employers at Odds Over Security

A new survey shows a disconnect between the security-first mentalities of auditors and the compliance-driven concerns of their employers.

Five Steps to a Continuously Compliant Data Center (Part 2 of 2)

These five steps provide a road map for continuous compliance in the data center.

Last Call for IPv4

It's time to start planning your transition to IPv6.

Orchestrated ALM: The Secret to Developing "Killer Apps"

Speed and efficiency in app development and delivery are critical to building a winning enterprise.

Microsoft Announces Plans for Licensing Changes

Company announces Client Access License changes at its management summit.

Integrating Physical and Logical Access Control

Two security approaches, working in tandem, provide superior enterprise protection.

Blade Server Demand Driving High-Density Zones

High-density zones strike a balance between the power and cooling requirements of different kinds of data center assets. The rub, of course, is that they'll cost you.

Q&A: High-Availability Gets High Marks at School District

Load balancing helps provide high access on report-card day.

5 Steps to a Continuously Compliant Data Center (Part 1 of 2)

These five steps provide a road map for continuous compliance in the data center.

Slowly but Surely, IT Addresses Mobile Security Threats

Nine out of ten enterprises say they plan to invest in new endpoint security technologies to help them better manage mobile devices

11 Big-Data Analytics Predictions for 2011

In 2010 we learned that big data doesn’t mean big insights. What will we learn this year?