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5 Critical Features of Successful Predictive Analytics Projects

Successful project opportunities share five features so developers can achieve business success.

Q&A: Preventing Downtime

It's not enough to respond to downtime; what's needed is a new mindset that focuses on preventing downtime.

Q&A: Social-driven IT

Social media isn't just a marketing channel you bolt on to your current plans. You need to understand its true business-wide impact. How should your IT organization prepare to embrace social media over the next 12 months?

5 Strategies for Successfully Migrating Communications Services to the Cloud

The ideal cloud provider should be an enabler, not an inhibitor. These five strategies will help you choose wisely.

VDI Licensing More Complex in Windows 8 Enterprise Edition

Enhanced Software Assurance licensing may be more expensive or may restrict existing benefits.

Conficker Tops Security Concerns in Microsoft Security Report

Conficker worm will continue to trouble IT despite lack of new variants in two years.

BI Experts: Real-Time Quality for Real-Time Data

Don't just deliver bad data faster. Improve data in real time.



How to Build a Business Case for Your Master Data/Governance Initiative

Knowing how to get started is key to building a successful project -- and obtaining the funding to get the project off the ground.

Q&A: BI, Mobile, and Collaboration

QlikTech's Donald Farmer discusses how mobile technologies are fundamentally changing BI, sometimes in ways you might not expect.

4 Ways Virtualization is Changing the Ground Rules for Performance Management Software

Four reasons why virtualization, not cloud computing, is changing the ground rules used to design traditional performance management systems and why your enterprise needs to consider new virtualization-aware approaches to performance management.

Analysis: Behind Dell's Shopping Spree

This month, Dell pulled the trigger on two significant acquisitions. What's behind Dell's acquisition moves, and why does at least one of them seem like a no-brainer?

Reducing the Risk from Data that Lives Forever

These three rules of thumb will help you avoid the risk of keeping corporate data forever (and ever).

Q&A: How The Mainframe Academy is Educating Tomorrow’s IT Pros

A certification program backed by CA Technologies may help supply IT’s next generation of trained professionals.

BI Tech Talk: Behind the Wild Profusion of ESBs

Why are so many data integration players selling enterprise service buses of their own? Is it just a matter of vendor opportunism?

Making BI Analytics Fun

The search for BI insight already has a game-like feel to it. Advocates of "gamification" want to amplify this effect and immerse BI users in their task.

Q&A: Expanding the Definition of Data Governance

Data governance is more than just managing data in order to optimize outcomes.

Eye on Security: More Devices, More Data Points, Fewer Security Holes: Advanced Security Integration

Innovative, multi-level authentication measures are critical. Companies that use inventive ways to incorporate current technology to safeguard their information will ultimately come out on top.

XBRL and Enterprise Standards

How standards are driving organization value and how they benefit IT.

Careers: Things Are Looking Up for IT Employment

Companies expect to hire more IT workers this quarter, but not as aggressively as they did in the first quarter of the year, despite their optimism about growth.

The Power of Platinum: A Look at 20 Years of ODBC

ODBC was a revolutionary technology 20 years ago. We look at its past and present, and suggest where it's headed.