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Q&A: How BI Competency Centers Can Add Business Value

HP's Chris Carney explains how a business intelligence competency center can help align BI efforts and needs across the enterprise, bringing real business value.

TDWI Report Explores Challenges, Lessons Learned from Mobile BI Deployments

A new report from TDWI discusses the how and the why of mobile BI.

5 Macro Trends Shaping Next-generation BI and Analytics

The traditional BI stack has failed. What's next?

JackBe is sMashing BI Barriers

The beauty of the BI mashup is that it makes it easy to expose any kind of information -- including data you wouldn't typically want to bring into a data warehouse.

Q&A: Extracting the Mystery Out of Backup Tapes

Over the years, IT has built up a collection of tapes, especially for backup. The problem is -- what's on all those tapes?

9 Reasons to Consolidate Your B2B Systems

How B2B processes became so complex and why IT should consolidate them.

Cloud, Mobile, and the Fed: How the Government is Shaping Open Identity

Changing identity and access management needs are pressuring IT to revise its security strategies. Why is the federal government involved?



OpenStack HyperV Interoperability Not Impressive

The OpenStack community isn't impressed by interoperability of Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor with the OpenStack open source cloud project.

5 Ways PMOs are Driving Strategic Growth

When business uncertainty is the "new normal," project management offices become critical in supporting strategic business priorities.

Q&A: Tackling Cloud Challenges

Social media, security, and customization all play a role in your choice of a cloud supplier.

4 Best Practices for Mitigating DDoS Effects

These four best practices will help government and political organizations mitigate the effects of DDoS attacks.

The Rise of Virtualization Coexistence

Increasingly, Hyper-V and vSphere will operate in the same data center. What does that mean for IT?

4 Considerations when Selecting a Cloud Computing Provider

Selecting a cloud provider can be tricky. Here are four things you need to investigate before making your selection.

Supporting BYOD with Strong Mobile Device Management Policies

How to make mobile device management a core part of your security management strategy.

Enterprises Look to 2012 for Return on Assets

With the limitations in IT budgets in 2012, the focus will be on investing in systems and services that optimize all the storage assets that enterprises already have rather than buying more capacity.

What to Expect from Managed Services in 2012

Outsourcing and managed services are constantly changing. We examine three ways the industry will adapt to technology and business changes this year.

Updated OpenSSL Libraries Patch Potential Information Disclosure, DoS Flaws

SSL and TSL are used to encrypt almost all sensitive communications traffic on the Internet.

Lost in Space: Virtualized Backup Appliances

Confusion about the trends and changes in virtualized backup poses a real threat to IT managers. Fortunately, the future is less hazy than it seems.

The Hybrid Data Center: The Best of Virtual and Physical Computing Worlds

As more applications and data make their way to the cloud or are impacted by virtualization, data centers must adapt. The hybrid data center environment brings together the best of all worlds: cloud, virtualization, hardware, and co-lo.

Apple Becoming Major Enterprise Force

Enterprises adopting Apple products in impressive numbers.