Big data, combined with predictive modeling tools, increases the potential to improve business strategies and gain competitive advantage. This expert e-guide offers insight on the best practices of combining big data and predictive analytics. 

According to analysts, the greatest impediment to a successful predictive analytics project is creating a culture that values data-driven decision making and encourages people to have faith in the findings. In this e-guide, readers will learn more about overcoming these challenges and getting people to keep the faith in predictive analytics. 

This brief white paper outlines information lifecycle management (ILM), a set of strategies for managing the growth, storage and retrieval of information over its useful life. Its goal is to ensure that frequently accessed data is returned as fast as possible, while controlling storage costs. 

To remain competitive, you must understand the changing demands of your customers. This podcast provides insight into the evolving mid market landscape and explains why servers are a better fit for these types of clients than traditional PCs. Plus, discover key criteria customers look for when selecting a server. 

As data center infrastructures become increasingly complex, so do the IT processes--such as incident management and server provisioning--that keep infrastructure up and running. 

This white paper discusses five important considerations to keep in mind when choosing desktop virtualization; the top ten most common use cases to better understand how desktop virtualization meets the demands of businesses, end-users and IT managers; and explains why a comprehensive end-to-end provider is most beneficial. 

This paper explains that while traditional storage management solutions lag behind the requirements being placed on the storage environment, IBM Tivoli® storage management solutions have evolved to meet these needs. Read on to learn how IBM solutions help organizations manage the influx of data, while optimizing performance and reduce expenditures. 

Content provided by Google. This Forbes Insights report analyzes data on the cloud movement and current technology issues as gathered from interviews with CIOs and other top executives of leading companies. Access this report now to learn best practices from early-stage cloud adopters and identify key challenges. 

Content provided by Google. IT organizations are working to improve email security and add compliance and e-discovery capabilities. Spam and malware are bad and are getting worse, and the risk and potential costs associated with e-discovery are increasing. As a result, organizations need a better way to solve these problems. 

Content provided by Google. This paper examines whether cloud computing makes good business sense for your company. Ultimately, you may find that moving your data to the cloud actually improves security, scalability, access, and disaster recovery. 

Explore how Intel cloud technologies can help you build a simpler, more secure and energy efficient cloud with next-generation servers and processors. Discover how these technologies can scale to meet your virtualization and cloud computing demands, while delivering the flexibility, performance and agility that you need. 

End-user requirements for reliable, high-performance applications have left SMBs searching for ways to further leverage their virtualized environments. Read this white paper to find out why SMBs are deploying Windows Server 2008 R2, why SMBs will move to Windows Server 8, and how best to configure your infrastructure to optimize this technology. 

Monitoring Vblock can be challenging, but you can make it simpler by leveraging new technology that incorporates cloud computing services to plan, build and operate to deliver optimal availability, performance, and user experience. View this webcast to learn more about how this advanced solution can benefit your IT.