This paper is the second in a two-part series exploring the innovation barrier – the point at which testing can no longer keep pace with development in the equipment manufacturing industry. It examines the innovation barrier’s symptoms – from slowdowns in development to mounting quality issues – and the potential impact on equipment manufacturers. 

This Technical White Paper presents the main challenges of data quality and drills into specific uses of data profiling and data cleansing. It highlights, through 32 distinct use cases, how open source data quality technology can be used to alleviate issues related to poor-quality data. 

SQL Server performance management requires serious time, energy and patience! In this new white paper by Kevin Kline, discover detailed guidance on the issues you can relate to—from cache trashing to bad T-SQL that can return to haunt your applications.See how to maximize database scalability and efficiency with ease. Read the white paper today. 

For years, Donnelly managed operations using an OS/2 operating system and various software packages. While Donnelly achieved much success using the OS/2 platform and manual scheduling, the company’s growth eventually began outpacing the system’s capacity. With EnterpriseIQ in place, Donnelly has seen improvements in every aspect of its business. 

This white paper details workforce management (WFM) solutions to help employers avoid the penalties of non-compliance. 

This white paper separates cloud facts from fiction to help you gain a better understanding of what this technology really means for your enterprise. Uncover the truth about the top cloud myths and review the answers to common cloud-related questions. 

There are a number of considerations users should be aware of when looking at scale-out vs. scale-up approaches as related to database storage. Learn more here. 

This paper describes how the physical and power infrastructure of data centers and network rooms is typically oversized by more than 100%. Statistics related to oversizing are also presented, as well as the costs and fundamental reasons why oversizing occurs. An architecture and method for avoiding oversizing is described. 

As new challenges continue to arise related to mobile devices, legislative pressures, social media, and the continued degradation of core security, learn 5 key predictions for strategies and trends in IT and security operations in 2012. 

Gain a deeper understanding of current networking issues and how they are related to the evolution of computer networks. In particular, examine how administrators have dealt with switching bandwidth from WAN to LAN with FabricPath. 

This tutorial presents a framework and financial methodology for deciding whether an enterprise should replace its current "status quo" tape storage solution with a new "proposed" solution, and the economics related to that decision.