This resource reveals five important considerations to keep in mind when planning desktop virtualization and discusses the ten most notable use cases for this environment. 

Explosive data growth is causing storage costs to skyrocket, which is forcing IT organizations to look for more cost-effective archival and backup solutions. Oracle's StorageTek tape product family has maintained a market leadership position for many years and now includes the world's fastest and highest capacity tape drive. 

Now that smart phones are being used by professionals in fields ranging from field service to customer care, evaluating and selecting the optimal device has become more challenging. Read this white paper for an in-depth look at which smart phone features make work easier and why ruggedness is a requirement. 

Explosive data growth is causing storage costs to skyrocket, which is forcing IT organizations to look for more cost-effective archival and backup solutions. Oracle's StorageTek tape product family has maintained a market leadership position for many years and now includes the world's fastest and highest capacity tape drive. 

This special eight-page report from Computer Weekly analyses the challenges facing Microsoft, its financial performance, the services it offers, its place in the IT market and its future strategy. 

Read this expert e-book by BI visionary Wayne Eckerson and gain insight into the growing adoption rates of big data technology and learn why companies are finally recognizing its many benefits. Eckerson offers a comparison of open-source options and analytical platforms, and also dives into an analysis on the varying types of processing systems. 

This brief paper details the need for social network analysis (SNA), new methods for conducting it and why Sybase IQ is well-positioned to aid in the analytical queries needed to perform such analysis. 

Enterprises can take control of the burgeoning number of unsanctioned spreadsheets by adopting a policy of centralized master spreadsheet generation. Learn how WebFOCUS creates fully summarized, organized, and styled Excel spreadsheets with complex formulas already in place, lowering the potential for keystroke and logic error. 

This white paper describes a general approach for planning your organization's efforts to improve data quality, providing a data-example-driven perspective of some of the unique challenges of product data quality, as well as discuss and demonstrate three critical steps to improving product data quality. 

This paper outlines how one specific business intelligence (BI) platform can benefit your financial organization. Read this now and learn how CFO dashboards can be used to measure, monitor and optimize banking performance, why creating a risk intelligent enterprise is critical, how to efficiently manage customers and investments and so much more. 

Access this Gartner Research report for the enterprise email market highlights of 2011. Plus, gain in-depth reviews of 8 leading vendor products and services. 

This week’s Computer Weekly examines research that suggests CEOs want to invest in IT more than ever, but still see CIOs as technical experts and not business people. We review SQL Server 2012 and ask if Microsoft's database software is catching its competitors as well as concluding our Buyer's Guide to data security.