This article gets dangerously close to real artificial intelligence (AI). All intelligent agents need to have a basic ability to perceive their environment and some means of navigating and moving within the world around them-be it real or otherwise. Read on to learn more about AI. 

It is crucial for businesses to build trust with their customers, partners, investors, and with society at large. This journal article discusses building trust through modern performance management techniques, sustainability initiatives, managing reputation risk, end-to-end approaches to financial reporting and compliance, and more. 

With the massive amounts of data that companies are storing, intelligent tiered storage isn't a luxury - it's quickly becoming a necessity. These articles will provide you with three reasons why you should deploy dynamic storage tiering and how to go about organizing your strategy. Download this informative guide to learn more! 

This month's cover story is about reigning in privileged accounts such as the UNIX root and Windows Administrator accounts. Regulatory requirements and economic realities are pressuring enterprises to secure their privileged accounts, but how? Also in this issue: Keeping UTM Unified instead of Unnecessary, and more. Read on to learn more. 

This month’s issue of Information Security magazine takes you deep inside the Data Accountability And Trust Act (DATA), pending legislation that could reshape the national privacy landscape and impact the way enterprises and midmarket companies architect their security operations. 

This resource discusses cloud-based business applications and the potential benefits to your business. 

This extract from Michael Blackstaff's book, Finance for IT decision makers, teaches you how to make effective business and financial cases for IT projects. 

Gartner analysts explain how Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) teams can best prepare for the cloud. 

This report from Deloitte argues businesses are again investing in IT to provide the differentiation and innovation critical from their competitors despite the downturn. 

This month's cover story is on Automatic Compliance. The weight of regulatory compliance can break the back of your IT operation. Automation can help you gear up for your next audit. We'll also cover new technologies for identity and access management, IDS vs. IPS, and more. 

<p>Predictive analytics and cloud solutions are changing the way organizations do business. But what about predictive analytics in the cloud? Check out this article by industry expert James Taylor on the concerns and benefits regarding cloud-based predictive analytics and learn about companies that have experienced the impressive results. </p> 

Scalability and availability are key factors of an effective DSS or DW solution. Adhering to the best practices outlined in this article for integrating Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN arrays into the design can help IT administrators create a scalable high-performance infrastructure.