<p>Choosing the right workload automation tool for your enterprise can be a daunting task. This white paper outlines the benefits of using cloud computing for workload automation and provides a checklist to help you select the right offering for your business.</p> 

Read this case study to learn how one growing Euopean retailer was able to migrate to an architecture that could support real-time delivery of shop data to the data center for processing and real-time communication of pricing events to its shops using open source integration software. 

Through increased information visibility and data accuracy, Barclays Capital was able to mitigate exposure to operational and reputational risk. Read the entire case study now, compliments of Sybase. 

You must ensure that the processes that move data from source to target systems run smoothly and quickly and that any errors are identified and resolved rapidly. This white paper takes a closer look at five common BI and ETL process management challenges that companies must address to deliver accurate data in a timely manner. 

In this videocast, learn how virtualization can benefit your disaster recovery and high availability strategy. Discover the differences between physical and virtual environments and learn about architectural considerations to support virtualization. 

Read this paper for resources to help you determine how much powering and cooling the data center is costing your organization, and learn how the Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 can help reduce these requirements. 

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 webcast discusses some of the information security challenges utility companies face, and provides an overview of how total security intelligence solutions from Accuvant and Q1 Labs can be essential components of a comprehensive, cyber-security program as mandated by the NERC-CIP, and other utility-focused, regulatory requirements. 

This seven-page Buyer’s Guide to Cloud Computing by Computer Weekly journalists details the kinds of cloud offering that CIOs and senior IT professionals will need to take into account as they plan future outsourcing, hosting and application strategies. 

Virtualization and cloud computing are driving the need to deliver enterprise IT as a service. Explore how the HP 3PAR Utility Storage addresses the key weaknesses of existing storage architectures, such as growing capacity requirements, underutilization of existing storage assets, and administrative inefficiency. 

This paper explains how cloud computing is now also evolving in a private variant whereby enterprises set up cloud-like, centralized shared infrastructure with automated capacity adjustment that internal departmental “customers” utilize in a self-service manner. Realization of efficiency, performance, and agility benefits is reinforcing this trend. 

The inaugural issue of BI Trends & Strategies offers sound advice to help you in ensuring your organization is on track to keep up with the rapidly changing landscape of BI and analytics. In this issue, readers will learn about a big data definition and the impact it will have on BI and data warehousing, agile development methodology and more. 

VMware vSphere™, the industry's first cloud operating system, leverages the power of virtualization to transform datacenters into dramatically simplified cloud computing infrastructures and enables IT organizations to deliver the next generation of flexible and reliable IT services.