Operational dexterity is essential in today's globally competitive business environment. A predictive analytics solution can help you achieve this level of agility. This webcast from IBM outlines a predictive operational analytics option that enables you to capture and integrate data to determine future outcomes and make better decisions. 

In this white paper, Dan Moore, the senior vice president of professional services at IBM, Cast Iron reviews the current application environment in light of emerging trends, describes an ideal complete integration solution and discusses common sense best practices as well as pitfalls. 

This paper discusses the many challenges of a total virtualized solution in light of the integration of virtualized servers and virtualized storage. 

The cyber infrastructures of governments are becoming more complex—and therefore more vulnerable to attacks.  IBM’s security framework enables agencies to take a holistic approach to cyber protection. Read on to see how you can best apply a multitiered containment strategy to protect the systems and people of the United States. 

Want to know how the most successful companies deliver exceptional customer value? Do you know the best practices for using customer analytics? This e-book answers these questions and a lot more about winning trends and practices in customer relationship management (CRM). 

Planning, budgeting and forecasting always will be crucial components to your organization. But choosing the right performance management software can be a tough task. This paper from IBM outlines the business challenges and drivers, as well as organizational and technological best practices to follow, and includes a software selection matrix. 

Compare the performance of real enterprise workloads and applications such as SAP, Oracle database and IBM DB2 on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) in this brief summary. Discover how you can leverage an open source virtualization platform to gain 96 percent or more bare metal performance. 

Does your business rely on spreadsheets for performance management? Spreadsheets require labor-intensive manual processes and are highly error-prone. Learn how you can replace or augment your spreadsheets with planning applications that integrate easily with spreadsheets, leveraging the best of your existing investment. 

In this webcast you will get an over of the regulatory context and the issues compliance raises for the IBM mainframe environment. 

Predictive analytics enables you to predict the ideal course of action for every decision, delivering the best outcome every time. IBM SPSS Analytical Decision Management combines business analytics, rules, optimization and data management to automate your daily decisions. Read this paper to learn about its architecture, design and more. 

Virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs) are one of the hottest technologies in IT today – and more and more organizations plan to deploy virtual desktops throughout 2011. Read about this and more in the March 2011 edition of Storage Magazine. 

This paper offers insight into an option that capitalizes on predictive analytics, enabling your business to target, optimize and automate your customer-centric interactions. Read this now and learn from other successful companies 10 pivotal tips - including careful planning and setting goals - that will help you craft the perfect data mining plan. 

While database security has progressed over the years, it still falls behind the advancement of DBMS, increasing the risk of vulnerabilities and potential for misuse. This resource uncovers five (5) scenarios and the essential best practices to overcome this security gap and help prevent database attacks and insider threats.