This podcast summarizes, Define What's Valued Online, a new study which confirms what many technology marketers have instinctively suspected all along: Buyers of technology products consider Internet research essential to their ability to do their jobs. Listen to this podcast to learn about basic changes you can make to improve your online content. 

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. 

<p>DevOps, new tools for improved automation and release management, are taking the software development world by storm. Read this detailed white paper for a comparison of the 11 top vendors in this new space. Learn the strengths and weaknesses of each competitor and determine which one would best suit your development team's needs.</p> 

This podcast, the third in a series of studies examining the impact that emerging online media have on B2B technology marketing, shows how three mainstays of the Web 2.0 culture are evolving into B2B information delivery tools: Online video, Social networks and Wikis. 

This paper discusses how to defend against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and strengthen your security controls. A DDoS attack involves flooding a server with traffic until it becomes overloaded and can no longer function. 

This white paper compares two virtualization architectures and deployment options and presents the key findings. Discover costs to consider before getting started with your virtualization initiative and learn how to leverage built-in failover, redundancy, load balancing and other capabilities to minimize downtime. 

General-purpose PDAs and ruggedized enterprise mobile computers are made for separate markets, designed for different tasks, and vary by their size, weight and materials. But the biggest difference between these device types is their total cost of ownership (TCO). This white paper explains how your business can get TCO as low as possible. 

Explore the fundamentals of SCSI and internet SCSI (iSCSI) in this expert resource. Learn about the architecture, protocol, operations, and numerous interfaces and commands the SCSI model uses. In addition, gain understanding of the use of Fibre Channel and iSCSI to build out SCSI over a network. 

Few could have envisioned the global success of SMS (short message service) when the first text message was sent in 1992. SMS has crossed network and technology boundaries, and continues to find new applications, as well as providing inspiration for industry innovation as IP (Internet Protocol)-based messaging builds momentum. 

This week’s Computer Weekly kicks off our Buyer's Guide to data security by looking at the changing role of the IT security chief. We also examine why flexible working is proving so slow to roll out and we talk to the UK's air traffic control operator about its ambitious desktop virtualisation project. 

In earlier times, if an enterprise presumed it had control over its network, and if it had few external connections or communication, it was feasible that the connections between operational computers probably were not an unacceptable risk.