<p>Transitioning to the cloud can introduce many security risks and data privacy challenges. This white paper provides key insights on how to evaluate cloud technology vendors so you can maximize your security in your new environment. Review a series of questions asked to nine cloud vendors and uncover what they reveal about current offerings.</p> 

As concerns of database security escalate, regulatory pressures increase and vendor capabilities expand, database activity monitoring is evolving beyond its original concept to a more advanced class of technologies that Gartner identifies as database audit and protection (DAP) tools. View this resource to explore DAP technologies. 

Access this essential white paper and discover ways to reduce data center complexity. Learn to take advantage of virtualization and cloud computing without overwhelming your data center. 

<p>Check out this white paper to get a handle on today's big data challenges.</p> 

<p>Object-based file systems offer performance improvements in HPC environments, but many companies are unsure which market options are worth evaluating. This expert e-guide examines several notable offerings and explains how they can eliminate I/O bottlenecks in HPC architectures.</p> 

The demand for greater ecommerce capabilities is growing leading CIOs and IT professionals concerned with choosing the perfect vendor. Through this in-depth vendor analysis by Gartner, uncover the top 6 questions you should ask and the strengths and weaknesses of the top 20 e-commerce vendors. 

Research by cloud provider Savvis has identified the five biggest concerns preventing IT managers from opting for cloud-based services. 

Read this paper to learn the many benefits of cloud computing as well as the 10 security concerns that need to be addressed when considering moving critical applications and sensitive data to public and shared cloud environments. 

Security concerns continue to hobble consolidation efforts in the data center. The concerns are real, and most often stem from a scattershot, non-integrated approach to consolidation. There is a better, more secure way, grounded in servers and software platforms built from the ground up to work optimally with one another. 

Although leveraging virtualization to support desktop workloads can improve IT management efficiency, costs, and capabilities, choosing the vendor that best fits your needs can be overwhelming.This white paper offers a detailed vendor analysis that offers a way to determine which desktop virtualization solutions most benefit your business. 

While current technologies and techniques allow for more sophisticated and effective approaches to counterparty risk management than those that fell short in 2008, there are still barriers to successful adoption that will require organizational changes. Read this white paper to learn more. 

This brief guide demonstrates sets out to prove why organizations' concerns surrounding the arrival of voluminous amounts of data sets, the inclusion of many more users and the addition of variable data types are vastly over exaggerated. It also offers vast insight on how companies have extended analytics deep into their operations. 

In the Fall 2011 issue of IT in Europe, Manek Dubash explores how open-source storage could be the key to breaking the chains of vendor lock-in.