This issue of Enterprise CIO Decisions E-Zine highlights several success stories showcasing how today's IT leaders are finding enough success to increase BI investments and, ultimately, putting their data growth management concerns to rest. 

Find out how 3,637 marketers responded to tough questions about their open, click and conversion rates. Also, find out which tests work best, what's not working, list growth strategies and how email budgets are changing for 2007. Invite your entire team to attend – attendance for this Webcast is free! 

As today’s threats move away from mass attacks to more targeted ones, using a complex range of techniques to penetrate through traditional security measures, organizations must take a more proactive and preventative approach. This paper explores how integrity control plays a key role in defending networks with application and change control.   

Learn how to properly configure VMware iSCSI Software Initiator and connect it to iSCSI SAN in this comprehensive, illustrated guide. Access the many advanced features for shared storage by following these steps to enable them in your vSphere environment. 

This paper explores the tools Cisco provides to simplify mass deployments of the VPN Client. The two methods are discussed: the creation of an installation CD-ROM and network-based installations. I will explain how to reduce calls to the Help Desk by locking users out of advanced configuration functions in the user interface. 

This whitepaper compares and contrasts Orchestrated Service Management (OSM) systems to the other classes of ITSM systems in use today. It describes these defining characteristics, thereby creating a template for IT leaders to use when evaluating modern ITSM systems. 

Business Ready Configurations for Virtualization are pre-configured, easy to order, bundled solutions that include Dell PowerEdge™ blade servers, Dell EqualLogic™ SAN, and VMware vSphere™. This white paper provides a detailed reference architecture for the Business Ready Configurations. 

This case study outlines the solution that Medtronic, the largest medical technology company in the world, selected for its ability to transfer large amounts of data from Excel to SAP while minimizing errors, ensuring that its SAP deployments were completed as smoothly as possible. Read this now and learn more about why Medtronic chose this option. 

Gain 5 useful tips for configuring VMware vSphere 5.0 in this essential resource. Learn about best practices that are actually applicable and easy to execute, and discover why it matters if you choose to follow these tips or not. 

For many years network administrators have expected security breaches to come from outside an organization or at the upper layers of the OSI model. This paper will focus on securing layer 2 switching at the access layer through port security and preventing denial of service (DoS) attacks at layer 2. 

This week’s Computer Weekly examines research that suggests CEOs want to invest in IT more than ever, but still see CIOs as technical experts and not business people. We review SQL Server 2012 and ask if Microsoft's database software is catching its competitors as well as concluding our Buyer's Guide to data security.