This article explores ways in which small and mid-sized businesses can improve the performance of their databases - and their businesses - by upgrading to SQL Server 2008. 

Purchasing a server is a big ordeal for any business. It's costly, time-consuming and can sometimes be disruptive, but that initial investment in time and money usually pays off - and fast. Read this article to find out when it’s time to purchase a server and why you need to purchase one. 

This edition of the CEM e-zine examines the role social media can play in your company. Learn how Major League Baseball is capitalizing on this revolution to fill its stands even during the darkest of times of the season, why Pinterest is such a success and how Dell measures it's social media success by tracking 22,000 daily online comments. 

No, IBM is not going on the game show circuit, but IBM will make Watson’s full human language understanding deep question and answer system (DeepQA) available to healthcare in the near future for many use cases benefiting providers and payers. 

Benchmarking, or the analysis of operational costs, productivity, and service levels in a comparative context of market standards, is a firmly established management tool. 

In this article, Kaplan, of Harvard Business School, and Norton, founder and director of the Palladium Group, explain how to effectively manage both strategy and operations by linking them tightly in a closed-loop management system, which comprises five stages. 

This article provides an introduction to Hyper-V virtualization, discusses the overall architecture and underlying technologies, and offers guidance on best practices for deployment on Dell PowerEdge servers. 

Discover the impact desktop virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure have on your network. 

<p>This e-guide features editorial articles with insight from IT industry consultants and technology professionals on the importance of data quality as well as advice for ensuring a successful program.</p> 

Read these articles to create a framework for stating your company's case for implementing a data governance strategy. 

Tim Zimmerman, Gartner research director offers some practical advice to organisations wanted to use iPads on their corporate wireless networks. 

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.