This summary of findings from Forrester Research will help shed light on how to evaluate, select and work with technology consultants on IT consolidation projects in order to pick just the right consulting resource for your particular application and challenge. 

<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> 

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. 

This e-guide focuses on the impact of infrastructure on database performance. 

While we try to keep pace and adopt new platforms such as smartphones, social media and cloud services, malware is just as good at taking on the latest trends with ease. Explore why enterprises need to step up their game and implement new antimalware protection strategies that are specifically designed to mitigate these multifaceted threats. 

Find out more about value management and building value realization practices into every IT project. Discover how using value realization best practices during the lifecycle of your implementation can help you achieve greater value from your IT investments. Learn about the value of ASAP methodology and SAP offerings. 

Learn more about why the Oracle Database Appliance is an ideal database system for customers who value simplicity and who seek to lower the costs and the risks of deploying a highly available database solution. 

Do you know why and how you should include hard-copy records in your disaster recovery and business continuity plan? 

If you're a small or mid-sized business thinking about virtualization, particularly in the world of Microsoft, it makes sense to upgrade your database servers as well. This article explains why to upgrade and provides several examples of companies that have successfully made the move. 

SQL Server 2008 R2 has been labeled a BI release because of its new features for business intelligence. In this interactive classroom, industry expert Don Jones explains the improvements made to existing SQL Server BI features like SSRS. Learn about the benefits of self-service BI and Master Data Services. Then take a quiz to test your knowledge. 

In this 3-minute video, you’ll learn from CEO Rick Tinsley about Silver Peak’s portfolio of virtual WAN Op solutions – from the high end VRX with 20X the capacity of any other virtual appliance to the self-service free downloads on the VX-Xpress Marketplace. Bonus footage includes real world results from two customers.