Are your decision-support systems and servers up to date, equipped to handle today's onslaught of data? Legacy systems are no longer viable. This paper explores the results of a research report about decision-support systems, highlighting how Dell's 12th-generation servers and solutions meet these evolving requirements based on users' responses. 

Over the course of several months in 2011, IDC conducted a research study to identify the opportunities and challenges to adoption of a new technology that changes the way in which traditional business solutions are implemented and used. The results of the study are presented in this white paper. 

This paper discusses how the shift to in-memory analytics will make time-to-value in countless business decisions accelerate, changing the pace of adoption and integrated analytics within the enterprise. Learn how in-memory analytics is going to change everything about your enterprise. 

This paper describes how the game-changing increases in computing speed provided by in-memory analytics allows organizations to analyze massive data sets in real-time, fundamentally changing how business leaders will view their processes, decisions, and business models. 

This report is the first in a series of studies conducted by KnowledgeStorm and Universal McCann that will take a strategic look at the impact the blogs, podcasts and other emerging media formats have on B2B technology marketing. This first installment examines podcasting and provides valuable insight into this red-hot delivery mechanism. 

The CIO's role becomes more strategic as organizations use information to create a competitive advantage. This paper – using evidence from benchmarks created with IBM to test WebFOCUS' performance on System z running z/OS and Linux – helps CIOs to balance demands for information accessibility and processing power. 

This report, the second in a series of studies looking at the impact emerging online applications have on B2B technology marketing, finds that blogs and Real Simple Syndication (RSS) are catching on more quickly than previously thought. 

Communications needs for many organisations are changing rapidly. Internally, there are always new technologies appearing and changes in working styles to deal with but there is now, increasingly, the influence of more social and consumer choices affecting the officially deployed systems. 

This report examines the tools, technologies and best practices forbuilding an effective virtualisation strategy, with a particular focuson the role of storage for success in server virtualisation to achievegreater efficiencies through optimising infrastructure. 

To help IT decision makers evaluate their options for addressing datacenter complexity - Dell posed the following questions to Mary Johnston Turner, research director for IDC's System Management Software service. Learn answers to today's most pressing datacenter questions regarding cloud computing, virtualization, provisioning and more. 

This white paper provides a road map for Web delivery teams to reduce operational expenditures, and shows how to improve the effectiveness of critical information required for decision making for Internet services. 

An enterprise resource planning (ERP) software implementation can be a huge task for small to midsized businesses (SMBs) to take on. Don't risk starting an implementation you don't have the resources or time to complete. This expert guide offers 10 dos and don'ts of navigating ERP projects for SMBs.