The global adult industry is among the largest in the world, estimated to be worth nearly $100 billion worldwide by 2006. 

In this brief clip, learn how IBM Cognos Express provides integrated reporting, planning and analysis for midsized companies. 

While desktop virtualization and VDI are certainly becoming trendy, the reality today is that properly designing a system is still complex and a source of worry and confusion for many architects. 

As technology evolves, there is a never-ending question to designers and implementers: "What is coming next?" The answer is "Collaboration." The move to collaboration is strengthened by the actions of Cisco and Microsoft, as they have each unveiled several collaborative technologies and the means to integrate them utilizing Web 2.0 programming. 

Read this paper to learn how to enable a fast, scalable, fault-tolerant distributed foundation for data management that runs dynamically across the many-machine, many-core, memory-based computing topologies that today's organizations are assembling from existing IT resources and pay-as-you-go clouds. 

Hot spots can seriously reduce the efficiency of an organization's computer equipment. Watch this webcast for expert tips on remediating your data center's hot spots and discover the costs associated with the task. 

Legacy networks aren’t fulfilling the needs of modern organizations. Discover how software-defined networking (SDN) powered by the OpenFlow protocol can be a game changer for you by helping you achieve a next-generation network that satisfies all of today’s needs. 

The business value of social and mobile apps can now be harnessed by organizations who are already using SAP applications for their core operations. View this brief video explanation to learn how easy it is to get plugged into today's social, mobile business world by creating cloud apps that seamlessly integrate with your SAP applications and data. 

Storage capacity utilization metrics provide a framework you can use to analyze and manage SAN storage use across a diverse IT environment. Check out this white paper to explore how capacity metrics can help your organization with efficiency, capacity management, and risk management. 

This week's Computer Weekly examines how the Football Association's IT director is using technology to help improve the prospects for the England national team. Our Buyer's Guide to government IT looks at the future of open source in the public sector and we report from Infosec 2012 on the rising number of cyber attacks. Read the issue now. 

NOSQL data stores are proliferating as a means of supporting web-scale data. There are a wide variety of NOSQL systems, each with their own set of use-cases and advantages. This paper describes the primary NOSQL data sources in the market today and how to integrate them with other sources using the Composite Data Virtualization Platform. 

Check out these results from a SearchStorage.com survey to learn how your peers are using storage tiering, solid state’s role in storage tiering, and the percent of businesses currently using automated tiering. 

Using an on-premise workforce mangement solution, Kimberly-Clark was struggling to manage its 57,000 internationally based employees— largely because of low adoption rates among its business and functional leaders. View this video to learn how Kimberly-Clark has significantly improved its human capital management using a cloud-based solution.