Disaster recovery and business continuity planning is essential in order to effectively prepare for an unexpected catastrophe. Unfortunately, DR and BC planning is often associated with headaches such as securing funding during a time of tightened budgets. Inside, learn how to utilize cloud-based strategies for simplified DR and BC preparation. 

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. 

In the third issue of BI Trends and Strategies, learn from BeyeNETWORK experts William McKnight and David Loshin how to create a time-proof information management infrastructure, as well as five steps you can take to improve the quality of analytical data. Also learn about connectors for moving data between relational databases and Hadoop clusters. 

Access this month’s issue to uncover strategies for taming the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) tide. In addition, explore other featured topics including VMware’s security partner program revamp, four keys to data loss prevention (DLP) success, top considerations for information security career recruitment and more. 

Storage Magazine Online is starting off the New Year right – specifically, by covering a few of the major topics, issues and technologies you’ll likely be hearing about quite frequently in 2011 like new storage strategies and hybrid cloud storage. 

Access this issue now and examine how SIEM is leading the charge in building a coordinated view of security-related information and event integration (including integrating fraud detection data and network access control technologies to name a few) and uncover new strategies for developing an enhanced SIEM capability and more. 

Read this expert e-zine from the teams at ebizQ.com and SearchSOA.com to learn how business process management (BPM) technologies have evolved over the past year and what the latest, most effective strategies are for implementing them. 

Virtualization is very conducive to managing and deploying DR strategies because it eases many cost and complexity barriers. But reliable DR requires much more than just virtualization. Check out this 2-page white paper for a breakdown of virtualization DR tools and strategies and how they apply to your organization. 

In this month’s issue, Global Vice President of the Information Security Forum, Steve Durbin, offers five actions you can take to prepare for today’s external threats, proven steps to counter internal threats, and practical advice on how to better prepare and respond to foreseen (and unforeseen) compliance regulations. 

This month's Information Security Magazine Online cover story highlights the concern surrounding self-defending networks and explores a new approach to network security – CTOps. Also, learn how to uncover hidden opportunities that could be lurking in your overflow of data and gain an indepth look of the biggest IT giants in today's security market. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude talks about releasing government datasets to the public and why open data will drive the next industrial revolution. We also review the latest test version of Windows 8 and see how it shapes up for tablet computers and business users and much more. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, after HP announced 27,000 job cuts worldwide, we examine how the IT giant is changing its strategy and what it means for customers. We talk to the one-man team that runs IT for a global firm employing 1,600 people. And Virgin Atlantic's CIO explains why mobile apps are such a high priority. Read the issue now.