This case study illustrates how Sun World International, a mid-sized grower in California, shifted its competitive strategy to capitalize on analytics and gain real-time insight into the competitive market. Learn how it gained a 5% reduction in harvesting costs, a 20% reduction in fuel usage and an eight-fold increase in profit per acre. 

In November 2008, Conficker A, the first of five variants of the malware, rapidly began infecting computers which had failed to install a Microsoft patch released just weeks earlier. In late December 2008, Conficker B added new mechanisms for distribution including USB storage devices. 

Domain controllers have become an increasingly popular target for malicious hackers for its access to an organization’s sensitive and intellectual property. This case study uncovers how one international communications firm was able to protect 225 of its domain controllers using Bit9 Parity for Servers and the key benefits they gained. 

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. 

The efficiency benefits introduced with deduplication technology are driving mid-market organizations to modernize their backup infrastructures. With the introduction of its DXi6500 family of secondary storage systems with deduplication, Quantum has a competitive offering for mid-market companies—in features and price. 

This white paper provides guidelines for the use of EMC Data Domain deduplication for Oracle Recovery Manager backup over a Network File System mount. 

This White Paper recommends additional definition of IT governance within TOGAF to strengthen an organization’s ability to effectively govern the architecture and make appropriate investment decisions. 

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

With a potential economic crisis looming in the Eurozone, Gartner offers a checklist of questions that CIOs and CEOs should ask each other. 

Philip Dawson, Gartner VP offers best practice advice for organisations looking to virtualise their IT infrastructure. 

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 Quest Software webcast explains the symptoms of a failing or failed domain or forest. It also discusses how you can best prepare for this failure, and compares manual forest recovery procedures with a powerful automated solution. 

<p>Watch this webcast today to learn how you can improve backup and recovery operations in your VMware environment.</p>