<p>Businesses need to keep a close eye on the evolution of cloud based services to avoid wasting money and missing out on business opportunities.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> 

This report extract from the Corporate Executive Board, presents key facts and figures on the take up of consumer technology in the workplace. 

Download this report from Arthur D Little to learn 5 key innovation concepts for CIOs and CTOs. 

The exclusive sponsor of today's virtual seminar has compiled a library of useful information for you to read - and will have technical staff on hand in the virtual environment to answer your questions about deduplication technology. 

Gartner analysts, William Clark, David W Cearley and Avivah Litan, explain how business can exploit context-aware computing and social media. 

This edition of BI Trends and Strategies opens with a piece by Lou Agosta on the need for data warehouses to adapt to new data types, innovation and big data. Alan R. Earls also offers advice for incorporating spreadsheets into your BI programs without problems and Richard Herschel calls for universities to step up their BI and analytics programs. 

Read this FAQ featuring W. Curtis Preston, which outlines how Linear Tape-Open (LTO) tape differs from other tape media, the various generations of LTO and the pros and cons of this backup technology. Also learn about the newest model, LTO-5, being released this year. 

It's important not to confuse data backups with data archives; backups should not be used as archives and archiving products have many features that backups don’t. Read this white paper as W. Curtis Preston examines these differences further and discusses the dos and don’ts of each. 

W. Curtis Preston, executive editor of the Storage Media Group and independent backup expert, discusses the options currently available for performing replication as part of a backup strategy for virtual machines, benefits and drawbacks of using replication in a virtualized environment. 

Listen to J.R. Rao, Senior Manager from IBM Research, discuss stream computing as a basis for performing predictive security analytics to help federal agencies detect symptoms of cyber attacks before they strike. Learn how to identify failures, prevent disruptions, and comprehensively monitor risk over time to improve information assurance. 

<p>Listen to this podcast as industry expert R "Ray" Wang explains what you can do to overcome common sales order management complications, and hear his advice on what technologies can help integrate information from across organizational functions to provide the highest quality data to order management applications.</p> 

This week’s Computer Weekly examines the growing threat from smartphones being targeted by hackers and viruses as the devices are increasingly used for work. Hospitality giant Mitchells & Butlers talks about its migration to the cloud and the CIO of Airbus discusses his IT priorities and how he spends €500m a year on IT.