Join the mobility experts at Mobility Partners and Sybase iAnywhere on January 24th at 2pm ET to learn how your organization can realize competitive advantage from your investments in mobility. 

New products and strategies in data storage and networking, including storage virtualization, IP and Fiber Channel hybrids and the evolution of hard disk drive storage. 

This white paper discusses the issues associated with decision services in an SOA strategy, highlighting how business rule management systems can be used to overcome these challenges. 

To meet the increasing pressures of high availability and performance requirements, many IT groups are adopting IT Service Management ITSM, and change and configuration management CCM strategies. This paper lays out successful approaches. 

Enterprises can take control of the burgeoning number of unsanctioned spreadsheets by adopting a policy of centralized master spreadsheet generation. Learn how WebFOCUS creates fully summarized, organized, and styled Excel spreadsheets with complex formulas already in place, lowering the potential for keystroke and logic error. 

This technical guide underscores the need for certain changes within today's data centers. Discover how you can avoid deploying new hardware to address your top infrastructure pain points and optimize your use of existing equipment instead. 

This paper describes the science and practical application of an improved method for the specification of cooling for wiring closets. 

Find out what 1,900 B2B marketers in software, hardware and technology services industries revealed about what works for lead generation. Invite your entire team to view this free Webcast and learn about business-to-business email and search engine marketing strategies. 

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. 

Discover why and how CIOs need to expand their data backup strategies, which virtualization approaches are expected to become mainstream practices, and the ways big data is influencing data backup tactics. Backup is still a vital piece of IT infrastructure, but some policies are more effective than others - find out which tactics are best. 

Modularity is an established technique for organizing and simplifying a complex system. In data centers, modular design has already taken root in new fault-tolerant architectures for servers and storage systems. The mission of this paper is to illustrate how modularity delivers a profound reliability benefit: fault tolerance 

This white paper details how Web 2.0 technologies support business strategies by improving efficiency and productivity as well as harnessing knowledge through collaboration.