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 this expert e-guide, find out about the many benefits of virtualizing your mission critical applications such as improved hardware utilization and efficiency. Also, discover where to virtualize your applications to maximize these benefits. 

This expert e-guide form SearchUnifiedCommunications.com explains how to best approach unified communications in a virtual desktop infrastructure. 

This expert e-guide explores the difference in the benefits of enterprise resource planning (ERP) for small and midsized businesses (SMBs) versus larger organizations and sheds light on what to avoid when midmarket organizations lack the IT resources needed when buying ERP software. 

Server virtualization presents some interesting implications for disaster recovery (DR), including cost reductions and increased recovery times. In this FAQ, business continuity expert Paul Kirvan discusses the various server virtualization approaches that are effective for DR and how they benefit failover and failback processes. 

In this FAQ, business continuity expert Paul Kirvan discusses the various server virtualization approaches that are effective for disaster recovery (DR) and how they benefit failover and failback processes. 

In this BeyeNETWORK e-book, data warehousing expert Wayne Eckerson describes how to create a federated business intelligence (BI) architecture that aligns with organizational imperatives. 

In this Videocast, renowned storage expert, Jon Toigo, outlines the Green Data Project, provides an overview of green storage and explores other relevant topics. 

This Webcast explores the key elements necessary for improved SOA messaging. In this Webcast, you will examine the messaging benefits associated with JMS, HTTP, REST, SOAP, WS-Addressing, WS-ReliableMessaging, traditional message queues and intermediaries. You will how to leverage various messaging constructs during the services design process. 

Energy saving is just one of the benefits of better data center management – but it is the current hot topic that can trigger a CEO to scrutinize the data center. Many CIOs are staying ahead of the curve with better data center infrustructure management (DCIM) technology. To learn more, download this white paper by industry experts CITO Research. 

In this week’s issue of Computer Weekly, we look at the future of computer science education now the government has scrapped the current ICT curriculum, and what this means for the IT industry. We talk to an early adopter of the government G-Cloud plan; and we examine the key challenges for network architects. Download the new issue now. 

Readers of this e-guide document will learn about the different ways to approach data center outsourcing, including assessing services-oriented architectures for infrastructure and software. IT professionals will benefit from this document in learning how to evaluate, select and manage relationships with potential data center outsourcing partners.