Check out this video today for a breakdown of cloud and tape-based backups, and discover the role each should play in today's data-driven IT. 

This interactive classroom features exclusive expert content designed to get IT administrators up to speed on deduplication. The classroom includes a video that explores the different types of deduplication and how these technologies help IT pros optimize and enhance already existing storage infrastructures.  

As virtualization becomes more widespread throughout data centers, the need to explore different backup solutions becomes more critical. View this webcast to learn how agentless backup can benefit your dynamic, virtualized data network. 

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. 

This expert E-Guide discusses hyper-V backup best practices and hyper-V backups vs. VM backups. Read on to learn more. 

SAP recently released two new mobile apps aimed at increasing the scope of HR-related information that employees, executives, and managers can access outside the workplace. Read this expert e-guide to learn how to maximize the value of your HR initiatives by leveraging SAP’s new mobile technologies. 

This presentation transcript, featuring Jim Reavis of the Cloud Security Alliance, offers advice on how to secure your cloud. Reavis discusses high level vs. detailed cloud security frameworks and suggests questions to ask potential cloud vendors. 

Read this exert e-guide to learn how to avoid the pitfalls of SAP sales order management that all too often lead to data confusion. 

In this exclusive e-book, find expert tips and strategies for using SAP sales order management software to regain control of your processes to increase efficiency, decrease problems, and boost customer satisfaction. 

This e-book, packed with four expert articles, highlights SAP's solution to sales order management, offering insight into its CRM, ERP and supply chain management components. Read these insightful articles now to learn about this option's strengths and weaknesses, how to properly define the sales process and so much more. 

Read this expert e-guide to learn what factors you should consider when choosing between on-premise, hosted, and Software as a Service (SaaS) ERP systems. Discover the plusses and minuses of each delivery method and learn how they might apply to your manufacturing organization's unique needs. 

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.