Explore advanced networking features in VMware vSphere 5.0 in this in-depth, step-by-step guide to configuring and testing these essential features for your virtual environment. Discover how NetFlow, port mirroring, and user-defined resource pools help network admins gain visibility in virtual machine traffic and troubleshoot network issues. 

Access this month’s issue to uncover strategies for taming the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) tide. In addition, explore other featured topics including VMware’s security partner program revamp, four keys to data loss prevention (DLP) success, top considerations for information security career recruitment and more. 

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. 

There may be a lot of recent innovations to data technologies but the best approach is to determine whether you can utilize these new tools for your current BI, analytics and data management strategies. This issue of BI Trends + Strategies features advice from industry experts including, Claudia Imhoff, Colin White, and Lyndsay Wise. 

Access this issue now and examine how SIEM is leading the charge in building a coordinated view of security-related information and event integration (including integrating fraud detection data and network access control technologies to name a few) and uncover new strategies for developing an enhanced SIEM capability and more. 

In the previous two Connecting Through Content studies, B2B marketers and business and technology buyers weighed in on content distribution, lead follow-up and more. This final study in the series examines what happens once that registration has been submitted — the critical point of the program’s success or failure. 

This month's Information Security Magazine Online cover story highlights the concern surrounding self-defending networks and explores a new approach to network security – CTOps. Also, learn how to uncover hidden opportunities that could be lurking in your overflow of data and gain an indepth look of the biggest IT giants in today's security market. 

One of the most important features in vSphere, snapshots, is often misused. This tutorial offers a complete overview of the ways to use snapshots responsibly, addresses the issues that could arise from misuse, and explains how to solve common problems. 

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. 

<p>This case study explores how Blackberry smartphones have increased the communications options for the deaf and hard of hearing community.</p>