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. 

You can dramatically simplify your data management tasks and reduce infrastructure complexity with Windows Storage Server. Its latest release, Windows Storage Server2008 R2, can help SMB administrators reduce costs and manage their data and files more effectively through advanced features and united block and file storage. Read now to learn more. 

Check out this E-Guide to learn about emerging storage solutions like solid state (SSD), virtualization-optimized storage and automated tiering. You'll also learn about the latest trends in enterprise storage today, discover the ins and outs of virtual NAS and learn four ways to virtualize file access. Read on to learn more. 

Download this presentation transcript to discover how to free yourself from vendor lock-in by expensive proprietary storage hardware companies, and learn how you can take advantage of today's new wave of storage buying. Find out how you can do more with your existing storage and spend less time and money to accommodate changing workloads. 

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) enables different programs, applications, and tools to interact via self-contained services that do not depend on the context or state of the other service. This white paper provides insight into the top-four worst practices for SOA integration, and how to avoid and/or overcome these worst practices. 

Using two of the Intel SS4000-E storage servers mirrored for additional redundancy, Philips has cut about USD 10 thousand off the storage cost for more than one terabyte of data by eliminating the need to buy expensive optical disks. 

Health care organizations are not alone in their efforts to convert physical records to electronic files. In this two part course, hear little-known insight from John Weathington, recognized author and compliance and risk management expert. 

Web collaboration solutions are emerging as one of the building blocks of those applications. 

This issue of the high performance computing (HPC) e-zine takes a closer look at the latest advances in file systems and the impact they are having on the HPC community. Find out how HPC architectures have evolved over time and obtain best practices for properly implementing Multi Path File Systems (MPFS). 

The CRM buying process can be reduced to a set of 10 steps that will help you pare down the field of potential solutions to a few vendors who are the best fit. This guide will allow you to move through 10 sets of steps. 

Learn the finer points of tape vaulting and the differences between backup and archiving in this expert resource.