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. 

This expert e-guide will help you formulate an application performance management strategy. Read this now and learn about certain techniques that can help your agile development team prevent potential problems before deploying apps. Discover why communication is an essential component to preventing problems, as well as three testing models. 

Gartner research director, Valdis Filks, offers tips to help businesses get to grips with escalating storage costs. 

This week’s Computer Weekly asks what chancellor George Osborne's Budget means for the UK IT community and if he can deliver his goal to make Britain "the technology centre of Europe". Also you'll find the final part of our private cloud Buyer's Guide and we examine the options for choosing the right WAN optimisation strategy. 

This white paper highlights the importance of implementing a hybrid delivery strategy to your ever-changing IT service delivery model. Within, you’ll find key strategies for optimizing your IT resources to ensure ideal IT service delivery. 

Extremely high end-user expectations for enterprise mobile performance have IT teams scrambling to address its unique challenges. Read this e-guide for expert tips on choosing and implementing the best mobile performance management tools and strategies available today. Also, find in-depth industry analyst advice on functional testing. 

This expert resource from Gartner examines integration brokerage and how it can apply to a variety of integration problems. 

This SearchStorage.com E-Guide presents top tips for troubleshooting Hyper-V backups and discusses other Hyper-V backup strategies including replication, CDP and near-CDP. Read on to discover the best strategy for your business. 

The key to a successful disaster recovery strategy is planning. Read this white paper to learn about the importance of being proactive about potential problems, discover how you can properly rehearse for disaster and understand the importance of knowing who's in charge of what when the time comes. Read on for more. 

As SMBs continue to reap the benefits of server virtualization, it's important for businesses to keep disaster recovery for both physical and virtual servers in mind. In this essential resource, discover how SMBs can develop a cohesive backup and recovery strategy for hybrid physical and virtual infrastructures. 

PCI virtualization compliance is extremely challenging, requiring organizations to not only revalidate service providers, but face ongoing operational problems that that can arise during compliance audits. In this e-guide uncover three steps you can implement to ensure the environment stays compliant over a long-term deployment. 

In the July 2011 cover story of Storage magazine, Jacob Gsoedl examines the current problems associated with virtual server backup and highlights the latest apps and features that help in putting an end to those challenges. 

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.