This white paper explores the best practices for modernizing all facets of your backup and recovery architecture in a fashion that suits your budget and established processes. Read now to learn more. 

Hoss Equipment Company tailored a Microsoft Dynamics solution to help increase tremendous worker productivity across sales, operations, and management. 

This case study illustrates how Sun World International, a mid-sized grower in California, shifted its competitive strategy to capitalize on analytics and gain real-time insight into the competitive market. Learn how it gained a 5% reduction in harvesting costs, a 20% reduction in fuel usage and an eight-fold increase in profit per acre. 

With new technologies—such as planning and analysis solutions powered by IBM Cognos® software—companies are automating the process, getting faster reports and data that fuel “what is” and “what if” scenarios. Read this paper to learn more. 

To help simplify enterprise desktop management, Dell and VMware have created a flexible, highly scalable desktop virtualization reference architecture based on Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN arrays, and powerful new VMware View 4 technology. 

The growth of cloud computing has fueled the need to integrate cloud applications with each other and with applications that continue to reside on premise. Traditional integration approaches are evolving into more complete offerings called integration platform as a service (iPaaS) solutions. Read this paper and learn about this technology. 

The pressure on businesses to develop strategies which embrace environmental sustainability has increased dramatically in recent years, driven both by concerns about the long-term availability of fossil fuels and the impact of  corporate activities upon the environment. 

Now that many organizations have virtual servers and storage across part of their data center, it is time to turn to implementing effective disaster recovery initiatives. This exclusive white paper highlights Dell and VMware virtualization architectures that can help implement an effective disaster recovery plan. 

Virtualized iSCSI SANs are increasingly being chosen for virtual datacenter deployments because they help simplify storage management and overcome performance, scalability and cost barriers of traditional SAN architectures. 

Strategic HR is essential to the long-term health of your organization. Focusing on talent identification and retention, workforce planning and succession management, rather than tactical HR duties such as payroll processing, can yield significant results. This paper outlines the business benefits of investing in strategic HR capabilities. 

Implement cost-effective disaster recovery that leverages reliable data replication, OS image integrity and efficient workload provisioning to achieve faster RTO and RPO. Explore a configuration that implements Fiber Channel, IP and Ethernet networks and more to manage the provisioning of workload identities and network configuration. 

This edition of BI Trends & Strategies features a lead article by SearchCIO.com's Linda Tucci, who offers a helping hand in the quest to dismantle the dreaded data silo. The second piece outlines mobile BI, including a reference to Apple's iPad, and the final article delves into the world of performance management.