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. 

There are many options when it comes to a migration: Office 365, on-premises, or a hybrid environment. In this webcast, Joel Blaiberg, author of “Four Steps to Planning a Successful Migration," discusses migration strategies and best practices that can save your organization time and money in your next migration project. 

This week’s Computer Weekly, we talk exclusively to Tesco CIO Mike McNamara about why the UK's biggest retailer is spending £150m on its online business. And, with the London 2012 Olympics only weeks away; we look at how IT testing is progressing. 

Want to know how the most successful companies deliver exceptional customer value? Do you know the best practices for using customer analytics? This e-book answers these questions and a lot more about winning trends and practices in customer relationship management (CRM). 

In this webcast, Greg Schulz, Founder and Senior Analyst at The StorageIO Group, and Randy Glissman, Solutions Marketing Manager at Quantum, explore solutions for virtual server data protection and discuss general data center trends and perspectives. 

The momentum behind technology-enabled business growth and innovation continues to remain strong. This resource explores some of the top enterprise IT trends in 2012 driving growth including: cloud computing, big data, convergence of IT, green computing, collaboration, mobility, and much more. 

<p>Tune in to this podcast to hear Kevin Haley, one of Symantec's security experts from the Security Technology and Response organization, discuss key findings from the Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR), the latest security research and the top trends for 2012. Find out how the security landscape will affect your organization.</p> 

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. 

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. 

This expert e-guide offers an overview of SearchDataCenter.com's annual Data Center Purchasing Intentions Survey. Get insight into this year's trends around server hardware, operating systems and virtualization. Find out what your IT peers have made top priorities in their data centers this year and much more! 

Featuring the results of an in-depth survey of over 300 IT professionals, this ESG white paper outlines current trends in storage resources - specifically, the adoption of scale-out architectures - as well as planning, current challenges and more. Read on for an in-depth look at the most prominent storage trends today. 

Learn how businesses are reducing their current data center energy consumption and explore the steady rate at which server virtualization spending continues to increase. Gain insight into the downward trends in systems management spending and IT job advancement.