In this white paper, we introduce geographic data services and discuss how they are employed in both operational and analytical business applications. The paper also reviews analytical techniques applied across many types of organizations and examines a number of industry-specific usage scenarios. 

Check out this study to learn how ExaGrid solutions enabled several U.S. government agencies to reduce backup windows and improve overall data protection practices. This resource provides an introduction to the specific solutions used as well as their benefits, and explores emerging deduplication and scalability concerns as well. 

Why should customers be concerned about maintaining control over cloud services, and how should they accomplish this? Get key cloud lessons learned in this webcast. Explore topics such as the primary concerns in adopting private cloud, how to mitigate perceived cloud service risks and how to use cloud to increase agility. 

Read this paper to learn the many benefits of cloud computing as well as the 10 security concerns that need to be addressed when considering moving critical applications and sensitive data to public and shared cloud environments. 

Despite well-publicised concerns regarding security, compliance and data integration issues, banking institutions have begun embracing cloud computing across the services spectrum. 

IT managers everywhere feel overwhelmed with the rising tide of security threats they have to deal with in the face of an increasing regulatory burden. It is not surprising then that they tend to overlook one particular area of IT security, which is the privileged access that they grant themselves and/or their colleagues in order to do their jobs. 

Access this white paper to discover five things your IT team needs to know about monitoring mobile applications and a solution for mobile application monitoring from HP. 

This comprehensive white paper explores the call center landscape, details the benefits of hosted call centers along with the risks involved in cloud-based services. 

This white paper interprets the results of recent virtualization and cloud studies and indicates key patterns that have emerged over time. Discover future challenges you may encounter as you proceed with your data center efficiency initiative. 

The benefits of server virtualization are well known, and now companies are feeling pressure to embrace the cloud. This white paper cites key findings concerning cloud computing and explores the advantages of combining it with multi-hypervisor environments. 

This white paper introduces a new class of tools designed to optimize today's virtual infrastructure and combat these challenges. In this paper, discover how IT managers are overcoming concerns regarding fibre channel and the cloud, I/O challenges and more. You'll also receive today's best practices to ensure the future success of your cloud. 

This brief e-guide explores the notion that data quality issues are worse in real-time data integration applications versus batch-oriented techniques. In the form of two articles, this resource serves up options for real-time integration, touches on the concerns associated with it and outlines the proper steps required to address data quality. 

Content provided by Google. When it comes to cloud computing, some companies have concerns around security and a perceived loss of control. But others are grabbing the opportunity to move to a more collaborative, Web-based platform. In this E-Book, we take a look at several companies that have migrated to Google Apps.