In this exclusive podcast, listen as Steve Mallard, IT manager and computer IT master teacher at the Tennessee Technology Center, discusses IT consumerication and Mallard's advice on how to prepare students for careers in IT. 

<p>Companies embrace SaaS products like Microsoft® Office 365, Google Apps, and Salesforce.com®, for their flexibility and potential savings. Learn how enterprises must tackle performance challenges for SaaS applications to remain a viable option.</p> 

<p>There is a growing recognition that rather than being a distraction or a time drain, social tools could hold the key to a more productive way of doing business, this report from Google argues.</p> 

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. 

Dolphin’s Content Archive Service for Cloud lets SAP users use Storage as a Service as an ArchiveLink repository. The service allows a direct connection from the SAP archiving layer to major public cloud provider. It’s an option that makes sense for any organization, whether or not you are running other SAP solutions in the cloud. 

Juniper Research analyses the growing market for mobile apps in this report extract. 

This white paper guides you through troubleshooting using some of SQL 2005's built-in features to diagnose issues with your database. 

Learn about the new services available for Office 365 and how you can incorporate them into your enterprise IT portfolio. 

This exclusive report for Computer Weekly readers by Juniper Research, offers a comprehensive briefing for senior IT professionals on the opportunities for NFC mobile payment technology, markets and trends. 

This resource explores the security challenges of mobile devices and provides a review of the security models of the two most popular mobile platforms in use today – Android and iOS. View now to uncover the impact these devices will have as their adoption continues to grow within enterprises. 

Ovum analyses data growth, big data, disk shortages, public cloud storage, flash memory, and other storage trends. 

This whitepaper serves as a guideline for Vista migration projects, highlights the key challenges and cautions and outlines an ideal approach to successfully migrate to Windows Vista. 

This paper examines how virtualization has become such a hot topic that the number of virtualization techniques, tools, and technologies is into the dozens, and that’s just from Microsoft. Some of the benefits of virtualization include hardware cost savings, configuration optimization, less disruption, and easier reallocation of resources.