In this article, Kaplan, of Harvard Business School, and Norton, founder and director of the Palladium Group, explain how to effectively manage both strategy and operations by linking them tightly in a closed-loop management system, which comprises five stages. 

Discover the impact desktop virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure have on your network. 

This 5-part series offers key tips and tools that can help prepare your organization for a workload optimized, integrated hardware and software appliance. Discover how to quickly on-board your applications so you can get the most from this advanced system. 

Master data management (MDM) tools are on the rise as more companies look toward ways to solve all their data needs through one system. This expert e-guide from our editorial team features two articles with exceptional insight on what vendors and trends are prevailing in the current MDM market. 

Read these articles to create a framework for stating your company's case for implementing a data governance strategy. 

<p>Read this expert article to learn about common challenges that developers and testers face when it comes to Agile methodology. Compare your Agile pain points to those of other development teams and discover the best way to overcome them.</p> 

This E-Guide features two articles from our editorial team on advice for implementing lean manufacturing templates, and how to prepare your current enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for a more efficient and less wasteful environment. 

This week’s Computer Weekly examines research that suggests CEOs want to invest in IT more than ever, but still see CIOs as technical experts and not business people. We review SQL Server 2012 and ask if Microsoft's database software is catching its competitors as well as concluding our Buyer's Guide to data security. 

This editorial e-guide features two articles on choosing the right master data management (MDM) software and how to convince your executives to invest in MDM tools. 

This e-guide gives a comprehensive review of vSphere as it looks at some of the features in vSphere that are most important to data storage managers as well as best practices for vSphere. It also offers a list of the most common and affordable shared storage options for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) from different vendors. 

In this comprehensive guide, review the new advanced storage features included in VMware vSphere 5.0 and discover how you can leverage them for your virtual environment to enable greater storage automation and consolidation while maintaining service levels. 

In this expert e-guide, you will receive tips and best practices on using business intelligence to effectively grow your business. 

Now that you've reviewed the essential issues involved in any backup acquisition, this guide focuses on the specific considerations of enterprise-class tape libraries. You'll also find a series of specifications to help make on-the-spot product comparisons between vendors like Quantum Corp., Hewlett-Packard Corp., IBM, SpectraLogic Corp., and more.