This brief paper outlines a solution that seamlessly synchronizes your customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) data to grant you timely access to the information you need to make pivotal and proper business decisions. 

This is the first in an annual series of reports highlighting trends in the structural quality of business applications regarding characteristics such as robustness, performance, securit y, and changeability. 

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

This expert tip takes a closer look at vSphere5 and analyzes the impact it will have on various businesses. Discover the prices for each edition and find out whether your peers are expected to eventually embrace this technology. 

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. 

<p>Fixed assets are extremely important components of your organization, so how well you manage them could have a strong impact on your business performance. In this expert resource, find seven questions and answers concerning best practices and proper management of your fixed assets.</p> 

Check out this white paper to keep up with the latest in virtual backup operations. Learn about the impact virtualization has on existing backup solutions, discover the potential of agentless backup, learn about an integrated virtual backup and data protection solution and more. 

This research brief is based on a recent Tech Target survey with more than 200 storage administrators and IT professionals in mid-sized and enterprise-class companies, and focuses on how these decision-makers view the storage-related challenges that result from server virtualization. 

A look at alternative approaches to managing energy for cost and/or sustainability reasons in data centres. 

Access this e-guide to uncover how CIOs can solve the data quality issues they are faced with today. Gain insight on how to ensure that the delivery of actionable information is timely, relevant, accurate, and consistent, and an innovative new role emerging among businesses – the Chief Data Officer. 

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. 

Managing the performance of mobile applications presents a new challenge for IT teams. Read this white paper to learn why mobile application performance monitoring is uniquely challenging and discover the tools you'll need for effective mobile management. 

<p>Security concerns are the top barrier to cloud computing implementation. This virtual seminar foucses on the various governance, risk, and compliance cocerns that security pros have with transitioning to the cloud. Discover how to evaluate a cloud security provider's controls, key GRC issues in the cloud, and much more.</p>