As IT commoditization continues to increase audit and control activities, IT gets better at identifying and documenting the causes of significant outages. In an increasing number of cases, these ITIL efforts show the source of the outage to be action from the security department, and the BSM processes show the impact to be devastating. 

Read this expert e-book by BI visionary Wayne Eckerson and gain insight into the growing adoption rates of big data technology and learn why companies are finally recognizing its many benefits. Eckerson offers a comparison of open-source options and analytical platforms, and also dives into an analysis on the varying types of processing systems. 

This paper discusses content management, in specific process-centric information management, and the business benefits of this approach. 

Workforces are aging, and there also is a critical shortage of talent in today's business pool, creating an imperative initiative for human resources. This paper explains the necessity to forecast the future through strategic workforce planning and also offers up six pitfalls to avoid when venturing down the recruitment and talent management path. 

Download this report from Accenture to discover the 6 IT technology trends that will impact CIOs in 2012. 

Listen to this webcast now to hear how you can leverage massive parallel databases for cyber analytics. 

Join moderator Gary Beach, publisher of CIO Magazine, and Michael Corcoran, Information Builders CCO, for an informative panel discussion on operational business intelligence (BI) and the keys to a successful deployment. They'll speak with technology experts from Pershing LLC and Holland America Lines about their BI projects. 

This issue of the high performance computing (HPC) e-zine takes a closer look at the latest advances in file systems and the impact they are having on the HPC community. Find out how HPC architectures have evolved over time and obtain best practices for properly implementing Multi Path File Systems (MPFS). 

This paper discusses several key differences between closed and open source software vendor management, providing advice for managing your deployments and investments in open source technologies. 

NOSQL data stores are proliferating as a means of supporting web-scale data. There are a wide variety of NOSQL systems, each with their own set of use-cases and advantages. This paper describes the primary NOSQL data sources in the market today and how to integrate them with other sources using the Composite Data Virtualization Platform. 

This research from Freeform Dynamics assess the impact of the cloud on the IT department and the way the department functions. 

Back in the time when businesses were predominantly “local” and to a large extent insulated from each others operations, it really didn’t matter very much how we defined the Business Impact of Information Risks, for we knew what we meant in each business and we didn’t have much need to share that meaning with others. 

This paper shows the industry-wide acceptance of SIP and the recent advances of the open source software projects related to Voice over IP (VoIP). Read why the author firmly believes that the VoIP open source is still in its infancy, but its acceptance and product maturity will grow rapidly over the next few years.