In this podcast, Gartner analyst Avivah Litan talks about the Heartland data breach in relation to current data security trends in the retail industry. Also, a discussion with Ernst & Young's Sagi Leizerov on data privacy in the retail industry reveals common trouble spots for retailers, including managing vendors and tracking customer purchases. 

Find out how retail organizations are improving the bottom line, by focusing on key tactics designed to facilitate low cost, efficient, customer-centric operations, all of which require integrated enterprise information and analysis capabilities found in business intelligence (BI) environments. 

A floor plan strongly affects the power density capability and electrical efficiency of a data center. This paper provides structured floor plan guidelines for defining room layouts and for establishing IT equipment layouts within existing rooms. 

TechWiseTV will show you how you can actually take control of the mobility revolution and even shape it to your advantage. Discover the technologies and the tools that will enable you to extend the power of your network far beyond the desktop and empower your mobile users. 

Cisco's unified communications vision combines individual systems with different communications capabilities into a cohesive, powerful communications ecosystem that allows a business to revolutionize itself overnight. 

This paper introduces three techniques employed in the production Data Domain deduplication file system and shows how they can be used to relieve the disk bottleneck. 

Learn how they used the nworks Management Pack (MP) to centralize monitoring of physical and VMware virtual infrastructures, reduce costs of implementing VMware monitoring, and give them the ability to receive performance metrics specific to the VMware virtual infrastructure. 

In August 2008, Qualcomm commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the benefits that North American businesses have experienced as a result of providing notebook users with mobile broadband connectivity. In this paper you'll hear what IT and telecom/network decision-makers had to say. 

This presentation transcript compares two leading data modeling tools and demonstrates how advanced data modeling improves productivity, standards compliance and knowledge sharing. 

This paper describes the Dell Reference Architecture, a blueprint or a starting configuration, for Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 in a virtualized server environment and provides guidelines for designing and sizing the storage for the same using Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage systems. 

Database architects and administrators need to discover, document, and re-use data assets; reverse-engineer, analyze, and optimize existing databases; and design to comply with regulatory requirements and organizational standards. 

In order to ensuring the EDW will get the optimal performance and will scale as your data set grows you need to get three fundamental things correct, the hardware configuration, the data model and the data loading process. 

The amount of customer information available grows every day. Learn why it is critical for you to analyze and understand customer information in order to draw meaningful conclusions about consumer lifestyles, buying habits and shopping behaviors.