This videocast highlights the importance of metrics and measurements for enabling efficient and optimized physical, virtual or cloud data centers and storage. It discusses some different metrics, for example performance, availability/data protection, and capacity/space. It also gives tips for what metrics to use when, where to use them, and why 

Business intelligence (BI) can be considered critical to the very existence of most organisations. The purpose of this research was to explore whether and how companies are using BI to improve their businesses; to identify the obstacles they encounter in its use; and predict how BI will evolve in the next ten years. 

In this podcast, virtualization expert Anil Desai talks with WhatIs.com's Alex Howard about the many ways virtualization can be used to improve software testing and development. 

This paper investigates various levels of business intelligence, discusses the challenges organizations face with today's typical BI deployments, and highlights how many high-growth companies have implemented strategic, analytical, and operational initiatives to work seamlessly together to enhance performance and boost competitive advantage. 

Discover the Six Laws of Persuasion and learn how to use them to conduct more effective negotiations. 

The results of the survey clearly show that open source data integration solutions are mature enough for mission-critical enterprise use in every arena. 

This paper discusses how an organization can Survive poor economic conditions with strategic thinking and use of Project ERP by managing a downturn like a variance in a project. 

As budgets stay tight and finance professionals become more involved in technology buying decisions, be better prepared to defend your business case through the use of financial metrics and Return on Investment (ROI) calculators. 

This Guide is a companion to How to Guide: Consolidating multiple SQL Server systems onto Dell PowerEdge Servers using Microsoft’s Hyper-V. In this Guide, we use the Dell PowerEdge R900 and PowerEdge R905 as target servers. 

Watch this webcast to gain insight into industry trends in mobile security and available options for securing data on laptops and mobile devices. Learn about a remote management and data protection tool that enables organizations to get the most from their existing IT resources using cloud-based services. 

At Intel, we've developed a comprehensive methodology, based on total cost of ownership (TCO), that lets us calculate the real cost of operating more than 90,000 PCs. Using it, we can understand the real cost of deploying and maintaining our PCs across varying time horizons. 

This paper presents an alternative approach to spreadsheet compliance that leverages the investment in existing business systems by using existing reports instead of databases or rekeying data as sources for spreadsheets. Read on to learn more about this new approach and how Datawatch can provide a fast solution to these spreadsheet problems.