Business Intelligence

For your IT organization to keep pace with the business, you need a new, faster approach to infrastructure deployment-an approach that increases agility and accelerates time to application value. That's HP Converged Systems. Built on Converged Infrastructure, these systems deliver the industry's first portfolio of pre-integrated, tested, and optimized infrastructure solutions for applications running in virtual, cloud, dedicated, or hybrid environments.

As you know, everything is mobile, connected, interactive, and immediate. This is exactly why organizations need a highly agile IT infrastructure in order to keep pace with extreme fluctuations in business demand. This book will help you understand why infrastructure convergence has been widely accepted as the optimal approach for simplifying and accelerating your IT to deliver services at the speed of business while also shifting significantly more IT resources from operations to innovation.

As Active Directory's role in the enterprise has drastically increased, so has the need to secure the data. Gain insight on creating repeatable, enforceable processes that reduces administrative overhead and enables robust, customizable reporting and auditing capabilities. Brought to you by NetIQ.

This white paper from Forrester Research Inc., helps break PCI into understandable components. Security and risk professionals will gain knowledge and insight into creating a compliant and secure IT environment. Follow these four proactive steps now before your next audit. Brought to you by NetIQ.

As part of an effort to get the American public involved in the search for terrorists, the FBI has distributed lists warning how a terrorist might behave in each of 25 different types of business. Some are good indicators; most are so generic anyone could be tapped as a terrorist.

ING is expanding its use of in-memory business intelligence analytics, using a real-time system from supplier Quartet FS.

A report from viaForensics makes clear that Google Wallet, despite efforts by Google to tighten up security after a poor evaluation in December, still stores data in too many places and could make it available too easily to be a secure way to buy things using smartphones.

Experts predict in the next five years the amount of data that exists will grow by tenfold. This data explosion is in large part thanks to 'big data'-weblogs, equipment logs, social media, email, sensors, photographs, video footage, etc.-that is typically unstructured and voluminous. New networked devices and applications are collecting more data than ever, and more organizations are holding on to it

This IDG whitepaper highlights key findings based on the Quickpoll Survey conducted with more than 300 Enterprise and Commercial IT decision makers worldwide about the state of their virtualization of business critical applications. This paper answers such questions as: What drivers are pushing companies to extend virtualization beyond servers? and What value are they realizing? Central to the paper are key results that expose risks of the past (fears of limited ISV support, performance impact) no longer are a factor for companies moving to 80+% virtualized.

This guide focuses on key considerations for IT Architects who are in the process of migrating Java applications from UNIX to Linux as part of their VMware server consolidation project.