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Whatever You Want, Miro Finds It, Gets It, Plays It

Blog post recommended on May 16, 2012

Has ‘Cloud Computing’ Become a Redundant Phrase?

Blog post recommended on May 16, 2012

To GNU or Not to GNU? That Is the Question

Blog post recommended on May 10, 2012

IT Briefcase Analyst Blog

Blue Skies Ahead for HP Cloud Services?

Recently, HP announced its first public cloud services available as a public beta, and it is creating a stir in the cloud arena. On May 10, 2012, HP released three beta services that are the first of their kind under the company’s Converged Cloud portfolio. Read More...

Using Business Intelligence in Healthcare: The Modern Patient Record

By David A. Kelly, Upside Research
The goal of business intelligence is to support better decision-making in business. The direction of modern healthcare is evidence-based medicine driven by the proper use of data. Clearly, the combination of business intelligence in healthcare would seem to be a match made in heaven. Read More...

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FRESH INK

Online IT Degree: 50 Years of Information Technology

1958 was an interesting year for the entire world. Nikita Krushchev became the Premier of the Soviet Union. Robert Fischer, considered one of the greatest chess players who ever lived, won the United States Chess Championship at the ripe age of 14. The men who would become known as The Beatles had their first recording session, known then by a different name. Read More...

Understanding PaaS Limitations

Written by: Gabriel Monroy, co-founder and CTO of OpDemand
By many accounts 2012 is the year Platform-as-a-Service goes mainstream. PaaS offerings from Heroku and Cloud Foundry are awash in positive press. Stories of progressive developers adopting and succeeding with PaaS are increasingly common. Even IaaS poster-child Netflix is now promoting a PaaS strategy. Read More...


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Featured Video

Hugs from Business Users? IT Director of Grand Crowne Resorts Talks about LogiXML

As unlikely as it sounds, it happened to the IT Director of Grand Crowne Resorts, Alicia Loughnane, because she was able to get them the reporting and analytics they wanted in just 90 days.
Watch the video case study to hear Alicia discuss the "fun" of application development on top of BI that Logi Info provides and how it enabled Grande Crown Resorts to save over $250,000 annually.




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Featured Webinars

30-Minute Webinar: Financial Services End User Experience Management

See in just 30-minutes how Aternity's award-winning Frontline Performance Intelligence (FPI) Platform provides financial services organizations with advanced analytics, proactive problem detection and cause analysis to ensure that their revenue-generating applications are "always on."

Webcast: Cloud Computing and the Evolution of Business Process Management

The Cloud brings all manner of challenges and opportunities to information managers. One the one hand, there's great cost, broad functionality and ease of use; on the other hand, isn't the Cloud just another giant SILO? At the very center of all the action is process. How can your...

On-Demand Webcast: The 360-degree approach to knowing your customers

In this webinar, you’ll learn how IBM® SPSS® Data Collection survey software can collect all these types of data – including unstructured data from open-ended survey questions and information from social media.

Six Hot Storage Technologies for 2012

Watch this On-Demand webcast and hear from Jon Toigo, CEO and Managing Principal of Toigo Partners, as he discusses six cutting-edge storage technologies that are ready for prime time and can help transform your data center.

5 Secrets to Success with Cloud Computing

Those moving towards cloud computing are quickly finding the hype and the technology confusing. The reality is that moving to cloud-based platforms is more than a simple platform change; it’s a systemic change defining how IT will run in the future.

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Featured White Papers

5 BI Project Landmines to Avoid

The business intelligence (BI) vendor selection process can be long, confusing, and complex. Aspects of any BI solution, such as performance, implementation, and long-term costs, are often discussed at a high level, but the details are often missing until the end stages, when dealing with them can be a...

Spoofing Server-Server Communication: How You Can Prevent It

Advances in attacks on network security over the last few years have led to many high-profile compromises of enterprise networks and breaches of data security. A new attack is threatening to expand the potential for attackers to compromise enterprise servers and the critical data on them. Solutions are available, and they will require...

How Extended Validation SSL Brings Confidence to Online Sales and Transactions

Symantec™ Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificates can be a key factor in helping increase customer confidence during online business transactions. More confidence can mean more conversions for customers with EV SSL certificates. Symantec EV SSL turns address bars green in high-security browsers for an extra layer of website security...

Choosing the Right Security Solution: Moving Beyond SSL to Establish Trust

Choosing the right security solution is critical to the success of an online business. Look for trust-based security solutions that deliver protection and consumer peace-of-mind through cutting edge technology and integration with complementary third-party solutions.

Choosing a Cloud Hosting Provider with Confidence: Symantec SSL Certificates Provide a Secure Bridge to Trusted Cloud Hosting Providers

In this must read white paper, “Choosing a Cloud Hosting Provider with Confidence: VeriSign SSL Certificates Provide a Secure Bridge to Trusted Cloud Hosting Providers”, you will learn about cloud computing, the new opportunities, the new security challenges and how to ensure your data is safe.

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