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Outing blind spots in the virtual realm

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Gartner 2009: Business Intelligence and Performance Management
Gartner's five predictions in business intelligence (BI) and performance management reveal both the challenges and opportunities that IT leaders will have to deal with. This paper will look back at two predictions Gartner made in the past to give a sense of how this space has changed and what has not changed.

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Outing blind spots in the virtual realm

Denise Dubie By Denise Dubie
Virtual servers help data centers provide more resources on demand, but they also create a bit of a blind spot for IT managers responsible for network and application performance across the virtual environment. Read full story

Denise Dubie is senior editor with Network World.

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