Analytics - specifically analytics about how IT impacts the business - seem to be "the next big thing" for CIOs according to Gartner and a recent ZDNet article. The idea is closer to reality than you might think. read "Analyzing the Business Impact of IT : The Next Big Thing for CIOs?"

Paul Gentile, Netuitive Systems Engineer, on the difference between Predictive Analytics for IT vs. Business Intelligence (BI) read "Predictive Analytics for IT vs. Business Intelligence (BI)"

Paul Gentile, Netuitive Systems Engineer, looks at the unique role of multivariate regression analysis in predictive analytics for IT as it relates to virtualization and cloud management. read "The unique role of multivariate regression analysis in predictive analytics for IT"