The benefits and drawbacks of software-as-a-service, plus tips for choosing a SaaS provider.
IT shops are holding steady on the mainframe. A new survey from BMC also examines how IT shops are employing systems and how workloads are growing.
Why managing application performance is so challenging, and how to make it pay off in the enterprise.
Business-driven processes for measuring and guaranteeing service levels in the cloud will help CIOs successfully transition to this new infrastructure.
Caching was only the first step to improving transaction processing.
Treat energy with the same care and attention that your other data center assets receive.
Lower HPC costs make it possible for more companies to be cutting edge in their market.
Although efforts to reach the "neglected" or "untapped" mid-market shops are nothing new, HP's Just Right IT seems to have most of its ducks in a row.
What was Intel thinking? Was a vision of a hyper-connected future -- powered by hyper-secure embedded microprocessors -- a big factor?
IT asset management (ITAM) is a tactical foundation corporate executives need to make sound strategic decisions. ITAM needs more than just an administrator to manage it.
Big Blue's refresh includes the gargantuan POWER 795, which it pits against top-shelf systems from HP and Oracle.
Applications and environments are more complex than ever. DevOps may be the approach IT needs.
zEnterprise services 125 different capacity settings, but small mainframe shops may be best served by IBM's existing z10 BC system
zEnterprise debuts at a critical time for IBM, which is the subject of unwelcome attention from would-be mainframe market regulators.
New zEnterprise mainframe and systems architecture lets mainframe, Power, and x86 systems share resources, be managed as single, virtualized system
Inconsistent metrics have led to inconsistent results
Planning for a merger or acquisition can be tricky, but it's a bullet that most CIOs will have to bite.
More proactive capacity planning can get IT closer to a fully virtualized data center.
Is it possible that cloud computing might actually be an underhyped technology?
If you think your data center power and cooling issues are bad now, just wait.