Enterprise

• Quarterly Results Cast Shadow over Sun

  Despite Sun’s poor economic showing recently, the atmosphere at last week’s JavaOne conference was surprisingly festive   (5/13/2008)

• Why Business Rules Matter

  'What mainframe shop doesn't have business rules? In an age of draconian compliance and governance, the case for rules is stronger still. You can, however, benefit by implementing a BRMS.   (5/13/2008)

• Why Projects Fail (And How to Avoid the Pitfalls)

  You can't do everything. Here's how to make your project a success.   (5/13/2008)

• SOLA Promises Rapid SOA-fication for Big-Iron Environments

  SOLA purports to be a one-stop shop for mainframe service enablement -- complete with design studio, testing workbench, and registry support   (5/6/2008)

• Careers: Economic Uncertainty Prompts Companies to Consider Offshoring

  Offshore providers could do a booming business as U.S.-based firms try to cut costs by shifting application workloads and IT labor costs overseas   (5/6/2008)

• Using Integration Appliances to Maximize SaaS Value

  If you need to integrate legacy systems with SaaS applications, your smartest approach may be to use an appliance.   (5/6/2008)

• Podcast: Appliance Virtualization

  Can virtualization and appliance technology mix?   (5/6/2008)

• What’s Really Driving Application Modernization?

  IT shops don't always embrace application modernization as a means to ratchet up efficiencies. They're mostly looking to cut costs.   (4/29/2008)

More Enterprise

• IBM's iDataPlex: Making Web 2.0 Safe for the Data Center

  IBM touts its new iDataPlex Web 2.0 servers as nothing less than game-changing   (4/29/2008)

• Five Best Practices for Enhancing IT Development with Virtual Lab Automation

  Software test and development labs play a key role in testing, validating, benchmarking, and evaluating new and emerging technologies.   (4/29/2008)

• Monitoring SOA and Application Performance

  In the rush to adopt SOA, don’t forget SLAs.   (4/29/2008)

• Automation's the Name of the Game

  Automation makes all the difference in a data center, which is why BMC, CA, HP, and IBM are spending heavily to get in on the action.   (4/22/2008)

• Analysis: Why Big Blue's Power Systems Consolidation Matters

  One expert explains why last month's Power systems consolidation is so important.   (4/22/2008)

• Backup and Recovery for Virtualized Environments

  How to overcome challenges in protecting your virtualized environment   (4/22/2008)

• The Regulatory Path to Green IT

  Are incentives -- or outright regulation -- needed to spur companies to meaningfully curb their energy consumption?   (4/15/2008)

• Waste Not, Want Not: Organizations Overspending on IT

  Last year, IT organizations frittered away fully one-quarter of their budgets on "unnecessary" or "redundant" customizations.   (4/15/2008)

• Podcast: Outsourcing Data Recovery

  How to justify the cost of a backup and recovery service provider   (4/15/2008)

• A Power is Born: System i, System p Converge

  If Big Blue's new Power Express systems are harbingers of 'the future, users can expect ever-greater density and performance   (4/8/2008)

• Careers: IT Budgets Hold Steady

  CIOs are tightening their belts, but not desperately slashing costs.   (4/8/2008)

• Web 2.0, Mashups, and the Enterprise

  Mashups have been a popular consumer technology, but more IT and business users are using them to combine information quickly and cheaply.   (4/8/2008)

• Virtualizing Disaster Recovery

  Virtualization can be a boon to business continuity and disaster recovery planning -- provided you understand the risks   (4/1/2008)

• Outsourcers Push for Greater Flexibility

  Outsourcers are increasingly trying to achieve greater contract flexibility and minimize overall risk. Here are the risks you should know about.   (4/1/2008)

• The Case for Legacy Technology: Beyond New vs. Old

  Pairing legacy systems with server-based systems that have complementary strengths can extend the life of legacy system   (4/1/2008)

• Using the Right Software Development Metrics

  Conducting post-mortems about a project is too late. In-flight metrics -- measures you take during the development itself -- are critical.   (4/1/2008)

• z10: Data Center in a Box?

  For many large mainframe customers, the idea of a mainframe-centric -- or mainframe-exclusive -- "enterprise data center" makes a lot of sense   (3/25/2008)