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• Enterprise: Quarterly Results Cast Shadow over Sun
  Since Jonathan Schwartz first took the helm at Sun in 2004, analysts and industry watchers have ascribed a new jauntiness to Sun’s step. Many, however, are wondering about the company’s missteps in its recent financial performance.   (5/13/2008)
• Security: Security's Future: Letting the Good Guys In
  If there's a silver lining to high-profile security breaches, data losses, or "misplacements" of data, it's that they've help educate organizations about the importance of securing -- or spending money to secure -- their infrastructures. One upshot, analysts say, is that organizations must become adept at separating security software wheat from security software chaff in an increasingly competitive marketplace.   (5/13/2008)
• Enterprise: Why Business Rules Matter
  With all the talk about business rules, you'd think the rules themselves were something new.   (5/13/2008)
• Security: Securing a Virtualized Environment
  IT is abuzz over virtualization, but the technology isn’t a slam dunk, especially with regard to security. For example, security risks are different from those faced in a traditional data center. How do you know if your infrastructure is vulnerable? What measures can you take to improve the security level of your virtualized environment?   (5/13/2008)
• Enterprise: Why Projects Fail (And How to Avoid the Pitfalls)
  An age-old saying reminds us that "We can do anything we want, but we cannot do everything we want." All firms face this classic conundrum. No matter what the industry, organizations must deliver an increasing number of projects and programs while maintaining steady or decreasing budgets and resource levels. In such an environment, only one outcome is possible: project failure.   (5/13/2008)
• Enterprise: SOLA Promises Rapid SOA-fication for Big-Iron Environments
  Service-enabling your mainframe assets can sound intimidating, especially as many mainframe shops are just now dipping their toes into the SOA water. SOA Software Inc. says it doesn't have to be that complicated -- provided you're using the right tools.   (5/6/2008)
• Security: Security: Batten Down the (IM) Hatches
  Just because you’ve deployed an enterprise-grade instant messaging (IM) solution from a well-known vendor doesn’t mean you’ve mitigated -- let alone completely licked -- the threat posed by rogue, unsanctioned, or illicit IM use in your enterprise environment.   (5/6/2008)
• Storage: Dashing to Dashboards for Business Continuity
  One of the challenges of contemporary disaster recovery/business continuity is getting a handle on the various data protection processes in your organization. It is not uncommon to find multiple storage arrays from different vendors, each supporting an application (or set of applications), and each using its own behind-the-array replication process to mirror data to another storage array at a backup data center. Add application-level data replication processes from Oracle, Microsoft, and others, and the problem for the DR/BC planner is like herding cats.   (5/6/2008)
• Enterprise: Careers: Economic Uncertainty Prompts Companies to Consider Offshoring
  Amid tough times (that may get even tougher), at least one technology sector seems poised for growth -- the outsourcing industry.   (5/6/2008)
• Enterprise: Using Integration Appliances to Maximize SaaS Value
  It’s no wonder IT has found software as a service (SaaS) attractive: it simplifies application implementation and maintenance and minimizes costs and staff time for both IT and business users. SaaS enables rapid deployment of enterprise applications such as customer relationship management (CRM) using fewer IT resources while providing comprehensive functionality using an intuitive Web-based interface.   (5/6/2008)
• Enterprise: Podcast: Appliance Virtualization
  Virtualization is no mystery to IT professionals, who also are familiar with how appliances can connect to their infrastructure. What happens when you combine the two? Are there special benefits or tradeoffs to mixing these two technologies?   (5/6/2008)
• Enterprise: What’s Really Driving Application Modernization?
  To listen to some industry analysts tell it, organizations are rushing to embrace SOA, Web services, and other application integration or application modernization technologies.   (4/29/2008)
• BI: Data Warehousing on a Shoestring Budget (Part 2 of 3)
  You can implement data warehouse solutions on a small budget by focusing on system, database, ETL, and reporting technologies that work in concert with requirements gathering, development, testing, and training. In the second part of our series, we look at how to keep human/personnel costs low.   (5/14/2008)
• BI: SAS Says Improved Usability Give It an Edge
  With BI powerhouses IBM, Oracle, and SAP nipping at its heels, SAS improves usability, readies new language converter   (5/14/2008)
• BI: ETI Does Hassle-Free Data Integration
  ETI touts is own unique spin on data integration: precompiled data integration executables. It's one of several key differentiators for the veteran competitor.   (5/14/2008)
• BI: Oracle Caches In on Its Acquired TimesTen Technology
  The Oracle In-Memory Database Cache keeps frequently accessed data in memory for faster performance. We look at the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of this technology.   (5/14/2008)
• BI: Microsoft Sets Sights on Data Mining Dominance
  Microsoft hopes to challenge established powers SAS and SPSS for data mining and predictive analytic bragging rights   (5/7/2008)
• BI: Data Warehousing on a Shoestring Budget (Part 1 of 3)
  You can implement data warehouse solutions on a small budget by focusing on system, database, ETL, and reporting technologies that work in concert with requirements gathering, development, testing, and training. In the first part of our series, we look at how to keep technology costs low.   (5/7/2008)
• BI: TDWI Audio Report: Three Data Quality Trends for BI and Performance Management
  In a world where data, and the need for data-driven decisions, is growing rapidly, business intelligence is fast becoming the most strategic use of information across organizations, according to Jennifer Schmitz, product marketing manager for Cognos.   (5/7/2008)
• BI: BI's Future: Learning How People Think
  Former TDWI education director Dave Wells has peered into the future of BI and he sees actual intelligence, not just technology.   (5/7/2008)
• BI: BI Industry Bucks a Downward Trend
  While the bottom might drop out of other technology segments this year, the business intelligence industry appears poised for healthy growth   (5/7/2008)
• BI: Xactly Unveils Analytics Service that Helps Customers Cut Costs
  In a world of economic uncertainty, Xactly officials say the company's value proposition has never seemed more attractive to potential customers.   (4/30/2008)
• BI: Informatica Taps Identity Systems for Identity Resolution
  Infrastructure boundaries are fast disappearing, says data integration specialist Informatica, and organizations are scrambling to manage data as an asset   (4/30/2008)
• BI: TDWI Audio Report: Trends in Product Data Quality
  We talked with Martin Boyd of Silver Creek Systems, about product data quality.   (4/30/2008)
• BI: Emerging Technologies Will Marginalize IT's Role in BI, Gartner Predicts
  End users will gain control thanks to give emerging technologies   (4/30/2008)