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Best Practices for Watching the Watchers

Four questions that promote security and regulatory compliance in your enterprise

Q&A: Cloud Integration Challenges and Best Practices

What is cloud integration, and what dangers can you avoid by following best practices?

Getting Smarter About Storage (Part 2 of 3)

Choosing cloud-based vs. in-house storage solutions is like herding cats -- tricky.

Cloud Developers Prefer Google, IBM

Google seems to be the platform of choice for public cloud adopters; IBM gets high marks from private cloud users.

Q&A: Pair Appliances and Virtualization to Beef Up Performance

Data warehouse appliances and virtualization make logical partners for companies interested in cost-effective solutions to handling massive amounts of data across devices.

Agile Meets Integration at TDWI Conference

At last week's TDWI Summer World Conference in San Diego, bottom-up disruption -- of an agile kind -- was a salient theme.

Survey Explores Performance Management in Practice

A new survey examines how over 200 organizations use performance management to improve revenue performance, forecast-to-plan ratio, and customer satisfaction.



IBM Refreshes System P Line with POWER7-based Products

Big Blue's refresh includes the gargantuan POWER 795, which it pits against top-shelf systems from HP and Oracle.

Latest Spam and Phishing Trends Revealed in Symantec Report

Spam dominates e-mail; phishing attacks mimic support chat sessions.

3 Best Practices for Branch Office Application Availability

Keeping your applications “always on” for users is no easy task. These best practices can help your enterprise maintain continuous automated availability in remote locations.

Q&A: E-mail's Past, Present, and Future

The co-creator of the MIME e-mail standard takes a look at the past and future of e-mail communication, how it's tied to social networking, and e-mail in the cloud.

Getting Smarter about Storage (Part 1 of 3)

Our storage analyst, Jon Toigo, explores a model that, if fully realized, would be light years ahead of what your favorite hardware vendors call "smart storage" today.

The Analytics of Web Data

New information sources demand improved analytics to learn more about customer behavior, employee and supplier relationships, competitors, and the market.

Under the Hood of Oracle's Revamped BI Suite

Does Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g "close the loop?"

What's Essential -- And What's Not -- In Big Data Analytics

When it comes to analytics, the columnar database debate misses the point.

Talend Enhances Data Integration with MapReduce Support

MapReduce is usually thought of as an enabling technology for Big Data analytics. Talend says it can help supercharge data integration, too.

Q&A: The Rise of DevOps

Applications and environments are more complex than ever. DevOps may be the approach IT needs.

Sizing up the Hype and Substance of Cloud Computing

A new study underscores cloud computing's momentum and helps put the phenomenon into perspective.

Breachers Down but Not Out

Breaches could still be avoided, report notes.

Metrics: Improving the Health of Your IT Organization

IT service metrics are simply tools to help you measure progress and determine success in achieving your goals. Here's how to use metrics wisely.