With new processor, x86 systems are poised to make a serious run at RISC-Unix
IBM beat competitors HP and Dell out of the gate, trumpeting a trio of new Nehalem-EX systems running on the fifth generation of its eXA architecture.
Though mainframe sales may be down, commodity server sales are strong.
One way to keep problems from compromising your enterprise is to have a good monitoring system in place. We discuss the drivers and benefits of business transaction management, how it fits in your environment, and how your colleagues are using it.
Given its widespread adoption, service-oriented architecture is clearly an integral component of cloud computing and software-as-a-service. However, without the management tools to address such issues as application performance, the rapid development and deployment of SOA-based services could fail.
We explain how to leverage data from switches and routers using flow monitoring.
The database industry is at a crossroads, but few agree on where things are headed.
Four reasons IT executives charged with business continuity planning, risk management, and disaster recovery must consider their employees and operations heavily in their plans.
IT organizations are budgeting to give employees a small pay increase in 2010 according to a recent report.
How to avoid the worst problems in database design.
SOA and cloud computing are hot topics in IT. Here's what you need to understand about how they're interconnected and how you can take advantage of their benefits.
Oracle's post-Sun announcements harkened back to the heyday of single-stack computing: the IBM Corp. of the 1960s.
Almost half of all IT organizations are understaffed; if or when IT spending comes back, shops may have to scramble to fill these vacancies.
This approach can help you achieve data classification results dramatically faster than conventional methods.
With its acquisition of Sun Microsystems completed, Oracle Corp. on Wednesday laid out its plans for integrating Sun's software and hardware systems into its own product lineup.
A simple and affordable change you can make today can mitigate the risks of the DNS layer.
A two-part approach can help IT comply with SLAs to satisfy end users.
Harried by legal, regulatory, or competitive concerns, organizations are increasingly paying much more attention to their desktop backup strategies.
IT and business must learn to speak a common language, manage according to business outcomes, and organize for value.
Mainframe and high-end server fortunes took a beating in 2009. An industry veteran says 2010 is shaping up to be an improvement.