Enterprise

• Seven Mainframe Myths No IT Decision-Maker Should Believe

  Ignore these myths at your peril.   (10/7/2008)

• Enterprise Systems 2008 Salary Survey, Part 4: Employee Attitudes

  Just as IT salaries and bonuses are in a growth stage, uncertainty about the economy has begun to cast a pall over the employment market   (10/7/2008)

• Virtualization for High-End Computing Environments

  Why aggregation is ideal for high-performance computing   (10/7/2008)

• Enterprise Systems 2008 Salary Survey, Part 3: Salaries by Region, Industry, Company Size

  In the third of our four-part report, we look at compensation by company size, industry, and region and find financial services and employees in the Northeast dominate IT salaries   (9/30/2008)

• .NET versus Java Smackdown

  According to a new survey, .NET appears to be widening its lead over Java EE.   (9/30/2008)

• Optimizing Your Data Center

  Data centers are mission-critical in today's information-driven business environment, but they've also become overcrowded, overheated, and expensive.   (9/30/2008)

• Get Ready to Web 2.0-ify Your Mainframe

  You don't typically think of Big Iron as a locus of Web 2.0 activity -- but IBM is trying to recast it as such   (9/23/2008)

• Profile: The Original Business Process Optimizer

  Issues that efficiency experts wrestled with decades ago -- chiefly inertia, in the form of internal resistance to people and process changes -- still vex business process optimizers today.   (9/23/2008)

More Enterprise

• Enterprise Systems 2008 Salary Survey, Part 2: Management Positions

  Modest salary gains across the board for most management positions, but bonuses still off their peaks   (9/23/2008)

• BMC Announces "Significant" Overhaul of Job Scheduler

  In the new version of CONTROL-M, BMC is trumpeting a job rollback and auditing feature, along with virtualization-friendly amenities   (9/16/2008)

• Small Increase Predicted in Demand for IT Workers

  In a jittery economic climate, companies seem to be hedging their bets when it comes to hiring new IT workers.   (9/16/2008)

• Q&A: Open Source Backup and Data Protection

  Protecting your data doesn't have to break your budget, thanks to open source options.   (9/16/2008)

• With InfoSphere, Big Blue Touts Mainframe-Ready Integration Features

  IBM's InfoSphere data integration platform is brimming with mainframe goodies   (9/9/2008)

• Server Sales Immune to Economic Sluggishness

  Sales of its System z mainframes helped propel IBM to the top of the server market. Unix server sales were also up.   (9/9/2008)

• Q&A: VM Evolution and Systems Management

  System complexity is burdening systems managers. We look at the landscape.   (9/9/2008)

• Selecting Your Data Replication Solution: Top 3 Criteria

  Data replication plays an important part in risk management strategies.   (9/9/2008)

• Virtual Systems of Tomorrow Could Take Cues from Today's Mainframes

  The Big, Fast virtual systems of tomorrow might look a lot like today's Biggest, Fastest, and most eminently Virtual system: IBM's System z mainframe.   (9/2/2008)

• Best Practices in IT Governance

  Five steps in a unique process that visionary CIOs can use to meet their company’s strategic goals   (9/2/2008)

• Q&A: Virtualization -- From ROI to Optimization

  From determining the ROI to ensuring you're getting the most from the technology, an infrastructure architect offers tips for IT professionals.   (9/2/2008)

• IT Spending Rises Despite Tough Economic Times

  IT spending should eclipse $3.4 trillion this year -- a year-over-year growth rate of 8 percent   (8/26/2008)

• Five Keys to Successful Change Management Maturity

  IT must implement an effective, mature method of change management or experience significant downtime and negative impact on productivity and profits.   (8/26/2008)

• IT Escapes Cuts to Business Travel -- For Now

  Thanks to skyrocketing gas and airfare costs, a growing number of companies are limiting -- or completely banning -- "non-essential" business travel   (8/26/2008)

• Big Iron: The Cost-Cutting Platform

  Mainframe shops continue to look to Big Iron for increased operational efficiency and lower costs.   (8/19/2008)

• Careers: IT Hiring Slowdown Ahead?

  Caution in IT hiring plans   (8/19/2008)

• Q&A: Enterprise Modernization

  How do your organization's modernization efforts compare with over 1200 organizations?   (8/19/2008)