Load balancing helps provide high access on report-card day.
Business transaction management can optimize business processes and performance.
Host.net is leading the charge to deliver cloud-based platform-as-a-service.
IBM still hasn't made good on the most intriguing aspect of its zBX vision -- an extension to the x64 world.
Organizations must be cautious to ensure they can manage their embedded devices as their population grows.
System z is back! Sales surged by almost 70 percent during z Enterprise's first quarter of availability, while MIPS capacity increased by almost 60 percent.
Emerging technologies in the data center place organizations at a unique crossroads.
Knowing common SOA pitfalls is the first step to avoiding them. The authors of "100 SOA Questions Asked and Answered" point out how SOA governance teams and application teams can avoid these traps.
Realizing the potential benefits for large-scale service deployments presents difficult challenges. We discuss these opportunities and challenges and recommend solutions.
From powerful mainframes to small smartphones, it was a year filled with change and challenges, contradiction and contrast for enterprise IT.
The 2010 history books will show that many of the developments in storage have been driven by economics rather than pure innovation. Our storage analyst, Jon Toigo, takes a look back at the significant storage news of 2010.
The benefits and drawbacks of software-as-a-service, plus tips for choosing a SaaS provider.
IT shops are holding steady on the mainframe. A new survey from BMC also examines how IT shops are employing systems and how workloads are growing.
Lower HPC costs make it possible for more companies to be cutting edge in their market.
Although efforts to reach the "neglected" or "untapped" mid-market shops are nothing new, HP's Just Right IT seems to have most of its ducks in a row.
zEnterprise services 125 different capacity settings, but small mainframe shops may be best served by IBM's existing z10 BC system
The Government Accountability Office has released a major update of a management maturity framework that provides a flexible benchmark against which federal agencies can plan for and measure enterprise architecture program maturity
Microsoft announced a new mission-critical support option for organizations as part of its Microsoft Services consulting business.
Planning for a merger or acquisition can be tricky, but it's a bullet that most CIOs will have to bite.
Is it possible that cloud computing might actually be an underhyped technology?