Financial services giant finds happy medium between performance and availability with Big Blue’s new DR service for zSeries
To gain control of data and systems, IT consolidated their environment. A better solution is emerging: optimization tools.
How IT organizations are spending their budgets
IT budgets, developer headcount is growing; study says outsourcing isn't dampening internal development
Grid computing finds enterprise killer apps
SLAs have traditionally relied on operating system utilities to determine process availability -- but their accuracy isn't assured. Measuring the availability of business processes may hold the key to correct application performance assessment.
CMS software enables end users and subject matter experts to keep Web content fresh and accurate
Proactive desktop support has become an important corporate initiative. Here's why.
Blade server success founded on key mainframe concepts
Security, project management, and Linux skills are all still valuable
Effective business continuity planning must address several different kinds of worst-case scenarios
Study says process changes and best practices are key, regardless of which ERP software you’re running
IT can eliminate costly upgrades and reduce installation problems by running hosted applications instead of licensing them. But there are pitfalls.
Service-oriented architecture starts with simple application integration and culminates with service choreography and next-gen “composite” applications
The allure of Linux is strong, but unless ISVs rein in their software prices, Linux's growth on the mainframe could be limited
Two down-on-their-luck technology sectors have been buoyed by economic recovery; other segments aren't quite so lucky
zSeries used to the be the source of features for other products in IBM's line. Now it may be the other way around.
What do you get when you cross a peer-to-peer (p-to-p) network (mostly used for trading pirated music and pornography) with a highly redundant server cluster (mostly used for mission-critical applications in Fortune 500 companies)? The answer: grid computing.
It seems that over the past few years, XML's mindshare has moved from "Interesting idea, but will it ever catch on?" to "Absolutely the way to go for any kind of data interchange."
Looking for some new ways that IT departments have made smash hits to their companies' bottom lines? No action super-heroes, no razzle-dazzle special effects here—just real-world projects that drew rave reviews.