Emerging Tech


Disaster Recovery: Balancing Performance and Availability

Financial services giant finds happy medium between performance and availability with Big Blue’s new DR service for zSeries

Simplify Distributed Networks with Remote Office Optimization

To gain control of data and systems, IT consolidated their environment. A better solution is emerging: optimization tools.

IT Spending: Cost Reduction Still Key

How IT organizations are spending their budgets

IT Showing More Signs of Recovery

IT budgets, developer headcount is growing; study says outsourcing isn't dampening internal development

Database, BI Solutions Drive Grid Growth in the Enterprise

Grid computing finds enterprise killer apps

Why Traditional SLAs Are No Longer Adequate

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.

Content Management Systems Ease Web Updates for Non-Technical Users

CMS software enables end users and subject matter experts to keep Web content fresh and accurate



Managing the Strategic Desktop

Proactive desktop support has become an important corporate initiative. Here's why.

Blade Servers: Big Iron in a Small Form Factor

Blade server success founded on key mainframe concepts

Offshore's Impact on Salaries, Certifications (Part 2 of 3)

Security, project management, and Linux skills are all still valuable

Q&A: Look Beyond Natural Disasters in Your Disaster Recovery Planning

Effective business continuity planning must address several different kinds of worst-case scenarios

ERP Vendor Choice Unimportant, Study Finds

Study says process changes and best practices are key, regardless of which ERP software you’re running

Pros and Cons: Software As A Service

IT can eliminate costly upgrades and reduce installation problems by running hosted applications instead of licensing them. But there are pitfalls.

SOAs: Defining the Integration and Orchestration of Services

Service-oriented architecture starts with simple application integration and culminates with service choreography and next-gen “composite” applications

Q&A: Kicking the Tires of Mainframe Linux

The allure of Linux is strong, but unless ISVs rein in their software prices, Linux's growth on the mainframe could be limited

Networking, ERP: IT is Spending Again

Two down-on-their-luck technology sectors have been buoyed by economic recovery; other segments aren't quite so lucky

IBM's Mainframe Feature Set Trickles Down -- And Up

zSeries used to the be the source of features for other products in IBM's line. Now it may be the other way around.

Getting with the Grid

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.

Securing XML

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."

Top Trends in Enterprise Computing

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.