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BI Careers: Knowing Technology Isn’t Enough

BI veterans give tech workers advice on getting ahead in the industry without burning out first

IBM Partners with Appfluent to Improve DB2 Warehouse Scalability

Just because IBM went out and bought itself a best-of-breed BI player doesn’t mean it can’t and won’t partner with other BI competitors

IBM’s Energy Efficiency Smoking Gun

Industry watchers see Big Blue’s mainframe power efficiency push as a signal event in the longstanding scale-up versus scale-out system wars

Best Practices for Solving Problems in Non-z/OS Environments

How problem solving is different in mainframe and non-z/OS environments, and how you can accelerate troubleshooting convergence.

LTO-4 Security: Are Vendors Fibbing or FIPSing?

Marketing can lead IT down a dangerous garden path when it comes to tape encryption standards

Podcast: What Drives Top Performance in Change Management?

When it comes to change management, do ITIL and CMDBs make a difference?



IBM Notches .NET-to-J2EE Integration Accord

Industry analysts say the IBM/Mainsoft accord is a Very Good Thing for users of mixed .NET and J2EE environments

Analysis: Predictive Analytics and Oracle OpenWorld

Predictive analytics seemed to sit it out at the recent Oracle OpenWorld, except for one recent Oracle acquisition.

Gartner Details a Thriving EDW Segment

Teradata, Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft dominate the data warehousing high-end, but a host of upstart and veteran players are keeping things interesting

Case Study: A Healthy Sense of Security

While reacting to changes in the market, a health care services company has proactively tightened down security beyond HIPAA and aims for certification on the relatively tough ISO 27001 standard.

In Post-Consolidation BI-scape, Pure Play Vendors See Opportunity

Oracle, SAP, and IBM will soon find themselves up to their respective ears in acquisition-related integration issues, BI pure play stalwarts argue

Microsoft Makes Peace with Virtualization

Earlier this month Microsoft committed to a very sudden about-face on its virtualization strategy

Compliance and Security, Part 3: Handling the Off Stream

Compliance applies to the entire infrastructure, even the many crannies of heterogeneous environments.

Podcast: Creating a Secure Test Environment

How IT can create test cases from production data

IT on the Hot Seat

If IT organizations don’t start embracing alternative delivery models, they’ll risk being bypassed by the line of business

Preventing NAC Attacks

Industry standards and trusted hardware keep out unauthorized users and equipment

DataCore Has Reason to Celebrate

Once dismissed by the storage industry analyst community, DataCore is enjoying a renaissance in the U.S. market. We explain why.

Visualization: Just Look What’s Coming

Today’s performance dashboards are cheap toys compared to the tools coming down the information visualization pipeline