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The Analytic Beat Goes On

The analytic tools of today are a lot different from the bread-and-butter OLAP offerings of yesterday. The analytic tools of tomorrow will differ still more.

Industry Reacts to SAP’s Business Objects Acquisition

Most BI and PM players see an upside to SAP’s acquisition of Business Objects—but no two vendors see the same one.

Bay Area Chapter Explores Outsourcing, Visualization

TDWI’s second San Francisco-area chapter meeting attendees heard expert advice on offshoring and dashboards.

VMware Meets Storage, Part 2: New Game or Same Old Story?

Do VMware engineers have a clue about storage?

BEA Updates Mainframe Software Stack

Judging from this month’s flurry of new product announcements, BEA’s mainframe software business is alive and well

How Rapid Problem Identification Improves Network Troubleshooting

Why new tools are needed for rapid problem identification

Top 10 Employee Security Gaps to Plug Right Now

If it seems that companies aren't learning anything from the front-page security mistakes of competitors, take heart: Consultants and security experts are. Based on their experience and observations, here are 10 security gaps the experts have observed over and over, along with advice for addressing them.



Case Study: Outsourcing Exchange Server

Outsourcing your key applications can bring big benefits to small IT shops

IBM Touts Mainframe Power "Gas Gauge" for Greener Data Centers

Big Blue also plans to publish typical energy consumption data—based on a monthly survey of approximately 1,000 customer machines—for System z9

Oracle Vaults into DW Appliance Fray

How Oracle’s new data warehouse appliance entry complicates things for just about everyone.

Blockbuster Acquisition: SAP Gobbles up Business Objects

What does the deal portend for customers? A mixed bag, analysts say.

Continuing Industry Consolidations Lead to BI Vendor Dichotomy

SAP’s acquisition of Business Objects underscores how BI vendors are splitting into two camps.

Server Virtualization and Storage: Part I

Is server virtualization the answer to storage worst-case scenarios?

Avoiding Five Common Mistakes in RFID Implementations

The three most important attributes of system implementations are behavior, behavior and behavior. We explain why.

Microsoft Gets SaaS-y

Is Microsoft’s come-to-software-as-a-service invitation sincere—or just a token gesture?

IBM Busts Out Its Fall SOA Catalog

October brings forth multiple upgrades to products enabling service-oriented architectures.

Web Security Remains Wild and Wooly

Getting into the sandbox might make you more secure

CA Unveils Compliance Automation and Governance Management Tool

CA positions GRC Manager as the industry's first portfolio-based solution for IT governance and risk management

Virtualization: Moving Past the Proof-of-Concept Stage

Moving your small virtualization project into full-enterprise use? We'll show you what problems lie ahead and how to avoid them.

What BI Thought Leaders Are Reading

What books have provided inspiration and insight for BI thought leaders?