Features & News


Coming to Terms with SOA’s Demands

IT organizations must come to terms with SOA’s much more rigorous planning, testing, and management requirements

Building an Archive Strategy, Part V: The Devil in the Details

What every storage admin must ask: what must we save and where shall we save it?

Consolidation Continues: TIBCO Nabs Spotfire

Does TIBCO’s acquisition of visualization specialist Spotfire Inc. portend a coming round of consolidations in the data viz space?

Analysis: HP Unveils NeoView

What makes HP think it can succeed where so many other vendors haven’t? A unique mix of software, services, and fault-tolerant servers, for starters.

Beyond Reporting: InetSoft Thinks Bigger

iSuite boasts canned connectivity into heterogeneous data sources, which lets it support right-time reporting and analysis requirements.

Blunt Advice for IT Follows TJX Breach

Although many details are unknown, TJX’s breach reminds us once again that a lack of security can cost dearly.

Bolted-on Archive Solutions: Ingestion Indigestion—Part IV of a Series

As with everything else in IT, performance is a key consideration when selecting a backup solution. Finding a reliable measure, however, is problematic.



Five Rules for Development-time SOA Governance

In our rush to adopt new technologies, we sometimes forget old disciplines that supported rigorous software development. Here are five rules that can help IT reduce the risk of failed SOA initiatives.

Kicking the Tires on Compuware OptimalJ

Why Compuware’s application-lifecycle toolset helps set it apart from competitors

Why Vista Was Vulnerable to Animated Cursors

Despite considerable work on improving security, “old, errant code” exposes flaw in Microsoft Vista.

Seven Best Practices for Managing Physical and IT Security Convergence

How can an enterprise manage the influx of security events in both physical and IT silos that have traditionally operated independently but are now coming together? We offer seven suggestions.

Behind CA’s Storage Reshuffle

The move will likely have mixed impact on most CA customers, although mainframe shops should expect some benefits

TDWI Radio News: The Mid-Sized Market for BI and PM

As pricepoints drop and knowledge about business intelligence and performance management spreads, has the information management industry reached a tipping point? Find out what Microsoft, Business Objects, Hyperion, LogiXML and InSolve have to say.

Why BI and PM Projects Fail

It’s a no-brainer: few of them actually have the strong top-down support that they need to be successful, Gartner claims

Business Objects’ Late April Binge

Business Objects picked up a best-of-breed PM provider and launched new versions of its ETL and EII tools last week.

Complaisant or Compliant: Training Employees to Care

In compliance, a focus on technical security can eclipse human factors. Particularly in IT compliance, a focus on technical security tends to eclipse human factors, with serious compliance implications. Good training programs need to be measured, controlled, and incorporate feedback loops so that the people responsible for the rulemaking getinput from the enforcers and (more importantly) from the employees who are subject to them.

Seeing Your Application Through Your End Users’ Eyes

End- user experience management is becoming an important component for ensuring the success of Web-based applications.

Built-in Archiving: Use at Your Own Risk -- Part III of a Series

Can non-native archive management software improve the performance of the e-mail server by automatically archiving messages without user intervention?

Why PowerTech Group Wants to Update Your AS/400 Security Model

If you have an AS/400 or iSeries, PowerTech Group wants you to update your security model—and a recent study suggests you should pay close attention

IBM SOA Institute Targets U.S. Federal Organizations

Center will focus on SOA development, education