Features & News


Microsoft's BI Roadshow: Products, Projects, and Promises

Microsoft hit the road last month to talk up PerforrmancePoint, Gemini, and other aspects of Microsoft BI -- and to promise a solution to Microsoft's missing metadata management strategy.

Middleware Market Hits the Brakes in 2009

Gartner says middleware software market has entered the slow lane

The Impact of Clean Addresses on Your Bottom Line

Dirty data directly affects your bottom line

Lone Microsoft Patch Fixes PowerPoint Vulnerability

Critical bulletin addresses 14 remote-code-execution problems

Tech-Ed: Windows Timeline Unveiled at Keynote

Product milesontes discussed at conference

Stephen Swoyer

CA Mainframe Manager Gets Usability, Feature Boost

Mainframe management has come a long way, as the latest fruits of CA's Mainframe 2.0 initiative demonstrate

Secure File Transfers: P2P Alternatives

P2P file sharing is on the rise, and so are its risks. We show you five tips that can help you select a secure enterprise file-transfer solution.



New Threats Unite Security and Systems Management Professionals

To effectively address new security challenges, IT organizations need to tighten coordination and integration between security.

Stephen Swoyer

Outsourcing: Smaller, Selective Deals This Year

Although outsourcing revenues increased by nearly 50 percent last year, experts predict slowing demand for outsourcing services in the first half of this year.

Q&A: Maximizing System Uptime

How to avoid the top mistakes when managing uptime performance, and how you can maximize system availability.

Jon Toigo

Virtualization: Spin or Wobble? (Part 1 of 3)

When you look closer, the spin around VMware benefits starts to wobble quickly when you do the math.

Stephen Swoyer

A Tempest in a Twitter

Unless you employ appropriate safeguards, a minor Twitter problem could easily turn into a tempest.

Tape: The Zombie Technology

Tape plays a continuing role in meeting the storage challenge.

SQL Server To Get Real-Time Boost

Database code-named "Kilimanjaro" will offer master data management and support real-time data feeds for business intelligence, reporting, and analytics

Hackett Research Quantifies IT Services/Demand Gap, Recommends Best Practices

IT demand expected to grow by 17 percent through next year despite stagnant IT budgets; report highlights best practices for closing "efficiency gap" through cost control, demand management, discretionary cuts

The Case for Rationalizing Your Data Integration Toolset

Should organizations step up their efforts to rationalize their collection of DI tools? Yes, Gartner researchers say, but not for the reasons you might think.

Looking Inward: Effective Householding with Business Intelligence

Using householding techniques aimed inward can give enterprises better views of themselves and where cost savings can be found.

Study Highlights How Leaders Improve Performance with Operational BI

Aberdeen Group study highlights best practices of Best-in-Class users of real-time business intelligence.

Analysis: Behind the SAP-Teradata Accord

Last week's Teradata-SAP partnership will benefit joint customers and possibly create additional sales opportunities for Teradata.

Micro Focus Buys Borland, Compuware's ALM Business

Move will shake up application lifecycle management market