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Imagining Disaster Recovery

A little imagination can be a great thing when it comes to planning for a disaster. The disasters we might encounter as IT managers are no different.

Q&A: Security Breaches and Enterprise Culture

How an enterprise’s culture affects its IT security

Jon Toigo

Discovery Tools Fundamental to Data Management

Effective data management is an idea that has been ignored for far too long.

Stephen Swoyer

Big Iron Bucks a Trend

Far from transitioning away from Big Iron, customers seem to be doubling down

Despite Criticism, Microsoft Exec Defends Open Source Progress

Microsoft official argues company has made significant progress while defending its right to enforce patents

Modernization: It's All about the Business

Why the common approach to IT modernization will fail in today's economy

Service Delivery: You Can't Manage What You Can't See

Best practices for using network and application baselines to help predict service delivery degradations



April 1: D-Day for the Conficker Worm

IT security pros prepare for malicious worm

Microsoft's FAST Strategy Shift

Microsoft's FAST strategy took still another turn last month when it announced several revisions to its FAST roadmap

Collaborative BI Enhances Customer Responsiveness

A new report from AberdeenGroup shows the key role collaboration plays in successful business intelligence

Sun Releases Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3

Major upgrade expands VMware support, Open Storage integration, and Active Directory support

Workgroup BI Poised for a Comeback

With the advent of several explicit end-user-oriented offerings -- including Microsoft's Project Gemini -- workgroup BI is poised for a comeback.

Q&A: Pushing BI Beyond Business Managers

Operational business personnel are the next wave of BI users. What will it take to extend BI to these users?

Enterprises Hanging on to Legacy Microsoft Apps

Enterprises prefer Windows XP over Vista by wide margin; over 60 percent of IE users still on version 6

Losses Mount as Security Risks Rise and IT Struggles

A new survey by Symantec of 1000 organizations in the U.S. and Europe highlights the rise in security risks and actual damage done

New Study Highlights Data Losses from Employee Turnover

When an employee leaves a company, more than just a body walks out the door. What may be shocking is how frequently data thefts occur and how employees justify their behavior.

Microsoft To Release Open Source Security App

Open source tool will be available as a free download at the Microsoft Security Engineering Center's Web site

Microsoft Releases Final Internet Explorer 8

Company skipping release candidate 2

Current Web Security Standards Not Enough, Study Finds

Damning assessment of the IT security landscape

Report Bolsters Oracle's Impressive DW Throughput Claims

BI and DW professionals had been anxious to discover just what Oracle's Database Machine brings to the table. A new report bolsters the company's impressive performance-throughput claims.