Features & News


Q&A: The Optimized Data Services Model

If you need to provision, protect, migrate, dedupe, encrypt, replicate, recover, and archive data sources, ODS may be just what you’re looking for.

Jon Toigo

Speaking Plainly about Purpose-Built Storage

Resellers should spend more time helping customers to spec out what they want their infrastructure to look like over the next few years.

Removing Admin Rights Dramatically Cuts Vulnerabilities, Study Finds

One of the biggest threats facing your organization is already installed on your desktops: admin rights for end users

Q&A: Best Practices for Access Management

We look at the purpose and best use of groups and roles.

Careers: IT Still Plans to Spend Despite Salary Cuts

Along with IT pay cuts, there's a bona-fide IT spending counter-trend, analysts say, but who will benefit?

Agile and the Fine Art of Gathering Application Requirements

Bloated enterprise systems are taking more time and money without providing what organizations really need. Learn how Agile methods can help.

February's Patch Contains "Critical" IE and Exchange Fixes

Internet Explorer vulnerabilities should be given highest priority, patched first



Computing in the Clouds: Enterprise-Ready by 2015

According to Gartner, cloud computing still has some maturing to do

Top MySQL Officials Leave Sun

Founder, former CEO move on

Four Security Fixes Planned for Patch Tuesday

Two critical, two important patches deal with remote code execution

Niche Performance Management Vendors Thrive Despite Consolidated Market

IBM, Oracle, and SAP grab most of the attention, but a swarm of upstart performance management players helps keep things interesting.

BI for the Small and Mid-size Business

BI tools for small and mid-size businesses can do what the top-tier solutions can, but buyers must first figure out what they really need.

IT Hiring and Salaries Down but Ahead of Other Industries

IT professionals may fare better than people working in other job sectors this year

Q&A: Prebuilt Apps Address BI Complexity

It's no longer sufficient to simply provide people with the ability to get answers. You must give them the right questions to ask.

Aster Touts Deep Analytics, Recoverability

Aster Data must distinguish itself to compete in a teeming DW segment

EMC and Microsoft Push Out Virtualization Partnership

Companies extend collaboration on virtualization, content management, and security

Standing Firm on Security Spending

Why now is not the time to cut security budgets.

Avoiding Downtime in Virtualized Environments

Virtualization can create single points of failure. We show you how to protect yourself.

SHARE Survey Sheds Light on Virtual Trends

IT is moving toward total enterprise virtualization, a strategy that proposes to transform both the practice and the purpose of virtualization.

Q&A: Data Center Consolidation Best Practices

With mergers and acquisitions and the growing need to cut data center costs, data center consolidation is on the minds of many enterprises. We look at the steps IT can take to make for a successful consolidation project.