Features & News


Sun and the Treacherous Storage Market

Sun's Storage 7000 push may lack a crucial component -- vision -- according to one storage analyst.

Storage 2008: Promises Delivered And Postponed

Promises comes and go. A few have morphed into something different.

Open Source Survey Highlights IT Usage, Perceptions, Pitfalls

A surprising number of open source adopters don't have official OSS policies, exposing them to IP infringement or other violations

Will IT Spending Weather the Storm?

No matter how strange it sounds, many businesses could actually ramp up their IT spending during the current downturn

VMware Launches Key Piece of VDI Puzzle

VMware Releases Centerpiece of its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Strategy

Trusted Storage for Enterprise-class Hard Disk Drives, Part 1 of 2

Encryption directly on the storage device provides the simplest and most effective means to obtain a trusted storage system.

Dashboards: The Key to IT Management Transparency

Dashboards can shape (or reshape) perceptions of IT and enhance its organizational relationship with business users. Dashboards deliver transparency -- a world of growing, if not lasting, influence in the technology-requirements lexicon.



IBM Offers Cloud Computing Help

Big Blue announces consulting services that will help organizations assess their cloud-computing options

Researchers Find Vista Kernel Memory Security Bug

Windows Vista may have a potential buffer-overflow security problem

New SQL Server Features Demoed at PASS

New version adds ability to centrally manage applications and resources

SAP Unveils Data Migration Service

SAP and Business Objects tout an all-in-one migration service that's purpose-built for SAP environments.

Q&A: BI and Your Shopping Cart

As the complexity of e-commerce grows and security demands escalate, more companies are turning to ready-made “shopping cart” applications instead of building their own. Such products can use business intelligence and security, among other things, to process e-commerce transactions online.

Analysis: Flexible Text Mining for Science and Industry

Keeping up on trends, warnings, threats, and insights within unstructured text is a daunting task. Scientific researchers have the toughest job of all, and some have turned to flexible text analytics.

With Project Unity, SAS and DataFlux Walk a Fine Line

Project Unity is an ambitious -- and especially fraught -- enterprise for SAS and its DataFlux subsidiary.

Microsoft Unveils Exchange and SharePoint as Services

Two hosted solutions available by annual subscription

Five Steps to Performance Intelligence

Performance intelligence represents a new practice for database and application performance management

Toward a More Manageable Mainframe

Big Iron ISVs maintain the mainframe is hot. In the current economic climate, they suggest, it could really sizzle.

Getting Real About Server Virtualization

Some manufacturers are buying so much of the advertising in magazines that articles critical of certain products never see the light of day.

Q&A: Managing a Heterogeneous Environment of Virtualized and Physical Desktops

What's behind the move to mixing physical and virtualized desktops in an enterprise?