Features & News


Five Steps to Performance Intelligence

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

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?

Toward a More Manageable Mainframe

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

CIO Role Becoming More Strategic, Study Finds

CIOs are increasingly leading change in the enterprise

Microsoft Faced Big Issues in Fixing SMB Hole

Seven years to fix Server Message Block problem

Search and Text Analysis Lead BI Push

Thanks to demand for cutting-edge features such as sentiment extraction, text analytic technology is primed for growth.

No Deep Cuts for IT Spending Seen in 2009

IT staff and executive positions are safe for now, Computer Economics study concludes



TV’s Election Coverage: BI in Action

Politics can provide many valuable lessons. The power of business intelligence, as clearly demonstrated by the TV election coverage, is one of them.

Analytic Insight: It's All About People and Processes

If you don't understand your business processes and don't have talented staff, even best-in-class analytics can't save you.

BI for SMBs, Part 3: Driving Down TCO

In the final part of our three-part series, we investigate how organizations are managing the total cost of BI implementations.

IT's Security Dilemma: To Patch or Not to Patch

An out-of-band security fix from Microsoft put administrators in a familiar but tough spot: potentially damned if they patched and damned if they didn't.

Cloud Computing: Microsoft’s Azure Initiative Adds Risk to Business Model

Azure amounts to Microsoft's "most significant coordinated shift in strategy" since it got come-to-the-Internet religion in 1995.

Q&A: Automating Your Application Infrastructure

A new survey reveals how IT is trying to automate the application infrastructure.

Q&A: Moving to Proactive Network Management

Networks are vital to your organization. We offer suggestions for moving from reactive to proactive network management.

Leasing IT's Mainframe Future -- With an Option to Buy

Many mainframe customers -- perhaps as many as 80 percent -- lease their Big Iron hardware. How will economic uncertainty affect them?

Hosted Business Intelligence -- Why the Time is Right

We explore the changing market dynamics that make now the time for mass adoption of hosted BI.

BI for SMBs, Part 2: Managing Your Data

We examine how companies are managing data growth and an often complex data infrastructure in order to drive value from BI tools.

Is Open Source BI at a Tipping Point?

Open source BI vendors believe their value proposition looks even better at a time when buyers are cinching up their purse strings.

TDWI Audio Report: Data Warehouse Appliances Drawing Interest

A data warehouse appliance integrates software and hardware into a single solution from one vendor. The costs and complexities of integrating systems are making appliances increasingly attractive. According to John Santaferraro, marketing manager for HP’s BI portfolio, industry analysts now recommend customers consider a data warehouse appliance. In this interview, Santaferraro discusses what’s behind that advice and offers tips on selecting an appliance.