Industry experts identify the pratfalls which can sink even the most solid BI project
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    New Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging service will compete with Google GMail and Microsoft Exchange Online
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Weaknesses in server service mechanisms could allow for remote code execution
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    At its Partners user conference, Teradata announced a new appliance model, showcased the next rev of its database, and hinted at a future SSD appliance
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    As companies move toward more real-time operations, customers, suppliers, and employees are increasingly demanding real-time data. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Information Builders bills InfoAssist as a do-it-yourself or "guided" ad hoc query tool for novice and power users alike
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    How identity resolution technology can help enterprises correct the increasing incident of errors in customer data
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
    
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Best practices for managing groups in Active Directory.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    With as much as two-thirds of the average IT budget devoted to fixed costs, trimming expenses is difficult.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Symantec spent more than half a billion dollars to buy its way into the SaaS e-mail and Web security segments 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    When it comes to uncertain economic times, companies should double-check their internal policies and procedures
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Why are hardware and database behemoths focusing so much attention on a segment that -- just 18 months ago -- was a relatively sleepy niche?
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    New research from Aberdeen shows how Best-in-Class companies are getting the most out of unified threat management technologies and services.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Data center managers have their hands full, from compliance costs (including the threat of fines and imprisonment for Sarbanes-Oxley violations) to front-office interference.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    IDC study depicts a slowing worldwide market for virtualized servers; Microsoft and interoperability may be the hot topics for 2009
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft CEO holds back on the details, predicts 2H 2009 release
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Neither parallelism (ala Oracle) nor parallelism (ala Microsoft) is classically parallel, or massively parallel (like Teradata, Netezza, and others)
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Data warehousing firms aren't worried about the rising competition from Oracle, Microsoft, HP, and others.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    With pervasive BI growing, and barriers to implementation and use dropping, where is BI headed?
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Sustainability measurement is coming to BI tools, but slowly. Though a few vendors have products in development, only one has one for sale that can figure intricate carbon footprints across an enterprise or for a single product.