Features & News


SQL Server 2008 Hits High Mark, Minus the Competition

Microsoft's database management system did well on the TPC-E processing test, but the competition doesn't use that benchmark

Cisco's UC Platform Signals IBM, Microsoft Tussle

Company unveils unified communications portfolio for the enterprise

A Best-in-Class Approach to Managing Operational KPIs

Success or failure in meeting operational performance goals is increasingly dependent on how a business identifies, defines, tracks, and acts upon operational key performance indicators.

Behind Business Objects' New Metadata Management XI Release

The revamped Metadata Management XI could be a boon to bilateral integration between SAP and Business Objects environments.

Lyza Empowers New Class of BI Consumers

Lyza runs completely on the desktop, so there's no administration and minimal IT overhead. The result, officials claim, is an empowered user class.

The State of Data Archiving

Green alone isn’'t going to sell archive. Recognition of fundamental data differences must make the case.

U.S. Computers Top Botnet Source

Responsible for three times the attacks as second-place source -- China



Survey Sheds Light on Use, Maintenance of Network Access Control

A new survey shows that enterprise networking groups -- not IT security pros -- are usually responsible for day-to-day NAC administration.

Q&A: Taming Data Breaches

Why IT must adopt an information-centric view of security.

Get Ready to Web 2.0-ify Your Mainframe

You don't typically think of Big Iron as a locus of Web 2.0 activity -- but IBM is trying to recast it as such

Enterprise Systems 2008 Salary Survey, Part 2: Management Positions

Modest salary gains across the board for most management positions, but bonuses still off their peaks

Profile: The Original Business Process Optimizer

Issues that efficiency experts wrestled with decades ago -- chiefly inertia, in the form of internal resistance to people and process changes -- still vex business process optimizers today.

Infobright Introduces Open Source Analytic Data Warehouse

Infobright shipped its BrightHouse open source data warehouse and announced an investment from Sun Microsystems

Virginia Supreme Court Rules Against Anti-Spam Law

Strikes down state law that prohibits sending unsolicited e-mail

Analysis: New BI Strategies Entail Collaboration, Pitfalls

Lean times may drive business and IT together for new speed and new risk.

TDWI Audio Report: Mashups, Data, and BI

On the Internet, a “mashup” combines applications or data from different sources --sources not originally intended to be used together -- into a single site or page. A data mashup, explains InetSoft’s Byron Igoe in this interview, is much the same -- it allows a user with no BI experience to easily combine and then manipulate disparate data from different sources.

Netezza Adds Geospatial Features

Netezza's new geospatial facility promises to let customers roll out location-aware applications at a "fraction of the cost" of general-purpose RDBMS

Q&A: Open Source Backup and Data Protection

Protecting your data doesn't have to break your budget, thanks to open source options.

Citrix Releases XenServer 5

Citrix purchased XenSource, XenServer's creator, less than a year ago

Enterprise Systems 2008 Salary Survey, Part 1: Staff Positions

In the first part of our four-part report, we look at compensation growth for professional positions