Features & News


Security Trends: Spending Set to Surge, Responsibility Shifts Outside IT

Forrester says IT security is in a "renaissance period"

Citrix Releases XenServer 5

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

BMC Announces "Significant" Overhaul of Job Scheduler

In the new version of CONTROL-M, BMC is trumpeting a job rollback and auditing feature, along with virtualization-friendly amenities

Q&A: Securing Mobile Devices

How to handle the special security risks posed by portable devices

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

Privacy Uncertain With New IE8 Feature

Microsoft rebuffs claims that browser feature invades user privacy



IBM, Microsoft, and EMC Team on ECM Interop Spec

Industry specification for content management interoperability services floated by three major players

Novell and Microsoft Roll Out Virtualized Linux Solution

Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise Server verified to run as guest O/S on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

"New" ETL Technologies Challenge "Legacy" Stigma

The data integration suites of today are fast, flexible, and -- in spite of their venerable ETL roots -- far from legacy holdovers, proponents argue

IBM Cognos Unveils Revamped TM1 OLAP Stack

TM1 isn't going anywhere, IBM Cognos maintains -- even if Big Blue hasn't yet ruled out changing its brand.

Q&A: Understanding Enterprise Metadata

Data about data is a company's bread crumb trail to its information, but many enterprises have no management strategy.

Developers Get Glimpse of .NET Framework in the Cloud

Microsoft will offer multiple options for on-premise and online clients, applications, and services

TDWI Audio Report: Semantic and Search Technologies Help BI

One big challenge with predictive analytics, particularly in an industry such as insurance, is working with the large amount of very unstructured data.

Q&A: VM Evolution and Systems Management

System complexity is burdening systems managers. We look at the landscape.

Disgruntled Employees Pose Large Inside Threat

A new survey finds that nearly 9 out of 10 IT employees say they'd steal privileged or confidential information if they knew they were going to be laid-off tomorrow.

With InfoSphere, Big Blue Touts Mainframe-Ready Integration Features

IBM's InfoSphere data integration platform is brimming with mainframe goodies

RAID and the Road to Greener Storage

Ratcheting back on disk power costs via RAID controller management software is one approach to "going green."

Vulnerability Management: Assess, Prioritize, Remediate, Repeat

Results of AberdeenGroup research shed light on best practices in vulnerability management

Server Sales Immune to Economic Sluggishness

Sales of its System z mainframes helped propel IBM to the top of the server market. Unix server sales were also up.