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Vista SP1 Upgrade: Proceed with Caution, Analysts Urge

Compatibility problems aren't about technology, experts say

MDM: Background, Benefits, and Best Practices

Highlights from a keynote address at TDWI’s MDM Insight conference

Hadoop: Java-Based Framework Can Run Data-Intensive Apps on Clusters

First Apache Hadoop summit is standing-room-only event

TDWI Audio Report: BI/Open Source Synergies

Actuate’s Rich Guth discusses an annual survey of enterprise users that shows a high acceptance of open source BI in the enterprise. Guth also shares tips on when and where to consider open source BI for your enterprise, if you haven’t already.

Careers: IT Hiring Outlook Bright, in Spite of Economic Uncertainty

One fifth of lLarge companies expect to increase IT hiring in Q2

Grocery Chain’s Data Breach Extends Security Debate

Over 1,800 known cases of fraud result from data breach

Data Management and the Greening of IT

Going green isn’t just about using virtualization technologies or buying more energy efficient hardware.



Xiotech on the Right Path

Ask a dozen executives about the state of storage resource management and you’ll get ten different answers, but one company -- Xiotech -- has shown the way to true management nirvana with its Web services-based management architecture.

Five Steps to Successful IT Process Automation

Follow these five simple steps to make sure you’re ready to implement IT process automation

Report Urges IT: It’s Time to Guard against the "Millennial" Threat

New IT consumers are more comfortable with, and knowledgeable about, technology, and that’s a problem

z10: Data Center in a Box?

For many large mainframe customers, the idea of a mainframe-centric -- or mainframe-exclusive -- "enterprise data center" makes a lot of sense

Perspective: Use Sticky Urban Myths to Sell BI

How did one Las Vegas keynote speaker make listeners pick up a handout to read along? Simple techniques can make all the difference.

Teradata and Oracle Partner for Enterprise Analytics

Partnership will result in improved integration between Teradata Warehouse and Oracle's BI assets

With Reporting Services, Microsoft Slowly but Surely Pushes into the Enterprise

An updated Reporting Services may finally be worth considering

Fibre Channel Over Ethernet: The Promised SAN?

Will FCoE, which uses the same cabling as the next generation LAN, rapidly become the storage protocol of choice?

Podcast: Securing Mobile Devices

Now that mobile devices are so ubiquitous among enterprise workers, IT must face up the security challenges they pose.

Careers: IT Talent Still Matters

Organizations will continue to place a premium on acquiring, and keeping top IT talent even during a recession

Web 2.0 Pushes Need for Defensive Application Development

The Web 2.0 paradigm shift is fraught with both promise and danger

Analysis: System z10 Drastically Alters the Mainframe Market

Like the z9 EC and z9 BC systems that preceded it, IBM's System z10 drastically alters the rules of the mainframe game.

Keeping SOA Under Control

Runtime governance is the key to healthy SOA applications