Final international votes on the proposed standard will be tallied March 29
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Amazon has next OS versions available for presale
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Agency plans to transfer  technology improvements to private sector
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Organizations moving to physical-IT convergence despite implementation barriers
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Symphony Metreo CEO Tal Ball discusses the challenges today’s companies face in improving the operational effectiveness. Business analysts face huge challenges in making sense of disaggregated bits of information from across the enterprise, but new tools and approaches can help.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Partners say new integration between Cognos 8 and Clementine can help accelerate predictive analytic deployments 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Sypherlink can help automate the identification and mapping of data -- and it has the patents to prove it.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
    
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Increasingly, organizations are turning to IT outsourcing to enhance business outcomes instead of simply to control or reduce costs. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    By using event-driven rules, workload automation can trigger work based on nearly any event, helping IT optimize finite resources so critical workloads run reliably. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft’s Trustworthy Academic Advisory Board has been keeping tabs on security issues -- external as well as internal -- that continue to challenge Microsoft’s developers. We take a look at the board, which is now five years old.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Mobile devices have moved beyond the domain of executives, but the rapid increase in use has been a drain on IT resources.  Here’s how IT can fight back.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    This winter's SHARE conference was a user confab to remember, attracting young and old IT pros alike.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Study finds that one fifth of small businesses use SaaS, doubt the rates of three years ago
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Report says turnaround may be on the horizon
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Ballmer acknowledged frustration with the acceptance of Windows Vista and the company's failure to routinely upgrade IE
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A Forrester report describes software-as-a-service and open  source solutions as potential agents for change
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    iPhone 2.0 software will include built-in support for Microsoft's Exchange ActiveSync
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Project will allow BEA's Java applications to work within virtual environments created with VMware's tools
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    What separates a "performance" dashboard from its vanilla dashboard brethren?