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U.S. Votes for Modified OOXML Standards

Final international votes on the proposed standard will be tallied March 29

Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3 May Arrive This Week

Amazon has next OS versions available for presale

NSA Teams Up with Sun on OpenSolaris Security

Agency plans to transfer technology improvements to private sector

Honeywell Survey Shows Security Convergence Popular but Elusive

Organizations moving to physical-IT convergence despite implementation barriers

TDWI Audio Report: Improving Operational Effectiveness

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.

Cognos/SPSS Coupling Aims to Fast-Track Predictive Analytics

Partners say new integration between Cognos 8 and Clementine can help accelerate predictive analytic deployments

Sypherlink Tackles the Messiest of Data Integration Dilemmas

Sypherlink can help automate the identification and mapping of data -- and it has the patents to prove it.



IT Outsourcing Faces Paradigm Shift

Increasingly, organizations are turning to IT outsourcing to enhance business outcomes instead of simply to control or reduce costs.

Accelerating Agility through Workload Automation

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.

Trustworthy Computing: Examining Trust

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.

Podcast: The Impact of Mobile Devices on Enterprise IT

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.

Mainframe's Rebirth, z10 Buzz Highlight SHARE Conference

This winter's SHARE conference was a user confab to remember, attracting young and old IT pros alike.

SaaS on the Rise in Small-to-Medium Businesses

Study finds that one fifth of small businesses use SaaS, doubt the rates of three years ago

Computer Science Enrollment, Degrees Continue Decline

Report says turnaround may be on the horizon

Ballmer Acknowledges Mistakes, Offers Insights On Roadmap At MIX08

Ballmer acknowledged frustration with the acceptance of Windows Vista and the company's failure to routinely upgrade IE

Enterprise Software Future Profiled in Report

A Forrester report describes software-as-a-service and open source solutions as potential agents for change

Apple To Add Exchange Support to iPhones

iPhone 2.0 software will include built-in support for Microsoft's Exchange ActiveSync

VMware Supports BEA's Effort To Virtualize Java Apps

Project will allow BEA's Java applications to work within virtual environments created with VMware's tools

What Makes a "Performance" Dashboard?

What separates a "performance" dashboard from its vanilla dashboard brethren?