Features & News


Business Leaders Tell IT: You Must Deliver

As never before, IT is facing pressure to deliver products and services that help differentiate the business from its competitors.

Rogue Trader Highlights Need to Mind Your Controls

In an age of Sarbanes-Oxley and similar regulatory measures, how could a single rogue trader have racked up more than $7 billion in losses?

Podcast: Securing the Enterprise from Employee Activities

After you’ve protected your environment from outside threats such as viruses, it’s time to turn your attention inward and protect against threats from your employees themselves.

Using Virtualization for Business Continuity and Availability

Many virtualization strategies can enable business continuity. The right solution depends on your environment and where you want to take it in the future.

IBM, Sun Make Ambitious "Virtual" Announcements

Virtualization took center stage again last week, as both IBM and Sun unveiled ambitious new virtual offerings

Classify and Move: Getting Stored Data in Order

The B-tree is an endangered species … .thank goodness.

Microsoft Makes Blockbuster Bid for Yahoo

$44.6 billion deal proposed



Lessons From a Yahoo Scrum Rollout

Yahoo's top coach in Agile practices describes the process, and how it speeds up Web application delivery

Mainframe Remains Central to Data Integration Efforts

New survey shows that integration still done with hand-coded scripting

Use of Live Customer Data in Application Testing Still Widespread

Survey shows security is an afterthought when live data is used in business application testing

Free Tool Strips Vista to Bare Bones

Lets users remove feature bloat, and then some

Key Trends Driving Real-Time Data Access

We look at the important drivers behind the demand for real-time data this year

Microsoft Aims To Boost Security With New APIs for Developers

APIs will make security settings easier for developers, particularly for solutions running on Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, and Windows XP SP3

TDWI Audio Report: BI/Data Integration Synergy

As business intelligence grows in importance within corporations, so does the importance of data integration (DI) -- essentially, the process of combining data from different sources into a single unified view for users. An historic linkage between BI and DI has grown in the last three to five years as enterprises focus more on data quality, and on the need to share data across the enterprise.

Q&A: Data Warehousing and the Appliance Model

Datupia's Foster Hinshaw discusses the rapidly evolving state of the data warehousing market and the benefits and drawbacks of the appliance model

Enterprise Security: The Human Factor

Why organizations need to get serious about security awareness training

CA Reinvigorating its Mainframe Software Line

CA is preparing an innovation infusion for its legacy mainframe software products

The Infrastructure Strikes Back: Virtualizing Everything Else

If server virtualization dominated news in 2007, this year expect a focus on infrastructure virtualization.

Clearview and Microsoft: An ECM Bright Spot

Clearview may the best value-add to work with MS SharePoint Server

Eight B2B Integration Resolutions for 2008

We offer key integration resolutions that will help you build true connections with customers and trading partners.