Features & News


Managing Software License Disputes: Cooperation or Litigation

What to consider when developing your risk-mitigation strategies

The Infrastructure Strikes Back: Virtualizing Everything Else

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

HP Rolls Out SOA Governance Model

New products and services help organizations deal with complexities of service-oriented architectures

Microsoft Says SQL Server 2008 Will Be Late

New database will RTM in third quarter

Enterprise Software's Strength Shows in Latest Microsoft Earnings

Steady growth in company's server and tools business

Analysis: Behind Sun's MySQL Acquisition

Will MySQL transform Sun into a BI and DW force to be reckoned with?

Bundles of Opportunity

Bundling agreements can be beneficial for both vendors and their customers, who are exposed to more BI functionality. However, there are risks for the customer.



How Network Configuration Management Improves Compliance and Productivity

How implementing a network configuration management strategy and solution can help effectively manage compliance-related tasks and all configuration changes

Sun's MySQL Move: A Win-Win

Most analysts believe the acquisition benefits both companies and is a signature milestone in Sun's long and painstaking trek back to relevancy.

A Closer Look: Oracle Acquires BEA

The move seems to have come out of nowhere. What does it all mean?

Microsoft, Citrix Team Up on Virtualization

Efforts meant to help compete against Vmware

Getting to Green: PG&E Takes Proactive Steps

Is an incentive program the right way to drive increased greenness in storage and server operations?

Podcast: Performance Management, Capacity Planning, and New Technologies

IT has been managing performance and planning for capacity changes forever, but new technologies are posing challenges to the old methods. What is IT doing right and what mistakes are planners still making?

Strongspace's 10-Day Crash Highlights Web Storage Risks

A recent outage focuses attention on document access

Microsoft Opens Up Vista Virtualization

Company also acquires desktop virtualization vendor

Smaller Players Keep Performance Management Products Interesting

Oracle, IBM, and SAP sit atop the performance management heap, but several best-of-breed players are doing their best to keep things interesting

Cognos Delivers Next-Gen BI Suite

IBM's acquisition of Cognos may not change much in the short term, but will it dampen user enthusiasm for the new Cognos 8.3 release?

TDWI Audio Report: BI’s Hot, But Useful Tools Not in Place

In a recent survey, more than 63 percent of IT professionals said business intelligence tools are important to their operations.

Sun To Acquire MySQL for $1 Billion

Move instantly makes Sun a player in the database market dominated by Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft

Oracle Acquires BEA for $7.2 Billion

The culmination of a diligent and thoughtful process, says BEA chairman