Features & News


Separation of Powers: Drawing the Data Viz Divide

What qualities help separate best-of-breed data visualization offerings from their general purpose competitors?

A Seuss-ian View of Storage Security

One of the big puzzles of storage security is how best, architecturally speaking, to deploy the technology. BitArmor answers our questions.

Database Auditing Gets Serious

Why database-auditing software is critical to protecting your company’s assets

CA: Back in the Saddle Again

With SEC matters behind it and new management at the helm, CA seems leaner, unencumbered, and ready to compete full-force.

Embracing Microsoft Vista for Enhanced Network Security

Effective implementation of server and domain isolation requires complete network visibility throughout the OS migration process

Is IBM’s Green IT Push Missing the Point?

Though the mainframe may be cheaper to power and cool, it’s software is significantly more expensive

Business Objects’ Data Integration Coup

Business Objects—the industry’s Accidental Data Integration vendor—continues to flex its muscles.



Tips and Tales of the IT-Business Gulf

You don’t need a roadmap to find the IT-Business Gulf. Just walk down the hall or pick up the phone; someone in an office near you can elaborate.

Server Core: Small Footprint, Big Security

A smaller footprint may reduce security risks in Windows Server 2008

Podcast: SOA Development Challenges

What’s driving SOA’s adoption and how is developing for the technology different from traditional development?

Challenges in the Age of Encryption

IT management will face challenges unless it lays the groundwork for the growing ubiquity of encryption

New ITIL V3 Shifts from Processes to Service Lifecycle

The updated ITIL framework reinforces the importance of a service lifecycle and emphasizes a business-driven, top-down approach and IT/business integration.

Microsoft on the IP Warpath?

Gartner thinks Microsoft isn’t so much attempting to stifle open-source innovation—although that’s one possible upside—as it is to generate more cash flow

HP, IBM Poised to Lock Horns Over Data Warehousing

Companies are on a collision course in the enterprise data warehouse space

Securing Storage, Part II: Encryption is Only a Start

Storage security needs a more systemic view to succeed.

As Right-Time Approaches Real-Time, Data Integration Is Key

At bottom, real-time is a data integration problem: it involves getting fresh data to business users as rapidly as possible.

When Right-Time Isn’t Real-Time Enough

The bottom line: companies need to figure out a "right time" window that’s right for them.

DataDirect Accelerates DB2 for z/OS Performance

New feature lets coders use static SQL for scenarios in which they might otherwise depend on dynamic SQL

The Summer’s First Blockbuster: IBM Unveils POWER6

IBM claims that its new System p p570 offers three times the performance of a comparable Superdome system from HP

Rumors of War Underscore Data Security Issues

Our storage analyst, Jon Toigo, begins a series on data security issues and solutions.