Features & News


Teradata Unleashed?

An independent Teradata will be a nimble competitor, Teradata officials argue -- nimble enough to give appliance competitors a run for the limelight.

The Role of the Enterprise Architect

The enterprise architect wears a multitude of hats to perform a very demanding job.

A Checklist for Process Improvement: Metrics that Matter

A recent study shows what makes the difference between high-performing organizations and those that struggle.

Access Control: 10 Best Practices

Properly implemented, access controls only give employees access to the applications and databases they need to do their jobs. At many regulated organizations, such controls are too often manual, outdated, and largely ineffective. Here's how to overhaul your access control program.

Subcontinental Power Play: IBM Pushes System z in India

Is what's good for IBM's System z sales efforts always good for independent mainframe technologists?

Why NAC Alone Is Not Enough

While a NAC solution blocks infected endpoints from entering the network, what happens when a connected PC becomes non-compliant?



Access Control: 10 Best Practices

Properly implemented, access controls only give employees access to the applications and databases they need to do their jobs. At many regulated organizations, such controls are too often manual, outdated, and largely ineffective. Here's how to overhaul your access control program.

Access Control: 10 Best Practices

Properly implemented, access controls only give employees access to the applications and databases they need to do their jobs. At many regulated organizations, such controls are too often manual, outdated, and largely ineffective. Here's how to overhaul your access control program.

The SOA Frontier: CA Troubleshoots Application Performance Problems

CA pushes Wily SOA Manager as a good prescription for treating application performance issues in SOA environments.

Big Blue Drops the Appliance Anchor with Balanced Warehouse

Between the Balanced Warehouse and Dynamic Warehousing, IBM is executing a full-court press in business intelligence.

Competitors Comment on Oracle’s Hyperion Gambit

Holy Paradox, Batman: why prominent BI and PM players say Oracle’s move is actually a good thing.

Appliances, Appliances Everywhere!

Data warehousing appliances again took center stage last week as IBM and Business Objects both made appliance-related announcements.

Just NBOD It

How much would you spend for 2 TB?

IT Dangerously Unprepared for E-Discovery, Survey Shows

A new survey from Fortiva shows the extent that IT is unprepared for e-discovery regulations

Configuration Management: Ecora Auditor Pro and Tripwire Enterprise

Compliance is often a matter of managing change

DB2 9 for z/OS Goes GA

IBM hopes that DB2 9’s performance, manageability, and security enhancements will make it a must-upgrade release

All Agog Over Data Warehousing

IBM last week made a pair of notable moves on the business intelligence front

Third-Parties Augment Mid-Market CRM with Analytics

Visual Mining and Tableau Software are established data viz specialists; both cite a hunger for analytics in the growing SMB CRM space.