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Oracle Comes Clean—Sort of

Oracle last week helped put to rest a few of the many questions raised by its $3.3 billion bid for Hyperion.

The Verdict on Vista Security: A Mixed Bag

Symantec Corp.’s Advanced Threat Research team reports that Windows Vista does deliver tangible security improvements—but Vista is still far from invulnerable.

Getting the Real Data about Your Data

SRM is probably the most important investment that storage managers can make, but it’s riddled with problems.

Podcast: Data Center Management Challenges

We sort out the complex range of data center challenges, from compliance issues to new technologies to securing remote users and suggest ways to make the DC manager’s life easier.

Cutting IT Costs with IBM’s MSU Software Licensing

In practice, for some mainframe customers, Big Blue’s MSU technology dividend really does translate into significant cost savings.

The Internal Security Mindset: Getting Your Head in the Game

IT is still largely unprotected from one area of enterprise risk: the insider threat.

LucidEra Touts Rip-and-Don’t-Replace Outsourced BI

Why not outsource your BI infrastructure lock, stock, and smoking-data-warehouse-appliance?



Microsoft Unveils Revamped Budgeting, Planning Tool

Microsoft expects to fold Forecaster into the same Office Business Applications group that develops Performance Point Server.

SWOT: Oracle to Acquire Hyperion Solutions

Oracle’s announced intention to acquire Hyperion Solutions leaves many users, analysts, competitors and partners wondering: what’s next?

Analysis: Behind Oracle’s $3.3 Billion Bid for Hyperion

There’s a lot of overlap between Oracle and Hyperion, but there’s at least one segment where there isn’t much overlap -- BPM.

Hosting E-Mail in a Storage Cluster

The need to build resilient low-cost infrastructure for hosting e-mail archives is growing fast.

Network Admission Control: Balancing Security and the User Experience

Two strategies and a dozen tips help you improve your user’s NAC

Big Blue Still Sitting Pretty Atop Server Market Heap

IBM Corp. is server market king—thanks to the strong performance of Big Blue’s System x, System p, and System z platforms

Microsoft Forefront: Strictly Business

Microsoft doesn’t put enough edge into its security products, yet.

For Job Security, Go with Z

zNextGen professionals say they’re drawn to Big Iron for the same reason as many older mainframes: staying power

A Tipping Point Prediction: More Predictive Analytics

From every direction, predictive analytics will prevail and pervade.

BI Decision-Making: The Human Factor

TDWI Keynote speakers Jonathan Wu and Jon Koomey focused on the ways in which human behaviors can drive, or impede, BI decision-making.

SAP Acquires Pilot for Strategy Management

SAP AG week moved to close the loop on business performance management with its acquisition of strategy management specialist Pilot Software.

TDWI Conference Wrap: Focus on the Human Side

The human side of BI poked its head over the data last week at TDWI’s World Conference in Las Vegas.

The Appliance Tipping Point: Commoditization

DATAllegro last week unveiled an off-the-shelf data warehouse appliance based on hardware from partners Cisco, Dell, and EMC.