Features & News


Podcast: Managing Storage Demands

Expect storage demands to spike during the holidays. Here’s how to get control.

Seagull’s BlueZone: Terminal Emulation with an SOA-Friendly Tip

Customers can service-enable terminal-based applications and effectively transform them into full-fledged SOA assets

SOA: It’s the Business that Matters

Those who have built and deployed successful SOA projects know it’s all about meeting business needs.

Behind Oracle’s ETL Power Grab

Officials were mum (or mostly mum) on planned integration between Sunopsis’ ELT assets and Oracle’s own ETL product, Warehouse Builder.

With Demand Red-Hot for Text Analytics, Attensity Expands Suite

Demand for text analytics has been red-hot, fueled by compliance, fraud detection, and other emerging drivers.

In Praise of Dashboard Ubiquity

Effective dashboardization has real and tangible effects -- at least three of them in fact.

Real World Requirements for Unified Threat Management

Three key features IT should look for when shopping for a UTM solution.



Encryption Provides Safety Net for Enterprises

A new encryption solution promises to keep employees honest and reduce the number of enterprise "insiders."

Compuware Delivers Mainframe DB2 Performance Tool

How to get even more oomph out of IBM’s zIIPy new DB2 processor engine

Next-Generation Storage: Low Cost Isn’t Enough

New vendors trumpet products with lower price tags, but if they lock you into a single source, what’s the point?

Mainframe’s Future: IBM to Focus on Ease of Use

IBM is putting its money where its mouth is—spending $100 million over the next five years to make its mainframe systems easier to use

Fundamentals of Application Performance Management

All APM solutions are not created equal.

Actuate Preps Spreadsheet Thoroughbred

Actuate says it has a winner in its e.Spreadsheet 9, announced last week. On this and other accounts, officials say, Actuate isn’t sweating the Microsoft thing.

Dashboard Ho!

How a new breed of dashboards and scorecards will help usher in the convergence of BI and PM.

BI for the Masses? President Signs Transparency Act

You deserve to know where your tax dollars go, don’t you?

The Information Access Times Are a-Changing

How new “information access” applications will help drive growth for the business intelligence (BI), search, and discovery markets.

ITIL to ILM, Part II

ITIL emerged from an effort to establish better coordination and service-level controls over IT infrastructure within the British government. It’s certainly changed since then.

In Offshore Markets, Security Lags, AJaX Leads

Nearly four-fifths of Chinese developers have experienced a security breach of some kind in the last 12 months, while non-U.S. developers are taking the lead with AJaX.

Protecting Remote-Site Data

EdgeSecure makes it easier to protect data stored in remote locations.

How SOA is Driving a New Type of Enterprise Application

Business process applications ensure that enterprise applications match business needs.