Despite increased security spending, the number of security breaches also increases. Plus, how Trojan applications have displaced worms and viruses as top threats—and why.
Thanks to immature standards, competing protocols, and nascent products, keeping VoIP secure isn’t easy. Here’s where to start.
IT must acknowledge the importance—and risks—of mobile computing tools and start building processes to protect corporate data.
The cost of distributed complexity—which is also measured in air conditioned BTUs and kilowatts per hour—is about to get even more expensive
How do we manage the combined output of all of the event logs produced by all the available, and frequently used, management tools?
Business intelligence practices—and the data management groups charged with overseeing them—are by no means independent of the enterprise IT main.
Some folks tout an intriguing, if esoteric, use case for EII: as a tool to help prototype the design or expansion of a data warehouse.
It might spell doom and gloom for vendors, but many BI pros think Microsoft’s BI push is good news for Microsoft-centric BI shops
A few weeks ago, Big Blue announced a new commodity data warehouse appliance based on 64-bit Opteron chips from AMD.
MicroStrategy continues to go its own way in the fast-changing BI suite-scape.
Trying to reconcile the technologies and products offered by the storage industry with the actual problems confronting IT can seem like a thankless job.
New anti-spyware functionality highlights the enterprise security question: should you go for best of breed or opt for a security suite?
Best practices to keep mobile and remote users safe
The mainframe is entrenched for the long haul, respondents say
Experts predict imminent SEM market consolidation. The upside: lower software costs, easier usability, and improved efficiency. Even so, users will be faced with a dizzying array of options.
A growing number of mainframe pros are trying to educate their colleagues and C-level executives about the business case for Big Iron.
The full potential of tools to support knowledge work remains unrealized
Businesses need to be agile. An interconnect-driven server architecture may help. Here’s how.
Oracle’s $6 billion acquisition of Siebel was good enough for second place—behind arch-rival SAP—in 2005’s torrid CRM market.
With more than one-third of the Fortune 100 tapping QuickBase for CRM, sales management and project management, Intuit thinks it has a winner on its hands.