Features & News


SOA, BPM and Model-driven Development: Creating the Perfect IT Storm

BPM is both a management discipline and a technology platform; modeling complements -- and is a critical aspect of -- a larger BPM strategy.

Careers: The Vanishing Vacation

If you want to make the most of your vacation, you should be working in a Big Iron shop.

CA Rolls Out Tape Encryption for Mainframes

Options proliferate for encrypting your z/OS backup tapes

Future Focus of the Web: AJaX All The Way

For a product like WebFocus, support for that most coruscating of new Web app dev paradigms—AJaX—was a foregone conclusion.

Microsoft 'Coopetates' With Hyperion

Just because Microsoft is now a business intelligence player doesn’t mean it can’t "coopetate", so to speak, with the best of them.

EIM: The Method to Business Objects’ Acquisition Madness

EIM strategy takes BO somewhat far afield from its bread-and-butter BI stomping grounds. Analysts say that might be a good thing.

A Season of Disasters: The Signs Are There

Forget the tape versus multi-hop-mirroring battle. Our storage analyst, Jon Toigo, has some suggestions.



Employees Cause Most Security Breaches, Yet Response Lags

What’s the best way to stop users from inadvertently compromising your company’s information security?

Podcast: Situational Application Development

From Wikis to mash-ups, users are taking development into their own hands as never before.

Q&A: Stopping Blended Threats with Multi-Function Security Appliances

Why small and medium-size businesses, and satellite offices, are increasingly adopting multi-function security appliances.

Outsourcing Survey 2006, Part 3: Success Factors in Selecting a Provider

We explore what factors are important when organizations choose their outsourcing partners. Price isn’t the primary consideration.

SOA: The Services Are Out There

Successful service-enablement requires a high degree of visibility into an organization’s IT inner workings.

Believe It: Google Will Change Business Intelligence

Search might not change everything, but—for BI vendors, at least—it has the potential to be hugely transformative, if not disruptive.

Panorama Sez, What, Me Worry?

Panorama officials cite a healthy market for high-end SQL Server BI, and talk up the company’s SAP diversification strategy.

Open Source Business Intelligence: JasperSoft Ups the Ante

JasperSoft last week took its open source BI proposition to the next level, announcing new BI server and analytic components.

Do Disasters Know A Season?

Disaster recovery was once a one-stop proposition. No more.

Web Services Gets SPML 2.0 Boost

New standard specifies XML framework for identity management and provisioning

Podcast: Securing Your IP-Centric Network

In the age of IP standards, what should IT do to secure its network?

Executives Unhappy with Current Security Metrics

Faced with decreased security spending and executives who decry the state of security reporting, security managers need better report-writing skills.

Careers: Experience, Not Certification, Is What Matters

Looking for a new or better job? Certification may not be high on your potential employer's wish list.