You can’t optimize capacity utilization until you understand the data you’re storing.
What IBM should do to prevent their BI market dominance
Don’t let the lack of a name change fool you. Under Vista, Active Directory and Group Policy settings get a substantial makeover, and that has security-policy management, endpoint security, and backwards compatibility implications. Here’s what to expect.
As companies become ever-more reliant on IT, system availability becomes essential. Application performance management tools can help.
Are companies’ current wireless router security practices sufficient? Security policies are too often manually applied, and it shows.
ProClarity’s data visualization capabilities surpass those of most prominent business intelligence pure plays.
Some industry watchers question Oracle’s commitment to BI superpowerdom.
This week, Business Objects unveiled crystalreports.com, its inaugural software-as-a-service entry. Is Crystal Reports On Demand right for you?
A recent about-face from market watcher IDC on the IT spending front highlights the still-fragile state of the IT recovery
The first generation of continuous data protection relied on tape; in today’s networked world, that could be dangerous.
Data storage has moved beyond managing transactions in a database. We explore the changing nature of data, conventional and clustered storage, and the business value of a new class of storage technologies.
IT pros are surprisingly nuanced in their objections to, or support of, offshore outsourcing.
Your responses to our Reader Survey will help us make ESJ a more valuable resource in your IT toolkit.
Are your backup tapes a security risk? After numerous high-profile tape losses, and the resulting notifications to millions of Americans, many companies still don’t encrypt their backup tapes.
Speaking a language spyware purveyors understand: fines and jail time
Readers are on the right wavelength when it comes to their storage concerns.
The largest conference devoted to storage networking wrapped up last week. We learn what’s new and what caught our storage analyst’s eye—plus news of a new disaster recovery summit.
SAP’s understated business intelligence strategy is a study in contrast with that of its chief rival, Oracle.
On the heels of Oracle’s BI Suite announcement, Microsoft shores up its analytic chops by acquiring long-time partner, ProClarity.
Information Builders last month launched its first-ever search tool—WebFOCUS Intelligent Search