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Managing the Data Archives Manager

Can MOM—a manager-of-managers for data archives—really make it all better?

Why Talent Once Again Matters

Organizations want to proactively identify and retain top employee performers before they can be identified and potentially wooed away by rivals.

Big Blue's z9-Centered Information Utopia

IBM's vision puts the mainframe in the center of a distributed application ecosystem that consumes data served up by zIIP workload engines

Fixes from Microsoft and Adobe, Havoc from McAfee

Microsoft released six critical updates for PC and Mac, and Adobe patched Flash. Grabbing headlines, however, was the file-eradication spree triggered by an update to McAfee's antivirus program, causing users to question automatic patches.

Q&A: IT in Denial over Spyware

While many small and medium-size companies fear spyware, they don’t think spyware infections can happen to them. Despite highlighting viruses, worms, and spyware as top network security concerns, many don’t actively combat even one of these problems.

As the BI Industry Churns

The week that was in business intelligence.

SQL Server 2005: The Good, the Bad, and the Lovely

Thanks to five years and more of gestation, many of the business intelligence (BI) facilities Microsoft ships with SQL Server 2005 bear only a facile resemblance to their predecessors. We spoke with SQL pros about the good, the bad, and the lovely qualities of Redmond’s next-gen BI stack.



BIRTh of a Notion

Can the open-source BI Reporting Tool (BIRT, for short) displace more powerful—and costly – third-party offerings?

Bot Networks Hurl More Trojan Code

Bot networks are behind the rise in malicious code aimed at capturing sensitive information. Also, IM attacks decrease during February.

Case Study: Patching the SAFE Federal Credit Union

The need to automate time-consuming, manual patch processes drove one financial institution to adopt patch management software.

Getting Started on Data Management

The only way to solve the seemingly intractable problems of storage management is to do so strategically.

Enterprise Grid Computing: Parallel Distributed Computing (Part 5 of 7)

A core capability of the grid is parallel distributed computation—scaling application performance beyond what is possible with one computer or grid “node.” Unfortunately, most applications today don’t take advantage of parallel computing.

The Mainframe Capacity Conundrum: Getting Better All the Time

What’s not to like about z/Linux and other cheap mainframe workloads?

Careers: CIOs Are Hiring Again

Fully 12 percent of CIOs expect to hire new IT workers in the upcoming quarter

Oracle Searches for Extra-Relational Data

Now that Oracle’s on board, all three market-leading database vendors have articulated enterprise search strategies.

Adios, Itanium: Applix Pushes 64-bit BI for the Rest of Us

This week, Applix unveiled a Windows x64-ready version of its OLAP engine. Pre-release demand, officials claim, was through the roof.

Powers That Be—Hyperion and Teradata Team up for Retail Analytics

Business intelligence powerhouses Hyperion and Teradata last week announced a combined retail analytics solution.

Beware the Ides of March … and Storage Panaceas

None of the popular storage strategies—FC fabric, Big Iron, multi-tiered storage, or storage consolidation—has any intrinsic value, regardless of what a vendor may say.

Courtroom Showdown: SCO Denied

Tardy SCO denied in bid to depose industry heavyweights Intel and Oracle

Destroy, Shred, Disintegrate: Guidelines for Securely Decommissioning Storage

Thanks to improved corporate information security practices, attackers are seeking new methods for accessing sensitive corporate information, putting storage media more at risk than ever. We offer several recommendations for destroying data.