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.
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.
One benefit of the hierarchical framework for grids introduced last week is that it helps us discover (and provides insight into) key constituencies in a grid ecosystem and its dynamics. Understanding these dynamics is fundamental to building a sound grid strategy.
Instead of embracing training as an investment in a savvy and innovative IT workforce, companies tend to view it as an encumbrance
It’s an in-database, in-memory ROLAP engine that—officials say—could be just the Rx for dashboard-driven analysis.
Data quality specialist sees CDI as an evolutionary extension of bread-and-butter data management.
Some SQL Server shops already expect to replace BI pure play tools with SQL Server’s native BI functionality.
Size is NOT everything … it's all in how you manage your data.
We explore what grids are, their usefulness, and how they should be implemented and deployed.
Organizations do successfully manage people and process changes en route to large scale enterprise transformations. Here’s how.
No, Systems Network Architecture (SNA) isn’t making a comeback. Instead, Nortel’s Secure Network Access (also SNA) deliverable is the latest take on a hot new network security paradigm
The growth in Web Services and service-oriented architectures enables businesses to more quickly and automatically trade information and computing resources. Now it’s up to federated identity management to secure it.
To succeed with knowledge management, organizations should focus on getting better at reinventing the wheel instead of avoiding it.
Increasing numbers of mobile users and poor laptop security management creates a growing risk; a new specification pushes trusted-storage applications
Depending on how you look at it, Business Objects either threw down a gauntlet or manufactured a heck of a controversy. You decide which.
If the all-in-one BI platform is the thing, why aren’t best-of-breed vendors quaking in their Aeron chairs? Do they know something you don’t?
It was a busy fortnight for Oracle, which completed its acquisition of Siebel, shipped new releases of Application Server 10g and JDeveloper 10g, and announced two new acquisitions, to boot.
When the Group Chief Architect for ING talks, TDWI attendees listen.
Microsoft patches two highly critical vulnerabilities and corrects a dud patch-installation process, while IBM issues patches for six Lotus Notes problems
How you may be troubleshooting application performance and reliability issues in the loosely coupled application-scape of the future