IBM’s new virtual desktop solution emphasizes a centralized, host-based infrastructure and a lightweight, terminal-esque desktop—and virtualization, too
A forensic readiness program helps a company protect its assets and know when they’ve been compromised.
There’s an ugly downside to many of the utility computing technologies on the market today
While top administrators are spending money for things they don’t understand, IT professionals fail to see the value in overpriced goods.
With so much industry buzz around configuration management databases, why are so few actually in production?
Tableau probably isn’t the first name that comes to mind when you think of data visualization software. Tableau on Monday announced version 1.5 of its data viz suite, touting usability and connectivity improvements—such as out-of-the-box support for Microsoft’s SQL Server 2005 database.
Are computational grids still a technology solution in search of a market? Far from it, SAS officials claim.
IBI is more aggressively pushing its WebFOCUS suite and iWay connectivity adapters as a platform for enterprise-wide BI.
At $1.4 Billion, the business performance management (BPM) space is white hot. What’s that about dashboards?
If the mainframe is to remain a viable platform for the next forty years, IBM Corp. may need to do more to address some of its most glaring pain points
Securing access in the post-mainframe world
A new survey reveals the best way to deal with breaches
VTS: three new (and important) letters in the storage world
Mainframe professionals need not despair: disaster recovery, system auditing, and enterprise application integration skills or experience are eagerly sought
Hyperion trumpets its new System 9 suite as the unprecedented combination of its financial performance management capabilities and core business intelligence assets.
In BI, a picture can be worth a thousand—and sometimes many more—words
Sure, Business Objects hopes to take some wind out of the sails of Hyperion’s System 9 release—but there’s more to XI R2 than meets the eye
Users hate passwords, and it shows.
World-class companies tend to pay almost one-third more for IT talent, but their turnover rates are also significantly higher.
With the average public data breach costing $7.5 million to clean up, security managers seek automated hard disk encryption.