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IBM Offers New Take on Thin-Client Computing

IBM’s new virtual desktop solution emphasizes a centralized, host-based infrastructure and a lightweight, terminal-esque desktop—and virtualization, too

Forensic Contingency Planning: Where to Start

A forensic readiness program helps a company protect its assets and know when they’ve been compromised.

Taking Control of Data Center Automation

There’s an ugly downside to many of the utility computing technologies on the market today

Access Density: The Cause of Our Storage Woes?

While top administrators are spending money for things they don’t understand, IT professionals fail to see the value in overpriced goods.

Maximizing ITIL Standards: Choosing a CMDB Approach

With so much industry buzz around configuration management databases, why are so few actually in production?

Tableau Touts Its Data Visualization Chops

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.

SAS’ Grid Gambit

Are computational grids still a technology solution in search of a market? Far from it, SAS officials claim.



Information Builders Touts Inroads Into SAP BW—and Beyond

IBI is more aggressively pushing its WebFOCUS suite and iWay connectivity adapters as a platform for enterprise-wide BI.

The Nuclear Nexus: Dashboards Connect BPM and BI

At $1.4 Billion, the business performance management (BPM) space is white hot. What’s that about dashboards?

An Rx for Mainframe Viability

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

Case Study: Furthering Role-Based Access

Securing access in the post-mainframe world

How Data Security Breaches Hit the Bottom Line

A new survey reveals the best way to deal with breaches

TapeLabs: More than Just VTL

VTS: three new (and important) letters in the storage world

Careers: In-Demand IT Skills for 2006

Mainframe professionals need not despair: disaster recovery, system auditing, and enterprise application integration skills or experience are eagerly sought

It’s Gestalt: Hyperion Unveils System 9

Hyperion trumpets its new System 9 suite as the unprecedented combination of its financial performance management capabilities and core business intelligence assets.

Data Visualization: Giving Form and Content to the (Almost) Ineffable

In BI, a picture can be worth a thousand—and sometimes many more—words

Business Objects Preps Revamped BI Suite

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

Preventing Risky Password Practices

Users hate passwords, and it shows.

Top-Flight Companies Pay More, Expect More from IT Talent

World-class companies tend to pay almost one-third more for IT talent, but their turnover rates are also significantly higher.

Regulations Drive Whole-Disk Encryption

With the average public data breach costing $7.5 million to clean up, security managers seek automated hard disk encryption.