Features & News


Son of Tagmastore Targets Sweet Spot in Entry-Level Storage

HDS wants to take the market by storm

With z9, IBM Touts More Than Performance and Scalability

With its new generation of zSeries systems, IBM is shifting its focus beyond best-in-class performance and scalability

Mainframe Legends Guide Virtualization, Partitioning in an "On Demand" World

Partitioning and virtualization bring the mainframe's flexibility to distributed system and serve as the building blocks to utility-based (capacity-on-demand) solutions.

DATAllegro Announces Massive Data Warehouse Appliance

DATAllegro claims the new C25 appliance it announced last week is the lowest price-per-terabyte system on the market

Data Quality/Data Profiling Partnership Results in Buyout

Acquisition could be a winner for all involved

Business Objects Acquisition Signals Performance Management Ambitions

With SRC acquisition, Business Objects is more talkative about its performance management ambitions

You've Been Left a Legacy—Now What? (Part 2 of 2)

IT modernization projects help you deal with old application ghosts before they spook the bottom line. We offer seven best practices for controlling and managing a project



CSI Study Reveals Shifts in Security Threats

The latest Computer Crime and Security Survey shows cybercrime incidents and the cost of security breaches are decreasing, but Web site attacks and thefts of sensitive information are rising quickly.

Is Too Much Anti-Spyware a Bad Thing?

An end user with two real-time anti-spyware engines asks if too much anti-spyware software is a bad thing

File System Virtualization: What War?

Good, better, best? There's no answer in sight when it comes to file system virtualization.

Salary Blues? Don’t Blame Outsourcing

For certain in-demand IT skill sets, premium pay has actually increased

Sticking It Out on MVS

In spite of IBM’s best efforts, a lot of customers continue to run mission-critical applications on older MVS mainframes

Survey Says: BPM Goes Mainstream

BPM has long had an obscure relationship to BI

Microsoft's Challenge: Overcoming Crystal’s Dominance

Many enterprises still show a strong bias for Crystal Reports

Unleashing Marketing Success with Data Infrastructure Performance

Data infrastructure can hamstring your marketing success

Revamped Oracle Database Packs BI Enhancements

XQuery support, .NET support among BI-friendly features

Oops—They’re Doing It Again

First, SMI-S, then Continuous Data Protection, and now ILM: SNIA’s on another meaningless standards-making jag

IT Training: IBM Program Cultivates Talent in College Classrooms

IBM hopes to double the number of participating institutions by the end of 2005

You've Been Left a Legacy—Now What? (Part 1 of 2)

IT modernization projects help you deal with old application ghosts before they spook the bottom line. We examine project analysis and planning issues.

The New Security ROI

It's tough to determine an ROI for security investments. Looking at cost avoidance may be the way to go.