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CICS: The Old Workhorse Keeps on Kicking

Big Blue’s durable workhorse still has plenty of kick left in it. And customers, for that matter, are increasingly willing to deploy it in support of new workloads

Avamar’s Value Now Patently Obvious

Finally, after nearly six years, Avamar Technologies has received the third of the 22 patents it has applied for.

Defection to More-Secure Browsers? Don't Bet On It

With more-secure browser alternatives now available, will IE go by the boards?

Top 10 Data Center Dangers

Many organizations skimp on maintaining health data centers, putting security at risk

SQL Server 2005 Offers Risks, Rewards for BI Vendors

As Microsoft preps its most ambitious business intelligence offering to date—SQL Server 2005—the good relations it enjoys with some long-time BI partners could be at risk

Cognos Continues EU Push

Is Cognos positioning itself to better tackle Business Objects on its own turf?

Top 5 GPO Trouble-Causing Settings

Group Policy settings control almost every aspect of a computer from a central location, but incorrect settings can cause serious problems for clients and servers within the domain. We explain how to avoid problems from these error-prone settings.



HyperRoll, Hyperion Clash—OLAP Wars Revisited

In the age of SCO, patent suits are fraught with peril—especially for end users, who can find themselves simmering in the legal hot seat

In Brief

2005 security growth areas, tricking code to reveal its flaws, and a mobile-phone virus gets legs

Bridging the IT Cultural Divide, Part 2

How the thinking of a Jesuit priest can make a difference in IT/management communication.

Compuware Tool Tackles J2EE Application Performance, Availability Issues

Compuware’s Vantage Analyzer lets customers identify and isolate J2EE performance problems—including troublesome memory leaks

Oracle's Integration Strategy: It's All About "Fusion"

Oracle’s roadmap still leaves some questions unanswered—particularly for J.D. Edwards users. Company spokesmen reiterate support for existing users until at least 2013.

Intel, HP Shake Things Up

Chip giant Intel last week announced a reorganization of its business units, while HP announced new Itanium solutions and updated software for OpenVMS

Revivio's Point-in-Time Mirror Splitting Replacement: A Closer Look

Revivio’s Time Addressable Storage is an important technology that also happens to work.

In Brief

Automated bots crawl Internet for spyware, and the NSA talks about securing Mac OS X installations

Business Objects XI Gets Favorable User Feedback

It’s no silver bullet, but those who have used XI say the product goes a long way to addressing most of their concerns

Sybase, Informatica Partnership Targets Mainframe Data

With as much as 75 percent of corporate data still sitting on the mainframe, Big Iron is a platform few BI vendors can afford to ignore

Case Study: Adopting Inverted Firewalls

How to safeguard an educational network when its users face few rules and resources don’t exist to police them closely

Social Networking: The CRM Trend to Follow

There’s little risk for CRM vendors who wish to get into the social networking game—and the potential upside is enormous

Security Spending Trends for 2005

What's hot in security spending this year