Features & News


Case Study: Outsourcing Network Management and Security

How one company found an outsourcer able to manage its network equipment and offer cogent security advice

Standards Finally Emerge for Data Center Temperatures

A set of guidelines from an industry-leading organization finally put numbers and measurement techniques to the question—how hot is too hot?

Strategies: Software Tools Help Sell IT to Decision-Makers

Now, more than ever, IT departments are selling themselves to business leaders—and tapping new software tools to help them do it

CA Overhauls Storage Product Line

Company announces new versions of its BrightStor storage products; the venerable Enterprise Backup product is discontinued

Arsenal Digital: A New Take on an Old Strategy

With Arsenal Digital's service, an off-site backup company can set itself up as an electronic vault.

Case Study: Law Firm Isolates Potential Threats

Office uses one-stop monitoring for attacks and vulnerabilities

IBM's Retooled DB2 8.2 Boasts Better BI

Revamped DB2 boasts improved BI, query optimization, and data warehousing features



BI Tools: Where IT's Spending Its Budget

The overall BI tools market grew by 5 percent in 2003—and should post healthy growth through 2008 and beyond

In Brief

New security legislation; the future of e-mail and IM security

Inside Attackers Often Unremarkable, Warns CERT

Most attacks are relatively unsophisticated, planned in advance, conducted during normal business hours, and start from inside the organization. The common driver comes as no surprise: money.

SAS 9, Free Sybase Database Highlight Growth of Linux-based BI

SAS announces 64-bit Linux support; Sybase offers free Linux-ready version of its database

Readers Offer Perspective on Outsourcing's Beneficiaries

Readers raise the possibility that other stakeholders could benefit from outsourcing windfalls—especially CIOs

IBM Delivers Next-Generation DB2 8.2 Database

Big Blue also discloses plans to integrate its DB2 and Informix Dynamix Server product lines in future versions of both products

Partners Hinting IIDEA Will Spread to Large Enterprises

IBM’s new pre-packaged BI bundle is packaged for the small and mid-sized enterprise market—but there are hints that the large enterprise won't be far behind

The Interconnected Dimensions of Grid Storage

Despite its name, grid storage has little or nothing to do with grid technology. But the technology holds promise.

IBM Shores Up Its EII Offerings with Venetica Acquisition

Venetica’s technology will find its way into IBM’s DB2 Information Integrator family of products

IBM/Informatica BI Bundle is Big IIDEA

Pre-packaged hardware, software, and services bundle is designed for the small- to mid-sized enterprise market.

Yankee Group Says Security Outsourcing Set to Explode

Managed security service providers to dominate security market by 2010

In Brief

Most unsolicited e-mail originates in U.S., survey finds; securing storage; name-dropping attacks

Digital Certificates Get Pentagon, Regulatory Boost

Once they seemed doomed, but public key infrastructure is taking off, driven by e-commerce servers, Pentagon requirements, and government regulations.