Features & News


World-Class Companies Spend Less on IT

World-class performance goes hand-in-hand with world-class restraint, at least where IT spending is concerned

Offshore Outsourcing Hits IT Pros Where It Hurts (Part 1 of 3)

Is the offshore trend driving down compensation levels across the IT industry?

Another Voice from the SMI-S Trenches

Was development of the SMI specification by the SNIA usurped by a small group of vendors? A developer provides his real-world experience.

Security Event Management: It Pays to be Proactive

To resist downtime and attacks, many organizations are turning to security event management software, which collects and analyzes information from a variety of devices, PCs, servers, and firewalls, giving security administrators a consolidated view of network security.

Cognos Updates OLAP PowerPlay

Hyperion and Microsoft aren’t the only OLAP vendors worth watching

Security Briefs

Hate sites and corporate liability; weak PDA data protection

Microsoft Delivers New BI Accelerators

Is Microsoft testing the waters as an analytics applications vendor?



Q&A: Stress Testing Your Network Against DoS Attacks

While most companies don’t face worms designed to turn computers against them, denial-of-service attacks remain a problem. How can organizations stress test their network against such attacks? We turned to Alan Newman of Spirent Communications, which manufacturers network stress-testing appliances and simulation software, for some ideas.

IBM's Information Integrator Update Packs 100 New Features

“Masala” to offer search and data-access enhancements, and brings the product closer to being able to manage both structured and unstructured data

Business/IT Alignment: What CIOs Must Do

Is your IT organization battling its users instead of working with them? Here's what CIOs must do to improve IT/business communications.

Careers: Mixing Work with Vacation

For IT pros on vacation, work’s no more than a voice mail, e-mail, or SSH session away

Enterprise Information Integration Finally Arrives

IBM's Masala—its follow-up to DB2 Information Integrator—boats over 100 new features, including automation and data access improvements

SCO: Don’t Call It a Fishing Expedition

Company makes another bid for IBM’s AIX and Dynix source code

Storage Management: It’s All About the Price Tag

Customers say management features for heterogeneous storage should be a "given"—built-in (and free). Vendors say it's an add-on worth paying for. When will vendors wake up?

Case Study: Choosing Outside Help to Meet Security Regulations

Finding just the right provider can be tricky. How one company made its decision.

Case Study: A Single Version of the Financial Truth

For BJ’s Wholesale, Hyperion’s Essbase OLAP server makes for happier—and more productive—end users

Q&A: Actuate—A View From the Top

Actuate's CEO discusses consolidation, integration, and cooperation, and his company's recent successes in the BI marketplace

Protecting Customer Data at the Browser Level

Once information appears in a browser, users can copy or print it as they please. Security managers have a new option for safeguarding such content.

Trillium First to Offer Data Quality Solution for Oracle’s Customer Data Hubs

Address validation for Oracle E-Business Suite 11i.9 now possible, but only on Windows and Unix platforms for now