Features & News


White Paper: Metadata Repository No Longer Optional

The business community has realized that metadata is not only crucial for the management of IT applications, but is also necessary for effective use by business end users.

How to Stop Bluetooth Insecurities

Bluetooth can be found in newer versions of everything from PDAs to cell phones, but the technology is far from secure. Companies can employ a number of defenses against Bluetooth's risks.

MicroStrategy Unveils Next-Generation Report Services

The combined operational and production reporting suite remedies its reporting shortcomings, integrates with the company's BI suite at an architectural level.

Alert: Microsoft Issues "Critical" Patches

Vulnerabilities found in IE, Word, Excel, FrontPage Server Extensions, and Windows Workstation Service.

IBM and EMC Cooperate on Support and Fast Copy Utilities

It’s not much good introducing a variety of rapid copying software which support disaster recovery on your IBM mainframes if clients keep their key enterprise data on EMC drives that won’t support that copying software.

Salesforce.com Updates Hosted CRM Service—Again

Upgrade is the third this year, and the second upgrade of the salesforce.com service in the last six months. Does the company's in-house development of new features make sense?

Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape: Four Top-Notch Bundles

Cobbling together solutions for disk-to-disk-to-tape may actually drive the cost of Tier 2 disk above the price of solution sets that combine the functionality.



Telecommuting: It Does a Body Good

IT professionals who telecommute rated the importance of the job perk significantly higher than non-telecommuters.

IT Employment and Salary Forecasts Still Gloomy

Indications are that the economy is picking up. Will IT employment and salaries ever follow?

Careers: Mainframe Salaries Barely Keep Pace with Inflation, Benefit Costs

Mainframe systems programmers are being compensated on par with their open systems colleagues, but salaries are barely keeping pace with inflation and health care benefit costs.

Top Ten Mission-Critical Network Management System Functions

Complex enterprise networks require new ways to manage the myriad technology changes we see every day. Simply reacting to change is no longer acceptable. Savvy IT organizations are taking a more proactive, automated approach to change management in order to balance speed with process. This approach ensures that rapid infrastructure change can be accommodated and digested while still delivering on business expectations.

Oracle and Shareholders Gunning for PeopleSoft Refund Deal

PeopleSoft is doing record business, but its poison-pill offer puts an $800 million black hole on its balance sheet

Linux is Ready for the Desktop, Says IBM Speaker

Grid services executive predicts up to 60,000 IBM desktops will run Linux next year.

HP Shows 40 New “Adaptive Enterprise” Products, Buddies Up to SAP

Company says products can cut IT operations costs by 30 percent.

How to Value Storage

Perhaps it is time to begin buying storage on the basis of business value.

Ten Keys to Designing a Successful Business-User Support Strategy

How do you know when your BI project's a success? One measure: users who welcome the BI solution and start using it enthusiastically. Yet so many BI projects fail to meet expectations. We offer ten key steps—from getting the right sponsor and project champion to developing the right training and support—to help ensure your BI project solution is a success.

Best Practices: Audit Without Getting Overwhelmed

How to create and maintain an effective security program through auditing.

Tips for Gramm-Leach-Bliley Compliance

Security vendor Symantec offers best practices for staying in compliance with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.

SAP Enterprise Portal Update Just Stays Competitive

It's been over two years since the last revision, and analysts say the new version simply makes the product competitive. However, Unicode support could be critical to expand SAP's user base.