Features & News


5 Tips for Choosing a Managed Service Provider for Your Multivendor Environment

Managed services help enterprises enjoy the benefits of best-of-breed equipment when deploying converged communications.

Cisco Expands UCS Family with OLTP, Data Warehouse Products

Two new hardware comfigurations certified for use with Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Q&A: Benefits and Best Practices of Application Performance Management

What is application performance management, how can it reduce the number of availability incidents, and what best practices can help ensure your APM initiative is a success?

Can Your Data Storage Process Stand Up in Court?

Why you need a defensible data retention and collection process.

Windows Azure Cloud, Devices Get Tech-Ed Spotlight

Microsoft executives' keynote focused on moving to the cloud and managing services and applications in hybrid environments and across multiple devices.



Q&A: Tackling Today's Data Integration Issues

How to get to the root of ETL and data integration issues.

Q&A: Integrating Social Media and BI

We explore the benefits and drawbacks of integrating data from social media with your existing BI investment.

Big Day for Microsoft, Skype says Ballmer

Major milestone to enhance cross-platform communication.

How Identity and Access Intelligence Maximizes Identity and Access Management

Forward-thinking organizations will use identity and access intelligence to extract actionable insights from the IAM process and place them in the hands of business managers.

How BPM Can Transform and Empower Your Enterprise

Three examples demonstrate how self-service in the workplace can help us streamline business operations.

Analysis: The Oracle-Intel-HP Fallout Revisited

IT pros believe Oracle's move has less to do with cost savings and more to do with a strategy to negatively impact the hardware sales of partner/rival HP.

10 Reasons Why Architects and Developers Should Care about Cloud Computing

Cloud computing isn’t just about outsourcing IT resources. We explore ten benefits IT architects and developers will realize by moving to the cloud.

Pair of Security Fixes from Microsoft Due Tuesday

Update expected to address remote code execution problems.

10 Simple Rules for Managing Next-Gen DI

TDWI Research's Philip Russom offers commonsense rules for handling the next generation of data integration.

Crime Data Analysis Helps Swedish Police

Using analytic software to greatly accelerate the process, Swedish police analyzed years of crime reports and found links that helped them arrest a serial shooting suspect who was terrorizing the area.