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Eliminate Hidden IT Costs in Under 100 Days

Replacing error-prone deployment scripting with intelligent automation can positively impact your IT operations in no more than 100 days.

Open Source Rising

Advocates cite the economic crisis as a potential catalyst for open source adoption. According to new research, that's exactly what's starting to happen, with a statistically significant jump in OSS sales.

Q&A: Innovation and IT

In tough economic times, can IT afford to be innovative?

Easier Physical-to-Virtual Migrations

A guide for transferring user personalities from physical to virtual desktop environments

Enabling a High-Performance Organization

What does it take to achieve a performance culture that drives growth and profitability? We explore the key characteristics an enterprise needs for success.

Twitter Attack May Have Its Origins in Malware

Twitter DoS attack may have originated in Russia or the former Soviet republic of Georgia

Nine Security Patches Expected on Tuesday

Five "critical," four "important" updates



Survey: Cloud Dev Efforts on the Rise

Nearly half over 500 developers surveyed expect to deploy private cloud applications in the coming year

Survey Reveals Security Insights from C-level Executives

CEOs more confident than other C-level executives about breach protection

Calculating Storage Value

Companies need some sort of yardstick for comparing the product offerings of different vendors.

Calculating the Benefits of File Virtualization

IT often reacts to data growth by adding more storage devices. There’s a better way.

IBM Makes Its Pitch for RISC-Unix

IBM’s POWER7 product and services blitz aims to deliver investment protection for customers and keep System p revenue flowing prior to POWER7’s debut.

July DDoS Damage Could Have Been Contained

Far from being exemplary of the state-of-the-art in cyber warfare, July’s DDoS attacks were exemplary of something else: the state-of-the-mundane.

Microsoft Attacks Sage in ERP Market Battle

Microsoft is taking aim at U.K.-based Sage Software in order to grab a greater stake in the enterprise resource planning software market

Analysis: IBM Rediscovers Itself

TDWI Research's Wayne Eckerson examines news from IBM's briefing on Smart Analytics.

Microsoft and Yahoo Agree on Search Deal

Companies finally consummate Internet search advertising-text deal after almost two years of contentious wooing.

Informatica Touts a DI On-Ramp to the Clouds

Informatica's PowerCenter Cloud Edition will support Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) along with Salesforce.com and Web services.

Paradise Lost: Why BI Programs Fall Apart

Three reasons why organizations struggle with BI

Q&A: Enterprise Data Sharing Builds on Data Warehousing

How enterprise data sharing builds on earlier models such as data warehousing and XML standards to enable data sharing at an enterprise level.