Big Iron data warehousing might be a pipe dream, but on balance IBM's zIIP engine has provided a bonus for data management in mainframe environments.
Does the U.S. Justice Department's inquiry into IBM's activities mean Big Blue is too dominant in the mainframe market?
In today's environments, business transactions flow through multiple systems. Business transaction management eases your detective work when something goes awry.
The virtualization environment requires new control policies, processes, and standards, and as these come into place they will require new audit process and procedures.
Why segmentation is important and how policies can be set and enforced in a virtualized data center.
Gartner notes that existing energy monitoring and measurement tools are still too immature to be of use to data center retrofitters.
Looking for methodologies that enable you to cost effectively benefit from new technologies? Consider leveraging off-the-shelf technology.
Why service providers must take steps to implement a monitoring strategy that continues monitoring legacy network technologies and establishes the path for converged network monitoring.
Due to macroeconomic conditions, nearly every vendor promotes its products as offering cost savings, but the ROI calculations for IT process automation are overwhelming and simple.
How can you make IT run smoothly with less money while you continue to resolve the daily glitches and problems that must be addressed?
Moving beyond software testing to understand and measure the structural quality of the entire software system is the key to preventing software glitches.
How to get more from your e-mail system.
Getting a handle on your IT servers can be difficult. We explain how one company tackled the problem.
The trouble with Oracle's Exadata v2 pitch, a competitor alleges, is that there just isn't much demand for what Oracle's selling.
In the last part of our three-part excerpt adapted from The Data Access Handbook, authors John Goodson and Rob Steward conclude their discussion of nine guidelines that will help you create meaningful, useful benchmarks in your own organization.
Symform positions itself as the most clever and affordable take on online disaster recovery to date.
IT as a service is a shorthand term for many changes enabled by virtualized infrastructure, from how resources are purchased and procured to how they’re managed. Learn how delivering IT as a service can help organizations reduce costs and improve efficiencies.
Logs must do more than just record the facts
In this second part of our three-part excerpt adapted from The Data Access Handbook, authors John Goodson and Rob Steward begin their discussion of nine guidelines that will help you create meaningful, useful benchmarks in your own organization.
Message queuing stalwarts such as IBM and TIBCO bring decades of messaging processing expertise to the table, but some would-be players, including Informatica, come to CEP from what seems like a tangential trajectory.