Infrastructure


CRM ROI: What’s in a (Customer) Name?

In today’s compliance-crazy climate, data profiling is all but essential

The Enterprise Year in Review

From acquisitions to outsourcing, it was a very busy year

Changing Times at CA

Does grey knight CA—“the industry’s safety net”—have a new set of priorities?

Sun’s UltraSPARC T1 Redefines the Rules of the Game

UltraSPARC T1 is a marvelous achievement, to be sure—but will its cutting edginess translate into market success?

An Rx for Network Authentication Anarchy

A new appliance acts as a meta-broker to the wild profusion of competing network access control schemes

Careers: Study Shows You're Working Harder than Ever

If you think you’ve got a lot more on your plate these days, you’re probably right

Trouble Brewing Between SAP and Big Blue?

Does IBM’s new master data management pitch take SAP, Oracle, and other enterprise applications vendors out of the loop?



Careers: IT Employment Bucks National Trend

IT has experienced relatively healthy job growth in the U.S. during a period when job growth as a whole remained stagnant

Is SQL Server 2005 an Irresistible Proposition?

For perhaps the first time ever, SQL Server boosters are talking about taking on the other guys’ databases—and winning

Management's IT Experience Increases Company Performance, Study Shows

A new study makes a strong case for placing executives with IT experience at senior levels: a solid increase in a firm's economic performance.

Why Physical Data Protection Isn't Enough

Logical data protection is a vital part of IT's backup/recovery plans

Troubleshooting Application Performance: IT Still Stuck in the Stone Age

Most organizations rely on resource-intensive and manual processes to identify and fix their application-performance woes

Data Archiving vs. Data Backup: A Closer Look

Savvy organizations are embracing data archiving as a means to reduce costs, improve performance, and satisfy compliance requirements

IBM Offers New Take on Thin-Client Computing

IBM’s new virtual desktop solution emphasizes a centralized, host-based infrastructure and a lightweight, terminal-esque desktop—and virtualization, too

Taking Control of Data Center Automation

There’s an ugly downside to many of the utility computing technologies on the market today

An Rx for Mainframe Viability

If the mainframe is to remain a viable platform for the next forty years, IBM Corp. may need to do more to address some of its most glaring pain points

Top-Flight Companies Pay More, Expect More from IT Talent

World-class companies tend to pay almost one-third more for IT talent, but their turnover rates are also significantly higher.

SOA: The Rewrite-vs.-Replace Dilemma

Legacy design approaches complicate things for would-be service-enablers and raise questions about the viability of some mainframe applications

Careers: Big Iron's Catch-22

Are mainframe pros the victims of their platform’s strongest selling points?

IBM’s z9 Stirs Up Mainframe Market

MIPS-wise, the new z9 is among the most flexible mainframe systems IBM has ever developed.