Software


Cisco's UC Platform Signals IBM, Microsoft Tussle

Company unveils unified communications portfolio for the enterprise

A Best-in-Class Approach to Managing Operational KPIs

Success or failure in meeting operational performance goals is increasingly dependent on how a business identifies, defines, tracks, and acts upon operational key performance indicators.

Behind Business Objects' New Metadata Management XI Release

The revamped Metadata Management XI could be a boon to bilateral integration between SAP and Business Objects environments.

Lyza Empowers New Class of BI Consumers

Lyza runs completely on the desktop, so there's no administration and minimal IT overhead. The result, officials claim, is an empowered user class.

The State of Data Archiving

Green alone isn’'t going to sell archive. Recognition of fundamental data differences must make the case.

Podcast: Cross-Platform Virtualization

There’s more to virtualization that creating multiple servers on a single server.

U.S. Computers Top Botnet Source

Responsible for three times the attacks as second-place source -- China



Survey Sheds Light on Use, Maintenance of Network Access Control

A new survey shows that enterprise networking groups -- not IT security pros -- are usually responsible for day-to-day NAC administration.

Q&A: Taming Data Breaches

Why IT must adopt an information-centric view of security.

Get Ready to Web 2.0-ify Your Mainframe

You don't typically think of Big Iron as a locus of Web 2.0 activity -- but IBM is trying to recast it as such

Enterprise Systems 2008 Salary Survey, Part 2: Management Positions

Modest salary gains across the board for most management positions, but bonuses still off their peaks

Profile: The Original Business Process Optimizer

Issues that efficiency experts wrestled with decades ago -- chiefly inertia, in the form of internal resistance to people and process changes -- still vex business process optimizers today.

PERFMAN 7.2 Released

Features include VMware sprawl report and virtualization planning tool

PlateSpin Forge 2.0 Released

Latest version features SAN integration and workload migration over a WAN

Software AG Announces webMethods Insight

Run-time SOA management product will be available next month

NEC Unveils Scalable 16-CPU Enterprise-class Servers with XEON 7400-Series CPU

Company says Express 5800/A1160 features “unsurpassed consolidation and reliability for Windows data centers”

Palamida Analyzes Open Source Code for Hidden Vulnerabilities

Highlights vulnerabilities in open-source code; new version adds larger knowledge base, pro-active alerts

Infobright Introduces Open Source Analytic Data Warehouse

Infobright shipped its BrightHouse open source data warehouse and announced an investment from Sun Microsystems

Virginia Supreme Court Rules Against Anti-Spam Law

Strikes down state law that prohibits sending unsolicited e-mail