Software


Building Storage Shouldn’t Be Trick or Treat

Storage purchasing with an eye toward promised "treats" may ignore the "tricks" that follow.

Why Legacy Databases Are Here to Stay

While industry watchers once encouraged customers to think about transitioning away from pre-relational DMBSes, they’re now backtracking

The Greening of IT: More than a Passing Fad

A vendor’s "greenness" matters to IT executives says research firm IDC

Podcast: Application Modernization Strategies

You don’t have to rewrite or rip-and-replace you legacy apps to make them more useful.

OpenLogic Introduces Enterprise Open-Source Management, Governance Service

Software-as-a-service solution for open-source governance improves policy communication and collaboration

CA Helps Enterprises Get Blackberry Devices under Centralized Control

Self-service and administration tools reduce ownership costs, mitigate compliance and security risks

eIQnetworks Combines GRC Audit Management, Security Information Management to Simplify IT Assurance

Integrated SecureVue platform adds comprehensive audit, network behavior anomaly detection, and 3D visualization to unify security, risk, and audit management



Accellion Releases Virtual Appliance for Secure File Transfer

Enables users to send and receive files in a format that meets strict security, privacy requirements

Special Operations Software Releases Specops Command

New group-policy extension solution extends Windows PowerShell scripting to enterprise desktops and servers in the network

Peer DRS v1.2 Centralizes MS SQL and MS Exchange Replication

Peer DRS extends capabilities for centralized, remote database backups; adds MS Exchange replication

ParAccel Introduces High-Speed Columnar Database for Analytic Processing

Database offers dramatic speed and efficiency, can scale for critical business applications

BMC Lowers Risk, Increases Value of BSM Implementations

BMC Service Management Process Model maps ITIL best practices to business service management solutions

Information Builders Releases Collaboration Tools for Operational Performance Management

WebFOCUS Performance Management Framework improves ease of use

OpenDQ: First Open-Source Data Quality Solution for Structured and Unstructured Data

Solution handles structured and unstructured data, offers comprehensive data extraction, transformation, and loading capabilities

Sentrigo Upgrades Hedgehog Security Software for Oracle Databases

Support for more operating systems, new security features

Best Practices for Buying BI Software

Experts on selecting BI software offer seasoned advice on choosing the right solution.

Business Objects Updates Crystal Reports, Announces IBM Bundle

Notwithstanding its impending acquisition by ERP giant SAP, Business Objects has been extremely busy lately

Informatica’s PowerCenter 8.5 Stresses Real-Time, Collaboration Features

IBM isn’t the only best-of-breed data integration player on the block, as the latest PowerCenter 8.5 release proves

Big Iron Coup: IBM Touts New Mainframe Data Integration Software

Information Server seems tailor-made for Big Blue’s bring-it-all-back-home to System z philosophy -- particularly with respect to data processing workloads.