Software


Getting to Success in Storage Management

Open-source initiatives may not be workable—or even enough. Consider treating disk as inventory instead.

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.

Q&A with Hyperion CTO John Kopcke on SOA, Web Services and Marketing Strategy

As more pundits promote the power of SOA, TDWI asks Hyperion’s chief technical officer how his company is riding the wave.



Partners Revel in SQL Server 2005 Launch

Most of Microsoft’s BI partners have been champing at the bit for some time now. This week they got a chance to strut their stuff.

SQL Server 2005 Goes Live

The Microsoft faithful are sure to like what’s in store—but does SQL Server 2005 give DB2 and Oracle users a reason to cross the aisle?

Data Quality on Display at TDWI Orlando; Acquisition of Firstlogic on Hold?

Similarity Systems and Firstlogic have a lot more riding on their new data quality products than first meets the eye.

SymphonyRPM 4.5 Seeks The Nuclear Nexus: BI and BPM

If business intelligence provides the insight that business performance management needs, why not close the loop with one integrated platform? SymphonyRPM 4.5 does just that, say its makers.

Q&A: Natural Disasters Drive Renewed Focus on Backup/Recovery Plans

Best practices for creating your disaster 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

Virtual Patching Secures Web Applications

Discovering Web application vulnerabilities—which account for a staggering majority of all vulnerabilities seen in the wild—is the easy part. Keeping them fixed is another story.

Why Physical Data Protection Isn't Enough

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

Rise of the (Non-)Standard Block-Storage Protocols

Several changes today are opening the door once again to more novel and less standards-based storage protocols.