The business rules approach is gaining ground—and has proven successful in the most unlikely of environments: long-time mainframe shops.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    ILM is an emerging technology that promises to decrease the size and improve the performance of OLTP databases and data warehouses. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Analysts suggest that an IT spending slowdown is in the offing
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Companies hope to blunt the momentum of storage appliance partners EMC and Dell
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Despite unimpressive results, offshore outsourcing market is growing rapidly.  Even so, plenty of offshore adopters could bring it all back home again
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has had some success in improving the image of its Windows Server 2003 operating system vis-à-vis Linux
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Phantom users and orphaned accounts are widespread in the distributed space, but things are even worse in the mainframe world
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
    
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    There’s a good chance many highly specialized capabilities will find their way into DB2, Information Integrator, and other IBM products
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Big Blue must navigate a torturous path as it competes against, and partners with, Compuware, CA, BMC, and other vendors in the mainframe tools space
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Almost every organization is over-invested in its software assets or paying for software it isn’t using.  The trick is finding the how and the where
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    With hiring is on the upswing, IT professionals once again have clout with potential employers
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A senior IBMer notes how the company has made the mainframe a more affordable proposition for traditional and non-traditional customers alike
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The Ascential acquisition lets IBM address all of its relational database and information integration shortcomings in one fell swoop.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Workloads are coming back to the mainframe, as BI powerhouse Informatica demonstrated last month
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Opsware brings its automation-centric focus to network management
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Even though HP, IBM, and Sun have monopolized the utility-computing limelight, Opsware believes it has a trump card up its sleeve
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    How one hospital tapped DB2 Content Manager to drastically reduce its paper and printing costs—and realized other savings to boot
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    ETL isn’t a data warehousing-only play—companies are increasingly tapping it to support database consolidations and migrations, among other tasks
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Can your employer prevent you from taking a job with another company—even if it isn’t a direct competitor? 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Network outages cost organizations tens of millions of dollars annually