Products released this year show vendors and IT how to alleviate common pain points. ESJ's editorial director highlights four areas to focus on in the coming year -- which may provide a strong return on your investment.
Google's previously under-wraps operating system is now available to developers as open source code, the company announced on Thursday.
Rich Internet applications and their brainchild, software-as-a-service, are expensive to build. Today they represent the most challenging development process yet.
In today's environments, business transactions flow through multiple systems. Business transaction management eases your detective work when something goes awry.
Advocates cite the economic crisis as a potential catalyst for open source adoption. According to new research, that's exactly what's starting to happen, with a statistically significant jump in OSS sales.
Application performance management tools help you keep applications running at their best to help IT meet SLAs.
Experts say a recent accord between Fortify and HP augurs the advent of a new approach to vulnerability detection.
Oracle's move shakes up the virtualization status quo
Three features that should guide your choice of an application appliance.
MapReduce can help spread the computational chores between many computers. But what if the technology could be unleashed for all data, not just file-based data processing?
Many shops are pursuing SOA strategies without first identifying the business benefits of doing so.
Mainframe management has come a long way, as the latest fruits of CA's Mainframe 2.0 initiative demonstrate
Sun says its Nehalem product line is “significantly differentiated” from other Xeon 550-based systems in a very crowded market.
“Be prepared” is one key to an expedited software license audit.
Detailed tips and tricks for getting the most out of MySQL in the enterprise
By trumpeting new energy and power-management features, Intel and its partners hope to make a business case for Xeon 5550.
Enterprises prefer Windows XP over Vista by wide margin; over 60 percent of IE users still on version 6
With ILM, Informatica says it has the answer for harried data management pros. Analysts caution that Informatica's strategy will take time to gestate.
How to keep your Web apps running smoothly when workloads rise.
In a tough economic climate, IT organizations will look to virtualization to reduce TCO, slash their energy costs, and keep up with competitors