IBM last week signed a $400 million contract to design a new on-demand IT infrastructure for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
There's a chance mainframe and Unix administrators will have to deal with the revamped SQL Server whether they want to or not
Big Blue hopes the latest release will entice fence-sitters
The business rules approach is gaining ground—and has proven successful in the most unlikely of environments: long-time mainframe shops.
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
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
A senior IBMer notes how the company has made the mainframe a more affordable proposition for traditional and non-traditional customers alike
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
Utility computing isn’t a rip-and-replace proposition, says CA
For former Tandem and Digital users, it’s been bumpy going for a while now, and it could get bumpier still
These days, Sun has a pronounced bounce in its step—enough to give many Solaris administrators that old late-1990’s feeling again
A new software license gives OpenSolaris a good foundation—even if Sun hasn’t worked out all the legalities of porting CDDL code to Linux
Big Blue’s durable workhorse still has plenty of kick left in it. And customers, for that matter, are increasingly willing to deploy it in support of new workloads
Compuware’s Vantage Analyzer lets customers identify and isolate J2EE performance problems—including troublesome memory leaks
Oracle’s roadmap still leaves some questions unanswered—particularly for J.D. Edwards users. Company spokesmen reiterate support for existing users until at least 2013.
Chip giant Intel last week announced a reorganization of its business units, while HP announced new Itanium solutions and updated software for OpenVMS