Mainframe pros have joined with IBM to tout the virtues of Big Iron-based cloud computing.
How deploying hardware in the data center that runs a centralized security suite that handles multiple security configurations can protect a diverse set of end users.
A surprising number of open source adopters don't have official OSS policies, exposing them to IP infringement or other violations
No matter how strange it sounds, many businesses could actually ramp up their IT spending during the current downturn
Encryption directly on the storage device provides the simplest and most effective means to obtain a trusted storage system.
Dashboards can shape (or reshape) perceptions of IT and enhance its organizational relationship with business users. Dashboards deliver transparency -- a world of growing, if not lasting, influence in the technology-requirements lexicon.
Performance intelligence represents a new practice for database and application performance management
Big Iron ISVs maintain the mainframe is hot. In the current economic climate, they suggest, it could really sizzle.
How to keep IT systems running during the post-Thanksgiving shopping rush
Many mainframe customers -- perhaps as many as 80 percent -- lease their Big Iron hardware. How will economic uncertainty affect them?
A new survey reveals how IT is trying to automate the application infrastructure.
An out-of-band security fix from Microsoft put administrators in a familiar but tough spot: potentially damned if they patched and damned if they didn't.
Networks are vital to your organization. We offer suggestions for moving from reactive to proactive network management.
Proponents say “going green” can help companies save money, but a secondary benefit may be just as important: delaying data center expansion.
Only 10 percent of organizations are actually using effective anti-spam technologies
Endpoints pose security risks to an enterprise, but identifying those endpoints can be IT's biggest challenge.
"Going Green" is about transforming the static, reactive, and largely inert data centers of today into what proponents call a "living organism."
We examine how virtualization can benefit developers, the drawbacks of the technology when it comes to testing, and best practices developers can use to exploit the capabilities of virtualization.
Best practices for managing groups in Active Directory.
With as much as two-thirds of the average IT budget devoted to fixed costs, trimming expenses is difficult.