Emerging Tech


Stephen Swoyer

Spam Levels Continue to Surge, MessageLabs Reports

Spam levels surged in May, but technologies such as traffic and connection management helped reduce or rein-in the volume of malicious traffic.

Five Virtualization Best Practices That Can Transform Enterprise IT

To help you meet the challenges of virtualization, we offer five best practices that will transform enterprise IT both operationally and strategically.

Stephen Swoyer

Big Iron in the Clouds, Revisited

The mainframe already embodies a viable proof-of-concept for cloud computing in the enterprise. Is it a cloud platform par excellence?

Jon Toigo

Virtualization: Where's the Business Value?

How did IT ever fall for the vendor's business value proposition for server virtualization?

Best Practices for Selecting and Managing Enterprise Application Appliances

Three features that should guide your choice of an application appliance.

Q&A: Harnessing Computing Power for Data Analysis with MapReduce

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?

Stephen Swoyer

Enterprise Architecture in a Tough Economy

Gartner offers an prescription for enterprise architecture ROI



Stephen Swoyer

What Downturn? IT Shops Still Spending

Seventy percent of CIOs say they'll spend money on new or expanded IT initiatives this year, including information security, virtualization, and data center efficiency.

Stephen Swoyer

Study Highlights SOA "Herd" Mentality

Many shops are pursuing SOA strategies without first identifying the business benefits of doing so.

Seven Ways to Tackle Unexpected Server I/O Costs

Why the solution to I/O sprawl is I/O virtualization.

Stephen Swoyer

CA Mainframe Manager Gets Usability, Feature Boost

Mainframe management has come a long way, as the latest fruits of CA's Mainframe 2.0 initiative demonstrate

Stephen Swoyer

Outsourcing: Smaller, Selective Deals This Year

Although outsourcing revenues increased by nearly 50 percent last year, experts predict slowing demand for outsourcing services in the first half of this year.

Jon Toigo

Virtualization: Spin or Wobble? (Part 1 of 3)

When you look closer, the spin around VMware benefits starts to wobble quickly when you do the math.

Stephen Swoyer

A Tempest in a Twitter

Unless you employ appropriate safeguards, a minor Twitter problem could easily turn into a tempest.

Tape: The Zombie Technology

Tape plays a continuing role in meeting the storage challenge.

Q&A: The Drive to Unified Information Access

Imagine querying all enterprise information with the precision of SQL and the fuzziness of search. That’s the promise of unified information access.

Stephen Swoyer

Sun Unveils New Xeon-based “Open Network” Servers

Sun says its Nehalem product line is “significantly differentiated” from other Xeon 550-based systems in a very crowded market.

Stephen Swoyer

Phishing Attacks Surge

Phishing activity increased by almost 40 percent in a 12 month period.

Q&A: Surviving Software License Audits

“Be prepared” is one key to an expedited software license audit.