Shops with large mainframe investments tend to double down on Big Iron; small shops, on the other hand, are trying to wean off of them. Call it a case of expansion versus austerity.
"Turn off computers at night" is a simplistic solution to saving energy. For a more efficient approach to lowering your energy costs, consider the benefits of load-adaptive computing technology.
We examine the benefits of I/O virtualization and offer best practices to achieve high-performance I/O.
What you need to know about Hadoop benefits, scalability, and best practices.
The public cloud is still the Wild, Wild West, but shunning the cloud until things become a bit more stable and predictable may not be the smart play.
Social content is rich with information, but integrating it with other enterprise data can leave it isolated and unused. We explore how to wisely integrate the two.
The movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" was released in 1968. Well over 40 years later, we still have a lot of work to do on the space flight front, but natural language processing is almost there.
The evolution of IT automation, how the technology has changed, where it is today, and where it's headed.
SSD will soon be added to your disk and tape storage environment. It's time to start studying and planning for this evolution.
From BYOD to social media, the trends that are keeping security administrators on their toes.
In the right hands, a honeynet can be a powerful weapon in the war against advanced persistent threats. If you're contemplating adding advanced honeynets to your organization's arsenal, here are five things to consider.
These 6 action steps will help you get the most from outsourcing your remote infrastructure management.
U.S. firms are in a holding pattern, at least when it comes to IT hiring -- a departure from the first three months of the year.
SMB customers have a growing appetite for cloud-based security services. It isn't likely to be sated anytime soon. Thanks to a perfect storm of economic and technology trends, SMB consumption of cloud security services is expected to increase sharply over the next five years.
A pair of analysts surveyed how enterprises are using an agile methodology. The facts are interesting; their analysis is downright foolish.
VDI deployments offer benefits beyond simply managing the software installed base and lowering operations costs.
What makes Akka so valuable for building today’s distributed applications?
Bring-your-own-device approaches can be a nightmare for security administrators. Identity-based security can help eliminate risks posed by mobile hardware.
IAI is a new approach to the problem of identifying unauthorized user behavior that augments other types of security products and processes. Here's how it works.
In the 1990s, tape fell out of favor, but on the 60th anniversary of this technology, it's finding a reversal of fortune.