The business rules approach is gaining ground—and has proven successful in the most unlikely of environments: long-time mainframe shops.
ILM is an emerging technology that promises to decrease the size and improve the performance of OLTP databases and data warehouses.
Analysts suggest that an IT spending slowdown is in the offing
Companies hope to blunt the momentum of storage appliance partners EMC and Dell
Despite unimpressive results, offshore outsourcing market is growing rapidly. Even so, plenty of offshore adopters could bring it all back home again
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
There’s a good chance many highly specialized capabilities will find their way into DB2, Information Integrator, and other IBM products
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
Almost every organization is over-invested in its software assets or paying for software it isn’t using. The trick is finding the how and the where
With hiring is on the upswing, IT professionals once again have clout with potential employers
A senior IBMer notes how the company has made the mainframe a more affordable proposition for traditional and non-traditional customers alike
The Ascential acquisition lets IBM address all of its relational database and information integration shortcomings in one fell swoop.
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
ETL isn’t a data warehousing-only play—companies are increasingly tapping it to support database consolidations and migrations, among other tasks
Can your employer prevent you from taking a job with another company—even if it isn’t a direct competitor?
Network outages cost organizations tens of millions of dollars annually