Emerging Tech


Trends: End-User Application Development using Business Rules

The business rules approach is gaining ground—and has proven successful in the most unlikely of environments: long-time mainframe shops.

Managing the Information Lifecycle to Increase Database Performance

ILM is an emerging technology that promises to decrease the size and improve the performance of OLTP databases and data warehouses.

Careers: Job Recovery Reverses Course

Analysts suggest that an IT spending slowdown is in the offing

Taking the Fight to EMC: IBM and NetApp Partner for NAS, iSCSI

Companies hope to blunt the momentum of storage appliance partners EMC and Dell

Offshore Outsourcing: Success and Savings Still Elusive

Despite unimpressive results, offshore outsourcing market is growing rapidly. Even so, plenty of offshore adopters could bring it all back home again

Windows Gains Ground on Linux

Microsoft has had some success in improving the image of its Windows Server 2003 operating system vis-à-vis Linux

Trends: Identity and Access Management Needed on Mainframes, Too

Phantom users and orphaned accounts are widespread in the distributed space, but things are even worse in the mainframe world



Q&A: Ascential Acquisition a Boon for Big Blue’s Customers

There’s a good chance many highly specialized capabilities will find their way into DB2, Information Integrator, and other IBM products

IBM Walks Fine Line in Competing with Partners

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

Q&A: The Software Licensing Lessons Vendors Don’t Want You to Learn

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

Careers: Business Growth Fueling Stronger IT Job Market

With hiring is on the upswing, IT professionals once again have clout with potential employers

Q&A: Big Iron’s Big Resurgence No Accident

A senior IBMer notes how the company has made the mainframe a more affordable proposition for traditional and non-traditional customers alike

Big Blue Leapfrogs to Head of Data Integration Pack

The Ascential acquisition lets IBM address all of its relational database and information integration shortcomings in one fell swoop.

Workloads Return Home to the Mainframe

Workloads are coming back to the mainframe, as BI powerhouse Informatica demonstrated last month

Opsware: Taking the Pain Out of Network Management

Opsware brings its automation-centric focus to network management

Q&A: Opsware’s Utility-Computing Trump Card

Even though HP, IBM, and Sun have monopolized the utility-computing limelight, Opsware believes it has a trump card up its sleeve

Case Study: Rescuing a Hospital Drowning in Paper

How one hospital tapped DB2 Content Manager to drastically reduce its paper and printing costs—and realized other savings to boot

ETL Increasingly Used Outside Data Warehouses

ETL isn’t a data warehousing-only play—companies are increasingly tapping it to support database consolidations and migrations, among other tasks

Careers: How "Inevitable Misappropriation" May Limit Job Mobility

Can your employer prevent you from taking a job with another company—even if it isn’t a direct competitor?

Network Downtime: The Silent Killer

Network outages cost organizations tens of millions of dollars annually