Emerging Tech


Growing Your IT Budget with Communication

IT organizations can take steps to increase their standing with business leaders and grow their IT budgets—but how many are actually doing so?

IBM Touts Mainframe Resurgence

Big Iron was once again in vogue last week as IBM made a raft of new mainframe-related announcements

PeopleSoft Users Resigned to Oracle Takeover

Few users seem excited about PeopleSoft falling into Oracle’s hands—except those who use Oracle’s database software

Q&A: Agile Software Development Maximizes Project Rewards

Using existing development methods, companies end up with software that doesn’t do what they need it to do. Agile software development offers a new mindset and approach to building applications that succeed.

Linux Struts Its Stuff as a Database Platform

Linux-powered databases post strong showings in price and performance benchmarks

SAS Puts a BI Spin on Time-Tested IT Management Practices

New product exploits scorecard analytics to present information in a way that’s intelligible to executive decision-makers.

Strategies: Software Tools Help Sell IT to Decision-Makers

Now, more than ever, IT departments are selling themselves to business leaders—and tapping new software tools to help them do it



Readers Offer Perspective on Outsourcing's Beneficiaries

Readers raise the possibility that other stakeholders could benefit from outsourcing windfalls—especially CIOs

Rx for Corporate Performance: Spend Less on IT, Leave Competitors in the Dust

The gap between top-performing and middling companies is widening. Could some organizations be left permanently behind?

Who Benefits From Outsourcing?

A new report says CEOs do, and disproportionately at that

Big Blue Snaps Up Venetica for Unstructured Content Management

Company’s technology will help extend the capabilities of IBM’s DB2 software for documents, images, digital media, and Web pages

Case Study: A Fresh Perspective on Application Performance

Call-services specialist Rockwell tapped an outside QA specialist to nip potential application performance issues in the bud. It’s a growing trend.

Case Study: zLinux Cuts Costs at Controller's Office

The state of Idaho has tapped a zLinux solution to achieve immediate ROI of nearly half-a-million dollars annually

Mitigating China's Emerging Technology Standards

U.S. firms must shape—or limit the impact of—a range of Chinese technology standards. Here are four strategies to follow.

Itanium: Intel’s Once-and-Future 64-bit King

Even though Intel has embraced 64-bit on the low-end with its new Xeon chips, it hasn’t given up on Itanium

Linux World Recap

Novell, Red Hat, Sun make waves

Seven Principles of Effective RFID Data Management (Part 2 of 2)

In the second article of our two-part series, we look at four additional principles to help you effectively manage your RFID data.

Seven Principles of Effective RFID Data Management (Part 1 of 2)

Instant decision-making on high-volume, high-velocity data streams isn't a new challenge. We examine seven principles to help manage RFID data.

Implementation SLAs: Should You Take the Bait?

SLAs help ensure the timeliness and success of your application implementation, but they're anything but a slam dunk

Careers: Retaining Employees Back in Focus

CIOs talk up employee retention strategies; the return of travel, training, and table tennis