Enterprise


Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape: Four Top-Notch Bundles

Cobbling together solutions for disk-to-disk-to-tape may actually drive the cost of Tier 2 disk above the price of solution sets that combine the functionality.

Telecommuting: It Does a Body Good

IT professionals who telecommute rated the importance of the job perk significantly higher than non-telecommuters.

IT Employment and Salary Forecasts Still Gloomy

Indications are that the economy is picking up. Will IT employment and salaries ever follow?

Careers: Mainframe Salaries Barely Keep Pace with Inflation, Benefit Costs

Mainframe systems programmers are being compensated on par with their open systems colleagues, but salaries are barely keeping pace with inflation and health care benefit costs.

Oracle and Shareholders Gunning for PeopleSoft Refund Deal

PeopleSoft is doing record business, but its poison-pill offer puts an $800 million black hole on its balance sheet

Linux is Ready for the Desktop, Says IBM Speaker

Grid services executive predicts up to 60,000 IBM desktops will run Linux next year.

HP Shows 40 New “Adaptive Enterprise” Products, Buddies Up to SAP

Company says products can cut IT operations costs by 30 percent.



How to Value Storage

Perhaps it is time to begin buying storage on the basis of business value.

Best Practices: Audit Without Getting Overwhelmed

How to create and maintain an effective security program through auditing.

Tips for Gramm-Leach-Bliley Compliance

Security vendor Symantec offers best practices for staying in compliance with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.

Alert: WPA Vulnerable to Dictionary Attack

Wireless networking has a new weakness, according to a new research paper. The problem is with Wi-Fi Protected Access (part of the 802.11i standard) and the way it uses pre-shared keys.

Commentary: Computer Explosion Equals Virus Explosion

China serves as a shining example of the side effects of massive computerization. New users buy computers but don't know how to use them safely.

What’s in Store: Enterprise Reporting and Sarbanes-Oxley

One leading research firm says that enterprises need to actively investigate their reporting solutions and determine whether they comply with three key areas of Sarbanes-Oxley legislation.

Beyond Utility Computing: Gartner's Vision for Data Center Integration

Automation is the real key to real-time infrastructure, and today’s infrastructure is anything but real time. The solution: Gartner analysts tout a technology vision that centers on a dynamic, two-way relationship between IT and business processes. Gartner also identified three technology triggers required to achieve this new business process fusion.

Novell's Acquisition of Big Iron SuSE Leaves Users Cautiously Optimistic

Novell's track record with high-profile acquisitions is spotty, but users we spoke to believe IBM's $50 million investment in Novell is encouraging.

Careers: Health Care, Training Come First for IT Workers

Though 96 percent of techies say they want to work from home at least part time, (according to a techies.com survey), their top priorities are much different. IT workers are influenced much more by f

HP Uses Intel Itanium 2 Processor for Best-Ever Benchmark Results

In a seemingly endless series of leapfrogging announcements, HP reveals record-breaking server performance over IBM

Start-Up Challenges Blades with Low Cost Supercomputer

A new supercomputer with blistering performance of 60Teraflops running on standard Intel x86 processors?

IDC Puts Its Weight Behind Growing IT Recovery

Analyst firm says the waiting is over: IT spending is about to come back into line after two horrible years of IT budget declines.

Jaws 5: Quantum’s MAKO Library

MAKO is a slimmer, more elegant, and more capable implementation of their existing technology that combines several new architectural features that make it worth a look.