As managing storage is ever more critical, single-instance storage can reduce your storage footprint and save you money.
Logs must do more than just record the facts
In this second part of our three-part excerpt adapted from The Data Access Handbook, authors John Goodson and Rob Steward begin their discussion of nine guidelines that will help you create meaningful, useful benchmarks in your own organization.
Message queuing stalwarts such as IBM and TIBCO bring decades of messaging processing expertise to the table, but some would-be players, including Informatica, come to CEP from what seems like a tangential trajectory.
Management shuffling is not what this company needs.
Big Iron shops have two options to run their Windows applications on System z: emulation via z/Vos or full-blown porting via Mono.
Backup is a necessary evil whose hard costs (including disk, bandwidth, and software) are easy to calculate. Beware these three not-so-obvious costs that can cost IT thousands of dollars.
In this first installment in our three-part excerpt adapted from The Data Access Handbook, authors John Goodson and Rob Steward explain why benchmarks and how your database applications fit into the picture.
Before embarking on a virtualization project, you need two things: a good plan and the best implementation strategy. We offer tips for building both.
If installed capacity is any indication, the mainframe isn’t going anywhere any time soon. Most mainframe shops have a huge MIPS footprint.
Architects understand that governance is essential to SOA success, but they need to get business to understand as well. Here’s how to make it happen.
Improving IT efficiency is a prime driver in these times of tight budgets. Unified Computing can help. We explore what the technology is, what benefits it offers, and where it’s headed.
IBM's new System z Solution Edition blitz may boost mainframe market share, but IT must weigh a lower total cost of ownership with upfront costs.
We look at the biggest mistakes IT makes (and how to avoid them) when outsourcing critical network and data center infrastructure monitoring and management.
If you're looking for a full-time foothold in troubled economic times, part-time work -- particularly in project management -- may be a good start.
If you are a CIO, business analyst, or project manager responsible for getting your enterprise to the cloud, read these tips before diving in.
Virtualization promises to maximize hardware use and lower some IT costs, but is IT ready for the complexity and challenges the technology introduces into the data center?
Replacing error-prone deployment scripting with intelligent automation can positively impact your IT operations in no more than 100 days.
Advocates cite the economic crisis as a potential catalyst for open source adoption. According to new research, that's exactly what's starting to happen, with a statistically significant jump in OSS sales.
In tough economic times, can IT afford to be innovative?