Enterprise


Stephen Swoyer

Spammers Exploiting the Recession

Spammers are tweaking their messaging to better exploit recession-related fear, uncertainty, and doubt

Imagining Disaster Recovery

A little imagination can be a great thing when it comes to planning for a disaster. The disasters we might encounter as IT managers are no different.

Q&A: Security Breaches and Enterprise Culture

How an enterprise’s culture affects its IT security

Jon Toigo

Discovery Tools Fundamental to Data Management

Effective data management is an idea that has been ignored for far too long.

Stephen Swoyer

Big Iron Bucks a Trend

Far from transitioning away from Big Iron, customers seem to be doubling down

Modernization: It's All about the Business

Why the common approach to IT modernization will fail in today's economy

Service Delivery: You Can't Manage What You Can't See

Best practices for using network and application baselines to help predict service delivery degradations



Q&A: Getting Virtualization Right

How can IT determine what should be virtualized, then know when the right mix has been achieved?

Q&A: Predictive Fault Management

IT no longer has the luxury of reacting to problems; data centers must now anticipate problems to correct them before they interrupt critical business applications.

Stephen Swoyer

Enterprise Server Segment Takes a Beating

Server sales are down and IT spending is projected to grow at an anemic rate.

Top Three Data Center Trends for 2009

Three innovative enterprise technologies will shape the data center and provide companies better ways to achieve business goals.

Informatica Pushes ILM -- With an Application-focused Twist

With ILM, Informatica says it has the answer for harried data management pros. Analysts caution that Informatica's strategy will take time to gestate.

How to Optimize Scalability for ASP.NET Web Applications

How to keep your Web apps running smoothly when workloads rise.

Everything's Coming up Virtual

In a tough economic climate, IT organizations will look to virtualization to reduce TCO, slash their energy costs, and keep up with competitors

ID Thefts, Damage on the Rise

ID fraud spiked last year by almost a quarter, yet the total amount bilked by ID thieves rose only slightly.

Mainframes: The Gold Standard of Enterprise Computing Platforms

Mainframes offer scalability, availability, security, and compliance, and are energy efficient to boot. No wonder their popularity is growing.

Q&A: Going Green Case Study

Green savings can be substantial. The trick, as one firm found, is to have all employees on board.

Building Block Storage, Part 2

The term SAN is an oxymoron when applied to Fibre Channel fabrics. Fibre Channel is a channel protocol, not a network protocol, so it stands to reason that Fibre Channel cannot be used to build a storage area network.

Stephen Swoyer

IT Pros Absorbing Economic Shock

As interviews with IT pros make clear, IT organizations are responding to the economic crisis in very different ways

Beyond AV Protection with Web Filtering

If you’re looking to breathe extra life into your fleet of PCs and to keep your network as secure as possible, make sure you’re using a secure Web filter.