Enterprise


Podcast: Simplifying IT with Standardization

IT standardization is a necessity, but it’s time for a new, non-traditional approach

Podcast: Effective Disaster Recovery

We explore the problems and best practices for managing a remote location for disaster recovery.

Ten Tips for Smarter E-mail Archiving

We offer prudent best practices that minimize risk and are broadly acknowledged with widespread use because they work.

IBM’s Energy Efficiency Smoking Gun

Industry watchers see Big Blue’s mainframe power efficiency push as a signal event in the longstanding scale-up versus scale-out system wars

Best Practices for Solving Problems in Non-z/OS Environments

How problem solving is different in mainframe and non-z/OS environments, and how you can accelerate troubleshooting convergence.

LTO-4 Security: Are Vendors Fibbing or FIPSing?

Marketing can lead IT down a dangerous garden path when it comes to tape encryption standards

Podcast: What Drives Top Performance in Change Management?

When it comes to change management, do ITIL and CMDBs make a difference?



IBM Notches .NET-to-J2EE Integration Accord

Industry analysts say the IBM/Mainsoft accord is a Very Good Thing for users of mixed .NET and J2EE environments

Case Study: A Healthy Sense of Security

While reacting to changes in the market, a health care services company has proactively tightened down security beyond HIPAA and aims for certification on the relatively tough ISO 27001 standard.

Microsoft Makes Peace with Virtualization

Earlier this month Microsoft committed to a very sudden about-face on its virtualization strategy

Compliance and Security, Part 3: Handling the Off Stream

Compliance applies to the entire infrastructure, even the many crannies of heterogeneous environments.

Podcast: Creating a Secure Test Environment

How IT can create test cases from production data

IT on the Hot Seat

If IT organizations don’t start embracing alternative delivery models, they’ll risk being bypassed by the line of business

Preventing NAC Attacks

Industry standards and trusted hardware keep out unauthorized users and equipment

DataCore Has Reason to Celebrate

Once dismissed by the storage industry analyst community, DataCore is enjoying a renaissance in the U.S. market. We explain why.

Own Your Identity: 10 Best Practices for Role-Based Access

Learn the 10 best practices for access management collaboration.

Podcast: Best Practices for Application Integration

There are better ways than cut-and-paste to share data between applications.

Big Blue Gives Mainframe Programming a Rational Retrofit

IBM’s new Rational offerings make it easier for customers to expose COBOL assets as Web services and automatically generate COBOL or Java code

IT Budgets May Suffer in 2008

Economic uncertainty got you down? You’re not alone. Gartner says you need to start thinking now about a potentially tumultuous 2008.

At the Crossroads: Reengineering Storage from the Bottom Up

How much is storage compromised by simply adding more of the same?