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. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    How an enterprise’s culture affects its IT security
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Effective data management is an idea that has been ignored for far too long.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Far from transitioning away from Big Iron, customers seem to be doubling down
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft official argues company has made significant progress while defending its right to enforce patents
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Why the common approach to IT modernization will fail in today's economy
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Best practices for using network and application baselines to help predict service delivery degradations 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
    
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    IT security pros prepare for malicious worm
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's FAST strategy took still another turn last month when it announced several revisions to its FAST roadmap
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A new report from AberdeenGroup shows the key role collaboration plays in successful business intelligence
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Major upgrade expands VMware support, Open Storage integration, and Active Directory support
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    With the advent of several explicit end-user-oriented offerings -- including Microsoft's Project Gemini -- workgroup BI is poised for a comeback.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Operational business personnel are the next wave of BI users.  What will it take to extend BI to these users?
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Enterprises prefer Windows XP over Vista by wide margin; over 60 percent of IE users still on version 6
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A new survey by Symantec of 1000 organizations in the U.S. and Europe highlights the rise in security risks and actual damage done
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    When an employee leaves a company, more than just a body walks out the door.  What may be shocking is how frequently data thefts occur and how employees justify their behavior.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Open source tool will be available as a free download at the Microsoft Security Engineering Center's Web site
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Company skipping release candidate 2
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Damning assessment of the IT security landscape
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    BI and DW professionals had been anxious to discover just what Oracle's Database Machine brings to the table.  A new report bolsters the company's impressive performance-throughput claims.