Performance intelligence represents a new practice for database and application performance management
What's behind the move to mixing physical and virtualized desktops in an enterprise?
Big Iron ISVs maintain the mainframe is hot. In the current economic climate, they suggest, it could really sizzle.
CIOs are increasingly leading change in the enterprise
Seven years to fix Server Message Block problem
Thanks to demand for cutting-edge features such as sentiment extraction, text analytic technology is primed for growth.
IT staff and executive positions are safe for now, Computer Economics study concludes
Politics can provide many valuable lessons. The power of business intelligence, as clearly demonstrated by the TV election coverage, is one of them.
If you don't understand your business processes and don't have talented staff, even best-in-class analytics can't save you.
In the final part of our three-part series, we investigate how organizations are managing the total cost of BI implementations.
An out-of-band security fix from Microsoft put administrators in a familiar but tough spot: potentially damned if they patched and damned if they didn't.
Azure amounts to Microsoft's "most significant coordinated shift in strategy" since it got come-to-the-Internet religion in 1995.
A new survey reveals how IT is trying to automate the application infrastructure.
One "critical," one "important" fix
Networks are vital to your organization. We offer suggestions for moving from reactive to proactive network management.
Many mainframe customers -- perhaps as many as 80 percent -- lease their Big Iron hardware. How will economic uncertainty affect them?
We explore the changing market dynamics that make now the time for mass adoption of hosted BI.
We examine how companies are managing data growth and an often complex data infrastructure in order to drive value from BI tools.
Open source BI vendors believe their value proposition looks even better at a time when buyers are cinching up their purse strings.
A data warehouse appliance integrates software and hardware into a single solution from one vendor. The costs and complexities of integrating systems are making appliances increasingly attractive. According to John Santaferraro, marketing manager for HP’s BI portfolio, industry analysts now recommend customers consider a data warehouse appliance. In this interview, Santaferraro discusses what’s behind that advice and offers tips on selecting an appliance.