Company unveils unified communications portfolio for the enterprise
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's database management system did well on the TPC-E  processing test, but the competition doesn't use that benchmark
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Success or failure in meeting operational performance goals is increasingly dependent on how a business identifies, defines, tracks, and acts upon operational key performance indicators.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Lyza runs completely on the desktop, so there's no administration and minimal IT overhead. The result, officials claim, is an empowered user class.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The revamped Metadata Management XI could be a boon to bilateral integration between SAP and Business Objects environments.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Green alone isn’'t going to sell archive.  Recognition of fundamental data differences must make the case.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Responsible for three times the attacks as second-place source -- China
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
    
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A new survey shows that enterprise networking groups -- not IT security pros -- are usually responsible for day-to-day NAC administration.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Why IT must adopt an information-centric view of security.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Modest salary gains across the board for most management positions, but bonuses still off their peaks
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Issues that efficiency experts wrestled with decades ago -- chiefly inertia, in the form of internal resistance to people and process changes -- still vex business process optimizers today.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    You don't typically think of Big Iron as a locus of Web 2.0 activity -- but IBM is trying to recast it as such 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Strikes down state law that prohibits sending unsolicited e-mail
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    On the Internet, a “mashup” combines applications or data from different sources --sources not originally intended to be used together -- into a single site or page. A data mashup, explains InetSoft’s Byron Igoe in this interview, is much the same -- it allows a user with no BI experience to easily combine and then manipulate disparate data from different sources. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Netezza's new geospatial facility promises to let customers roll out location-aware applications at a "fraction of the cost" of general-purpose RDBMS
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Lean times may drive business and IT together for new speed and new risk.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Infobright shipped its BrightHouse open source data warehouse and announced an investment from Sun Microsystems
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Protecting your data doesn't have to break your budget, thanks to open source options.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    New version focuses on expanded support for Mac hardware, plus networking, security, storage, and application-sharing improvements
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    In a jittery economic climate, companies seem to be hedging their bets when it comes to hiring new IT workers.