A surprising number of open source adopters don't have official OSS policies, exposing them to IP infringement or other violations
No matter how strange it sounds, many businesses could actually ramp up their IT spending during the current downturn
Dashboards can shape (or reshape) perceptions of IT and enhance its organizational relationship with business users. Dashboards deliver transparency -- a world of growing, if not lasting, influence in the technology-requirements lexicon.
Performance intelligence represents a new practice for database and application performance management
Big Iron ISVs maintain the mainframe is hot. In the current economic climate, they suggest, it could really sizzle.
What's behind the move to mixing physical and virtualized desktops in an enterprise?
We explore the challenges of capacity planning and how IT can best balance performance and risk in virtualized environments.
How to keep IT systems running during the post-Thanksgiving shopping rush
Azure amounts to Microsoft's "most significant coordinated shift in strategy" since it got come-to-the-Internet religion in 1995.
Many mainframe customers -- perhaps as many as 80 percent -- lease their Big Iron hardware. How will economic uncertainty affect them?
A new survey reveals how IT is trying to automate the application infrastructure.
Networks are vital to your organization. We offer suggestions for moving from reactive to proactive network management.
If SOA, modernization, and Web 2.0 are complementary IT efforts, then why are they so often viewed as separate initiatives?
Proponents say “going green” can help companies save money, but a secondary benefit may be just as important: delaying data center expansion.
We examine how virtualization can benefit developers, the drawbacks of the technology when it comes to testing, and best practices developers can use to exploit the capabilities of virtualization.
The z10 BC isn't as big or brawny as its beefy sibling, but it has lots of power and is priced to move. Call it a mainframe system for the rest of us.
With as much as two-thirds of the average IT budget devoted to fixed costs, trimming expenses is difficult.
Why are hardware and database behemoths focusing so much attention on a segment that -- just 18 months ago -- was a relatively sleepy niche?
Data center managers have their hands full, from compliance costs (including the threat of fines and imprisonment for Sarbanes-Oxley violations) to front-office interference.
Keeping changes under control is vital to keeping business services available.