Workloads are coming back to the mainframe, as BI powerhouse Informatica demonstrated last month
Opsware brings its automation-centric focus to network management
Even though HP, IBM, and Sun have monopolized the utility-computing limelight, Opsware believes it has a trump card up its sleeve
Network outages cost organizations tens of millions of dollars annually
How a prominent hospital was able to increase the productivity of its IT staff and pay for itself all in about two months
Utility computing isn’t a rip-and-replace proposition, says CA
These days, Sun has a pronounced bounce in its step—enough to give many Solaris administrators that old late-1990’s feeling again
BMC says its new performance-monitoring software can help reduce false alerts—and sleep-shattering beeper pages—by almost 100 percent
Big Blue’s durable workhorse still has plenty of kick left in it. And customers, for that matter, are increasingly willing to deploy it in support of new workloads
Novell sees a sizeable upside to Linux on the desktop—and hints that the sun might soon set on Microsoft’s Windows empire
CA touts ongoing initiative to modernize, simplify, and integrate its Unicenter mainframe software line
Managers laud expanding budgets, but say they’re under more pressure to cost-justify new projects and stretch IT dollars
Financial Services is an application-intensive industry uniquely reliant on end-user system availability.
Organizations embrace outsourcing without thinking about how they’re going to manage external applications and services
From next year’s growing (or shrinking) budgets to hot spots for new investment, our survey shows how IT will be spending 2005’s funding.
We examine how to value a portal investment, examining both the tangible and "soft" benefits of the technology. We'll also look at the buy-versus-build debate, and factors to consider in determining a portal's ROI.
As the portal market becomes increasingly more competitive, the vendor choices grow to be even more complex. We discuss the value of an enterprise portal and methods for determining its return on investment.
There’s little agreement about the prospectus for IT hiring—but there’s also little doubt that outsourcing is a hit
IT organizations can take steps to increase their standing with business leaders and grow their IT budgets—but how many are actually doing so?
The ARM standard is designed to help simplify transaction performance monitoring for Web applications