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Q&A: Using Analytic BI to Drive Sales

The former head of Siebel's sales analytics team explains how companies can forecast sales much more accurately using effective analytics.

Coming to Terms with Mainframe Data Access

Sooner or later, data warehousing pros will have to come to terms with the remarkable staying power of the mainframe.

Working Together to Build Your Data Model

Building a data model reveals insight into your organization's data for users and IT alike, but it won't happen unless both groups work as a team.

HP, SAP Team Up for BI

The accord with HP is very similar to a partnership that SAP notched six months ago with Teradata. Its similarity raises questions.

Open Text E-mail Management 10 Enhances Classification to Combat Content Overload

Provides reliable, consistent method that identifies, deletes unimportant or transitory e-mail

IBM's zIIP a Boon to Big Iron Data Management

Big Iron data warehousing might be a pipe dream, but on balance IBM's zIIP engine has provided a bonus for data management in mainframe environments.

Reading the IBM-DoJ Tea Leaves

Does the U.S. Justice Department's inquiry into IBM's activities mean Big Blue is too dominant in the mainframe market?



Q&A: End-to-End Transaction Tracking with Business Transaction Management

In today's environments, business transactions flow through multiple systems. Business transaction management eases your detective work when something goes awry.

Dataguise Tools Help Organizations Find, Mask Sensitive Data

Discovers where sensitive data resides within production and non-production environments, protects it from theft, loss, external breach

Microsoft and Red Hat: Virtualization "Frenemies"

Windows and Linux operating systems will run on each other's virtualization platforms

Fortisphere Solution Helps Enterprises Tame Virtual Environments

New, easy-to-use, enterprise-class solution deploys quickly, improves virtualization service levels and ROI

Nimsoft Extends Visibility into Business Applications Running Internally, Externally

From the data center to the clouds, Nimsoft can monitor cloud platforms, SaaS applications, including those from Rackspace, Amazon, Salesforce.com, and Google

Virtualization’s Impact Beyond Operations

The virtualization environment requires new control policies, processes, and standards, and as these come into place they will require new audit process and procedures.

Embarcadero DB Optimizer 2.0 Improves, Eases SQL Tuning

Visual SQL Tuning diagrams, index analysis features accelerate expert SQL performance decisions

State of Spam: Dramatic Rise in Volume, Size, and Malware

The prevalence of spam-based malware increased dramatically in September, surging by 900 percent.

UAC Changes and Windows 7 Security

What Microsoft's changes to user account control mean for the enterprise

Q&A: Segmentation in a Virtualized Data Center

Why segmentation is important and how policies can be set and enforced in a virtualized data center.

Double-Take Software Updates Centralized Backup, Availability Products

Provides reliable disaster recovery solutions for critical workloads that enhance remote office backup/recovery

Greenplum Introduces Free Greenplum Database Edition for Data Analysts

Single-node Edition is free for production use, enables distributed data analysis

Phony Alerts, Social Engineering Schemes Used to Spread Malware

Users receive phony security warnings from software spread by affiliates competing for prizes, payouts