Software


Microsoft Updates System Center

Updates add support for Microsoft's latest operating systems

HP and Informatica Partner for BI Bundles

Three new offerings combine HP and Informatica products. Is even closer collaboration in their future?

Exadata Update Dramatically Boosts Speed of Data Warehouses, OLTP

Oracle claims that the latest version of Exadata can beat all competitors, including specialty solutions.

Q&A: Venture Capital Investor Sees Solid Future for Cloud BI, DW

Business intelligence delivered via software-as-a-service (SaaS) seems to be on the cusp of a wave of popularity, but it also brings some risks, as the recent demise of SaaS BI company LucidEra indicates. What's the future of SaaS BI and data warehousing in the cloud, and how can companies mitigate the risk?

Sungard Offers Five Cornerstones for Your Disaster Recovery Plan

Business continuity management software vendor offers tips for protecting your assets

Multi-domain Master Data Management

Business-critical data resides in more than one domain, which is why enterprises must manage master data across domains with great care.

Q&A: Staying Ahead of Network Security Issues

Where should IT focus its attention in protecting network assets, what investments offer the best return, and how can IT to avoid common mistakes when developing its security strategy?



Achieving Optimal Database Application Performance: Benchmark Tips and Techniques (Part 3 of 3)

In the last part of our three-part excerpt adapted from The Data Access Handbook, authors John Goodson and Rob Steward conclude their discussion of nine guidelines that will help you create meaningful, useful benchmarks in your own organization.

Disaster Recovery for Pennies on the Dollar

Symform positions itself as the most clever and affordable take on online disaster recovery to date.

Agile Development: Three Hurdles to IT Adoption in the Enterprise

How to overcome the biggest hurdles to agile adoption in Enterprise IT shops.

Intelliden's Network Automation Solution Addresses Mission-Critical Network Management Issues

Intelliden NetNovo enables greater control, management, scalability for network-driven companies

Q&A: Delivering IT as a Service

IT as a service is a shorthand term for many changes enabled by virtualized infrastructure, from how resources are purchased and procured to how they’re managed. Learn how delivering IT as a service can help organizations reduce costs and improve efficiencies.

New IBM Offerings Help Customers Work Smarter, Reduce Costs

Industry-focused initiative to help companies improve individual and business performance

CAST Expands Application Security Checks in Enterprise Software-Quality Tool

CAST platform can now identify sophisticated security vulnerabilities at source-code level, provide insight into risk propagation across enterprise applications

Veryant Updates COBOL Application Modernization Tool

Latest isCOBOL release connects business applications to the cloud and relational databases; offers future flexibility

BlueStripe Software Allows Monitoring, Measuring Application Service Requests In Any Environment

FactFinder 3.0 monitors production business application systems, identifies slowdowns, delivers service request response time performance metrics, hop-by-hop, across entire application systems

Microsoft to IT: Deploy Windows 7 Now

Cites cost benefits as motivator

NEC Updates HYDRAstor for Long-Term Storage Archive

HYDRAstor self-evolving storage enhanced for long-term archive with WORM support, in-flight data encryption; performance increased by 67 percent

All Shook Up: Open Source BI Disrupts the Status Quo

About one-quarter of shops use open source BI tools; even more are evaluating them.

Q&A: How a Column-based Architecture Can Deliver Quick Returns

Companies that improve database infrastructures by moving from a row-based to a column-based architecture can expect immediate improvements in query responses and report generation speed.