Software


Enterprise Open Source Thrives

Adopters cite OSS' low-cost licensing, flexibility, and -- crucially -- freedom from a Microsoft lock-in as its most attractive features.

Outsourcing and Employee Retention

How the right software development partner can help to retain your in-house IT team

Trusted Storage for Enterprise-class Hard Disk Drives, Part 2 of 2

Full-disk encryption specifications developed by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), including key management and self-encrypting drives, can keep data safe.

Xangati Releases Application Management 2.0

Application monitoring solution uses Web 2.0 technologies to give companies better visibility into their network's applications

Cloud Computing, Big Iron-Style

Mainframe pros have joined with IBM to tout the virtues of Big Iron-based cloud computing.

First Look: Fedora 10 OS

New release features good functionality plus a pleasant user interface

Heavy Patch Tuesday Expected Tuesday

Windows operating systems and servers, plus Office applications, among the updates



Sun Adds Query Analyzer to MySQL Subscription

MySQL Enterprise Fall 2008 Release Includes Query Analyzer

Linux-Based VDI a Reality

IBM partnership will allow Ubuntu to be used in desktop virtualization architecture

Tidal Releases Intersperse 8.0

Latest release of the monitoring product features performance tracking and the ability to automatically perform corrective procedures

StoredIQ Expands E-Discovery Product to Legacy-Archived Data

Product can now perform data discovery on backup tapes and other "offline" data sources

The Value of BI in a Weak Economy

When times are tight, BI can actually save you money.

BPM and Beyond: The Human Factor of Process Management

How Best-in-Class companies make the most of BPM

Survey Focuses on Security Deficiencies at Small and Midsize Business

Guest access, mobile users, out-of-date software protection highlighted

IDC Report: Dominant DW Vendors Face Challengers

A new study from IDC shows that which companies continue to dominate the data warehousing market and which are enjoying surging growth

Selling BI by the Slice

Mid-market shoppers at the recent Sage Summit Customer Conference wanted to try BI by the slice, and many didn't even call it BI. Vendors' pitches kept that in mind.

Updated Diskeeper 2009 Defrags Faster, Even on Disks with Little Free Space

InvisiTasking updated to keep program from interrupting foreground or operating system processing

Securing Your Enterprise with a Many-to-Many Software Deployment Model

How deploying hardware in the data center that runs a centralized security suite that handles multiple security configurations can protect a diverse set of end users.

Sun and the Treacherous Storage Market

Sun's Storage 7000 push may lack a crucial component -- vision -- according to one storage analyst.