Software


IBM Touts Mainframe Power "Gas Gauge" for Greener Data Centers

Big Blue also plans to publish typical energy consumption data—based on a monthly survey of approximately 1,000 customer machines—for System z9

Oracle Vaults into DW Appliance Fray

How Oracle’s new data warehouse appliance entry complicates things for just about everyone.

Blockbuster Acquisition: SAP Gobbles up Business Objects

What does the deal portend for customers? A mixed bag, analysts say.

Continuing Industry Consolidations Lead to BI Vendor Dichotomy

SAP’s acquisition of Business Objects underscores how BI vendors are splitting into two camps.

Server Virtualization and Storage: Part I

Is server virtualization the answer to storage worst-case scenarios?

Avoiding Five Common Mistakes in RFID Implementations

The three most important attributes of system implementations are behavior, behavior and behavior. We explain why.

Alliance LogAgent for System i Supports Compliance Regulations for Security Log Monitoring, Alerts

Extracts and formats security events for analysis by SIEM software for security breaches



Green IT Begins with Green Data

New site and new resources offer corporate planners a strategic approach to greening their IT operations.

DataDirect Rolls Out Enterprise MySQL Drivers

New driver products facilitate enterprise database deployment and application development

Information Builders Releases Active Dashboards

Portable BI solution enables visualization on mobile devices

Microsoft Gets SaaS-y

Is Microsoft’s come-to-software-as-a-service invitation sincere—or just a token gesture?

RenewData Service Reduces Liability of Backup Tape Data

Backup Tape Liability Management Services helps enterprises minimize costs, risks of storing backup tapes

IBM Busts Out Its Fall SOA Catalog

October brings forth multiple upgrades to products enabling service-oriented architectures.

Web Security Remains Wild and Wooly

Getting into the sandbox might make you more secure

EventTracker Update Improves Log Analysis, Speed Report Generation

Improves scalability for large, geographically dispersed enterprises

CA Unveils Compliance Automation and Governance Management Tool

CA positions GRC Manager as the industry's first portfolio-based solution for IT governance and risk management

Virtualization: Moving Past the Proof-of-Concept Stage

Moving your small virtualization project into full-enterprise use? We'll show you what problems lie ahead and how to avoid them.

MySQL To Optimize Enterprise Server for SAP NetWeaver

Company also announced that SAP will take over the development and support for the MaxDB database

Ipedo Ships Next Version of XIP Data Virtualization Product

New features include support for MySQL 5.0 and incremental caching

What BI Thought Leaders Are Reading

What books have provided inspiration and insight for BI thought leaders?