Software


Big Blue Drops the Appliance Anchor with Balanced Warehouse

Between the Balanced Warehouse and Dynamic Warehousing, IBM is executing a full-court press in business intelligence.

Competitors Comment on Oracle’s Hyperion Gambit

Holy Paradox, Batman: why prominent BI and PM players say Oracle’s move is actually a good thing.

Appliances, Appliances Everywhere!

Data warehousing appliances again took center stage last week as IBM and Business Objects both made appliance-related announcements.

Just NBOD It

How much would you spend for 2 TB?

IT Dangerously Unprepared for E-Discovery, Survey Shows

A new survey from Fortiva shows the extent that IT is unprepared for e-discovery regulations

Configuration Management: Ecora Auditor Pro and Tripwire Enterprise

Compliance is often a matter of managing change



DB2 9 for z/OS Goes GA

IBM hopes that DB2 9’s performance, manageability, and security enhancements will make it a must-upgrade release

All Agog Over Data Warehousing

IBM last week made a pair of notable moves on the business intelligence front

Third-Parties Augment Mid-Market CRM with Analytics

Visual Mining and Tableau Software are established data viz specialists; both cite a hunger for analytics in the growing SMB CRM space.

Oracle Comes Clean—Sort of

Oracle last week helped put to rest a few of the many questions raised by its $3.3 billion bid for Hyperion.

The Verdict on Vista Security: A Mixed Bag

Symantec Corp.’s Advanced Threat Research team reports that Windows Vista does deliver tangible security improvements—but Vista is still far from invulnerable.

Getting the Real Data about Your Data

SRM is probably the most important investment that storage managers can make, but it’s riddled with problems.

Podcast: Data Center Management Challenges

We sort out the complex range of data center challenges, from compliance issues to new technologies to securing remote users and suggest ways to make the DC manager’s life easier.

Cutting IT Costs with IBM’s MSU Software Licensing

In practice, for some mainframe customers, Big Blue’s MSU technology dividend really does translate into significant cost savings.

The Internal Security Mindset: Getting Your Head in the Game

IT is still largely unprotected from one area of enterprise risk: the insider threat.

LucidEra Touts Rip-and-Don’t-Replace Outsourced BI

Why not outsource your BI infrastructure lock, stock, and smoking-data-warehouse-appliance?