Software


IBM Preps z/VM Overhaul

z/VM 5.3 might still be five months away, but many VM programmers are already licking their lips in anticipation

Beyond the Crudware Complex: Planning Smarter IT Investments

Technology acquisition is a complex, often speculative task. Whether the means is build or buy, long-term value goes unmeasured and unrealized. The result is vaporware—or worse. What's the solution to spending savvy? A little-known framework for IT investment management could provide the answer.

Cyberethics: What the Public and Private Sector Misses

In the first of a two-part series, we talk with Michigan CISO Dan Lohrmann about his experience with security, consolidation, and public- versus private-sector considerations.

The New Bounce in Sun’s Step

From its chip strategy to its datacenter-in-a-box initiative, Sun has been reinvigorated

Microsoft’s PerformancePoint Server Coming into Focus

With PerformancePoint, Microsoft has a plausible reason to crow.

BI Heavies Look to the Mid-Market

For SME firms with limited IT know-how, BI is an especially tough nut to crack. It’s a nut BI players of every stripe desperately want to crack, however.

Goodbye Sunopsis, Hello Coopetition: Oracle Unveils Oracle Data Integrator

Oracle this week announced its first rev of ODI, along with an updated version of the Oracle Secure Enterprise Search tool it announced a year ago.



SOA, Better Value Driving System i Renaissance

Some industry watchers think Big Blue’s midrange workhorse might have finally turned a corner

CA Unveils Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System

As cyberfelons continue to attack simple host-based firewalls, antirust, and antispam measures, IT needs to be increasingly attentive to its endpoint defenses.

New Online Threats for the New Year

What's on SPI Labs' list of top Web application security threats it expects this year?

SOA Finally Living Up to its Hype, Survey Shows

Development efforts are growing, and they’re finishing on time, new research says

Seven Strategies for Compliance Change Management

Driven especially by SOX, companies are turning to change management to provide needed discipline for changes to IT infrastructure and systems. To ensure the integrity of systems storing regulated data, as well as the attendant IT policies and procedures, companies are increasingly adopting change management practices.

Business Process Discovery: The Key to Mainframe Modernization

Business process discovery avoids the risks of traditional business process re-engineering efforts and yields immediate end-user benefits

Vista's Rolling Start is Now Official

The five-year run-up to Windows Vista culminated with the official consumer general availability of Vista and Microsoft Office 2007.