Software


Best of Breed: Have Reports of Its Death Been Greatly Exaggerated?

If the all-in-one BI platform is the thing, why aren’t best-of-breed vendors quaking in their Aeron chairs? Do they know something you don’t?

Business Objects Goes Deep; Its Competitors Go Wide

Depending on how you look at it, Business Objects either threw down a gauntlet or manufactured a heck of a controversy. You decide which.

Oracle’s Action-Packed Fortnight

It was a busy fortnight for Oracle, which completed its acquisition of Siebel, shipped new releases of Application Server 10g and JDeveloper 10g, and announced two new acquisitions, to boot.



Microsoft, Lotus Patch “Highly Critical” Problems

Microsoft patches two highly critical vulnerabilities and corrects a dud patch-installation process, while IBM issues patches for six Lotus Notes problems

Training: Commitment to IT Pros Still Low

Even companies that have embraced next-generation mainframe workloads often give short shrift to the question of training. What gives?

Q&A: Balancing E-Mail Security and Compliance

How quickly can you search and retrieve e-mail and instant messages relevant to a regulatory inquiry or court-ordered discovery process?

Enterprise Grid Computing: The Value of Resource Pooling—A Transportation Analogy (Part 2 of 7)

A great way to understand the power and benefits of grids is to look at the philosophy and two key properties they share with large transportation systems.

Splunk Touts Troubleshooting Rx

How you may be troubleshooting application performance and reliability issues in the loosely coupled application-scape of the future

Imaging: Simple Data Protection in a Complex IT World

Adding an imaging solution to your data-protection strategy can protect you from any type of data or server calamity.