Software


Can Business Intelligence Take 64-bit Computing Mainstream?

With 64-bit hardware increasingly pervasive and 64-bit operating systems priced to move, too, it’s only a matter of time, isn’t it?

What Is Business Intelligence? Vendors Voice Their Views

It shouldn't surprise anyone that software vendors overwhelmingly have self-serving takes on the state of BI today.

iWay Gets a Retrofit for SOA

Even an integration jack-of-all-trades can use a new service-enabled trick or two.

Maximizing the Benefits of Capacity Planning

IT is the epicenter of your company's nervous system. Capacity planning can keep it healthy. We examine planning methods and highlight their pitfalls.



Corporate E-Mail Security: Compliance Swamps IT Staff

IT managers look to better tools, including self-service retrieval for employees

A Dirty Little Secret: The Industry and iSCSI

Disinformation in the iSCSI vs. Fibre Channel debates is stronger than ever

State of the Mainframe, Part II: The Capacity Conundrum

Some mainframe pros say that next-generation workloads (such as zLinux and J2EE) point the way to false destinies

Careers: Outsource-Proof Jobs

Some IT jobs are more outsourcing-resistant than others

Beyond Firewalls and IPS: Monitoring Network Behavior

Large enterprises are deploying network behavior analysis tools to supplement firewalls and IPS to block unknown types of attacks and catch stealthy attacks in progress.

Heterogeneous Snapshots Have Arrived

Will customers be able to establish real storage tiers and perform migrations of data per policy to enable 90 percent capacity allocation efficiency with a new arrival on the array horizon … and say goodbye to proprietary products?

A Business Intelligence Stunner: Informatica Makes Its Move

With the acquisition last week of data quality specialist Similarity Systems, Informatica bucked the expectations of several industry watchers.