Software


Survey Reaffirms Mainframe's Staying Power

IT shops are holding steady on the mainframe. A new survey from BMC also examines how IT shops are employing systems and how workloads are growing.

Adobe Updates LiveCycle Enterprise Suite

Enables organizations to deliver contextual content, applications across screens and devices

CAStor 5.0 Object Storage Provides Optimized Utilization, Performance, Administration

Release adds support for named objects, multi-tenancy, dynamic caching, and seamless remote data replication.

PreEmptive Solutions’ Exception Analytics Provides Views into Application Stability

Tools improve software quality, increase user satisfaction, reduce support expense

Clickstream Data Warehouse: Bleeding Edge or Mainstream?

The ability to know what people want by observing how they think as you follow their clickstream data is a powerful way to support business decisions.

Pervasive Analytics Revisited

A new study suggests that one key to driving analytic uptake is to put analytic technologies into the hands (or at the fingertips) of more users.

Reading the IBM/Netezza Tea Leaves

Few industry watchers foresee much in the way of serious overlap between Big Blue's existing data warehousing assets and Netezza's. However, IBM will probably have to make some tough choices, particularly on the software side.



In Praise of Operational Data Warehousing

Real-time or not real-time is no longer the question.

Mid-Size Enterprises are Prime Targets

Mid-size shops are increasingly -- even disproportionately -- coming under attack by hackers, yet few security budgets are rising.

Q&A: Application Performance Management

Why managing application performance is so challenging, and how to make it pay off in the enterprise.

Careers: Hiring Unsteady Despite Encouraging Government Report

The IT job market might not be quite as resurgent as federal data indicates.

Application Monitoring in the Clouds

Business-driven processes for measuring and guaranteeing service levels in the cloud will help CIOs successfully transition to this new infrastructure.

Survey: Few IT Pros Have Deployed Office 2010

An industry-sponsored survey of IT professionals found that just four percent have deployed Microsoft Office 2010, although interest remains high in the productivity suite.

MaestroDev Launches Maestro 3 Enterprise Build and Private Cloud Environment

Application layer orchestrates broadest set of open source tools in a single interface

Apps.gov to Add Storage, Virtualization, Web Hosting Services

Government agencies will soon have access to storage, virtualization, and Web hosting applications via Apps.gov, the General Service Administration's cloud-based storefront, government officials said yesterday.

Building Creative PowerPivot Solutions

Creative ways to leverage PowerPivot.

Toward Pervasive BI: A New Generation of Analytic Applications

The best analytic applications will help improve business processes, monitor and manage critical business events, and deliver richer information through both contextual relevance and analytic insight.

Q&A: Emerging BI Technologies

Emerging tech is the theme of Orlando TDWI conference. BI expert and conference speaker Steve Dine leads us through the latest in BI innovations and trends.

EnStratus Adds Support for Citrix XenServer

Delivers governance, control for XenServer, public and private clouds

Quest Software Simplifies Data Replication

Shorter installation, new online community and Oracle Standard Edition licensing among enhancements to SharePlex for Oracle