A rising tide may lift all boats, but what happens when the tide recedes? This article examines the effect of Microsoft targeting the analytic applications market.
With solid data federation capabilities and new ETL features, Sybase’s evolving data integration stack could bear watching.
A new study shows spyware is the fastest-growing threat to enterprises.
Eight best practices to keep the user experience front and center during IT migration projects.
Data management should stand on its own as an umbrella effort driving all of IT’s efforts, because the essential task of IT is data management.
When is an economic recovery not an actual recovery? When it benefits the few at the expense of the many.
Dealing with an e-mail worm targeting a Web application, and a vulnerability in IBM DB2. Plus, how to create a performance metrics program.
Regulations are driving companies to audit their security logs. To help collect and analyze all that data, companies can turn to free syslog software and off-the-shelf security event management software. Which approach is right for you?
Storage consumes as much as one-third of an IT budget, but getting information about storage (especially storage utilization) has been difficult at best.
A future of reusable services got a step closer to reality last week when IBM announced its new SOA Business Catalog
The Ubuntu GNU/Linux distro launched on June 1 was designed specifically with large organizations in mind, says the open-source project's founder.
The ground beneath information managers continues to shake, according to iWay Software’s John Senor. Is SOA an earthquake, or just a tremor?
Google last week took aim at one of Microsoft’s bread-and-butter market segments: its Excel spreadsheet cash cow.
Analysts say PerformancePoint is a direct strike against the BI Powers-That-Be. The Powers-That-Be, on the other hand, aren’t sweating it. Or so they say.
BI junkies must wait until later this year for IBM to shed more light on its DB2 9 BI strategy.
Changes target regulatory compliance, auditing, and access controls
A federal regulation forced a medical center to lock down privacy, which coincidentally increased savings.
How to evaluate the security of applications you build or buy, and justify those requirements to senior management.
IBM and Microsoft made significant data management-related announcements last week
Thanks to reduced unemployment and a graying workforce, we could be on the verge of a war for top IT talent. That bodes well for mainframe pros.