Last week, Oracle released a critical patch update for a SQL attack vulnerability that could give local attackers administrator-level privileges, and Apple patched Windows and Apple OS versions of QuickTime. Meanwhile a new report finds online attacks are hitting the bottom line.
Like Lazarus, MicroStrategy has come back to tell us all, and looks to be a fixture in the BI marketscape of the future.
With the acquisition last week of a CPM player, Actuate is setting its sights on the CPM space, too.
Clementine has been used as a complement to CRM for half a decade now—but SPSS recently taught it a range of new tricks.
In light of IBM’s purchase last year of Ascential, SAP and Oracle could be contemplating blockbuster data integration acquisitions of their own.
Many organizations have reached or exceeded their ability to support the growing security management headaches and are facing compromises. What we need is a complete suite of top-tier security technologies administered from a single, unified console. Is that even possible?
The best place to start improving knowledge work is at the end of the process: focus on ways to improve knowledge-work outputs.
Sifting through the options (and hype) of redundant-backup can be daunting. Our storage analyst simplifies things with three key questions.
It was a busy week for security alerts: more WMF flaws were exposed and two critical Microsoft vulnerabilities were revealed. Meanwhile, a review of 2005 IM threats gives a hint at what to expect this year.
With information security increasingly a boardroom-level concern, job prospects continue to be good, according to a new study. Training and certification are becoming increasingly important for candidates and companies alike.
What can we expect from IBM’s zSeries team in 2006? If history is any indication, it could be an eventful year.
Are BI vendors on a collision course with the relational database giants? Industry watchers aren’t sure—but some say the uneasy détente is unlikely to last.
SAS, SPSS, and others say they’re making the Gandalf-the-White world of data mining more accessible— call it data mining for the masses.
Drums keep pounding rhythm to the brain—and the data quality beat keeps on keeping on. Case in point: Trillium Software last week announced a new version of its TS Discovery 5.0 data profiling tool. Analysts are calling it Trillium’s strongest profiling offering to date.
Symantec anticipates kernel-level rootkits, and more covert channels for siphoning intellectual property
With so many major events last year in the mainframe arena, why are so many Big Iron pros still pessimistic about the future?
In today’s compliance-crazy climate, data profiling is all but essential
How recent advances make SATA suitable for many enterprise online storage needs
How much noise will users have to make to get vendors to listen?
IT is the epicenter of your company's nervous system. Capacity planning can keep it healthy. We examine planning methods and highlight their pitfalls.