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Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Beta Released

Company announces availability of beta 2 of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010.

Disaster Recovery Plans Improve but Enterprises Still Suffer from Costly Downtime

Symantec research says IT spending for disaster recovery has risen and C-level executives more involved, yet trouble spots remain vulnerable

Prominent BI Start-ups Struggle to Stay Afloat

Experts see LucidEra's demise as a reflection of a brutal economic climate. The economy is also taking a toll on DW appliance specialist Dataupia, which is enduring a venture capital famine of its own.

Q&A: Feedback Management Software Offers Solid BI Investment

Immediate communication with a customer can quickly transform a poor customer experience into an exceptional one.

PerformancePoint Server Planning Gets a New Lease on Life

Microsoft last week announced a reprieve, of sorts, for beleaguered users of its PerformancePoint Planning Server.

Q&A: Inside Business Service Management

IT spending is under the microscope. How do you know you’re making the best investment decisions for network and server infrastructure? Business service management may be the answer IT and business users need.



Stephen Swoyer

Spam Levels Continue to Surge, MessageLabs Reports

Spam levels surged in May, but technologies such as traffic and connection management helped reduce or rein-in the volume of malicious traffic.

Business Executives Don't Tie Disaster Recovery Efforts to Business Success, Study Reveals

There's a significant disconnect between IT and business executives when it comes to disaster recovery preparedness.

Five Virtualization Best Practices That Can Transform Enterprise IT

To help you meet the challenges of virtualization, we offer five best practices that will transform enterprise IT both operationally and strategically.

Stephen Swoyer

IT Budget Strategies: Doing More with Less

How IT can continue to offer the same (or similar) levels of service on severely restricted budgets?

Q&A: Administrator Rights and Enhanced Security

Administrator rights let users do everything on a system, but these rights are also the target of malware and other vulnerabilities.

Stephen Swoyer

Big Iron in the Clouds, Revisited

The mainframe already embodies a viable proof-of-concept for cloud computing in the enterprise. Is it a cloud platform par excellence?

MySQL Creators Move to Keep MySQL Open

Vendor-neutral consortium, Open Database Alliance, formed as hub for MySQL

BI Stands Up to a Bear Market

New research from Gartner paints a surprisingly bright picture of BI spending, with greater than 20 percent growth last year.

Microsoft Finds Bug in Google's Sync for Outlook

Google's sync plug-in will disable Windows Desktop Search for Outlook

Q&A: Dashboards Help Bring BI to Consumers

Dashboards are popular in helping business users see trends and understand data, but what's ahead for this visualization tool?

The Case for Data Warehousing-in-the-Cloud

Data warehouse players seem to have their heads in the clouds. Are customers ready to follow them? For some applications, the answer is yes.

IBM To Announce New Cloud Initiatives

Focus on automating, simplifying IT for inefficient business tasks

Large Enterprises Often Underestimate Security Risk from Terminated Employees

IT administrators claim that former employees pose no risk; a new survey suggests otherwise