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Tech giants chart research goals Power consumption, parallelism, and the rapidly-expanding world of mobile communications are among the leading areas of research and development currently being investigated within some of the IT world's largest companies. From big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtualFrom big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtual While many IT shops see virtualization as a question of adopting EMC's VMware on servers running Windows or Linux, Nationwide Insurance has adopted the technology for both x86-based and mainframe-hosted servers. After all, notes Buzz Woeckener, the company's zLinux/Unix server manager, virtualization was invented for mainframes.  September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT On the road to the virtual desktop Click ‘n’ run. It seems like such a simple concept. Surf up to a Web page, select the desired application from a list, and click. Voila! Microsoft Word appears on your desktop. Or Excel, or Adobe Photoshop… you name it. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Herd behavior demonstrated at Demo "Whatever happened to working alone?” September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Purdue pursues long-term cost savings Like other adopters of server virtualization, Purdue University was concerned that its datacenter would hit the wall, exceeding physical space, power, and cooling limits. The use of EMC VMware let it combine 140 physical servers into three Hewlett-Packard DL-585 servers, a 40:1 compression ratio, says Mike Rubesch, director of IT infrastructure systems. "It helps postpone the inevitable," he adds. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Transplace beefs up hardware for a virtual world Managing transportation logistics is all about handling scale. As transportation management services firm Transplace added consumer goods companies such as Del Monte, Office Depot, Home Depot, Auto Zone, and DirecTV as customers, it needed to quickly bring server capacity online. Already planning a hardware refresh to support continued growth, CTO Vince Biddlecombe decided to bring in server virtualization at the same time so that he'd have a more scalable, flexible platform for that anticipated growth. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Stonebridge Bank averts a capacity crisis It's a dilemma faced by IT administrators everywhere. "We ran out of rack space, air conditioning capacity, and UPSes at the end of 2004, but we needed more servers," recalls George Rapp, senior vice president of IT for Stonebridge Bank, a regional institution in Pennsylvania. Getting more power in and more heat out was just not an option for the bank's datacenter, so Rapp consolidated multiple Unix servers into one box to reduce the physical footprint and delay the crisis. "But it got us only part of the way," he notes. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sourcefire acquires ClamAV open-source anti-malware project Network security specialist Sourcefire announced Friday that it has acquired ClamAV, an open-source gateway anti-malware project whose technologies are used in the products of a number of other vendors. August 17, 8:58 a.m. PDT Hospital undergoes wireless surgery For years, wireless technologies have only shown up in many U.S. hospitals in the form of rolling computers with Wi-Fi network access, but as evidenced at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital, times are changing. August 13, 2:37 p.m. PDT Novell buys endpoint security firm Senforce Novell announced on Monday that it has acquired Senforce Technologies, a provider of endpoint and network security tools, for an undisclosed sum. August 13, 9:40 a.m. PDT User pressure leads SugarCRM to adopt GPLv3 SugarCRM is to adopt version 3 of the GNU general public license (GPLv3) for the next release of its open source CRM software after coming under pressure from its user community to move away from its own Sugar Public License. July 25, 1:33 p.m. PDT McAfee sets Rootkit Detective free On July 26, McAfee will begin offering a new application called Rootkit Detective, designed to detect and remove dangerous rootkit attacks. The software will also help end-users ward off the threats, as well as funnel new intelligence into the company's ongoing research operations. July 25, 1:12 p.m. PDT Health experts: E-health records privacy rules needed The U.S. needs new medical privacy rules as the country moves toward greater use of IT to store health records, a group of health-care experts said Wednesday. July 18, 9:01 a.m. PDT Talend applies SaaS to data integration Talend, an open source data integration software maker, unveiled a new service-based software product Monday, Talend On Demand, a service (SaaS) version of the company's Talend Open Studio product. June 18, 12:05 a.m. PDT EMC strikes first partnership with Indian outsourcer EMC Corp. will train more than 1,000 Wipro Ltd. staff in the use of its storage technologies as part of an alliance announced by the companies on Wednesday. June 13, 4:09 a.m. PDT Former Hitachi Data Systems chief to head up HP storage In its quest to re-energize its storage business, Hewlett-Packard has recruited the former president and CEO of storage rival Hitachi Data Systems (HDS). May 25, 2:22 p.m. PDT Garlik applies Semantic technology to consumer data One of the most exciting developments at this year's Semantic Technology Conference is the blossoming of new and robust startups that are using Semantic Web concepts as the foundation for their business. May 22, 9:30 p.m. PDT Analysis: Apple’s new MacBooks Apple’s MacBook notebook product line is aimed at students, consumers, and professionals looking for compact and affordable portable computers. MacBook seems poised to play second fiddle to Apple’s MacBook Pro, but in fact, the black, $1,499 MacBook is enormously popular among professionals despite lousy 3-D graphics performance, a much smaller display and a non-traditional keyboard. May 15, 12:22 p.m. PDT SOA is DOA, unless you break the bottlenecks As you read this, the InfoWorld staff is making final, feverish preparations for our two-day SOA Executive Forum, which goes live this Tuesday at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. The theme for this incarnation of the forum -- the eighth in a long-running series -- is SOA bottlenecks and how to break them. Executive Editor Eric Knorr, aka Mr. SOA, has packed both days with customer case studies from the likes of ADP, Amtrak, BT, Comcast, Credit Suisse, Lockheed Martin, GM, Standard & Poor’s, and TD Ameritrade. With that kind of big-company firepower on display, the program promises to be highly entertaining -- and just plain useful for anyone contemplating the SOA journey. May 14, 3:00 a.m. PDT Talend: Data integration for the masses! There's no question about it: Business intelligence is the holy grail of most CIOs and IT managers alike. After all, the idea behind BI is great: Pull data from all the nooks and crannies on your enterprise network into one system where it can be cleansed, correlated, and presented to executives for analysis via easy-to-use dashboards. May 14, 3:00 a.m. PDT RIP, electronic medical records? And so the story of the largest, most visible attempt to digitize health care delivery in the U.S. has finally been told on page one of the Wall Street Journal. And it ain’t pretty. April 26, 3:00 a.m. PDT Information on demand: the new enterprise goal Dr. Ambuj Goyal is one of IBM’s heavy hitters. A 25-year IBM veteran who joined the company as a researcher at the T. J. Watson Research Center, Goyal did early work in scalable databases that laid the technology groundwork for DB2, then led the research effort to create the Deep Blue chess computer. In 1996, Goyal was elevated to be vice president, servers and software, and director, computer sciences, where he set IBM’s long-term research direction and oversaw the work of 1,500 researchers worldwide. March 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Symantec launches content management suite Symantec released a broad suite of software aimed at managing content ranging from e-mail to instant messages plus a new version of its Enterprise Vault archiving product on Monday . January 29, 10:41 a.m. PST EMC demystified Reporters just love EMC. After all, there’s always something new to write about, given that the company has spent the past three years on a punch-drunk buying spree, acquiring shiny new companies at a rate of roughly one every other month. January 22, 3:00 a.m. PST Senators: US gov't data mining needs oversight Dozens of U.S. government data-mining programs collect private data about U.S. residents with few civil liberties safeguards, and some violate U.S. law, Democratic members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday. January 10, 10:34 a.m. PST Study: Most info searches are useless Managers waste hours every day looking for information that often turns out to be useless, according to a report from consulting firm Accenture. January 4, 8:45 a.m. PST 2006 Year in Reviews: Storage In EMC’s march on the enterprise NAS market, two big feet fell this year in the form of the company’s Rainfinity (global file system) and Infoscape (file classification) releases, which we took for early spins in EMC’s labs. The year also brought a smooth rev of Windows Storage Server, a swell mid-range SAN from Compellent, and a slick tape library from Spectra Logic. December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST Social context for data analysis I’m a huge fan of the CAPStat (formerly DCStat) program. At InfoWorld’s recent SOA Executive Forum this fall, I taped a video interview with Dan Thomas. His innovative efforts led to the Web release of a set of data feeds from the office of Washington, D.C.’s CTO, detailing information about such areas as real estate, reported crime, licensing, and service requests. Earlier I published a podcast and a column on this topic. But despite my cheerleading, the hoped-for citizen-led mashups haven’t yet materialized in a big way. December 13, 3:00 a.m. PST Good ideas take time Two years ago, I publicly floated the concept that IT should start thinking more like entrepreneurs. What a disaster! I was speaking at a meeting of CTOs, and I mentioned that I’d heard of a few IT departments that were focusing, at least in part, on creating saleable new products and services for their companies. I asked the group what they thought of the idea. December 4, 3:00 a.m. PST Dems score with better data Behind every big success these days, there's probably some darned good IT making it happen. That appears to be the case in the surprising electoral victory by the Democratic Party last week. November 15, 6:17 a.m. PST Arvato Mobile bets the server farm on virtualization Lots of companies these days are stretching their hardware and energy dollars by consolidating print, file, DNS, and Web servers on virtualization platforms such as VMware. But not many companies boast of running their entire production infrastructure on virtual machines. An exception is Arvato Mobile, a division of Bertelsmann AG that builds mobile solutions for network operators, media companies, and Internet portals and delivers digital entertainment content to consumers around the globe. November 13, 3:00 a.m. PST 2006 InfoWorld 100 Awards: Health Care Alamance Regional Medical Center (ARMC) www.armc.com Transforming Care With Computerized Physician Order Entry Project Lead: Terri Andrews, R.N. (MBA); Jesse Long, CIO Project Description: Implemented Sunrise Clinical Manager, an electronic health record solution that enables immediate, secure access to patient records, streamlines care processes, and provides sophisticated clinical documentation capabilities. November 13, 3:00 a.m. PST Oracle OpenWorld makes a splash It was crazy in San Francisco last week as a rumored 40,000 people swamped Oracle’s OpenWorld conference — the first time I’d ever seen a tech conference have the clout to shut down a whole city block and set up tents in the street. November 3, 3:00 a.m. PST SAS launches model manager product Finding itself in the unusual position of playing catch-up, SAS announced SAS Model Manager today at its annual M2006 Data Mining Conference in Las Vegas. October 23, 2:00 p.m. PDT IBM, Tibco tackle data management Knocking down silos is harder than you think. That’s a realization that countless enterprise IT administrators are coming to as they try to figure out a way to pull together data scattered throughout an enterprise into a coherent set of services. October 23, 3:00 a.m. PDT IT by the book Can something that’s been kicking around for more than 15 years qualify as an overnight success? It certainly feels that way with ITIL, a collection of nine books that lays out a blueprint for IT service management. In the United States, at least, ITIL has recently catapulted itself from a respected, if somewhat obscure, treatise for governance geeks to a mainstream discipline. October 23, 3:00 a.m. PDT EMC, Microsoft sing Duet Can three people sing a duet? According to Microsoft, the answer is a resounding "yes." 3:00 a.m. PDT Open-source startup rounds out its BI offering With its latest purchase under its belt, open-source software startup Pentaho will be able to offer a complete business intelligence (BI) suite, according to Richard Daley, the company's chief executive officer. September 20, 5:14 a.m. PDT Technology with no past To the extent that it’s possible, I’m declaring today the beginning of recorded history in information technology. On this day, the phrase “information technology,” abbreviated IT, came into being as shorthand for electronic devices that aid humans in storage and sharing of, analysis of, protection of, and access to significant amounts of digitized content. Content? That’s anything you’re capable of holding in your brain for even a nanosecond. IT is not a department or a group of people. It’s a smart phone. It’s a room full of SPARC servers. A telephone headset? A keyboard? I don’t know. They’re new terms. We’ll work that out as we go. I do know that if we didn’t have such things, information technology would be inaccessible. September 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Salesforce adds Google Adword Integration Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff used a dinner presentation to Boston-area customers, analysts and members of the press Monday evening to announce a new search marketing service that will allow companies to manage Google AdWords marketing campaigns directly from Salesforce's CRM software. August 21, 10:30 p.m. PDT California doctors pioneer e-medical records With some 400,000 patients and the largest medical network in Northern California, Hill Physicians Medical Group Inc. faces a daunting challenge moving from paper to an electronic medical records (EMR) system. August 7, 1:31 p.m. PDT Microsoft acquires health-IT software Microsoft has acquired "health intelligence" software that pulls patient data from various sources into one location and allows instant access to health records. July 26, 11:42 a.m. PDT Adesso gets in sync, new CEO Adesso Systems announced a new chief executive officer Wednesday as part of its reinvention as a provider of intelligent synchronization-as-a-service to make it easier to develop mobile and distributed applications. June 28, 1:22 p.m. PDT InfoWorld CTO 25: Mike Stonebraker It may have been “a million years ago” that he co-built Ingres and Postgres, but Dr. Mike Stonebraker is no dinosaur. Today, he’s co-founder and CTO of StreamBase Systems, a company on the cutting edge of CEP (complex event processing) for streaming data. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Verizon-NSA case puts companies on notice A shadowy “three letter” U.S. government agency calls your company and asks for copies of your private customer data ... the kind you don’t share with outsiders and can get sued for losing. The agency says it needs the data to track terrorists, but won’t get too specific about how. May 22, 3:00 a.m. PDT Google unveils new search appliance Google shored up its enterprise-search portfolio on Wednesday, announcing Google OneBox for Enterprise, a new feature for doing real-time searches on business-application data. April 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT The long road to RFID interoperability Software isn’t the only factor driving wider adoption of RFID. Perhaps the largest single enabler has been the emergence of Gen2 -- officially known as the EPCglobal Class-1 Generation-2 UHF RFID Protocol for Communications -- which is the standard protocol for EPC (Electronic Product Code) tag transmissions. April 13, 3:00 a.m. PDT Next-gen RFID tools expand the market Despite the hype, the truth is that RFID deployments made little headway in 2005. New standards, prohibitive costs, and the lack of upper-level business context left most companies tuned out to this much-ballyhooed technology. April 13, 3:00 a.m. PDT Set my data free Last weekend I helped a friend categorize her Schedule C expenses. All of her business income is in QuickBooks, but the expenses aren’t. I would have to reconstruct those from bank and credit card records. Although this friend has online accounts at both institutions, my Spidey sense was tingling: I knew there was going to be trouble. April 12, 3:00 a.m. PDT Senator questions FBI over ChoicePoint contract A top Democrat in the U.S. Senate questioned Wednesday why the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) continues to do business with data broker ChoicePoint a year after the company announced a data breach potentially affecting 145,000 U.S. residents. April 5, 3:33 p.m. PDT What virtualization is -- and what it isn’t When a computer or an operating system uses software to do anything it normally can’t, the enabling technology tends to get labeled “virtualization.” Well, don’t believe everything you read (except here). Let’s see what virtualization is and is not. February 22, 3:00 a.m. PST Product Previews Sand/DNA Digs Into Compressed Data Sand Technology this week updated its DNA (Dynamic Nearline Architecture) data management technology, which compresses data to about 10 percent of its original size and allows the stored data to be searched without being decompressed. Sand is integrating its Sand/DNA Analytics analytic data repository with its Sand/DNA Access storage archival product, and adding new features to both offerings. The integration allows end-users to pull information transparently from DNA Access and load it into DNA Analytics using standard business intelligence tools. This removes much of the time spent on data modeling, according to Sand officials. Sand also introduced Sand/DNA for SAP Business Warehouse, which allows users to move, store, and access highly compressed data from a nearline data repository. Sand/DNA Access and Analytics, Sand Technology February 20, 3:00 a.m. PST Can Google gain a foothold in the enterprise? Google's got its eyes on your corporate data, and if its ability to parlay its whip-smart Web search technology into a vast empire of consumer services is any indication, you may be Googling enterprise apps and data sooner than you think. February 17, 4:15 p.m. PST Symantec moving ahead with database appliance After beta testing its "Big Brother" database appliance with a handful of customers, Symantec Corp. is moving ahead with plans to bring the device to market. The Cupertino, California, company is also toying with the idea of selling the appliance's monitoring technology as a software product, according to a Symantec executive. February 10, 12:43 p.m. PST Clean house, clean data Before you build anything, you have to get your house in order -- ripping out the old, reorganizing and cleaning up what’s left. I know this firsthand: Right now I’m neck-deep in a house remodeling project that will ultimately transform my grungy old basement into a family room, home office, and bathroom. February 6, 3:00 a.m. PST Communications panel studies lessons of Katrina An independent panel to study the effects of Hurricane Katrina on communications networks, convened by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), met for the first time Monday. January 30, 2:10 p.m. PST Oracle fires back at security researcher Oracle Corp. and a security researcher are trading heated barbs over a vulnerability in the company's software that has gone unpatched since it was discovered in October. January 27, 10:08 a.m. PST Product previews Clearwell extracts intelligence from e-mail Clearwell Systems this week is launching its company and its first product, an e-mail analysis platform designed to organize data in e-mail and automate regulatory compliance investigations and legal discovery processes. Going beyond e-mail archiving, the Clearwell Email Intelligence Platform analyzes the unique properties of e-mail, combines the analysis with organizational data, and applies linguistic and statistical analysis algorithms to extract intelligence from e-mail messages and attachments. The product serves up the data in personalized dashboards and features a visual display of discussion threads and e-mail-specific search. Clearwell Email Intelligence Platform, Clearwell Systems January 23, 3:00 a.m. PST Google grows the Mini In celebration of its one-year anniversary, the Google Mini search appliance is getting a teensy bit bigger. Google is expected to announce Thursday two new versions of the Mini that double and triple the capacity of the existing appliance. January 12, 8:00 a.m. PST IBM deepens Alphablox integration with WebSphere IBM Corp. shipped the latest version of its Alphablox analytics software last week, adding deeper integration support for linking the software with its Rational Application Developer and WebSphere Portal Server products. December 19, 10:05 a.m. PST Tech reviews for the holidays Even IT takes a holiday now and then. Same goes for the InfoWorld staff, which chills out by taking a one-week break following the publication of this, our 51st and final issue of the year. December 19, 3:00 a.m. PST Forrester index finds US tech sector healthy for now The U.S. technology industry has recovered from a recession of 2001 and 2002 and is about as healthy as it's been in three years, according to a new tech sector economic index released Monday. December 12, 9:49 a.m. PST HP plugs in to utility services Enterprises with fluctuating demand for computing power will be able to dip into Hewlett-Packard's resources via new utility computing services the company introduced last week. December 5, 3:00 a.m. PST No. 14: Estimating future speed One of the trickier tasks is projecting infrastructure requirements in the face of constantly evolving business demands. Most people start with capacity planning tools, such as TeamQuest’s View and Modeling products. No tool alone, however, can accurately predict the nature of tomorrow’s workload. November 28, 3:00 a.m. PST IBM's master plan for data What's the ugliest problem in IT? Many would say it's the contradictory or incomplete data strewn around the enterprise in various databases and formats. Reconciling and normalizing all that data is hard, tedious work. November 21, 3:00 a.m. PST Purisma launches customer ID management application Purisma, which has been in stealth mode for two years, will unveil this week the Purisma Customer Registry, a technology for matching and managing customer identities. October 31, 11:40 a.m. PST Managing metadata When we talk and write about IT issues, we use certain words to mean many different things: "Platform," "architecture," and "integration" are among the worst offenders. But the most overloaded term in the IT lexicon may well be "metadata." October 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Are CIOs headed for extinction? Is the CIO a dinosaur? Will it be an extinct position in a few short years? Merial, a large animal health care enterprise co-owned by Merck and sanofi-aventis, believes so; in fact, it's already buried the title. I spoke with Steve Lerner, IS director at Merial, about what led to its decision to eliminate the CIO position. The answer, in short, is Sarbanes-Oxley. October 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT Mastering data comes at a price It’s all about the data. IDC this month is reporting that the market for “master data management” solutions is growing at a fast 13.8 percent annually, and should reach $10.4 billion by 2009. Is that a lot? Well, it turns out that $10 billion is also the total value of razors and blades sold globally, according to a recent article in CNN/Money. October 14, 3:00 a.m. PDT The importance of interaction data The twin themes of this year's Accelerating Change conference were AI (artificial intelligence) and IA (intelligence amplification). On the AI track, people talked about making systems smarter. On the IA track, people talked about harnessing collective human intelligence. The tension between the two groups struck some sparks. October 12, 3:00 a.m. PDT Google and NASA plan R&D partnership Google and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) signed a wide-ranging agreement Wednesday to collaborate on future research projects aimed at pooling the computing knowledge of both organizations. September 29, 4:11 a.m. PDT Data grows no moss I'm not just bored with the present, I'm uncomfortable there. I drop in on now every so often to do things like pick up my mail, write reviews, and make sure the pipes didn't freeze last winter, but before the neighbors get a chance to screw with my mind by asking me what I've been up to, I'm back to that windowless place where, for all I know, the horizons to which I cast my gaze are already behind me. September 21, 4:00 a.m. PDT IBM preps 'BI-lite' productivity app IBM next month plans to release a new software product designed to bring business intelligence-style data views to the masses. The goal is to make it easier for workers to transform business objectives into accomplished tasks that align with an organization's larger strategy. September 16, 2:26 p.m. PDT PDC goes with the flow What separates enterprise apps from desktop apps? Mainly, business rules and workflow. Wednesday, at the (PDC) Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft announced Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF), a brand new Windows technology that will enable developers to stitch together Microsoft Office apps and custom-built software into composite, enterprise-class workflow applications. With WWF, according to group product manager Scott Woodgate, Microsoft will be able to offer "the first workflow-enabled operating system." September 14, 9:54 a.m. PDT Dirty words, take II My column "IT's Seven Dirty Words" -- a subjective list of terms that shouldn't be repeated in polite IT company -- generated piles of e-mail from readers who were quick to add a few choice words of their own. In the interest of sharing, let me reproduce a few of their suggestions. September 5, 4:00 a.m. PDT IBM's new search framework and the blogosphere You can find Irving Wladawsky-Berger’s fingerprints on most of IBM’s key initiatives: on-demand, open source, Linux, autonomic, and grid computing. So when he launched his blog in May, I became a charter subscriber. August 17, 5:00 a.m. PDT Security expert: More developer education needed Software vendors need to create comprehensive security education programs for their programmers in order to deliver more security software products to their customers, an Oracle Corp. security expert said Thursday. August 11, 11:28 a.m. PDT Open source business intelligence Customers and ISVs face steep fees when licensing existing BI software, so it's only logical that work on BI within the open source community is heating up. First out of the gate was the Eclipse Foundation, which has made BI one of its seven top-level projects. The Foundation released Version 1.0 of its BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) in June, under its own, Open Source Initiative (OSI)-approved Eclipse License. August 8, 5:00 a.m. PDT Open source RFID If there's one area of the IT industry that's gotten as much buzz as open source itself during the past year, it's RFID. So far, however, it's been a big-ticket item, with its strongest backing coming from megaretailers such as Wal-Mart. Companies have had to rely on expensive commercial packages to get the ball rolling in their own businesses, but that could be set to change. Founded by two Canadian entrepreneurs, the RadioActive Foundation aims to develop a suite of open source RFID applications that support EPC (Electronic Product Code) and other standards from the EPCGlobal Network. August 8, 5:00 a.m. PDT Startups vie to make Linux more attractive with bundled offerings Integrating open source applications is a task daunting enough to lead some companies toward proprietary products. To that end, several startups this week revealed plans to offer prebuilt, certified solutions so customers have fewer integration migraines. August 3, 6:00 a.m. PDT Sybase buys Extended Systems for $71 million Sybase said Friday it has agreed to buy Extended Systems, a software maker that, like Sybase, focuses on database and mobile-access technology. Sybase will pay $71.3 million in cash for the Boise, Idaho, company. July 29, 11:49 a.m. PDT Fujitsu software tackles enterprise information Fujitsu is developing two applications that could help enterprises make better use of their data and better handle information flowing into the company. July 21, 4:46 a.m. PDT New intelligence on BI With annual spending on business intelligence software now more than $8 billion and growing by more than $200 million per year, we thought it was essential to examine the factors driving — and limiting — the adoption of these increasingly important data tools. July 11, 5:00 a.m. PDT Making sense of storage management Storage spawns where it’s needed, from sensibly architected SANs serving transaction-intensive systems to storage appliances bought impulsively to fill a departmental need. That leaves IT to manage many islands of storage strewn across the enterprise at a time when the need for centralized storage management has never been greater. Compliance requirements, multimedia-rich applications, and a proliferation of databases are pushing IT departments to increase the size and complexity of storage networks across the enterprise. July 11, 5:00 a.m. PDT In search of the perfect price point A year ago I rarely heard the term price optimization. Now on any given day my inbox has two or three e-mails announcing software with that capability. In addition, during the last year and a half the big four consulting firms have all added pricing optimization practices to their portfolios. June 14, 5:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft works with BI vendor to embed analytics in SQL 2005 SPSS, a provider of software for predictive analytics, unveiled the results of its behind-the-scenes work with the Microsoft database development team this week. SPSS announced a version of its statistical analysis toolset that can be embedded into the next version of Microsoft SQL Server 2005. June 9, 4:05 p.m. PDT Taking charge of the enterprise information lifecycle There’s a stage in the life of a new technology in which half the world thinks it’s a whole new paradigm and the other half thinks it’s all hype. Half says it will never happen whereas the other half says, “We’re doing it now.” And even the most improbable vendor claims to have strategies and products to support it. So it is with ILM (information life cycle management). June 6, 5:00 a.m. PDT Venter: World's bio-diversity scarcely understood BOSTON - While on a seafaring expedition that was part of ongoing environmental genetics work, scientist J. Craig Venter and his crew were suddenly engulfed in a sand storm -- 1,800 miles (2,880 kilometers) from the coast of Africa. The sand storm on the sea led him to begin thinking about the plethora of microbes that swirl through the globe's air, Venter said in a speech Thursday. May 19, 11:21 a.m. PDT Ipedo brings 'dual-core' to EII Ipdeo on Monday launched XIP 4.0 (Extensible Information Platform) and described it as a "dual-core" EII offering that works with both SQL and the emerging XQuery querying languages. May 16, 6:00 a.m. PDT Product previews DataFlux Flexes Integration blending data quality and integration technologies, SAS Institute subsidiary DataFlux last week made its Data Quality Integration Solution 7 available. The platform was built to discover, integrate, and manage business information residing in multiple data sources. The package includes DataFlux’s dfPower Studio, which is used to design workflows and establish data requirements, and was enhanced to grant data stewards more control over the data quality process. When used in conjunction with the DataFlux Integration Server, dfPower enables customers to use batch processing to standardize and verify data and ultimately implement business logic through on-demand and SOA models. Data Quality Integration Solution 7, DataFlux May 9, 5:00 a.m. PDT Oracle president promises to certify best practice configurations Santa Clara, Calif. — Charles Phillips, Oracle's president, kicked off Software 2005, an annual event sponsored by venture-capital firm Sand Hill Group, with a keynote address that focused on the future of the software industry, near-term customer issues and, of course, an update on the PeopleSoft acquisition. April 26, 11:14 a.m. PDT An irresistible supply-chain story Want to hear what could be one of the best supply-chain success stories ever? Take the $4 billion commercial and consumer equipment division of a $20 billion company, reduce inventory by $500 million, and as sales grow, keep inventory constant -- thus avoiding an additional $500 million in inventory. This is what John Deere did starting in 2002, with the help of supply-chain optimization software vendor SmartOps. April 19, 5:00 a.m. PDT Plumtree launches portal analytics Plumtree Software on Monday rolled out a new product designed to give IT administrators real-time reporting information about portal usage and activity. March 28, 2:32 p.m. PST Update: Oracle overcomes SAP to acquire Retek Oracle has won its bidding war against German software rival SAP to acquire retail management software developer Retek, Oracle said on Tuesday. March 22, 4:46 a.m. PST Update: Oracle again outbids SAP for Retek Oracle increased its bid for Retek to $11.25 per share late Thursday, again outbidding rival SAP in the tug-of-war for the retail software maker. March 18, 5:12 a.m. PST Hyperion dashboards target BI, compliance Hyperion, a leading business intelligence ISV, fired a double volley across the bows of its competitors this week with the launch of Version 8.3 of its Hyperion Business Intelligence Platform and the Hyperion Compliance Management Dashboard. February 28, 4:36 p.m. PST New US legislation would require e-voting paper trail WASHINGTON - A group of U.S. lawmakers have introduced a bill that would require electronic touch-screen voting machines to allow for a so-called "voter verifiable" paper trail. February 9, 12:55 p.m. PST Titans spearhead BI resurgence With companies looking to rip out 20-year-old reporting products and replace them with deeper analytics and Web-based reporting tools, it appears business intelligence may be in the midst of a major replacement cycle. January 31, 6:00 a.m. PST OpenWorld: Oracle to deliver VMware-ready software SAN FRANCISCO - Oracle and VMware are developing an easier way to install and configure Oracle's software, executives from the two companies said at the Oracle OpenWorld conference Thursday. December 9, 3:27 p.m. PST Edge Dynamics launches new breed of enterprise app Enterprise software takes an evolutionary step forward as Edge Dynamics and Tibco Software develop software that combines elements of both ERP and BI applications. December 6, 6:00 a.m. PST > Applications > Databases > Data management > Databases > Data management > Platforms > Databases > Storage > Databases |
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