Datamation Staff

Indicee: This white paper provides an overview of the benefits of and barriers to business intelligence (BI) solutions. It then offers nine criteria which can help you choose between a SaaS BI system or an on-premise BI system. They include: Cost: What is your BI budget? Scope: How ambitious is your project? Speed: How quickly […]

Oracle: Oracle says that despite tightening budgets, today’s CIOs are making investments aimed at generating future performance gains. In a survey, these executives said the core technologies they were most likely to invest in this year included: Service-Oriented Architecture and Applications Enterprise Applications (ERP, SCM, CRM, etc.) Business Intelligence Servers and Storage Technologies Networking, Voice, […]

As data grows by leaps and bounds, so too are the companies that store it. Enterprise Storage Forum looks at the storage networking companies ranked near the top of Forbes’ list of fastest-growing tech companies. It’s no secret that data has been growing so fast that enterprises have trouble keeping up with it all, so […]

BOSTON/HELSINKI (Reuters) – The world’s top cellphone maker, Nokia, is working on its own tablet computer, scheduled to reach stores later this year, a technology sector analyst said on Tuesday. Many other handset makers and PC vendors, including Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Hewlett-Packard Co , are expected to follow Apple Inc’s move into the […]

Trusted Computer Solutions: According to one survey, only 32 percent of system administrators use automated tools to help them lock down operating systems. However, these tools can help combat threats such as unused services, password misuse, and lack of monitoring capabilities. This white paper provides an overview of the threat and introduces the standards and […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc said on Tuesday it was upgrading its servers, stepping up competition against more established players in the market like HP and IBM. Cisco entered the server market last year with its “Unified Computing System” (UCS), a move that put it in direct competition with long-time […]

Marathon Technologies: If the process automation applications used by manufacturing companies experience downtime, that can lead to data loss or potentially catastrophic loss of monitoring capabilities. In the worst case scenario, entire production lines might need to be shut down. To avoid that possibility, businesses can take six steps: Reduce human error. Reduce server errors […]

Conformity: Now that IT departments are convinced that SaaS is here to stay, the challenge becomes integrating cloud solutions with existing IT policies and approaches. In this white paper, Conformity first outlines the traditional IT management model. It then details the significant challenges, including increased security and compliance risk, suboptimal spend on SaaS applications and […]

ANSI: This paper from ANSI is designed to help company executives reduce and manage the financial risk from cyber attacks. It covers the following topics: The true economic impact of cyber events and a six-step process for addressing the issue on an interdepartmental basis. The single biggest organizational vulnerability of cyber systems – people. A […]

CA: In this white paper, CA details the growth of composite applications and current demands on IT. It highlights the failure of older management tools to meet today’s challenges and lays out a new approach to application performance management (APM). Finally, it highlights the benefits and features of CA’s Wily APM. RELATED NEWS AND ANALYSIS […]

Server virtualization technology allows multiple, independent operating systems to run “virtually” on a single server, making the most of each physical server’s capacity. In effect, it creates multiple, independent computers on each server.  For example, instead of running 10 servers at 20 percent capacity each — and just one or a small handful of applications […]

HP: In this white paper, HP highlights the benefits of Web-based collaboration solutions. The paper includes a case study on a enterprise that saved $4 million by using HP’s technology instead of relying on third-party service providers for videoconferencing. In addition, it suggests five factors to consider before investing in a collaboration solution: Security Scalability […]