Put to the Test: Google Search Appliance Version 5
The Google Mini and Google Search Appliance have long offer solid alternatives for Web site and departmental search. Targeting broader deployments, Google's latest upgrades have brought improved results ranking and an option for "source biasing," but security and adaptability still come up short for the demands of enterprise deployments.
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Adriaan Bloem and Tony Byrne
Microsoft Launches Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer outlined the company's strategy for enterprise IT and the benefits it sees in the latest versions of its major enterprise products.
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J. Nicholas Hoover
The Road To Pervasive BI
If you're not using business intelligence tools throughout your workforce, it's time to start--or get left behind in your competitors' dust
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Cindi Howson
Dawn Of The App Aware Network
Switch vendors want to sideline servers by making their devices smarter. Now IT must decide if this is a brave new world ... or a nightmare of lock-in and higher costs
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Andy Dornan
Standards For IT Governance
ITIL, COBIT, and ISO 17799 provide a blueprint for managing IT services.
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Dave Greenfield
Oracle Struts Its Stuff at OpenWorld
Virtualization, better application integration and new core database features wow the faithful.
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Charles Babcock
ParAccel Seen As A Promising Startup In BI Database Market
Company's first product is a database management system capable of of all types of decision processing, from traditional data warehousing and analytics to operational business intelligence, online analytical processing, and high-speed query processing.
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Antone Gonsalves
IBM Pushes Virtualization To Move Ahead With Unix
The company sees its Live Partition Mobility and Live Application Mobility applications as key to any customer using Unix in their network.
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Charles Babcock
Celko on SQL: Auxiliary Tables vs. Declarative Coding
Auxiliary tables are not only portable across SQL environments and adaptable to external software, they're often a faster, better choice than SQL with computations. And as chips and hardware get faster and cheaper, the auxiliary table approach will make even more sense.
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Joe Celko
Want To Save The Planet? Turn Off That PC
Reports that PCs and monitors alone contribute 40% of total carbon emissions are fueling a surge in power-monitoring software sold from firms like Verdiem.
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Richard Martin
The 2004 Editors' Choice Awards: The Intelligent Enterprise Dozen
Watch these important enablers of the intelligent enterprise.
by David Stodder
A Year in Perspective
A look back at the news of 2003 and a projection of trends in 2004
by Jeanette Burriesci & Michelle M. Young
The 2004 Editors' Choice Awards
Business intelligence, performance management, and all forms of integration are the dominant requirements addressed by the 12 IT solution providers that make up our supreme list for 2004.
by David Stodder, Jeanette Burriesci & Michelle M. Young
Companies to Watch 2004
Watch these important enablers of the intelligent enterprise.
by Michelle M. Young
Virtualize This!
Since E. F. Codd, databases have prospered with virtualization. Will it continue?
by David Stodder
What's the Utility?
Utility Computing Payoff A Decade Away
by Jeanette Perez
Oracle Goes Grid
But IT distinguishes its architecture from the utility computing of IBM and Microsoft
by Jeanette Burriesci
RFID Tags and Smart Dust
RFID tagging will create not just a tidal wave of data, but lifetime employment for data warehouse designers
by Ralph Kimball
The Intelligent SMB: Opportunity Knocks
Obsessed with controlling costs, the storage management field is in danger of missing the point: To manage infrastructure with a focus on data-the lifeblood of enterprise intelligence
by David Stodder
Work Without Wires
Centrino: A Case Study in Product Launch
by James Honey
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