It’s now been several years since the most significant com­pliance mandates swept through U.S.-based businesses, up-ending long baked-in rou­tines and causing untold num­bers of sleepless nights.
The 800-pound gorilla of mandates, Sarbanes-Oxley, is marking its fifth year of existence, and it’s been eight years since the Financial Modernization Act (Gramm-Leach-Bliley) arrived. It’s been [...]

There’s no doubt that open source’s time has come. Enterprises are openly embracing open source solutions up and down the stack, to the point where it has become the “ new normal.” But what’s the true cost of this kind of software?

A Unisphere Research study of 434 companies, commissioned by IBM last fall, confirmed [...]

TheStreet.com maintains more than a terabyte’s worth of data in various forms – articles, alert data, company data, and trad­ing data. While the online information service’s data store totals well into the terabyte range, the company’s data man­agers prefer to keep its data in a distributed format.
“We addressed the problem of having lots of lots [...]