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IBM Scores SOA Deals with Lawson, Firemans Fund

IBM demonstrated that it is winning major converts to its service-oriented architecture for software integration by announcing deals Tuesday with the Firemans Fund and...

Vendors Struggle to Unite Data Integration with Metadata

"Federate," IBM says as it pitches its latest data integration installment: to wit, the folding of ETL (extraction, transformation and loading) technology acquired in...

EGAs Reference Model Beckons Enterprises to Grid

The Enterprise Grid Alliance—a consortium of about 30 vendors and enterprise grid users—on Tuesday will release the industrys first Reference Model for enterprise grids. The...

Microsoft Maestro to Tune Up Business Performance

Microsoft will release to private beta this week a new, server-based business-performance-management scorecard application, code-named "Maestro," which helps users perform deep analysis by leveraging...

XOsofts Assured Recovery Speeds Disaster Recovery

This week, XOsoft Inc. will make available its Assured Recovery software, a new product that allows customers to perform fully automated scheduled tests of...

South Carolina School Gives DB2 As in Efficiency, Cost Savings

By leveraging IBM DB2 Universal Database 8.2 features such as autonomic computing and Microsoft Corp. .Net application support, Richland School District Two has been...

Autonomic Software Ready to Streamline Data Processing

Self-regulating, or autonomic, computing is an idea that vendors say is ready to leave the research lab and set up shop in mainstream software. At...

IBM Aids SMB Development with BladeCenter Express Package

IBM is simplifying integration and adding context to unstructured data buried deep within IT architectures in an effort to improve information management for SMBs. To...

DB2 Eases Management, Failover

With the addition of self-regulating database management tools and high-availability features, IBMs DB2 Universal Database 8.2 Enterprise Server Edition relieves some management overhead while...

Sybase Pursues Data Access Through Avaki, ISDD Acquisitions

Making a two-pronged move to bolster the structured and unstructured data access and integration capability of its enterprise Data Services and iAnywhere mobile technology...