Sybase sues database start-up in east Texas court favored by 'patent pirates'
In a lawsuit filed quietly in a federal court in Texas that is seen as a favorable venue for patent suits, Sybase is charging start-up Vertica Systems with infringement. Read more...

Datallegro hit with patent lawsuit in wake of Microsoft deal

Microsoft 'leapfrogs' Oracle with DATAllegro buy, analyst says

Judge: White House doesn't have to turn over e-mail records

HP updates Neoview to better handle operational BI workloads

Microsoft to shutter book search

Aetna chief downplays Google Health's potential

SNIA moves proposed data archive standards ahead

Consolidation, market maturity to cause slower BI growth, Gartner says

Updated Cognos tool offers expanded performance management

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Review: How StuffIt stacks up against WinZip
StuffIt's format can be read by Windows, Macs, Unix, and Linux systems and its clean, simple interface makes easy work of file compression and decompression, but with only a bit more speed, StuffIt didn't show significantly better compression ratios.

Been audited lately? Blame the IRS's massive, superfast data warehouse
Thinking of fudging a bit on your tax return in these troubled times? Don't do it unless you feel smarter than the IRS's 150TB Compliance Data Warehouse, which is responsible for a marked improvement in the agency's ability to spot potential fraud.

Opinion: E-mail archiving options
Journaling can create excessive server overhead and delays in e-mail processing. So businesses that already archive their e-mails are looking for new and better ways to do it going forward.

BI Is the Business
Overstock.com's BI strategy has pragmatic, bottom-line implications, says columnist Mark Hall. Inventory levels have been reduced to $16 million from $80 million without any impact on sales, giving a huge boost to the companys cash flow.

Your data's less safe today than two years ago
Over the past two years, 158 million data records have been exposed due to security breaches in the U.S. Part of the problem is that just finding where sensitive data sits within the organization and where it's most vulnerable, let alone securing it, is a daunting task.

Opinion: Resolving ILM's identity crisis
For the last four years, companies that employ both information management and IT professionals have lived with dueling definitions of ILM. Now a resolution is in sight, partially because something rather curious has happened.

With records retention, it's better to be consistently wrong
Even if companies misinterpret existing laws and create the wrong policy that destroys requested data, regulators won't hold them responsible the first time an infraction occurs as long as they change their policies going forward.

Opinion: Perhaps high-capacity disk isn't such a good thing
The reality is that thanks to abundant cheap disk space, we've become storage gluttons and are desperately playing catch-up in areas such as indexing and classification.

Opinion: Tape backup is WORN (write once, read never)
Tape data is inadequately indexed and therefore cannot be effectively queried and retrieved making it unacceptable as a repository for business-driven archiving. Many of us have witnessed or experienced the cost and pain of scanning mountains of tapes to meet an auditing or e-discovery deadline.

Steven Barlow: Master of Data Warehousing

Users of Windows XP SP3 who try out IE8 Beta 2 won't be able to uninstall either one under certain circumstances. Google has gone from innovative upstart to fat-and-happy industry leader in what seems like record time. Preston Gralla explains. Microsoft's latest beta of IE8 includes better tab management, new services such as Web Slices and Accelerators, and the new 'porn mode.' These leading-edge graduate schools are moving at the pace of the IT workplace, delivering coursework that's relevant to today's IT professionals.

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