SNIA moves proposed data archive standards ahead
The Storage Networking Industry Association has completed the first version of the Extensible Access Method, a specification for archiving metadata for future retrieval of data, and has started work on a standardized format that organizations can use to archive data. Read more...

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

Updated Cognos tool offers expanded performance management

ETAI avoids data traffic jam with open source

IBM adds tools to boost DB2 Data Warehouse performance

IBM agrees to buy Cognos for $5 billion

Update: Some users fear long-term effects of IBM-Cognos deal

Massive data sharing may lead to mom-like services

Corporate BI Projects Face Skeptical Users

SAS set to add analytics tools to Teradata warehouse

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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

Wen Xiao: Maverick With A Clear Vision
Wen Xiao, CIO at BT Business, a division of British Telecom, and one of Computerworlds 40 Under 40, developed one of the first e-business applications in Japan.

Mistakes such as putting down co-workers or burning bridges when you resign are surefire ways to darken your career prospects. Here's how to avoid them Hype and promises abound in the IT world, but these six breakthroughs really will change your life, says author and former IT manager John Brandon. Baby boomers are retiring and taking their knowledge with them. Why do so few in IT seem to care? Computerworld editors share stories of their first PCs, including some classics and some real clunkers -- then we ask readers to share their early-PC tales.

Reviews, analyses, how-tos, visual tours, hot issues and predictions about Microsoft's new OS.

More Continuing Coverage After 9/11: Homeland SecurityAsk a Premier 100 IT LeaderBlackBerry Legal BattleData Security BreachesElectronic VotingFirefoxH-1B VisasHP's Boardroom ScandalHandheld DevicesHurricane Katrina AftermathMicrosoft Legal IssuesMicrosoft's VistaOpen SourceRFID TechnologySCO's Linux FightSarbanes-Oxley ActSpamVoice Over IPWi-FiWindows Meta File VulnerabilityWindows XP Service Pack 2

Four years from now, the IT field will be a vastly different place. Will you be ready?

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