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In a few short weeks, Microsoft will ship Sphinx, the final test release of SQL Server 7.0-a milestone upgrade to its relational database management system for Windows NT. The new […]

###Bruce Caldwell with John Foley IBM, once the master of the glass house, now wants to be the facilitator of electronic business. The company is shifting billions of dollars in […]

Year 2000, Windows NT pricing, Java, supply-chain management, desktop-computing choices, knowledge management. These are just a few of the issues that have consumed IT professionals' time and energy over the […]

The recent record-breaking trading volumes on Wall Street are serving as a wake-up call to businesses in many industries about their transaction-processing capacity. A booming economy, market deregulation, and corporate […]

Despite what you may have heard about Microsoft becoming a media company, the software vendor still has software on its mind. And it's called Windows NT 5.0. "NT 5.0 is […]

Jim Gray is chasing an idea that could transform the economics of business computing. Gray, a senior researcher in Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center in San Francisco, thinks it's possible […]

Last year, Larry Ellison hyped the NC. Now, Ray Lane and Oracle's 30,000 employees must deliver on the promise. For Larry Ellison, it's time to deliver the goods. The Oracle […]

Technology is helping companies treat their best customers like individuals again. The payoff-and the challenges-can be enormous. Though 30 million people hold American Express cards, the company wants to treat […]

Year In Review -- While some products were mere hype, many others made indelible marks on the way we use information technology Over the past 12 months, the IT landscape […]

The company has bet on a network-computing strategy. But so far, user interest and financial returns remain 'discussion and theology.' One year ago, IBM positioned itself to grab a share […]

Bill Gates may be the most optimistic man in America. "I think it's fun to surprise the world with how well you're going to do on things," he says. Gates, […]

Corporations have discovered a simple formula for turn- ing their data into a strategic advantage: More is better. Organizations are stockpiling ever-larger amounts of data on products, customers, and transactions […]

With so much energy and money being lavished on the Internet and World Wide Web, it would be easy to assume that innovation in other areas of the computer industry […]

Database software suppliers face the biggest technical challenge in a decade. Driven by applications that combine legacy and multimedia data, Informix, Oracle, Sybase, and others seek to build a "universal […]

In the race to become the leading corporate applications server, Microsoft's Windows NT is swiftly passing IBM's OS/2 Warp Server and Novell's NetWare. But the real champion remains Unix, the […]

Information overload threatens to drown the American worker. The sheer volume of data-from E-mail, voicemail, the Internet and World Wide Web, fax, news feeds, commercial online services, and much more-keeps […]

All major Unix vendors now support a handful of important standard technologies. Still, users clamor for full interoperability. When the space shuttle Endeavour launched into orbit last month, it was […]

The launch of Windows 95 Although the spotlight is on Microsoft's Windows 95, some business users will delay moving to the operating system until they get answers on stability, cost, […]

Long the domain of computer scientists and hackers, freeware is moving into the mainstream. The Linux operating system, Mosaic browser, and Satan network security tools are just three of many […]

With transaction volumes rising and databases getting bigger, companies are turning to data mining as a way to gain insights into the vast amounts of data they're generating and collecting. […]

Sabre Group Holdings Inc., best known for its huge travel reservation system, faces a big challenge. Spun off as a public company late last year by parent AMR Corp., Sabre […]

You've heard about Microsoft's plans to move into the enterprise systems market. Now get ready to pay the bill. While Microsoft has yet to announce official pricing for the recently […]

After three years of development, mounting to several hundred worker-years, Oracle8 is finally ready. On June 24, Oracle will roll out the much-anticipated upgrade to its database-management system. It is […]

Robert Lewis knew there was a serious problem soon after arriving at the major financial firm that had called to seek his help with its data warehouse. Lewis, who oversees […]

Microsoft has a thing about big numbers. Its Windows operating system runs on tens of millions of PCs, the company likes to point out, and shipments of Windows NT servers […]

This could be the make-or- break year for Sybase Inc. The software company hopes to escape from its financial doldrums and regain customer confidence with new products and an aggressive […]

Informix Software is about to ask its customers to make a leap of faith. At DB/Expo '96 in New York next week, the company will take the wraps off its […]

Companies are discovering new uses for their data warehouses. Instead of using these information repositories strictly for internal decision support, a few organizations have begun opening them to business partners […]

The grass is always greener in Redmond, Wash. Just ask the landscapers who regularly spray the lawns of Microsoft's 260-acre campus with biodegradable paint--or the executives charged with convincing skeptical […]

Oracle and Informix, the two largest suppliers of database management software, are about to take their rivalry to the industry's hottest new market: intranets. This month both companies will outline […]

A slew of new data warehousing and mining products promises to make it even easier for companies to sort through, analyze, and store information so they can better understand their […]

Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corp., best known for its bargain-rate garments, is applying its price-cutter philosophy to corporate computer networks. The $1.5 billion retail chain plans to freeze purchases of […]

If the pressure's on, Scott McNealy doesn't show it. While reports of Sun Microsystems' attempt to acquire Apple Computer set the PC industry abuzz, the Sun CEO showed up at […]

If you consider yourself leading edge because you just upgraded to 32-bit software and left the 16-bit world behind, think again. An entirely new generation of systems, based on superfast […]

Internet, reengineering, and client-server systems boost venerable operating system Call it the Cal Ripken Syndrome. While Microsoft's Windows NT operating system garnered the lion's share of publicity and Novell's NetWare […]

Insurance companies try to reduce their reliance on aging mainframes There's a growing sense of urgency among the nation's insurance companies that has nothing to do with hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, […]

Federal IT pros must consider 'what if' scenarios and the jurisdictional questions that could come into play in foreign countries The U.S. government has adopted a 'cloud first' strategy--a policy [...]

In one of the biggest cloud computing deployments in the federal government, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will soon begin using Microsoft's Exchange Online and other cloud services for 100,000 [...]

The drugmaker doesn't have all the answers, but it has a lot more experience than most There are some urgent business reasons why Eli Lilly has been an aggressive user [...]

Cloud And More New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's sweeping new IT strategy entails consolidating the city's tech infrastructure, centralizing IT planning, and now muscling through a cost-cutting deal with Microsoft. [...]

Lockheed Demoted The FBI's CIO is taking a bold step to salvage the agency's long-troubled case management IT system:?He plans to take over management of the project and shunt primary [...]

With projects ranging from safer Web browsing to a 21st century air traffic control system, federal, state, and local agencies demonstrate that they, too, can apply IT in critical and [...]

Federal IT pros are guided more by the priorities of their respective agencies than by the Obama administration's wish list, our survey data shows Establishing an IT strategy is one [...]

People The FBI may be unique among federal agencies, with both its CIO and CTO coming from Wall Street, but the bureau's tech leadership has deep experience in FBI operations [...]

FBI CIO Chad Fulgham has made progress getting agents the collaboration tech they need. But some of the biggest challenges are still ahead. In his snoop-proof office, located down a [...]

'Army Scale' The CIO of the U.S. Army has imposed a moratorium on server purchases across Army operations. It's a move aimed at stopping the proliferation of single-purpose physical servers [...]

FBI's IT Makeover The FBI has completed an upgrade to its network infrastructure and is six months into deploying a new, collaboration-oriented PC environment in its 56 field offices. Meantime, [...]

SaaS apps wouldn't necessarily be cheaper than the city's outdated desktop environment, but they would almost certainly be better San Jose lies in the heart of Silicon Valley, but you'd [...]

Want to know what kind of data center switches you'll be running in a few years? Look at Arista Networks' Arista 7500, the top Best Of Interop honoree at Interop [...]