Recently, I was involved with the implementation of a replication solution at an electric utility company. This implementation was the center piece of a disaster recovery (DR) implementation for one of their power plants. Normally, when a replication solution is implemented, data recoverability at the remote site is mandatory. After all, what good is the ...

The New York Times says it will charge readers for full access to its Web site starting in 2011, a risky move aimed at drawing more revenue online without driving away advertisers that want the biggest possible audience. The potential pitfalls have made most other major newspapers hesitant to take a similar step. However, after ...

A growing number of technical and economic incentives are mounting that make a strong case for modernizing and transforming enterprise mainframe applications — and the aging infrastructure that support them. IT budget planners are using the strident economic environment to force a harder look at alternatives to inflexible and hard-to-manage legacy systems, especially as enterprises ...