Business Continuity: Technology Reports from InformationWeek

Reinvent The Data Warehouse With Column-Store Databases And Appliances
These approaches beat out conventional databases in price and performance. Here's how to find products that fit with your company's data analysis needs.

Credit Suisse And UPMC Try The Spin-Out Road For In-House Technology
It's not an easy leap, though, from in-house IT tool to the entrepreneurial, commercial product mind-set.

Analytics Summary: BPO Survey
InformationWeek's latest poll on enterprise use of business process outsourcing reveals a mix of angst and opportunities.

Comply Or Die: Data Disposition Must Be A Priority
IT groups rethinking the "save everything forever" approach find deletion and retention policies and tools must be razor sharp to cut through a morass of regulations.

With Data Deduplication, Less Is More
Deduplication technology is moving beyond backup and into other applications.

XKL Brings New Life To Dark Fiber
New system from Cisco co-founder Len Bosack taps existing cable for low-cost, no-fuss optical networks.

More Business Continuity Reports

Pool Your Resources With File Virtualization
5/18/2008
Here's a look at the drawbacks and benefits of this compelling technology, which makes disparate storage resources look like a single system.

E-Mail Archives And Litigation: Here's How To Get It Right
6/23/2008
Failure to manage e-mail can cost millions in court. A popular framework and an archiving system can help get your house in order--and pay dividends in the legal realm and beyond.

Virtualization's Promise And Problems
5/18/2008
The virtual desktop and data center are here, but for this technology to continue taking over the enterprise, I/O and security issues need to be addressed.

Time To Give Your Enterprise Software The Boot?
6/6/2008
InformationWeek's Enterprise Software Attitudes Special Report looks at the available options--conventional licensed software, software as a service, and open source; where they work and where they don't; and what's keeping customers from making application changes when they're unhappy.

Guide To Cloud Computing
6/23/2008
The market is getting crowded with Web-based software and storage offerings. Here's what you need to know about the cloud computing strategies of Amazon, Google, Salesforce, and five other leading vendors.