Data Management

Supply on demand

Manufacturers need to know what's selling before they can produce and deliver their wares in the right quantities

Can you try software as a service before you buy it?

Our survey of SaaS vendors showed that some offer a trial run before you commit

SugarCRM preps next version of open-source apps

Sugar Suite update gains e-mail marketing and forecasting components

All aboard for more efficient Web applications

The Train architecture dynamically batches user requests to improve server performance

Smooth and swift SQL Server backups

Imceda's LiteSpeed 2005 makes light work of heavyweight database backups

Editor’s note

IBM to unveil European restructuring plan by June

Job cuts that are expected to be in the thousands as IMB closes some operations

HP to open centers in Poland and Russia

HP plans to invest $50 million in Polish BPO center

Geeks board big boat, SCO barely stays afloat

Software keeps misbehavin'

DPM aims to keep off the data weight

Redmond's attempt at distributed, disk-based backup oddly won't play nice with DFS