Businesses demand immediate, ready access to real-time data integrated from disparate sources. Software-based data sharing fulfills that need.

Written by Craig Johnson

Editor's note: This article is an extract from "Get the Facts: Real-Time, On-Demand Information for Business Intelligence and Data Integration," available free from the MC Press White Paper Center.

Business moves at the speed of light. At one time, the preceding statement would have been rhetorical. Today, it's often literal.

Still the leading industry technology for archiving data, magnetic tape gets a boost from researchers in Switzerland and Japan, who say it's much greener than disk.

Written by Chris Smith

If you are one of those people who has resisted the move to back up everything to disk because you just like knowing you have a tape offsite that has all the company's data going back to the Vietnam War, then take heart; you have just been given a new lease on life with a breakthrough in tape technology.

Users can transfer files across the enterprise easily and securely using FTP and FTPS. 

QSystem Monitor’s new MONCHKMXS command allows users to create and manage up to 46 different dedicated MIMIX monitors.