Announcing a transition to open standards, SAP AG said yesterday its new MySAP products will support the J2EE Java specification. The company sees this as a step toward full support for Web Services and interoperability.
Enterprises have spent time and money to manage information assets on the back end, but the front-end – the side information workers see – sometimes goes neglected. To help enterprises quickly ramp up front-ends, last week, Microsoft Corp. introduced Data Analyzer.
In moving from direct-attached to network-attached storage, Continental Airlines has found high availability, a flexible storage infrastructure and backup times that have been reduced from days to hours.
As you've probably gathered from the plethora of hype and hope freely available from the vendor of your choice, Web services are the next distributed computing paradigm. [
We're trying to preserve vast amounts of digital data reliably for 100 years—but the storage media themselves haven't been proven to last that long.
Meeting the challenges of moving a major U.K. company to Windows 2000 and Active Directory is easier than defusing bombs, but perhaps just as challenging.
Becoming a top-notch CIO: Start in the trenches of IT, spend some time learning on the business side and then meld
Managing a mainframe- or midrange-based data center often demands an ability to adapt to new requirements and innovations at the user level. That's why two companies in different industries recently set up a unique operational partnership that takes advantage of one another's resources.
This manager's guiding $6.9-billion deal with EDS to transform the U.S. Navy's view of e-business, including what might be the largest smart-card rollout ever.
Transforming IT thinking by changing how a company's strategies align with its information technology people and products.
How do we make the most of our existing systems while incorporating new applications and data in order to stay competitive?
An early approach to making e-commerce work by focusing on customers and customer needs—while still using the Web in innovative ways.
No one likes to dwell on it, but the dependence of business on electronic information—both its integrity and its availability—creates huge vulnerabilities for organizations counting on that information. IT and business managers everywhere need to be concerned about threats to data stored electronically.
We talk with a handful of leaders who are making big footprints in the world of IT. They'll show you how they've inspired their staff, pulled off high-profile projects with flair and are successfully merging business with technology.
There's no doubt that our industry comes up with some real show-stoppers, both good and bad—and manages to do so in rapid succession. The question is: How could you have avoided the money-wasting dead ends?
You need to cheaply connect users around the globe while keeping the rest of the world out. A VPN may provide an astonishingly quick ROI compared to your current solution.
Making the CIO a full partner in the business side—and stressing the business importance of IT.
The USDA needed to access disparate databases scattered in regional agencies across the country. With a middleware solution and minimal programming, data now flows from an IBM mainframe into Microsoft SQL Server and then to users' browsers.
Imagine if the fundamental protocols that make Web services work were suddenly exposed to claims of intellectual property and, in extreme cases, royalty payments.
IBM Corp. announced today it had added functionality to its TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server, nicknamed “Shark,” to better serve the needs of its enterprise customers. The features improve the management and performance of the high-end storage cabinet.
Taking a page from IBM’s playbook, Sun Microsystems Inc. launched two entry-level servers yesterday as consolidation solutions. Sun believes enterprises will be interested in moving two or more commodity servers onto a single Solaris Unix server.
Last week, IBM Corp. subsidiary Tivoli Systems Inc. rolled out three new security products to help enterprises create an umbrella security system. Tivoli Identity Director, Tivoli Policy Director, and Tivoli Intrusion Manager each address specific security issues within complex computing environments.
Although Windows XP is a desktop OS and many of the flashiest new features target home users, it still offers compelling reasons to move from older client versions, particularly Windows 95 and 98.
United Devices, Inc., a startup from Austin, Texas, today launched a new way for companies to deploy distributed computing technologies in the enterprise. Companies can use existing desktop machines for performing technical calculations that would ordinarily require a supercomputer.
Today, IBM Corp. completed its launch of its new Unix server line with the introduction of the p610 server.
Today, IBM Corp. completed its launch of its new Unix server line with the introduction of the p610 server. The p610 is a two-processor Unix server, positioned in a market space long dominated by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Confirming its devotion to the Linux platform, IBM Corp. made available a version of the Websphere application server for the open-source operating system. Websphere Commerce Suite V5.1, a version for creating e-commerce sites, now operates on Linux.
Computer Associates International, Inc. announced yesterday the updated version of its BrightStor CA-Vantage SRM product for mainframes.