Enterprise


Survey: Getting More for Your IT Dollar

It's not about how much IT spends. World-class companies know how to spend their IT budget wisely.

Black Outs and Virii and Worms, Oh My!

Imation Corporation survey shows IT infrastructure poorly safeguarded, despite recent natural and man-made events

Alerts: CiscoWorks, P2P Software Vulnerable

Cisco details vulnerabilities in CiscoWorks; eMule code hiding in P2P software

Spammers Increasing Methods to Avoid Detection

Techniques for challenging and defeating spam filters continue to grow

Seeking the Perfect Patch Process

To avoid the patch-and-pray cycle, IT organizations need to examine how to make vulnerabilities such as Sobig seem so small.

BMC Partners with GoldenGate for Disaster Recovery

SmartDBA database management tool gets bi-directional data synchronization and replication capabilities.

Do E-mails Reveal Oracle's True Plans for PeopleSoft?

Advocates say Oracle's bid is an attempt to acquire the customer base or destroy the company, but were excerpts taken out of context?



Careers: Hiring Freeze

Just nine percent of CIOs say they plan to hire new IT professionals next quarter, while four percent expect further cuts.

NuView Sequels Keep Coming

StorageX answers a specific problem with a good solution. But how can the company cope with a niche solution that refuses to remain just a niche solution?

Vulnerabilities: IE Cross-Domain Security Flaw, Database Component Exposure

Microsoft releases a patch for IE 5.01 and above; company's Data Access Components could run hacker's code

Best Practices in Security Training

Worms and legislation dictate the need for security-savvy employees; here's how to train them and reinforce human nature.

Sobig Lives Up to Its Name

It's been a banner month for viruses, as new vulnerabilities were unleashed and others lingered

Q&A: IBM Talks Power5

With Power5, IBM introduced Simultaneous Multithreading, in which each of the processors on the chip looks to the software like two processors. The technology offers 40 percent more performance.

SCO Update: Users Say They'll Stay the Course

Though SCO disclosed examples of copyrighted code in Linux, most users were unimpressed, and few say they'll change their plans—for now.

SAP Server Consolidation: Consider Linux, Analyst Says

zSeries/SAP consolidation offers cost savings and performance potential that enterprises should consider, Sageza Group reports

IBM Entices Customers to zSeries

IBM announced it will offer customers significant new incentives—including dramatically reduced software license costs and zSeries rebates—to move non-traditional mainframe applications

Hitachi Data Systems' Hu Yoshida Looks Ahead

The author of a foundational white paper is struggling to figure out what the storage utility model really is.

Worm Continues Blast Across Internet

Worm exploits RPC/DOM vulnerability; denial-of-service attacks still likely

Passwords and Identity: Seeking Synergy

Do password management software and identity synchronization software naturally go together? One thing's for sure: the ROI for both categories is attractive.

Alerts: BSD and Postfix Vulnerabilities; File-Sharing Dangers

New vulnerabilities in BSD operating system and Postfix, a popular mail transfer agent; the FTC warns about the dangers of file-sharing