Enterprise


SAP Makes Homeland Security Play

Software to help agencies collaborate, manage operations, and share information securely

Security News in Brief

New vulnerability in Windows Me; new virus hits Outlook and Outlook Express; Cisco offers new intrusion protection and firewall extensions to several products; iWay, announces four new applications to

How to "Speak Security" to Executives

Discussing security issues with upper management

Case in Point: Making Windows Safe for the Data Center

MSA program emphasizes customer, vendor relationships

News in Brief

EMC improves Symmetrix arrays; IBM updates VSE/ESA operating environment and introduces new DB2 for VSE and VM; Texas Memory Systems ships 1 TB memory cache

IBM and HP Displace Sun as Unix Server Leader

Jockeying for position in market share, revenues, growth

iSCSI: The Best Darn Protocol You’ll Probably Never Use

Nearly three years overdue, the new iSCSI protocol lets SCSI operate as an application across a TCP/IP network. Is it too little too late?



IBM King of Shrinking Server Market Heap

Sun remains tops in the Unix server market

News In Brief

MS SQL beats Oracle in benchmarks, COBOL for Linux on zSeries, server and storage provisioning solutions grow, and Orbix Mainframe update

Sun Details Subscription Software Package, Touts “Throughput Computing”

SunONE and Solaris to be available in unified subscription package

Comeback for PGP?

The popular encryption format gets a new lease on life, but can it finally reach critical mass in the enterprise?

Security Spending Still Strong

Identity management and Web services key, says IDC; Gartner foresees emergence of security platforms

Hitting The Books for Security+

First study guide available for new security certification

Economic Downturn Dampens Salary Increases

Study finds professional certifications more likely to bring larger raises

IBM Tries to Do More With Less

Big Blue to push small servers as alternatives to competitors' larger SMP systems

News in Brief

Outsourcing IP VPNs, IBM's Rational Software acquisition, and BEA's updated Tuxedo for Web Services

The Bell Tolls For BMC Storage Management

After assuming the mantle of “mind share leader” in application-centric storage management, BMC After assuming the mantle of “mind share leader” in application-centric storage management, BMC Software has pulled the plug on its storage business unit. Lamentations aside, the company is owed a few parting kudos for steering the storage industry a couple of degrees toward the direction of end user requirements.

HP, Cisco Partner for Utility Computing

HP, IBM, and Sun market competing infrastructures for utility computing

Mammoth Servers in the Offing

HP and IBM separately disclosed chip technologies that will double the capacity of their current server offerings

Data Center Embraces Voice over IP

A spring storm forced the state of Connecticut to undergo a $15 million move to a new data center with Voice over IP, improved network performance, and better mainframe and server maintenance.