While the distance limitations of the technology remain unchanged, vendors have been demonstrating that extended-distance clusters can work
Big Blue fills in gaps in its systems management portfolio by buyout of 28-year-old company.
Sun announces a development partnership with AppIQ, which offers a combo storage resource management/SAN management product called StorageAuthority Suite.
Product may compete with company's long-time partners, but those partners aren't worried
Company seeks to expand the definition of CRM to include non-traditional customers
It's not just a matter of blocking unsolicited e-mail. Today's security professionals need to protect against outbound as well as inbound problems.
New report charts security manager dissatisfaction
As popularity of Linux grows, company predicts increasing attempts to create malicious programs that will attack it
The Business Performance Management Standards Group hopes to accelerate adoption of BPM practices in the enterprise
Move could significantly build momentum for the open-source operating system; IBM also announced that SuSE Linux will be a pre-loaded option across all of its eServer systems
Unisys' enhanced ClearPath Libra mainframe line can run a variety of operating systems and supports multiple processors; the company also announced a new pricing model for temporary increases in computing capacity
Researcher foresees move to a subscription-based model by 2010
Acopia is a network-turned-storage-focused company with a new product for managing the network resources that support file access and data movement.
IBM's zSeries marketing manager reviews the mainframe's accomplishments, and explains how mainframes are being deployed today.
Companies adopting dedicated planning and budgeting applications (instead of spreadsheets) typically achieve greater accuracy while budgets and plans are more consistent, though time spent on these tasks wasn’t reduced.
i/Lytics Data Profiler will be released as a standalone solution; integration with its data profiling technology and the rest of the i/Lytics data quality solution will follow
WholeSecurity gives businesses the ability to offer their customers an opt-in PC security sweep to quarantine malicious software
New warnings about Web hosting control panel protection, ISS server-response processing, and Symantec's security software
Update includes revamped portal and enterprise application integration components; it also signals the company’s biggest effort to date to field a complete BI stack
Interest is growing in a new British Standard—BS7799—that is slowly being adopted outside of Britain; companies adopting the standard may find they've implemented a best-practices security program.