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Companies Defect as Anti-virus Software Struggles with Worms

The latest threats have companies reconsidering their anti-virus tools, wondering if AV is becoming irrelevant. Increasingly, companies are looking at application-level personal firewalls and all-in-one gateway hardware for PCs.

BI Marketplace: What’s in Store for ‘04

Niche specialists will find themselves competing against stronger companies that have acquired their struggling competitors. Organizations need to make contingency plans.

Business Process Management: Are You Looking at the Right Products?

According to Forrester Research, one third of companies are currently using or piloting BPM products or services. The company's suggestions for matching your needs with the right BPM vendors.

Exploiting IM for Back-End Systems Communications

Proponents say IM can function as XML message brokers between systems at a fraction of the cost of traditional messaging middleware; putting an IM interface on a back-end application can bring big benefits.

Q&A: The Future of Notes and Domino

Is the Notes client on its way out? The latest on Notes, Domino, and products shown at Lotusphere, including Lotus Workplace Builder.

The Myth of Storage Grids

Storage vendors use "grid" as a sexy, futuristic-sounding metaphor, but grid storage has nothing whatsoever to do with grid computing.

First Worm Outbreak of the Year Packs a Wallop

MyDoom monopolizes Internet via e-mail harvesting, P2P file sharing, back door



Guarding Against Your Partner's Web Services Flaws

Coding errors in Web Services code at your partners can trigger problems on your own systems.

Product Shootout: Intrusion Prevention

Third-party testing firm analyzes leading IDS products, encounters surprises.

Microsoft Unveils Reporting Services Add-On

Product offers a "one-stop shop" for creating, managing, and publishing ad hoc or production reports.

Behind the Ascential/PeopleSoft Agreement

Ascential can now claim to be the data integration vendor of choice with both SAP and PeopleSoft.

Briefs

New worm and Trojan software unleashed; purported PayPal mail carries worm

Siebel: Improving CRM OnDemand, One Acquisition at a Time

Actions show Siebel is putting its money where its mouth is in the hosted CRM market; CEO positions CRM OnDemand for small to mid-size enterprises.

IBM's NT-to-Linux Migration Initiative, SuSE Certification Among LinuxWorld Highlights

Expectations were high, and attendees weren't disappointed

Careers: Offshore Outsourcing Hits U.S. IT Workers Hard

A new study shows that offshore outsourcing drives down U.S. IT wages; firm predicts up to 45 percent of full-time IT jobs could be outsourced by 2006

SCO Targets Novell in Latest Lawsuit

Novell arrives as a Linux leader in a big way

IBM Will Increase Employment Faster than Originally Planned

Big Blue says it will create 15,000 more jobs globally, of which 4500 net jobs will be in the United States.

It's All About the FREDs and the BEARs

LiveVault's data protection service replaces tape backup in small and medium-size businesses.

The Human Dimension in Disaster Recovery

Your disaster recovery plan must consider more than just protecting and restoring your data. Your staff has to be recovered as well.

Salesforce.com Plugs into Microsoft Office

Company announces a new plug-in for importing Salesforce.com data into Excel, Word, and Outlook.