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IBM’s Ascential Roadmap Provides Answers, Raises New Questions

IBM’s competitors say some Ascential users could be left in the lurch as Big Blue pursues a much broader information-integration vision.

SANS Top Vulnerability List Gets Quarterly Updates

List helps prioritize vulnerability patching

In Brief

Sober.V Spreads, Apple Fixes 20 OS X Vulnerabilities, Mytob Tops Virus List

Q&A: Enterprises Shift to All-in-One Security Appliances

Why use separate firewall, intrusion detection and prevention, gateway antivirus, and VPN products when one appliance can handle it all?

CA Revamps IMS Management Tool

IMS workloads are growing, and CA says the capabilities of its management tools are keeping pace, too

IBM Completes Ascential Acquisition, Announces Integration Roadmap

Users expecting an infusion of Ascential’s ETL expertise into DB2 may be disappointed

IT Spending Optimism Disappears

IDC revises its IT spending estimates downward, IBM plans to cut 10,000 or more jobs—and things could get tougher still



What Security Provisions Do We Really Need?

Proof is in the pudding….but no one seems to be in the kitchen

Making the Case for Enterprise ETL

Because of several outside drivers, organizations could soon face a come-to-enterprise-ETL moment—whether they want to or not

DataFlux 7.0 Introduces Single Platform for Data Quality

DataFlux adds support for real-time, heterogeneous connectivity to its market-leading data quality tool

Q&A: The Future of Service-Oriented Architecture Security

WS-Security, Liberty, and SAML play nice together

Analysis: SAP’s Big Analytics Push

There’s a lot more upside than downside in SAP’s actions

In Brief

Data Storage Security a Concern; Symantec’s 64-Bit Antivirus; Multiple Mozilla, Netscape Vulnerabilities

All Quiet on the Security Front?

Has the absence of a big security threat lulled you into inaction?

SAP Strikes Back in ERP Wars

SAP last week expanded its ERP Cold War against Oracle, announcing partnerships with IBM and Microsoft

Crafting Uniqueness in Knowledge Work

The essence of good knowledge work is creating outputs of appropriate uniqueness not uniformity.

Users Divided Over Oracle Middleware Initiative

Some users are praising the synergies of a combined Oracle, PeopleSoft, and J.D. Edwards stack—but for others, skepticism about Project Fusion is still the order of the day.

Case Study: An IT Infrastructure Overhaul

IBM last week signed a $400 million contract to design a new on-demand IT infrastructure for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Storage Insecurity

Bank of America's security lapse could happen to you, too