Features & News


Q&A: BMC on IBM's Candle Acquisition, Licensing Costs, and Cost of Ownership Issues

BMC's director of its MainView product discusses IBM's takeover of Candle, plus getting the best value from licensing

Enterprise Grid Alliance Premieres, Meets Resistance

Twenty industry members say alliance will encourage and accelerate the development of grid solutions for the data center through interoperability solutions

All Systems Go for IT Spending

International Data Corp. reports the first meaningful increase in IT spending since 2000—mostly in the western U.S.

IT Briefs: SAP Components, Manugistics’ Strategy Summit

Catalyst's visionary ComponentsNow marketplace for SAP users; Manugistics updates its progress on strategies announced at last year’s Envision conference, plus insight into company's view of its market

The End of Disaster Recovery Planning

Disaster recovery planning must become an integral part of application development so the right middleware and coding choices are made at the outset of system design.

IBM's New zSeries Attracts Midsize Market with Lower Cost, Greater Scalability

Big Blue continues its push of entry-level mainframes into midsize companies with aggressive pricing, 28 capacity levels

Customer Data Integration Efforts Driving ETL Growth

Established ETL purveyors must increasingly compete against database vendors for market share, though no vendor consolidation is forecast.



Q&A: Securing Mobile Workers

By 2006, over half the U.S. workforce will be mobile. Security managers face a daunting task.

Disabling Rogue WLAN Access

Detect, then actively block, unauthorized WLAN users

Salesforce.com Unveils CRM Update

Highlights of the latest release include support for WebSphere and Lotus notes, improved sales lead management, and improved calendaring from the hosted CRM vendor.

Celequest: The Dashboard is Key

Company replaces Excel with a new dashboard in its Activity Suite, its business activity monitoring software.

Five Signs Your Enterprise Needs Distributed Security

After years of merely reacting to new vulnerabilities, a centralized security model can no longer counter today's threats.

Worst Security Problem: Attachments

Security policies and education aren't enough

And The Winner Is...

In a market with few innovations, we find some noteworthy achievements among storage vendors and their promoters.

Oracle Revamps JDeveloper for Grids, Ease-of-Use

Company says its new JDeveloper 10g IDE delivers a J2EE development environment that simplifies J2EE coding non-Java programmers and facilitates development for computational grids.

BMC to Web Services-Enable Service Management Tool

Company says Web services interfaces can simplify how customers and partners integrate SIM with their applications and products

Job Scheduler Re-emerges as Workflow Automation

Tidal Software's Enterprise Scheduler can automate jobs based on “business calendars” so operators can run a job on relative dates (such as the first and third Thursdays each month)

IT Briefs: Dell/Oracle Alliance, Datasweep Release, Microsoft Forms RFID Council

Dell to include Oracle database software in PowerEdge servers; Datasweep releases J2EE version of Datasweep Advantage Suite Version 6.0; RFID council formed

Storage Growth: Lowering The Limbo Stick

The reality is that demand for more storage is not growing as much as originally forecast—and the forecast revisions are significant. How are analysts deriving their numbers?

Microsoft Reporting to Ship in Visual Studio Control

SQL Reporting Services will be available in 2005 version of Visual Studio