Features & News


MyDoom Details from Kaspersky Labs

Newest vulerabilities feed on old worm to take aim at Microsoft's Web site

Solving the Patch Management Headache

Best practices in keeping the desktop secure

Cognos Revamps Enterprise Planning Tool

Product improves insight into corporate performance management by incorporating financial and operational planning processes into BI and scorecarding.

Briefs

New Mydoom variants; Vulnerabilities in IE browser, Checkpoint products; January a banner month for threats.

Microsoft Reaffirms Commitment to Crystal Reports

Release of the company's Reporting Services add-on for SQL Server won't stop distribution of the limited-use version of Crystal Reports with Visual Studio. Meanwhile, Business Objects introduces a lower-priced version of Crystal Enterprise for small-to-midsize companies.

Oracle Touts a Hub for Enterprise Information Integration

Customer Data Hub serves as a single repository for data consolidation and cleansing.

Beyond Perimeter Defense: Securing Online Transactions

Encrypting, monitoring, and auditing access to actual data



When Worlds Collide: Getting Business and IT on the Same Page

Keep these four key goals in mind to ensure your business/IT alignment strategy is a success

Survey: SLAs Ratchet Up Pressure on IT

A study of over 1,000 data center administrators sheds light on how service level agreements are being used and the penalties imposed when performance falls short.

EclipseCon Wrap-Up

The open source Eclipse Foundation held its first-ever developer conference, where it announced its break from IBM and Sun said it might join after all.

Q&A: The Making of a Master (Technology) Inventor

A 37-year-old inventor holding 17 patents, with 30 more pending, talks about invention, innovation, collaboration, and patents.

Historical Fact or Historical Revisionism?

Did EMC announcements threaten to drive the industry down the path it chose, or was the company just using reverse psychology to spur cooperation?

Can-Spam, Laced with Loopholes, Creates Confusion

New legislation has failed to stem the tide of unsolicited e-mail, protecting e-mailers who follow the letter but not the spirit of the law.

Teradata Cozies Up to SAP

Partnership highlights Teradata’s unique analytic strengths

Users Cheer Microsoft’s New Reporting Services

Testers laud ability to create more seamless applications and its deeper level of report creation and management.

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.