The mainframe is the hub of a network of connected devices, making it ever more vulnerable to attacks.
Governments have made cyber-crime a matter of public policy. But without an organized, multi-disciplinary, international approach, the problem will remain.
Ascential Software says it has moved from an ETL provider to a data integration company. Will 2005 be the year of metadata?
From Linux synchronization and denial of service attacks to some good news about spending on security—a quick look at this week's other security news.
Company mum about the future
We spoke recently with Jim Rhyne, a distinguished engineer and eServer tools and enterprise modernization architect with IBM. Our discussion ranged from the scope of enterprise modernization (hint, companies often fail to adequately anticipate skills modernization), the phenomenon of mainframe brain drain (Rhyne isn’t convinced that there’s anything to it), application modernization strategies and, of course, the maturity of the Web services standards themselves.
Customers losing patience with negotiating database licenses are increasingly adopting open source DBMSes such as MySQL
Spending on storage and software should grow fastest next year. Among CIOs' top priorities next year: cost reduction, security, application integration, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
Worldwide disk storage systems sales could easily reach an exabyte by next year.
Analysts from professional services firm Tallán explain the trends IT must manage next year.
Clustered file system advocates have positioned their solutions as alternatives to the monolithic file systems (such as WAFL).
Is the information you’re funneling to business decision-makers accurate and reliable?
Companies must protect their data as well as their reputations.
Microsoft will support XML/A and claims to have simplified the MultiDimensional eXpressions language used by Analysis Services to define calculations and security rules, among other changes.
Top growth areas: firewalls, IDS/IPS, virus scanning, and vulnerability assessment. By 2005, security managers plan to buy all-in-one appliances that combine these functions. Infonetics Research also
Time if running out for comments on XQuery, meaning a unified standard for querying structured and unstructured data is getting closer to approval.
Oracle releases most, but not all patches, necessary to protect against SSL vulnerability. Kaspersky Labs reveals the top troublemakers in November. Yahoo's popular instant messaging program vulnerabilities.
Tool providers recognize the lack of interoperability is a serious problem, but solutions vary greatly.
New SEC rules among the reasons fewer companies will offer the benefit next year