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Setting Up Policies the Arkivio Way

While many products today talk a good game about policy-based data management, Arkivio is once again ahead of the pack.

IBM Moves Into Regulatory Compliance Arena

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act has created a busy cottage industry for technology and professional services firms that market solutions designed to help companies meet certain aspects of compliance.

Q&A: ETL Dead and Done With?

Ascential Software says it has moved from an ETL provider to a data integration company. Will 2005 be the year of metadata?

Counteroffensive: Actuate Unveils Analytics Offering

Product is designed for users who need analytics functionality but don't want a power-user tool.

Alerts: Linux Vulnerabilities, Security Spending, Symantec's List of Top Threats in November

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.

Mainframe Security: Good Enough for the 21st Century?

The mainframe is the hub of a network of connected devices, making it ever more vulnerable to attacks.

Business Objects Completes Crystal Acquisition

Company mum about the future



Q&A: Arresting Bugs Earlier in Development Cycle Cuts Security Costs

How integrating security code testing into the development cycle saves time and dollars

Commentary: Solving Internet Crime Needs International Approach

Governments have made cyber-crime a matter of public policy. But without an organized, multi-disciplinary, international approach, the problem will remain.

Q&A: Application Modernization Strategies

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.

Breaking the Next Storage Barrier

Worldwide disk storage systems sales could easily reach an exabyte by next year.

DBMS Licensing Woes Turn Customers to Open Source Systems

Customers losing patience with negotiating database licenses are increasingly adopting open source DBMSes such as MySQL

Ten Technology Predictions for 2004

Analysts from professional services firm Tallán explain the trends IT must manage next year.

Happy Days Are Here Again – Sort Of

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.

Of File Systems and Databases, Part 2: Clustered File Systems

Clustered file system advocates have positioned their solutions as alternatives to the monolithic file systems (such as WAFL).

Microsoft Reveals OLAP and Data Mining Features in Next SQL Server

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.

Q&A: Protecting Web Applications from Unknown Attacks

Companies must protect their data as well as their reputations.

Last Call for XQuery

Time if running out for comments on XQuery, meaning a unified standard for querying structured and unstructured data is getting closer to approval.

Business Objects/Kalido Partnership Tackles Data Quality

Is the information you’re funneling to business decision-makers accurate and reliable?

Security Budgets Will Rise Rapidly, Researchers Predict

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