While many products today talk a good game about policy-based data management, Arkivio is once again ahead of the pack.
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.
Ascential Software says it has moved from an ETL provider to a data integration company. Will 2005 be the year of metadata?
Product is designed for users who need analytics functionality but don't want a power-user tool.
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.
The mainframe is the hub of a network of connected devices, making it ever more vulnerable to attacks.
Company mum about the future
How integrating security code testing into the development cycle saves time and dollars
Governments have made cyber-crime a matter of public policy. But without an organized, multi-disciplinary, international approach, the problem will remain.
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.
Worldwide disk storage systems sales could easily reach an exabyte by next year.
Customers losing patience with negotiating database licenses are increasingly adopting open source DBMSes such as MySQL
Analysts from professional services firm Tallán explain the trends IT must manage next year.
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.
Clustered file system advocates have positioned their solutions as alternatives to the monolithic file systems (such as WAFL).
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.
Companies must protect their data as well as their reputations.
Time if running out for comments on XQuery, meaning a unified standard for querying structured and unstructured data is getting closer to approval.
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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