Features & News


IBM Sells 1000th z800

University of Florida deploys baby mainframe to support grid computing research

SCO, IBM Wrangle over Unix, Open Source

SCO sues Big Blue for $1 billion; HP, Sun reassure customers

Addressing Storage Growth with Limited Budgets

A technical support specialist describes his storage problems and asks for advice on a strategy for moving forward.

IBM King of Shrinking Server Market Heap

Sun remains tops in the Unix server market

BEA Touts WebLogic Platform 8.1

BEA users remain firmly committed to company, technology

News In Brief

WebSphere Business Integration suite updated; Half-off price set for new Windows Server 2003 for Web Edition; HP adds outsourced “smart cooling” service for data centers

Enterprise Information Integration Enters the Spotlight

IBM, Oracle, BEA, and others elbow into burgeoning EII market, but no single vendor offers complete EII solution



Survey Says: CRM Adopters Somewhat Satisfied

Resistance to process change, not inadequate funding, is largest obstacle in CRM implementations

SAP Makes Homeland Security Play

Software to help agencies collaborate, manage operations, and share information securely

Security News in Brief

New vulnerability in Windows Me; new virus hits Outlook and Outlook Express; Cisco offers new intrusion protection and firewall extensions to several products; iWay, announces four new applications to

Product News in Brief

Cognos updates Series 7, data quality system DataFuse gets usability release, Advizor ships updated data visualization software, and Decision Point releases a new financial reporting compliance tool

How to "Speak Security" to Executives

Discussing security issues with upper management

Case in Point: Making Windows Safe for the Data Center

MSA program emphasizes customer, vendor relationships

News in Brief

EMC improves Symmetrix arrays; IBM updates VSE/ESA operating environment and introduces new DB2 for VSE and VM; Texas Memory Systems ships 1 TB memory cache

IBM and HP Displace Sun as Unix Server Leader

Jockeying for position in market share, revenues, growth

iSCSI: The Best Darn Protocol You’ll Probably Never Use

Nearly three years overdue, the new iSCSI protocol lets SCSI operate as an application across a TCP/IP network. Is it too little too late?

News In Brief

MS SQL beats Oracle in benchmarks, COBOL for Linux on zSeries, server and storage provisioning solutions grow, and Orbix Mainframe update

IBM King of Shrinking Server Market Heap

Sun remains tops in the Unix server market

Sun Details Subscription Software Package, Touts “Throughput Computing”

SunONE and Solaris to be available in unified subscription package

Security Spending Still Strong

Identity management and Web services key, says IDC; Gartner foresees emergence of security platforms