Features & News


Zip It Shut: New Enterprise-level Encryption Tools

PKWare's new cross-platform encryption products protect everything from e-mails to sensitive HIPAA information, proving Zip suitable for more than just PCs

Revamped SunFire 12K and 15K Enhance Performance At Lower Cost

Sun beefs up high-end servers, announces hardware support for Memory Placement Optimization

Sun Introduces New 12-Way Server, Mulls Fate of SunFire 3800

Competitors mount challenges to Sun in midrange RISC-Unix space

IBM License Manager a No Go

Is sub-capacity pricing from ISVs dead, too?

EMC Reinvents Symmetrix Line

New DMX architecture delivers significant performance improvements

Invasion of the Tin-Wrapped Software Appliances

Increasingly, functionality to support storage networking and management is being provided by start-up companies who choose to embed their technology in an appliance format. We offer a few questions

IBM Flexes Grid Computing Muscle for Smallpox Research

Grid could hasten the development of medication to combat smallpox infection



Killing Slammer Is Not Enough

A tiny piece of code caused big problems. We examine what lessons IT has learned.

Communicator Unveils First Liberty Product

Web Services standards show up, slowly

Handheld Security Still Unresolved

Yankee Group warns against decentralized wireless handheld adoption

At Lotusphere, IBM Touts Next-Gen Messaging, New WebSphere Portal, and Development Tools

Back-to-basics messaging application leverages WebSphere, DB2, LDAP underpinnings—but no Domino

Q&A With Sun’s Grid Guru

Dr. Wolfgang Gentzsch, director of grid computing, discusses the distributed computing technology

Renegotiating for Cost Savings

Identifying your software assets and scrutinizing your licensing contracts can result in surprising cost savings

Case In Point: How Storage Management Vendors Should Support Customers

Forbes.com CTO Mike Smith reveals how a solution from Tek-Tools took into account a customer's needs and preferences to solve a common storage problem—capacity management.

IBM Unveils Grid “Bundles”

Bundled grids are tailored to the requirements of specific verticals

Getting the Most From Intrusion Detection Systems

Proponents of Security Information Management tools say that their products can help to tame the wild profusion of IDS data

Tivoli Identity Manager Giveth and Taketh Away

IBM’s new product automates provisioning user privileges across distributed environments

Open Source Showstopper

Flaw in open source version control and collaboration system could enable root compromise

LinuxWorld Wrap-Up

LinuxCare and MySQL AB announce products for Big Iron

zSeries Mainframes Power Pro Golf's On-Demand Computing

PGA Tour leverages IBM’s Virtual Linux Services running on zSeries to support key application