A reader challenges my "success story" column (on buying from a small vendor) with the need to manage risk.
The University of Wisconsin needed to replace legacy homegrown mainframe software, written in COBOL on a Bull mainframe, with Web-based software. It now runs Sun servers hosting Oracle databases.
Vulnerabilities, and how to attack them, detailed in Open Source project report
Spam, mothballing early IDS tools, and more intrusions top Aberdeen’s list of predictions
PKWare's new cross-platform encryption products protect everything from e-mails to sensitive HIPAA information, proving Zip suitable for more than just PCs
Sun beefs up high-end servers, announces hardware support for Memory Placement Optimization
Competitors mount challenges to Sun in midrange RISC-Unix space
Grid could hasten the development of medication to combat smallpox infection
Is sub-capacity pricing from ISVs dead, too?
New DMX architecture delivers significant performance improvements
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
A tiny piece of code caused big problems. We examine what lessons IT has learned.
Web Services standards show up, slowly
Yankee Group warns against decentralized wireless handheld adoption
Dr. Wolfgang Gentzsch, director of grid computing, discusses the distributed computing technology
Back-to-basics messaging application leverages WebSphere, DB2, LDAP underpinnings—but no Domino
Identifying your software assets and scrutinizing your licensing contracts can result in surprising cost savings
Bundled grids are tailored to the requirements of specific verticals
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’s new product automates provisioning user privileges across distributed environments