While most IT professionals are concerning themselves with preparing for the next year, an often unaddressed concern may be how well the applications will perform after their Y2K functionality has been repaired.
This article will examine the background of "mirroring," and the design challenges that accompanied the development of this remote copy solution.
Xplor International reports on the results of their recent "Technology Directions Survey," which reveals the impact of the Internet on today’s corporate business dealings.
The Legal Repercussions of Y2K
Think you’ve heard it all concerning Y2K? Think again. Representatives from the legal, technical and financial communities shine light on the still dark corner of Year 2000 litigation in this exclusive Round Table discussion.
What lies in the road ahead? This "look" travels from the beginning of the problem to include the growing concerns over cost and liability.
Commercial sort packages can prove to be a formative tool in the Year 2000 fight with windowing, date field conversion, data mining and aging and program substitution.
"We’re caught in a firestorm of information; yet there’s barely enough knowledge to light a candle."
The "Big Iron" isn’t going to the computer graveyard just yet. With all the information stored there, the challenge is to make it remotely available to employees, vendors and customers in a managed fashion - without jeopardizing security.
IBM aims to win the Java Wars by creating a brand of Java that plays on all its platforms and, thus, offers customers an enterprise platform more open and appealing than the one controlled by Microsoft’s Win32 and COM APIs.
With the majority of Token Ring users having designed a switched LAN environment that incorporates a mixture of Ethernet and Token Ring transport, network managers are focusing their efforts on how to move switching to the desktop, while ensuring the coexistence and interoperability of Token Ring and Ethernet workstations over the corporate backbone
Aonix helps Motorola deliver a Web-enabled version of its information training system that provide the same processing power and functionality of its current system, but accommodates modifications that come about due to customer requirements.
Specialty retailer Pier 1 Imports’ Bridal Registry finds marital bliss as its host-based VSAM database is joined with the World Wide Web to produce a very attractive offspring: increased revenues.
Driving the price of MIPS down, Centron and Cisco sign global agreement, Computer Associates acquires REALOGIC, Innovation Data Processing partners with St. Bernard, Attachmate and IBM announce host access industry standard.
VWR Scientific Products leverages its existing programs to create an enhanced Web presence for online ordering.
A down and dirty list of Year 2000 concerns.