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
Time if running out for comments on XQuery, meaning a unified standard for querying structured and unstructured data is getting closer to approval.
Oracle releases most, but not all patches, necessary to protect against SSL vulnerability. Kaspersky Labs reveals the top troublemakers in November. Yahoo's popular instant messaging program vulnerabilities.
Tool providers recognize the lack of interoperability is a serious problem, but solutions vary greatly.
New SEC rules among the reasons fewer companies will offer the benefit next year
IBM announced Tivoli Management Portal, a new Web-based portal technology that interfaces directly with zSeries performance monitoring tools.
IDC says the waiting is over: IT spending is about to come back into line after two horrible years of IT budget declines.
WAFL enabled a new type of appliance-based storage hardware and set the bar for all other NAS vendors—which makes Network Appliance’s purchase of Spinnaker Networks all the more puzzling.
CEO says hosted CRM complements on-premise offering for small-to-medium enterprises, which tend to have more casual users.
Slowly but surely Microsoft is putting together a robust BI platform that will serve many companies exceedingly well.
Informatica isn't worried that Microsoft and Oracle are enhancing the ETL features of their databases. It positions itself as the Switzerland of data integration vendors.
Installing a spam filter helped one Atlanta firm eliminate 95% of unsolicited e-mail.
Security incidents are up 15 percent, and the gap between vulnerability disclosure and exploit shrinks
F-Secure releases a dozen tips to help users avoid common worm problems
Down time, different maintenance cycles cited as problems.