Big Blue also previews z/OS version 7, due out next year
New tool lets developers repackage host applications as XML Web services or .NET server components.
Controversy highlights the way an ambitious Big Blue competes with many of its long-time partners
Novell, Red Hat, Sun make waves
Computer Associates positions open source Ingres as a natural for Big Iron Linux; IBM's Cloudscape will become Apache's Derby
SLAs help ensure the timeliness and success of your application implementation, but they're anything but a slam dunk
SLAs have traditionally relied on operating system utilities to determine process availability -- but their accuracy isn't assured. Measuring the availability of business processes may hold the key to correct application performance assessment.
Grid computing finds enterprise killer apps
Sarbanes-Oxley compliance needn’t be a backbreaking ordeal
Study says process changes and best practices are key, regardless of which ERP software you’re running
IT can eliminate costly upgrades and reduce installation problems by running hosted applications instead of licensing them. But there are pitfalls.
Service-oriented architecture starts with simple application integration and culminates with service choreography and next-gen “composite” applications
Analysis of the company's flagship event
In just one week’s time, Big Blue takes aim at Microsoft Office, announces new COBOL and WebSphere integration tools for zSeries, and introduces storage products aimed at satisfying new compliance regulations
The next release of DB2 will make it easier for DBAs to deploy, configure, maintain, and optimize DB2 databases.
The problem: For years, systems have been built that have served a single purpose for a single set of users without sufficient thought to integrating these systems into larger systems and multiple applications. The solution: Middleware allows applications across the enterprise to communicate with one another.
In today's "post-PC era," technological convergence is blurring the lines between embedded controls and desktop functions, and bringing the two together in ways that offer exciting business opportunities. Retail and finance are two sectors that are benefiting from the industry trend of widespread connectivity aimed at improving the everyday shopping experience for both customers and retailers.
The industry has been trying to marry the mainframe and distributed systems environments to provide transparent data access for the past decade. Although various offerings have been developed and presented as Universal Data Access, so far, realtime Universal Data Access has been unattainable.
In the Internet era, comprehensive security protections in the enterprise data network must be a central part of any organization. And with the dreaded Y2K projects behind us, data security and privacy protection becomes the most challenging topic for almost any industry - especially important for healthcare.