Enterprise


Q&A: Enterprises Shift to All-in-One Security Appliances

Why use separate firewall, intrusion detection and prevention, gateway antivirus, and VPN products when one appliance can handle it all?

CA Revamps IMS Management Tool

IMS workloads are growing, and CA says the capabilities of its management tools are keeping pace, too

IBM Completes Ascential Acquisition, Announces Integration Roadmap

Users expecting an infusion of Ascential’s ETL expertise into DB2 may be disappointed

IT Spending Optimism Disappears

IDC revises its IT spending estimates downward, IBM plans to cut 10,000 or more jobs—and things could get tougher still

What Security Provisions Do We Really Need?

Proof is in the pudding….but no one seems to be in the kitchen

Q&A: The Future of Service-Oriented Architecture Security

WS-Security, Liberty, and SAML play nice together



In Brief

Data Storage Security a Concern; Symantec’s 64-Bit Antivirus; Multiple Mozilla, Netscape Vulnerabilities

All Quiet on the Security Front?

Has the absence of a big security threat lulled you into inaction?

SAP Strikes Back in ERP Wars

SAP last week expanded its ERP Cold War against Oracle, announcing partnerships with IBM and Microsoft

Crafting Uniqueness in Knowledge Work

The essence of good knowledge work is creating outputs of appropriate uniqueness not uniformity.

Users Divided Over Oracle Middleware Initiative

Some users are praising the synergies of a combined Oracle, PeopleSoft, and J.D. Edwards stack—but for others, skepticism about Project Fusion is still the order of the day.

Case Study: An IT Infrastructure Overhaul

IBM last week signed a $400 million contract to design a new on-demand IT infrastructure for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Storage Insecurity

Bank of America's security lapse could happen to you, too

Your Next Battle Front: Network-Based Worms

As the effectiveness of e-mail worms decreases, attackers turn to network-based worms.

In Brief

Eight Firefox Vulnerabilities; Microsoft Previews Longhorn Security; Windows XP SP2 Rollout Lags

Q&A: How to Assess Pharming Threats

Pharming attacks are on the rise. Should your organization be concerned?

Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 to Support Mainframe, Unix Data Access

There's a chance mainframe and Unix administrators will have to deal with the revamped SQL Server whether they want to or not

IBM Targets Potential Customers with Revamped MQ Release

Big Blue hopes the latest release will entice fence-sitters

Rx for Software Quality Woes: Testing, Testing, and More Testing

Companies that implement a centralized software-testing program report higher quality levels than companies that don’t