We examine how to value a portal investment, examining both the tangible and "soft" benefits of the technology. We'll also look at the buy-versus-build debate, and factors to consider in determining a portal's ROI.
Highly critical IE vulnerability lacks patch; new attacks reanimate mobile AV
Toigo sorts out fact from fiction
Setting the open-source security record straight
To more rapidly test patches and keep network configurations from drifting, keep a closer watch on every device’s configuration
Passwords protect user logon and resource access, but only if the underlying authentication protocols are secure. Here's how to overcome vulnerabilities of older protocols.
Starting salaries will increase only modestly in 2005, although in-demand specialties should see much bigger increases
If you're a mainframe booster, there have been plenty of reasons to smile lately. But the announcements aren't just for existing customers.
As the portal market becomes increasingly more competitive, the vendor choices grow to be even more complex. We discuss the value of an enterprise portal and methods for determining its return on investment.
Vendors tout new products and services designed to appeal to their bread-and-butter application server constituencies—enterprise developers
The thought of a vendor association dictating a schema for how companies should characterize their data is a frightening one.
The results of the 2004 Enterprise Systems Outsourcing Survey are in. In the last two sections of our report, we look at contracts (size and duration) and explore the human costs of outsourcing.
Blame unusable security, not users; Apple worm; high-speed IPS
New security-risk management tools bridge the security/business gap
With the November 15 deadline looming for many organizations, many companies still don’t have a plan for auditing and archiving instant messages.
There’s little agreement about the prospectus for IT hiring—but there’s also little doubt that outsourcing is a hit
The two partners will provide software, services, and support for less than $500 per user per month
Big Blue says its Classic Federation product boasts several advantages over existing mainframe data-access products
The company's president and CEO helped create SCSI earlier in his career, and the company has since overcome some interesting technical challenges.
The results of the 2004 Enterprise Systems Outsourcing Survey are in. In the third article of our series, we look at what functions are outsourced. While application development is at the top of the list, we found a surprisingly large number of companies are outsourcing all IT functions.