Enterprise


Big Blue Announces Power5, Virtualization Engine; Rechristens iSeries

IBM’s next-generation chip to debut in iSeries, the new name for the company's i5 line

Five Ways to Promote Your IT Department and Gain User Support

Many of the services provided by IT departments are taken for granted by the user community. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Like the power company an IT department is doing a good job when service is being provided so consistently it can be taken for granted. However unlike a power company, the IT department is also engaged in projects to improve the company’s profitability and competitive edge.

PSS Systems Provides Common Sense Data Management Policy Scheme

Recent legislation doesn't mandate changes to your storage infrastructure, but it does mean you'll have to manage your data more effectively.

Configuration Management Goes Mobile

New software fixes mobile computers that deviate from corporate standards

Cloaking Assets With Identity-Level Firewalls

New technology lets you hide and verify network identity inside the packets themselves.

Security Briefs: Two Protocol Vulnerabilities Disclosed

TCP vulnerability exploit found in the wild; buffer overflow weakness uncovered in Microsoft PCT protocol

American E-business Struggles with Global Fraud

Forty percent of U.S. credit card fraud traced to handful of criminals from just five foreign countries; risk of punishment not a deterrent



The Key to Optimal Outsourcing

Outsourcing can bring lower costs and increased levels of service, but be sure your Service Level Agreement is part of your contract.

Q&A: BMC on IBM's Candle Acquisition, Licensing Costs, and Cost of Ownership Issues

BMC's director of its MainView product discusses IBM's takeover of Candle, plus getting the best value from licensing

Enterprise Grid Alliance Premieres, Meets Resistance

Twenty industry members say alliance will encourage and accelerate the development of grid solutions for the data center through interoperability solutions

All Systems Go for IT Spending

International Data Corp. reports the first meaningful increase in IT spending since 2000—mostly in the western U.S.

IT Briefs: SAP Components, Manugistics’ Strategy Summit

Catalyst's visionary ComponentsNow marketplace for SAP users; Manugistics updates its progress on strategies announced at last year’s Envision conference, plus insight into company's view of its market

IBM's New zSeries Attracts Midsize Market with Lower Cost, Greater Scalability

Big Blue continues its push of entry-level mainframes into midsize companies with aggressive pricing, 28 capacity levels

The End of Disaster Recovery Planning

Disaster recovery planning must become an integral part of application development so the right middleware and coding choices are made at the outset of system design.

Disabling Rogue WLAN Access

Detect, then actively block, unauthorized WLAN users

Q&A: Securing Mobile Workers

By 2006, over half the U.S. workforce will be mobile. Security managers face a daunting task.

Five Signs Your Enterprise Needs Distributed Security

After years of merely reacting to new vulnerabilities, a centralized security model can no longer counter today's threats.

Worst Security Problem: Attachments

Security policies and education aren't enough

Oracle Revamps JDeveloper for Grids, Ease-of-Use

Company says its new JDeveloper 10g IDE delivers a J2EE development environment that simplifies J2EE coding non-Java programmers and facilitates development for computational grids.

BMC to Web Services-Enable Service Management Tool

Company says Web services interfaces can simplify how customers and partners integrate SIM with their applications and products