Enterprise


Briefs

New Mydoom variants; Vulnerabilities in IE browser, Checkpoint products; January a banner month for threats.

Beyond Perimeter Defense: Securing Online Transactions

Encrypting, monitoring, and auditing access to actual data

When Worlds Collide: Getting Business and IT on the Same Page

Keep these four key goals in mind to ensure your business/IT alignment strategy is a success

Survey: SLAs Ratchet Up Pressure on IT

A study of over 1,000 data center administrators sheds light on how service level agreements are being used and the penalties imposed when performance falls short.

EclipseCon Wrap-Up

The open source Eclipse Foundation held its first-ever developer conference, where it announced its break from IBM and Sun said it might join after all.

Q&A: The Making of a Master (Technology) Inventor

A 37-year-old inventor holding 17 patents, with 30 more pending, talks about invention, innovation, collaboration, and patents.



Historical Fact or Historical Revisionism?

Did EMC announcements threaten to drive the industry down the path it chose, or was the company just using reverse psychology to spur cooperation?

Can-Spam, Laced with Loopholes, Creates Confusion

New legislation has failed to stem the tide of unsolicited e-mail, protecting e-mailers who follow the letter but not the spirit of the law.

Companies Defect as Anti-virus Software Struggles with Worms

The latest threats have companies reconsidering their anti-virus tools, wondering if AV is becoming irrelevant. Increasingly, companies are looking at application-level personal firewalls and all-in-one gateway hardware for PCs.

Business Process Management: Are You Looking at the Right Products?

According to Forrester Research, one third of companies are currently using or piloting BPM products or services. The company's suggestions for matching your needs with the right BPM vendors.

Exploiting IM for Back-End Systems Communications

Proponents say IM can function as XML message brokers between systems at a fraction of the cost of traditional messaging middleware; putting an IM interface on a back-end application can bring big benefits.

Q&A: The Future of Notes and Domino

Is the Notes client on its way out? The latest on Notes, Domino, and products shown at Lotusphere, including Lotus Workplace Builder.

The Myth of Storage Grids

Storage vendors use "grid" as a sexy, futuristic-sounding metaphor, but grid storage has nothing whatsoever to do with grid computing.

First Worm Outbreak of the Year Packs a Wallop

MyDoom monopolizes Internet via e-mail harvesting, P2P file sharing, back door

Guarding Against Your Partner's Web Services Flaws

Coding errors in Web Services code at your partners can trigger problems on your own systems.

Product Shootout: Intrusion Prevention

Third-party testing firm analyzes leading IDS products, encounters surprises.

Briefs

New worm and Trojan software unleashed; purported PayPal mail carries worm

IBM's NT-to-Linux Migration Initiative, SuSE Certification Among LinuxWorld Highlights

Expectations were high, and attendees weren't disappointed

Careers: Offshore Outsourcing Hits U.S. IT Workers Hard

A new study shows that offshore outsourcing drives down U.S. IT wages; firm predicts up to 45 percent of full-time IT jobs could be outsourced by 2006