Shipments up in terms of MIPS
Web services—one of the latest waves in business and technology—is closer to reality now that we almost have an agreed-upon security framework: Security Assertions Markup Language (SAML). It may soon be possible for companies to use Web services securely.
As we navigate choppy political and economic waters, companies are being forced to grapple with a new type of challenge: disruption of supply.
In many respects, the past decade could be called the "Big-Box" era—when big-box stores and big-box cars came to dominate our landscape. The computer industry went the other way—to very small boxes.
A look at top influencers, forces, technologies and products in large enterprise computing.
Facing security challenges? Staff shortages? Worried about replacing retiring mainframe programmers and analysts? You're not the only one. When we asked readers in our annual survey for this issue to name the top challenge your IT organization faces in the next 12 months, those were some of the responses we heard over and over.