How one company found an outsourcer able to manage its network equipment and offer cogent security advice
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A set of guidelines from an industry-leading organization finally put numbers and measurement techniques to the question—how hot is too hot?
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Now, more than ever, IT departments are selling themselves to business leaders—and tapping new software tools to help them do it
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Company announces new versions of its BrightStor storage products; the venerable Enterprise Backup product is discontinued
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    With Arsenal Digital's service, an off-site backup company can set itself up as an electronic vault. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Office uses one-stop monitoring for attacks and vulnerabilities
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Revamped DB2 boasts improved BI, query optimization, and data warehousing features
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
    
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The overall BI tools market grew by 5 percent in 2003—and should post healthy growth through 2008 and beyond
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    New security legislation; the future of e-mail and IM security
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Most attacks are relatively unsophisticated, planned in advance, conducted during normal business hours, and start from inside the organization.  The common driver comes as no surprise: money.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    SAS announces 64-bit Linux support; Sybase offers free Linux-ready version of its database 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Readers raise the possibility that other stakeholders could benefit from outsourcing windfalls—especially CIOs
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Big Blue also discloses plans to integrate its DB2 and Informix Dynamix Server product lines in future versions of both products
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    IBM’s new pre-packaged BI bundle is packaged for the small and mid-sized enterprise market—but there are hints that the large enterprise won't be far behind
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Despite its name, grid storage has little or nothing to do with grid technology.  But the technology holds promise.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Venetica’s technology will find its way into IBM’s DB2 Information Integrator family of products
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Pre-packaged hardware, software, and services bundle is designed for the small- to mid-sized enterprise market.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Managed security service providers to dominate security market by 2010
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Most unsolicited e-mail originates in U.S., survey finds; securing storage; name-dropping attacks
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Once they seemed doomed, but public key infrastructure is taking off, driven by e-commerce servers, Pentagon requirements, and government regulations.