Software


Onaro: A SAN Management Play with a Lot of Vowels

SANscreen tells you what you have, where it is, and who’s using it

Case Study: Virtual Patches Defend Web Applications

Web-application firewalls protect against unknown attacks

Q&A: Preventing “Applications Gone Wild”

Software can establish a baseline of "normal" application activity, then sound the alarm when an app behaves erratically

Q&A: Informatica CEO on Data Integration Trends

Informatica CEO Sohaib Abbasi charts a pragmatic course when talking about his company’s vendor partners—but pulls no punches on the subject of ETL competitors

Careers: Are You a Security Conservative, Gloryhound, or Gambler?

The security solution you choose has important implications for your company and your career.

MicroStrategy 8 Gets Thumbs Up from Analysts, Users

BI suite boasts improved support for heterogeneous data sources, new data mining capabilities, and integration with SAP BW



In Brief

CSOs concerned by malware and regulations; top IM security predictions; Eudora vulnerability

Business Objects Gears up for Mid-Market Customers

Designed for mid-market customers, Crystal Reports Server XI offers a subset of the capabilities of the BusinessObjects XI suite

Five Steps to Data Quality in Enterprise Mergers

As merger and acquisition activity picks up this year, there will be an even heavier emphasis on the quality of data combined from the two enterprises

Careers: Combating Business-Process Change Overload

Compromise may be possible—even within the most control-oriented of corporate cultures

BMC Cuts False Performance Alerts to Zero

BMC says its new performance-monitoring software can help reduce false alerts—and sleep-shattering beeper pages—by almost 100 percent

Careers: Job Openings Grow, Worker Satisfaction Highest Ever

Workers are increasingly optimistic about their job security—and job satisfaction has increased to unprecedented levels