Software


What Does Storage Want to be When it Grows Up?

A Computer Associates vice president for marketing of BrightStor products suggests storage management today is a child still in the throes of personality development.

DataFlux Taps World-Check for Data Quality Compliance

For data quality vendors, it’s not enough anymore to do name and address validation

In Brief

Symantec grabs @Stake; JPEG vulnerabilities; Mozilla holes; Sniffer worm



Best Practices: IM Monitoring

Under pressure from such regulations as HIPAA, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and Sarbanes-Oxley, companies increasingly have to account for their corporate instant messaging policies. Yet many organizations don’t have rules for IM use.

ETL: Vendors Pay Attention to the Mid-Sized Enterprise

The ETL mid-market is in play, and Ascential, Informatica, and other vendors are taking notice

Hyperion Revamps Essbase, Releases New Analytics

Essbase gets its second coming-out party, and a new name, in nearly as many months

Case Study: Outsourcing Network Management and Security

How one company found an outsourcer able to manage its network equipment and offer cogent security advice

Standards Finally Emerge for Data Center Temperatures

A set of guidelines from an industry-leading organization finally put numbers and measurement techniques to the question—how hot is too hot?

Strategies: Software Tools Help Sell IT to Decision-Makers

Now, more than ever, IT departments are selling themselves to business leaders—and tapping new software tools to help them do it

CA Overhauls Storage Product Line

Company announces new versions of its BrightStor storage products; the venerable Enterprise Backup product is discontinued

Arsenal Digital: A New Take on an Old Strategy

With Arsenal Digital's service, an off-site backup company can set itself up as an electronic vault.