The mainframe is the hub of a network of connected devices, making it ever more vulnerable to attacks.
Company mum about the future
How integrating security code testing into the development cycle saves time and dollars
Governments have made cyber-crime a matter of public policy. But without an organized, multi-disciplinary, international approach, the problem will remain.
We spoke recently with Jim Rhyne, a distinguished engineer and eServer tools and enterprise modernization architect with IBM. Our discussion ranged from the scope of enterprise modernization (hint, companies often fail to adequately anticipate skills modernization), the phenomenon of mainframe brain drain (Rhyne isn’t convinced that there’s anything to it), application modernization strategies and, of course, the maturity of the Web services standards themselves.
Worldwide disk storage systems sales could easily reach an exabyte by next year.
Customers losing patience with negotiating database licenses are increasingly adopting open source DBMSes such as MySQL
Analysts from professional services firm Tallán explain the trends IT must manage next year.
Spending on storage and software should grow fastest next year. Among CIOs' top priorities next year: cost reduction, security, application integration, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
Clustered file system advocates have positioned their solutions as alternatives to the monolithic file systems (such as WAFL).