Software


Instant Messaging for iSeries?

Big Blue unveils instant messaging community service for iSeries users

U.S. Market for Web Services to Hit $21 Billion by 2007

IDC predicts that growth will peak at $27 billion in 2011

Case in Point: Charting a Course for HIPAA Compliance

The University of Michigan Healthcare System leverages an IBM solution to ensure HIPAA compliance

Microsoft Touts .NET Development Tools, Success Stories

Next revision of its flagship IDE announced at Visual Studio .NET conference; development tools vendor FMS and publisher Sybex announce .NET products

Small Vendors and Risk Management

A reader challenges my "success story" column (on buying from a small vendor) with the need to manage risk.

Bringing Best Practices to University Systems

The University of Wisconsin needed to replace legacy homegrown mainframe software, written in COBOL on a Bull mainframe, with Web-based software. It now runs Sun servers hosting Oracle databases.

Top Ten Web Application Weak Spots

Vulnerabilities, and how to attack them, detailed in Open Source project report



Security Battle Lines for 2003

Spam, mothballing early IDS tools, and more intrusions top Aberdeen’s list of predictions

Zip It Shut: New Enterprise-level Encryption Tools

PKWare's new cross-platform encryption products protect everything from e-mails to sensitive HIPAA information, proving Zip suitable for more than just PCs

Revamped SunFire 12K and 15K Enhance Performance At Lower Cost

Sun beefs up high-end servers, announces hardware support for Memory Placement Optimization

Sun Introduces New 12-Way Server, Mulls Fate of SunFire 3800

Competitors mount challenges to Sun in midrange RISC-Unix space

IBM Flexes Grid Computing Muscle for Smallpox Research

Grid could hasten the development of medication to combat smallpox infection

IBM License Manager a No Go

Is sub-capacity pricing from ISVs dead, too?

EMC Reinvents Symmetrix Line

New DMX architecture delivers significant performance improvements

Invasion of the Tin-Wrapped Software Appliances

Increasingly, functionality to support storage networking and management is being provided by start-up companies who choose to embed their technology in an appliance format. We offer a few questions

Killing Slammer Is Not Enough

A tiny piece of code caused big problems. We examine what lessons IT has learned.

Communicator Unveils First Liberty Product

Web Services standards show up, slowly

Handheld Security Still Unresolved

Yankee Group warns against decentralized wireless handheld adoption

Q&A With Sun’s Grid Guru

Dr. Wolfgang Gentzsch, director of grid computing, discusses the distributed computing technology

At Lotusphere, IBM Touts Next-Gen Messaging, New WebSphere Portal, and Development Tools

Back-to-basics messaging application leverages WebSphere, DB2, LDAP underpinnings—but no Domino