InfoWorld.com articles from June 2004

InfoWorld.com archives from June 2004

Symantec tool eases PC migration; Version 3.0 reduces costs, downtime.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Ed Scannell Hoping to ease the migration process involved with moving corporate users to new desktops, Symantec on Tuesday unveiled a new tool that automates many of the more mundane tasks associated with PC migration. Version...

IBM's Corgel: Software as a service is coming; Application hosting is emerging as one of Big Blue's most strategic areas.
June 2, 2004... Byline: Ed Scannell As general manager in charge of e-Business Hosting Services for IBM's mammoth Global Services group, IBM veteran Jim Corgel has had the perfect perch from which to see the building interest among corporate IT shops to...

Google bolsters search appliance; New 2U form factor packs higher document capacity.
June 2, 2004... Byline: Cathleen Moore Google on Wednesday will release an updated version of its Google Search Appliance featuring expanded capacity and improved security. The new 2U form factor Google Search Appliance GB-1001 supports five times the...

Microsoft wades in BI waters; Company launches business intelligence accelerators for SQL Server, SharePoint.
June 2, 2004... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz Microsoft inched closer to the BI applications space on Wednesday with the release of two BI accelerators for SQL Server 2000 and SharePoint Portal Server. The Office Business Scorecard Accelerator integrates...

Enterprise Outlook conference eyes technology trends; Growth cited in Linux, SOAs, Indian offshoring, e-mail threats.
June 2, 2004... Byline: Paul Krill SAN CARLOS, Calif. -- Perspectives on technology trends such as SOAs (service-oriented architectures), Indian outsourcing, and e-mail management were the focus of the day at the Enterprise Outlook private equity...

IBM, Teamstudio focus Java efforts; Aspect-oriented language is updated.
June 3, 2004... Byline: Paul Krill IBM and Teamstudio are focusing on Java tools this week, with IBM updating its AspectJ programming language extension and Teamstudio forming a separate division for its tools. IBM has released Version 1.2 of AspectJ,...

Who's the DB leader? Oracle or IBM? Reports offer differing perspectives.
June 4, 2004... Byline: Paul Krill Like the variations in national college football polls, newly released worldwide database market share figures offer differing views on who is No. 1. IDC on Friday reports that the market for relational and...

Hardware and software to stop malicious code; Decoy server can track and trace hackers.
June 4, 2004... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz With hacker attacks and spam mail inundating users and networks at an alarming rate, Fire Trust, a spam catcher software vendor, will move its MailWasher solution from client to server at the end of the month. ...

Not-so-quick-and-dirty patch management; Priced affordably at zero dollars, Microsoft Software Update Services is primo pick for patching smaller networks.
June 4, 2004... Byline: Oliver Rist You've got to hand it to Microsoft. The company may be the biggest problem child in the patch management space, but it's trying like heck to improve its lot. If you're still behind in finding a centralized patch...

Spam in the can; New York spammer gets up to seven years in prison after felony spamming -- the start of a new trend?
June 4, 2004... Byline: Wayne Rash Last week, an Erie County, N.Y., judge sentenced Howard Carmack of Buffalo to as many as seven years in prison for identity theft and forgery for sending hundreds of millions of spam e-mails using false addresses. He was...

Sun rises on utility computing; Amid a rush of announcements, Sun sets the stage for its storage line.
June 4, 2004... Byline: Mario Apicella Sun Microsystems is probably not the first company that comes to mind when one thinks of large storage system vendors. During the past few years of never-ending server- and Java-related news, however, Sun has quietly...

Sonic tacks on high availability to integration suite; Package used for SOA deployment.
June 8, 2004... Byline: Paul Krill Focusing on availability of application services, Sonic Software on Tuesday announced it is shipping Sonic Business Integration Suite 5.5, which utilizes the company's "Continuous Availability Architecture" in...

Data auditing readied for Oracle systems; Lumigent to ship new version of Entegra.
June 9, 2004... Byline: Paul Krill Lumigent Technologies at the end of June will ship a version of its data auditing software for Oracle databases, providing for audit trails in database usage and protecting data integrity, according to Lumigent. The...

IBM gets small in a big way; Big Blue debuts its smallest desktop PC to date.
June 9, 2004... Byline: Ed Scannell IBM's PC desktop division continues to think small in a big way announcing on Wednesday, a desktop system that is 35 percent smaller than its predecessor with a footprint that takes up less space than some of its laptop...

AOL introduces business tools for IM; Web and voice conferencing services offered through partnerships with WebEx, Lightbridge.
June 10, 2004... Byline: Cathleen Moore America Online is cozying up to the corporate citizenry of its massive IM user network with new on-demand business services for Web and voice conferencing. AOL on Thursday launched AIM Business Services, created...

PeopleSoft adds J. D. Edwards applications to training modules; User Productivity Kit now includes 25 applications.
June 10, 2004... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz PeopleSoft will roll out next week additional content modules in its User Productivity Kit (UPK), an end-user software training suite, for both PeopleSoft Enterprise and Enterprise One applications. The...

IBM gets intelligent about BI; General Manager Janet Perna discusses how IBM's On Demand strategy has given new life to BI.
June 10, 2004... Byline: Ed Scannell and Tom Sullivan This year is the year IBM has chosen to get more intelligent about BI (business intelligence). While the company has delivered BI-related applications and tools for some time, Big Blue is now making...

ASAP spec proposed for delayed Web services; OASIS seeks accommodation for long-running Web services.
June 11, 2004... Byline: Paul Krill OASIS is working on standard technology to enable Web services to function in situations in which business process communications have a delayed response, as opposed to the quick responses normally associated with Web...

ENTERPRISE WINDOWS: Brace your budget for Microsoft's next move; Redmond has ambitious plans for its OS lines; keeping up won't come cheaply.
June 11, 2004... Byline: Oliver Rist I’m a crappy salesman. Everyone says so: too excitable, too passionate in a fluttering hands sort of way, and simply not enough polish. For me to sell a client, I need the knock-'em-dead pitch: I’m giving...

SECURITY ADVISER: In search of standards; The lack of interchange standards in the security industry hurts everyone.
June 11, 2004... Byline: Wayne Rash A few days ago I met with Philippe Courtot, chairman and CEO of Qualys, to discuss an upcoming test of his company’s product. As we talked about the test parameters, he mentioned that he would be able to...

STORAGE INSIDER: Can you bet your business on SATA? Maybe you can -- depending on where you store your data now.
June 11, 2004... Byline: Mario Apicella See correction below If you didn't hear yet about the AX100, the new entry-level EMC storage array for small to midsize businesses, you either were on a mission to another galaxy or you actually have an...

Actional expands Web services management platform; Databases, Web pages now can be viewed.
June 14, 2004... Byline: Paul Krill Focusing on SOA (services-oriented architecture) management, Actional on Monday will extend its Web services management platform to manage relationships between other types of services as well, including databases, Web...

IBM ships Linux-based content manager; First Express version set for open source platform.
June 14, 2004... Byline: Ed Scannell On the eve of the one-year anniversary of its Express line of server-based applications, IBM on Monday said it is shipping a Linux-based version of Content Manager Express to beta testers and also touted plans to...

TimesTen touts transaction processing; 'Real-time enterprise' performance boosted.
June 14, 2004... Byline: Paul Krill TimesTen on Monday will release Version 5.1 of its data management and transaction processing system, focusing on the “real-time enterprise.” The product line is being expanded with three products:...

Nokia cell phone contracts virus; Contagion could spread to corporate network through VPNs.
June 16, 2004... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz One of the first viruses to strike a cell phone was reported this week by Kaspersky Labs in Moscow and closer to home by Symantec. The virus struck a Nokia Series 60 phone that uses Symbian OS. Dubbed...

Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security; Security efforts to focus on processes first, then technology.
June 16, 2004... Byline: Ed Scannell In his first five years at the helm of Symantec, CEO and Chairman John W. Thompson has steered the company through a couple of major transformations including shifting its focus from selling consumer software to...

Sleepycat ships Java version of embedded database; Product available in either commercial or open source format.
June 16, 2004... Byline: Paul Krill Sleepycat Software on Wednesday will begin shipping Berkeley DB Java Edition, a Java version of its embedded database. Intended for software developers building high-performance applications in which the user does...

Wal-Mart promises RFID will benefit suppliers; Company pushes ahead with aggressive compliance schedule.
June 17, 2004... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz Wal-Mart wrapped up its three-day RFID event for suppliers this week in Springdale, Ark., with additional RFID product tag compliance dates for tier one and tier two suppliers and some optimistic words about the...

Salvaging e-mail for the enterprise; Cloudmark, Barracuda, FrontBridge unwrap anti-spam and e-mail security tools at ETC.
June 18, 2004... Byline: Cathleen Moore CTOs looking for a solution to e-mail's many woes will have more tools to ponder this week, as the ETC (Email Technology Conference) wraps up its first show in San Francisco. Vendors including Cloudmark, Barracuda...

IBM delivers product life cycle service; Big Blue's On Demand initiative to help standardize design practices within supply chains.
June 18, 2004... Byline: Ed Scannell IBM on Tuesday launched an on demand-flavored PLM (product life cycle management) service designed to help standardize the design practices and improve collaboration across the breadth of a manufacturer's supply chain....

ENTERPRISE WINDOWS: New candidates line up for 2004; Although not presidential, release candidates of Windows XP SP2 and Virtual Server 2005 show potential but require testing.
June 18, 2004... Byline: Oliver Rist Some folks dinged my patch-management column, commenting that Redmond doesn’t really release as much new code as all that. Well, I’m wondering where they were on Monday, June 14 -- a busy night in Redmond --...

STORAGE INSIDER: Ready for storage summer school? SNIA introduces an ambitious new training program in cooperation with partners and vendors.
June 18, 2004... Byline: Mario Apicella Where do you go to get storage training? Ask that question and the answer is usually a blank stare. The all-too-common reality is that many companies rely on vendor-provided training for their storage education,...

AmberPoint scales its Web services management system; Thousands of active service-level agreements can be accommodated.
June 21, 2004... Byline: Paul Krill AmberPoint on Monday is announcing an upgraded version of its Web services management software that can manage of thousands of active service-level agreements. Version 4.3 of AmberPoint accommodates growing...

Onaro delivers SAN manager; Predictive change management enabled.
June 21, 2004... Byline: Ed Scannell Onaro on Monday will roll out what company officials are billing as the industry's first predictive change management technology for SANs (storage area networks), designed to help storage administrators increase their...

Serena buys requirements management technology; Change management vendor acquires Integrated Chipware’s RTM for $3 million.
June 21, 2004... Byline: Paul Krill Application lifecycle and change management vendor Serena Software on Monday will announce the acquisition of Integrated Chipware’s RTM (Requirements & Traceability Management) technology for approximately $3...

Microsoft enhancing business intelligence in SQL Server; Reporting Services now can export to Excel 97, 2000.
June 22, 2004... Byline: Paul Krill Microsoft on Tuesday is releasing the first service pack for the SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services business intelligence platform. Reporting Services is intended to boost business insight by offering real-time...

Rally racing into managing developers; Subscription-based service set to accommodate “agile” methodologies.
June 23, 2004... Byline: Paul Krill Rally Software Development on Thursday will introduce Rally Release 1, a Web-based service for managing software development projects based on “agile” programming methodologies. The hosted,...

Microsoft jumps into the HPC game; Version of Windows Server takes on Linux.
June 23, 2004... Byline: Ed Scannell After kicking the decision around for a few months, Microsoft on Wednesday announced it would make its entry into the HPC (high-performance computing) arena and promised to deliver a version of Windows Server 2003 for...

Beehive gains Eclipse support; Eclipse support should fuel Beehive's momentum.
June 24, 2004... Byline: Ed Scannell BEA Systems Inc.'s Project Beehive will get a boost next Monday when the company announces at JavaOne that the Eclipse organization is working on a "top level" project that will support the product, according to...

Sun to ship Java Studio Creator; Visual Java development environment to debut at JavaOne conference.
June 24, 2004... Byline: Paul Krill San Francisco – Sun Microsystems at the 2004 JavaOne conference beginning on Monday will ship its much-heralded, so-called easy-to-use visual Java development environment, Sun Java Studio Creator. Designed for...

Two Web services specs advance; OASIS moves forward on standards for security, building systems.
June 24, 2004... Byline: Paul Krill OASIS moved forward on two fronts in Web services standardization this week, ratifying a proposal for gauging security vulnerabilities and forming a panel to advance a standard for the building management industry. ...

IBM 'turbo pack' extends WebSphere; New software increases performance.
June 24, 2004... Byline: Ed Scannell Catering to the computing needs of corporate users hungry for more speed and capacity, IBM on Thursday delivered a beta version of WebSphere-based software that automates increased performance on demand. Described...

ENTERPRISE WINDOWS: Is Itanium the first 64-bit casualty? The move from 32 bits to 64 bits won't be easy -- and without backward-compatibility, you're really stuck.
June 25, 2004... Byline: Oliver Rist I remember when Windows moved from 16-bit computing to 32 bits. I had one client who kept crashing his Toshiba notebook. I’d install, and the next day the thing would be as lifeless as Michael Jackson’s...

SECURITY ADVISER: Windows Server 2003 vanishes from vulnerability list; There are some lists that you don't want to be on, and Microsoft may have finally managed to avoid this one.
June 25, 2004... Byline: Wayne Rash Getting a message or two daily from Symantec's Deep Sight is pretty normal. In those messages I get an early warning of things that could turn out to be vulnerabilities. Sometimes that trickle of warnings becomes a...

STORAGE INSIDER: Seagate's bold storage plans; Competition in disk drive technology opens compelling new applications.
June 25, 2004... Byline: Mario Apicella Many young storage administrators will probably find it hard to believe that once upon a time, disk drives were so expensive that company data was stored on disk only for the duration of the daily processing jobs....

Interview: Oracle exec touts ASP services; PeopleSoft acquisition, if completed, would contribute to hosted offerings.
June 28, 2004... Byline: Paul Krill Oracle recently changed the name of its ASP business from Oracle Outsourcing to Oracle On Demand. This Oracle business unit will operate IT systems on behalf of customers. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill...

IBM broadens industry networks for ISVs; Programs are aimed at government, insurance.
June 28, 2004... Byline: Ed Scannell IBM on Monday broadened out its PartnerWorld Industry Networks program, which provides developers with a collection of technical and marketing resources for vertical markets, to now include government and insurance. ...

Borland set to join Java tools group; Bevy of announcements planned by vendors at JavaOne.
June 28, 2004... Byline: Paul Krill SAN FRANCISCO -- The JavaOne conference here will offer a virtual “Who’s Who” in the industry, making a variety of announcements boosting the Java programming language, including BEA, Borland, and IBM....

JBoss closing in on J2EE certification; Open source app server getting formal approval.
June 28, 2004... Byline: Paul Krill SAN FRANCISCO -- Open source software vendor JBoss, which has offered an open source Java application server sans J2EE certification, is closing in on that accreditation, according to the company’s chief executive....

Sun flying SOA effort with Project Kitty Hawk; Java Enterprise System is key to platform.
June 28, 2004... Byline: Paul Krill SAN FRANCISCO -- Sun Microsystems is developing SOA (service-oriented architecture) technology being called “Project Kitty Hawk,” Sun officials said at the 2004 JavaOne conference here on Monday. The...

IBM scheduler works with grids, mainframes; Big Blue bundles Workload Scheduler with Tivoli.
June 28, 2004... Byline: Ed Scannell IBM on Monday unwrapped new software that allows corporate users to carry out both cross-platform and cross-domain scheduling by integrating enterprise-class applications across both grids and other distributed...

Sun dancing SOA tune with Project Disco; Tools technology to provide visual paradigm for Web services development.
June 29, 2004... Byline: Paul Krill SAN FRANCISCO -- Sun Microsystems at the 2004 JavaOne conference this week is previewing prototype tools technology, code-named Project Disco, for visually developing Web services that would be used in service-oriented...

Update: Sun’s McNealy chides Microsoft, IBM, Red Hat; Exec urges Java community and open source participation by rivals.
June 29, 2004... Byline: Paul Krill SAN FRANCISCO -- Sun Microsystems Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy at the 2004 JavaOne conference here on Tuesday extended an open invitation to Microsoft and Linux OS vendor Red Hat to join the Java Community Process...

Sun charts Java developer tool, platform improvements; Web services functionality considered key.
June 30, 2004... Byline: Paul Krill SAN FRANCISCO -- Fresh from unveiling its Sun Java Studio Creator development platform and a beta release of Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5 (J2SE 5) this week, Sun Microsystems is eyeing improvements to these...

Content management hits the mid-tier; Percussion, RedDot, CrownPeak enhance offerings with customization choices.
June 30, 2004... Byline: Cathleen Moore Percussion Software and RedDot Solutions are adding new features and services to their respective ECM (enterprise content management) products designed to make the systems more palatable to midsize companies. ...

Dell set to jump back into blade server market; New system puts one and half blade servers into the same space as a 1U rack-mounted server.
June 30, 2004... Byline: Ed Scannell Dell Computer plans to jump back into the blade server game with both feet in this year's fourth quarter, when it introduces a new system that lets corporate users put one and half blade servers into the same space that...

Sun participation in Eclipse still possible; Exec to meet with open source tools organization next week.
June 30, 2004... Byline: Paul Krill SAN FRANCISCO -- The on-again, off-again issue of having Sun Microsystems participate in the Eclipse open source tools initiative may soon be on again. Sun’s Jeff Jackson, vice president of Java developer...

Bell Labs: Enabling mobile Internet is key challenge for the enterprise; Bell Labs' president of research Jeffrey Jaffe discusses the security and performance issues involved in untethering workers.
June 30, 2004... Byline: Wayne Rash As president of Research and Advanced Technologies at Bell Laboratories, the R&D arm of Lucent Technologies, Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe is charged with helping Lucent's business units develop and deploy new technologies....