InfoWorld.com articles from May 2007

InfoWorld.com archives from May 2007

Startup enters I/O virtualization fray; 3Leaf virtualizes the networking fabric with its V-8000 Virtual I/O Server.
May 1, 2007... Byline: Jason Snyder Virtualization startup 3Leaf Systems today announced its flagship V-8000 Virtual I/O Server, as well as $20 million in Series B investment, led by Intel Capital. The V-8000 is the first in a series of...

BEA blending dev tools in Workshop release; Commercial, open source technologies are featured.
May 1, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill BEA Systems is blending open source and commercial developer tools in a release of its Workshop development tool for Java being announced on Tuesday. BEA Workshop 10.1 combines the company's Workshop for WebLogic...

Making sense of Websense's SurfControl buyout; The move makes the combined companies more attractive as a potential acquisition by one of the big three IT security firms.
May 1, 2007... Byline: Matt Hines Websense's $400 million buyout offer for rival network filtering specialist SurfControl should help position the two companies for short-term growth and possible acquisition in the future, according to market watchers....

Tibco readies unified interface, Business Studio 2.0; Tibco One is a customizable interface for building infrastructure applications that presents a unified user experience to all personnel.
May 1, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill Tibco Software will announce on Tuesday a unified interface to its products, called Tibco One, and also will unveil Business Studio Version 2.0 for business process modeling. Both the interface and Business Studio...

Experts: Patent ruling could reopen Vonage case; VoIP firm's future brighter after Supreme Court ruling.
May 1, 2007... Byline: Paul F. Roberts Legal experts say that a ruling this week by the U.S. Supreme Court could give new life to Internet phone company Vonage's claims that it has been the victim of overly generous patent rulings. In a ruling in the...

Innovation, startups hot again in the enterprise; The Month of Enterprise Startups looks at companies that could become the superstars and flame-outs of the next two years.
May 1, 2007... Byline: David L. Margulius Five years ago enterprise startups hit the skids, stung by a perfect storm of commoditization, vendor consolidation, and the IT spending downturn. In the intervening years, however, the skies have cleared and, to...

Update: Vonage files to vacate patent ruling; Says Supreme Court ruling invalidates Verizon case.
May 1, 2007... Byline: Paul F. Roberts Internet based phone company Vonage says a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court this week has given it new life in a crippling lawsuit with telecommunications giant Verizon. Vonage asked the U.S. Court of Appeals in...

Microsoft bolsters just-unveiled services platform; Publish-and-subscribe, connectivity testing added to BizTalk Services in a 'revolutionary step' toward boundary-less infrastructure.
May 2, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill Microsoft is adding on Wednesday connectivity testing and publish-and-subscribe capabilities to its BizTalk Services platform for integrating services within and outside a firewall. Announced just last week as an...

Document shell code attacks loom large; Most anti-virus, IPS wares miss this particular style of attack.
May 2, 2007... Byline: Matt Hines Targeted attacks that utilize vulnerabilities in popular document file formats and execute via hard-to-find shell code are becoming an increasingly popular menace, according to researchers at IBM's Internet Security...

FCC chairman champions wireless broadband access; Upcoming spectrum auction viewed as opportunity.
May 3, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill Broadband has been deemed the Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) top priority, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said at Microsoft offices in Mountain View, Calif., on Thursday. Appearing at a meeting of the Churchill...

Mobile business applications need work; Experts say the building blocks needed to translate enterprise apps to handheld devices are coming along slowly.
May 3, 2007... Byline: Matt Hines The process of mobilizing enterprise business applications remains in its early stages, but software makers, device manufacturers, and customers are all currently working to foster increased wireless adoption. ...

Silverlight coming to Linux via Mono; Mono open-source project wants to back new Microsoft technology as part of its ongoing effort to implement .Net on Linux systems.
May 4, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill Silverlight, Microsoft's new multimedia display technology, is being targeted for inclusion on Linux via the Mono open-source project, a Mono representative confirmed on Friday. While planning has not begun, it...

Microsoft promises DNS patch Tuesday; Patch will address vulnerability acknowledged by the company three weeks ago.
May 4, 2007... Byline: Gregg Keizer, Computerworld Microsoft Corp.'s security center has confirmed that a patch for the already exploited DNS server bug in Windows will be among the seven updates scheduled to release next Tuesday. In a posting on the...

NetBeans IDE tackles Ruby, JavaScript; Scripting languages make the cut in upgrade of open source tools package.
May 4, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill Move over, Java. The NetBeans open source tools package is making room for popular scripting languages. Version 6.0 of the NetBeans IDE will be offered in an early-access release at the JavaOne conference in San...

Merger adds IM to SaaS communications; Apptix's acquisition of WebMessenger gives it many of the tools it needs to create a SaaS-based package of unified communications tools.
May 7, 2007... Byline: Matt Hines Apptix isn't a name currently on the tips of many enterprise IT buyers' tongues, but the company maintains that its May 7 buyout of IM specialist WebMessenger will help it grow into a provider with much to offer to...

CodeGear CEO eyes Ruby; New executive discusses Borland tools subsidiary.(Interview)
May 7, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill Formed late last year, CodeGear currently is the developer tools arm of Borland Software but will become a separate company. Early last month, CodeGear announced the appointment of Jim Douglas as CEO. Douglas most...

Rover, IBM extend CDP to laptops; Flash drive provides mobile workers with portable backup and recovery functionality.
May 7, 2007... Byline: Jason Snyder Road warriors in search of much-needed file backup and recovery relief may need look no further than their wallets thanks to a CDP (continous data protection)-enabled flash drive unveiled today by Rover Technology...

Sun's JavaFX to take on AJAX, Silverlight; JavaFX, which covers Java development in desktops and mobile devices as well as online, is Sun's latest push into the rich Internet apps world.
May 7, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill Sun will detail a plan Tuesday that could make Java a formidable player in the scripting language space. At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Sun will roll out a Java-based product family called JavaFX, which...

Microsoft-Yahoo deal still worth doing; Merger rumors have cooled, but the idea is still hot.
May 7, 2007... Byline: David L. Margulius When Sun Chairman and then-CEO Scott McNealy first heard about the HP/Compaq merger in 2001, he likened it to ‘two garbage trucks colliding with each other.’ Some analysts see the rumored...

Oracle focuses on app server, AJAX at JavaOne; The company has plenty of announcements in the works for the conference, including a donation of more than 80 JavaServer Faces components to Apache.
May 7, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill Oracle's plate of announcements for the JavaOne conference this week features upgrades to its application server and IDE as well as a kit to make it easier to work with the Spring Framework for Java development. ...

Sun: Pay open-source developers; Current Robin Hood-in-reverse scenario of taking code for free in order to enrich corporations is called unsustainable.
May 7, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill Sun is proposing that open-source developers be paid for the revenue-generating technology that they have made available for free. At the CommunityOne and NetBeansDay events in San Francisco on Monday, Rich Green,...

Cryptome afloat despite Deepwater's ripple; Online resource manages to weather defense contractor scandal despite being shut down by its ISP.
May 8, 2007... Byline: Matt Hines The Deepwater defense contractor scandal has echoed from the halls of Congress across the World Wide Web, and despite being shut down by its ISP after posting documents considered central to the controversy, online...

IRS wants data on users from Internet firms; Names, addresses, taxpayer IDs, and Social Security numbers could be collected and turned over to government under new proposal.
May 8, 2007... Byline: Jaikumar Vijayan, Computerworld The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) is sounding an early warning on a proposal in the president's 2008 budget that would require Internet businesses such as eBay and Amazon.com to collect...

McNealy sees roomy market for JavaFX; Because JavaFX can take advantage of the installed base of Java runtimes, "this is a unique and different model," Sun chairman says.
May 8, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill Speaking at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Sun Microsystems chairman Scott McNealy rejected any notion that the company's new JavaFX Script scripting language might have trouble gaining traction in a...

Microsoft to kick Vista's e-mail app to the curb; Windows Live Mail will also replace Outlook Express on Windows XP.
May 8, 2007... Byline: Gregg Keizer, Computerworld As it rolled out its revamped Windows Live Hotmail Monday, Microsoft also promised it would deliver replacements for the Outlook Express and Windows Mail desktop clients along with new software to...

Blue Lane Technologies: Patching servers in the network; Security startup's inline patch proxy takes the sting out of vulnerabilities in physical servers and virtual machines.
May 8, 2007... Byline: Doug Dineley For managers of enterprise datacenters, the endless stream of security patches from Microsoft, Oracle, and other software vendors (not to mention open source projects) has been a prime source of frustration. For Blue...

Symantec pitches rootkit tech as Veritas validation; Symantec's Raw Disk Scan rootkit search-and-remove app is an example of what kind of technology the Symantec-Veritas merger will bring forth.
May 9, 2007... Byline: Matt Hines Some industry watchers may still question why Symantec moved to acquire storage software maker Veritas for $10.2 billion in 2004, but the fruits of the companies' combined labors are already proving the deal as a winner,...

First impressions: Samsung's Q1 Ultra; Second-generation handheld PC adds Windows Vista capabilities, keyboard, higher-resolution screen; drops pounds.
May 9, 2007... Byline: Tom Spring On Monday Samsung got a do-over. Faced with criticism that its first so-called Ultra Portable PC, the Q1, was a pricey dud, it listened to its critics and reworked the PC. Yesterday in New York it took the wraps off a...

Infrastructure security powers up; Many critical infrastructure businesses are scrambling to beef up security against physical and IT threats -- before the government steps in to regulate.
May 9, 2007... Byline: Matt Hines He may not have known it at the time, but Lonnie Charles Denison helped prove the need for tighter security at many infrastructure businesses when he launched a multifaceted attack against California Independent System...

Intel linking Itanium to Java; But Sun not committed to building systems for 64-bit CPU.
May 9, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill Intel officials on Wednesday will tout intentions to enable Java to run on the company's 64-bit Itanium processor, but Sun Microsystems, for its part, is not set to build any hardware that would utilize the chip. ...

Microsoft says support for Open XML is growing; Microsoft claims 4 million downloads of Open XML, but approval by government bodies still pending.
May 9, 2007... Byline: Eric Lai, Computerworld Citing statements of support from more than 300 companies and organizations, Microsoft claimed on Tuesday that interest in its Office Open XML file format continues to grow. Comments backing the file...

Varonis matches data, fishy behavior; Large companies are drowning in data, which often leads to embarrassing and financially damaging leaks. Startup Varonis says securing networks starts with securing the data itself.
May 9, 2007... Byline: Matt Hines In the old days, keeping track of critical files was pretty easy: just lock up the file cabinets. These days, the problem is not so simple. With the advent of corporate messaging systems, desktop (and now Web-based)...

Building trust in downloads no simple feat; Truste hopes to become a virtual clearinghouse for trustworthy software distribution.
May 10, 2007... Byline: Matt Hines The Truste group's goal of creating an online ecosystem through which software makers are held accountable for the functions of their programs and end users are given the power to keep unwanted applications off their...

Microsoft buys into CareerBuilder; Microsoft buys minority stake, extends MSN's strategic alliance with job classifieds Web site.
May 10, 2007... Byline: Matt Hines Microsoft announced that it has purchased a minority stake in CareerBuilder.com while also extending its agreement with the job classifieds site to serve as an exclusive content provider for the MSN online network. ...

AJAX, JavaServer Faces ties to get stronger; Panelists tout technology combination.(Discussion)
May 10, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill With AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) and JSF (JavaServer Faces) component technology representing a one-two punch for Web development, plans are moving forward to strengthen support for AJAX in the JSF...

Dutch domain owner faces legal action from Google; Google claims Marcel Van der Warf's registered domain names infringe on company's trademark.
May 10, 2007... Byline: Edwin Feldmann, WebWereld Netherlands Google England plans to take legal action against a Dutch man who uses the word "google" in the domain names he has registered. Marcel Van der Werf has registered a number of domains that...

GPL incompatibilities with Apache to be ironed out; Aim is to ease code usage under Apache and GPL together in the same application, Free Software Foundation manager says.
May 10, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill The Free Software Foundation, in upgrading the GNU General Public License, intends to iron out any incompatibilities with similar licenses from organizations such as the Apache Software Foundation. This goal is to...

Hackers hijack Windows Update's downloader; Component of Windows XP, Server 2003, and Vista bypasses firewalls, could be used to pass malicious code downloads to PC.
May 10, 2007... Byline: Gregg Keizer, Computerworld Hackers are using Windows Updates' file transfer component to sneak malicious code downloads past firewalls, Symantec researchers said Thursday. The Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) is...

Hitachi adds data encryption to hard drive; Double-capacity Travelstar 7K200 increases performance without draining power.
May 10, 2007... Byline: Jason Snyder Hitachi Global Storage Technologies today announced availability of what it is touting as the highest-capacity, highest-performing notebook hard drive. The Travelstar 7K200 doubles the capacity of its predecessor to...

Microsoft cuts virtualization features; Looking to prevent additional Viridian delays, company ditches key server virtualization features.
May 10, 2007... Byline: Jason Snyder Microsoft today announced it will shed functionality from its Windows Server virtualization software in an effort to make good on the company's recent promise of a second-half release. The retraction of features,...

After the Treo 755p, whither the Palm OS? New device uses Garnet OS, but future of old operating system unclear in light of Palm's impending switch to Linux-based platform.
May 10, 2007... Byline: Matt Hamblen, Computerworld Is the Palm OS really ready for the scrap heap? Palm's announcement Wednesday of the Palm OS Treo 755p provoked some questions as to whether this would be the last Palm device to run the Palm Garnet...

Visa tries new tack with payment app security; Visa USA urges adoption of company-issued best practices, discourages use of payment apps that captures and stores sensitive data.
May 10, 2007... Byline: Jaikumar Vijayan, Computerworld Visa USA is quietly ratcheting up the pressure on vendors of payment applications and the businesses that use them to make their software compliant with a set of security best practices being pushed...

Vonage appeal cites Supreme Court patent ruling; Vonage says standard used to judge Verizon's patents was too strict.
May 10, 2007... Byline: Caron Carlson In its appeal of a jury verdict in the patent infringement case brought against it by Verizon, Vonage has turned to a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that some analysts see as making it easier to invalidate patent...

ENTERPRISE INSIGHT: Intel secrets revealed! The weird thing is, Intel let it all hang out voluntarily. Its frank disclosure of the ins and outs of its own IT operations is a model for others to follow.
May 10, 2007... Byline: David L. Margulius How transparent is your IT operation? Does the rest of the company know how your budget is spent? Your performance against SLAs? Cost per terabyte of WAN traffic? And if they do, do key outside constituencies...

Longhorn beta 3 shows the beef; The next Windows Server is looking nearly finished -- and it's looking damn good.
May 10, 2007... Byline: Tom Yager Microsoft’s wide open beta testing paradigm, which combines unfettered interaction between Microsoft developers and customers and a formal system of gathering feedback from public testers, brings a whole new meaning...

Nexo offers quick and easy collaboration; Any group, anywhere can take advantage of this service for creating simple group sites replete with handy little Web applications.
May 10, 2007... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz Some look at MySpace and see social networking at its most sprawling and unwieldy. Others drill deeper and see a new model for collaboration. When MySpace became a cultural phenom in 2005, Craig Jorasch, co-founder...

DHS privacy committee joins Real ID opposition; Committee lists privacy, security, and logical concerns as reasons for resistance to proposed national standard for state-issued identification.
May 11, 2007... Byline: Jaikumar Vijayan, Computerworld A privacy committee of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has joined a growing chorus of voices opposed to the controversial Real ID bill, which proposes to create a national standard for...

Social Security, spyware bills go to House vote; The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved modified versions of a pair of bills aimed at curbing abuse of social security numbers and computer spyware, respectively.
May 11, 2007... Byline: Matt Hines The House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously approved a pair of bills on May 10 that aim to bolster consumers' protection against misuse of their social security numbers and computer-borne spyware. The two...

3Leaf Systems: Scale up by scaling out; Silicon Valley virtualization startup pools commodity servers, reshaping enterprise datacenters.
May 11, 2007... Byline: Doug Dineley 3Leaf Systems co-founder and CEO Bob Quinn is a betting man. A veteran of startups specializing in event-driven architectures, network processing, and scalable SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) systems, Quinn is now...

Fix for Microsoft Automatic Updates not working; Users report continued problems with Microsoft patch, even after downloading and running new hotfix.
May 11, 2007... Byline: microsoft automaticupdates Windows XP systems are still locking up during patch update attempts -- even after users deployed the fix suggested by Microsoft. Symptoms of the long-running problem -- which the Windows Server...

Red Hat ratchets up co-opetition with IBM, HP; Controversial Red Hat Exchange program could hold off rival Oracle but may also threaten preferred partners.
May 11, 2007... Byline: Eric Lai, Computerworld In a move that could help it fight foe Oracle but anger some longtime allies, Red Hat Thursday officially began selling and providing technical support for popular business software that runs on Red Hat...

SECURITY ADVISER: Should vendors close all security holes? Fix it or forget it? A reader presents an intriguing counterpoint.
May 11, 2007... Byline: Roger A. Grimes In last week’s column, I argued that vendors should close all known security holes. A reader wrote me with a somewhat interesting argument that I’m still slightly debating, although my overall conclusion...

STORAGE INSIDER: A small step to improve disk reliability; A larger block size could be just what the doctor ordered for recharging drive technology.
May 11, 2007... Byline: Mario Apicella The storage industry isn't necessarily known for being a fast mover. Take for example this memo, dated October 2003 (it’s in Microsoft Word format), in which Seagate made clear the need to move the physical...

Fast and mean virtual machines; InovaWave DXtreme's predictive I/O widgets soup up VMs on Windows.
May 11, 2007... Byline: Paul Venezia One question mark always hanging over virtual servers is I/O performance. Unless the underlying OS and file system are specifically designed to handle a virtualization load, disk I/O can be problematic. With products...

VCs take startups on the road; VC-sponsored technology days introduce busy execs to the bleeding edge.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz InfoWorld's Month of Enterprise Startups (or "MoES" for short) is one way to get exposed to fresh, innovative ideas that are offbeat -- a way to get IT staff thinking about different areas that they might not have...

Passive RFID tag market to hit $486M in 2013; Despite current and anticipated growth, the rate falls short of vendor hopes.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Marc L. Songini, Computerworld The North American market for passive RFID (radio frequency identification) tags should be worth nearly half a billion dollars by 2013, up from $124.6 million in 2006, according to a recent report by...

Startup skirts datacenter bottlenecks with cache; Gear6 CACHEfx's cache-in-a-box approach serves data quickly to I/O-heavy apps.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Jason Snyder Seeking to alleviate the bottleneck woes of I/O-intensive apps, startup Gear6 today announced CACHEfx, a scalable cache appliance that makes as much as 5TB of cached data available to applications without having to...

HDS blends virtualization with thin provisioning; Control-unit approach to virtualization boosts Universal Storage Platform V's performance.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Jason Snyder In a move aimed at the ongoing data deluge and datacenter I/O bottlenecks today's enterprises face, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has revamped its storage virtualization strategy in the form of the Hitachi USP (Universal...

Researcher: Apple TV, iTunes video "dead ends"; Paid video downloads will give way to ad-backed streaming media and subscription model, according to Forrester analyst.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Gregg Keizer, Computerworld Apple's for-pay video download business on iTunes and its Apple TV set-top box are "dead ends," a researcher said Monday, because television and cable networks will quickly shift their creative products...

Microsoft desperate, says target OpenOffice.org; Open source alternative to Office incredulous over Microsoft's claims.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Gregg Keizer, Computerworld OpenOffice.org Monday called Microsoft's assertion that its open source application suite violates 45 of its patents "a desperate act." "It's just hard to put into credible terms," said Louis...

Talend: Data integration for the masses! Paris-based startup's Open Studio shaking up market dominated by big players, proprietary solutions.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Paul F. Roberts There's no question about it: Business intelligence is the holy grail of most CIOs and IT managers alike. After all, the idea behind BI is great: Pull data from all the nooks and crannies on your enterprise network...

Players in potential patent battle hunker down; Microsoft, Red Hat, Free Software Foundation mostly quiet.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill With lines in the sand being drawn in Microsoft's beef over open source and alleged patent infringement, potential major players in this battle are keeping their cards close to the vest at this juncture. Requests to...

EDITOR'S LETTER: SOA is DOA, unless you break the bottlenecks; Plus: Longhorn love affair and an IT ghost story.(Editorial)
May 14, 2007... Byline: Steve Fox As you read this, the InfoWorld staff is making final, feverish preparations for our two-day SOA Executive Forum, which goes live this Tuesday at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. The theme for this incarnation of the...

Getting the concept; Most IT pros now say they're familiar with SOA. But what exactly are they familiar with? SOA is easy to misunderstand, but not if you keep the concept simple.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Galen Gruman If you don't "get it," you're not going to get there. If you think that using WS-* standards, licensing an ESB (enterprise service bus), and deploying service registry means you've arrived, think again. All of the...

Putting services to the test; Dependencies among services increase the complexity of testing, especially when you can't possibly predict all the future applications that may consume a service.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Galen Gruman When investigating SOA technology, expect to get pitches for SOA-specific testing tools. Traditional testing involves working with a complete application, but because SOA services can be used in multiple combinations...

Selling the dream; SOA isn't the first all-purpose cure all for IT woes. To get past the cynicism, focus on deliverables and bypass the technical details.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Galen Gruman Do businesspeople really want to hear IT promote yet another wonderful technology that will solve all their problems? SOA pitches tend to have a familiar ring. The past is littered with three-letter acronyms that never...

Hammering out the architecture; The "A" in SOA is often neglected. SOA should be deployed incrementally. But without a bird's-eye, architect's view, and SOA initiative is doomed to failure.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Galen Gruman Without an architecture, there is no SOA. “Architecture identifies the key components of your business and how they interact with you, to give you the overall structure,” says Hong Zhang, chief architect at...

Scoping out services; The conversation between business and IT gets serious when you begin defining arrays of services. Keeping a business-function perspective will help ensure success.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Galen Gruman The hands-on work for IT begins during the phase of mapping processes to services. This requires understanding those processes from a business view, requiring a true business-IT partnership. IT can’t just work on...

Timing the technology choice; Don't pull the trigger too early. If you fill your toolbox before mapping the SOA landscape, you'll very likely limit your flexibility in unexpected ways.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Galen Gruman SOA is typically championed by technologists. That makes it easy to view SOA as merely a technology for which new tools can be bought — a premise vendors are all too happy to support. “But it doesn’t...

Addressing the data problem; SOA applications may span the enterprise, so they need consistent, application-independent data definitions. That's one big cleanup job.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Galen Gruman One of the most unloved parts of IT is ensuring the integrity of data. Data comes from multiple sources -- disparate applications, outside partners -- typically with different assumptions about meaning and usage. That...

Governance, governance, governance; An SOA without governance is not an SOA, mainly because you need a way to manage the new matrix of dependencies across the organization.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Galen Gruman By its very nature, an SOA encourages services to be shared across organizational boundaries. Among departments or business units, disputes arise over how to build, consume, modify, and retire services, as well as over...

Changing developer culture; The last thing developers want are SOA "governance cops" telling them what they can and can't do. To change the individualist developer culture, create the right incentives.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Galen Gruman Software developers are problem-solvers, and developing or reworking an application provides an opportunity to wade deep into a problem and solve it with new code. In SOA, development is not about creating new software...

Avoiding vendor lock-in; With the sprawling nature of SOA, and the immaturity of some SOA-related standards, vendors want to reel you into their proprietary world.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Galen Gruman Although most SOA bottlenecks relate to governance, some are technological. The biggest hazard is a lack of maturity in some standards necessary to create a reliable, available SOA -- giving vendors the opportunity to...

Breaking SOA bottlenecks; Those who experiment with SOA on a small scale generally have a smooth ride. But start to scale, and obstacles quickly emerge. Here are the common SOA choke points -- and their antidotes.
May 14, 2007... Byline: Galen Gruman SOA has gone from just another three-letter acronym to the Holy Grail for agility-seeking enterprises. A horde of vendors and consultants are pitching SOA stuff, from app dev tools to enterprise service buses. The SOA...

IBM pitches risk management strategy; The company unveils a comprehensive IT risk management strategy that will help enterprises simplify -- and ease the financial burden of-- security and compliance work.
May 15, 2007... Byline: Matt Hines IBM unveiled a new IT governance and risk management strategy on May 15 that it will market to enterprise customers as a means to weave together security and compliance projects to ease planning and help drive down...

American Express plans business, consumer buy site; Giant credit card company will also audit business and consumer bills and recover funds.
May 15, 2007... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz Code-named Purchasing Portal, American Express is expected to launch a consumer service in the fourth quarter that will give American Express cardholders access to American Express's own negotiated rates for...

Analysis: Apple’s new MacBooks; Apple celebrates 10 percent notebook share with new MacBooks.
May 15, 2007... Byline: Tom Yager Apple’s MacBook notebook product line is aimed at students, consumers, and professionals looking for compact and affordable portable computers. MacBook seems poised to play second fiddle to Apple’s MacBook...

IBM pitches the efficiency of agile programming; Presentation at the Academy of Technology Conference covers iterative development methodology that favors more frequent release cycles of less comprehensive updates.
May 15, 2007... Byline: Paul Krill IBM is undoubtedly one of the oldest computer technology companies, but it may be on the cutting edge when it comes to deploying newfangled agile programming methodologies. The company is holding an IBM Academy of...

ColdWatt: making servers mean and green; Startup's energy-efficient power supplies take a bite out of operations costs.
May 15, 2007... Byline: Ted Samson High-efficiency power supplies might not have the same "wow" factor as some other technologies associated with developing a greener, more cost-efficient datacenter (say, server virtualization). But consider this:...

MySpace asked for names of registered sex offenders; Attorneys general from eight states seek better protection for children who use popular social networking site.
May 15, 2007... Byline: Linda Rosencrance, Computerworld Attorneys general from eight states want MySpace to turn over the names of potentially thousands of registered sex offenders who may be members of its popular social networking site. In a May 14...

Startup's DNS server boosts VOIP and media streaming; 3C claims its authoritative DNS server is capable of answering over a million queries per second on a single CPU.
May 16, 2007... Byline: Manek Dubash, Techworld.com U.K. startup 3C has launched what it calls the world's fastest authoritative DNS server, capable of answering over a million queries per second on a single CPU. The company described the product,...

BT plans to be 100 percent SOA by '09; UK Telco's plans prompt IT shakeup.
May 16, 2007... Byline: Paul F. Roberts While many enterprises are still trying to get their arms around just what SOAs (service-oriented architectures) really are, British Telecom is nearing the end of an eight-year effort to move to an entirely...

Spyware hunter probes larger market flaws; Ben Edelman earned his reputation battling adware vendors such as 180 Solutions and Claria. Now he's looking to the future and the goal of unbreakable markets that are immune to scams.
May 16, 2007... Byline: Matt Hines Ben Edelman made a name for himself while still a graduate student by digging into the shady dealings that spawned what most people considered an innocuous problem: pop-up Web advertising. From his dorm room at...

Scammers gaming YouTube ratings for profit; Spyware researcher says scammers are inflating the popularity of videos on YouTube and other sharing sites, often as a lure to Web sites loaded with malicious programs.
May 16, 2007... Byline: Matt Hines The half-minute-long commercial for energy drink IRN-BRU on YouTube isn't all that original or really very funny. All the same, the clip "R0049_TDAU8" garnered 113 million hits and received a five-star review, with more...