InfoWorld articles from April 2005

InfoWorld archives from April 2005

Interwoven, Hummingbird address regulatory demands - ECM tools toe compliance line.(Enterprise Content Management)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Just about every inch of the technology stack is addressing compliance, and ECM (enterprise content management) is no exception, as vendors parlay deep content expertise to help companies meet compliance requirements. This week ECM player...

IBM props up mainframe with WebSphere - Latest app server version merges code bases.(International Business Machines Corp)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Hoping to boost development around its venerable mainframe platform, IBM last week launched Version 6 of its WebSphere Application Server. For the first time, the server will be built on the same code base as editions of WebSphere for...

Intel imparts 64-bit Xeon MP - Microsoft, hardware vendors back new chip but take different tacks.
April 4, 2005... High-end Xeon servers have entered the era of 64-bit computing. Last week Intel unwrapped the highly anticipated 64-bit version of its Xeon MP chip. The new chips, which come in five configurations, were unveiled as part of a new line of...

Siebel upgrades CRM OnDemand.(Customer Relationship Management)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Siebel Systems unveiled Release 7 of CRM OnDemand, a version that integrates the third leg of CRM -- customer service -- with sales and marketing. The hosted contact-center solution will be offered as a pre- built option within CRM OnDemand....

Plumtree touts portal analytics.(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Plumtree Software introduced Plumtree Analytics Server, a new product designed to give IT administrators real-time reporting information about portal usage and activity by integrating it with the Plumtree Corporate Portal. The new product...

Adobe readies suite update.(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Adobe Systems is preparing the second version of its Creative Suite bundle of professional graphics-software applications, the current version of which includes Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, Adobe officials said. Although details have...

SAN switch market heats up to 4Gbps - McData updates Sphereon.(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... The SAN switch market is heating up. A new generation of fabric switches is hitting the market, as customers build for a future of faster, larger SANs. This week McData will introduce the latest update to its line of switches designed for...

SAP, IBM help drive SOA uptake - Vendors offering SOA deployment services.(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... As SOAs (service-oriented architectures) continue to gather steam, vendors are moving to help enterprises embrace the new infrastructure. This month SAP will launch the ESA (Enterprise Services Architecture) Adoption Program, its strategy...

OPEN ENTERPRISE: Who will champion Novell's open source strategy? The company's execs promote Linux vision while its technology leaders jump ship.
April 4, 2005... It's official! Novell is a Linux company. That might not come as a surprise to many of you. After all, Novell bought Suse Linux, the No. 2 Linux vendor (after rival Red Hat), in November 2003. But when I spoke to then-CTO Alan Nugent last...

EDITOR'S LETTER: In media we trust? Journalists care about ethics -- and yet credibility remains hard to come by.
April 4, 2005... Car dealers, politicians, journalists. What do these professions have in common? People don't trust them. A September 2004 Gallup poll placed members of the media below nursing home operators and state officeholders in terms of...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Quicken won't install, HP makes the call - No more April Fools' for me.
April 4, 2005... I played my annual April Fools' Day joke on my tough-as-nails editor by pretending to submit my resignation. He played his annual joke by pretending to accept it. But now my work phone appears to be disconnected and I can no longer check my...

The IT generalist makes a comeback - One person who knows something about all your operation is one of your highest assets.
April 4, 2005... I've been seeing the title "IT generalist" coming back into use. It's a welcome sight. I recall the generalist from the days when minicomputers and mainframes were being traded for less costly Unix microcomputers. Back then, the generalist was...

STRATEGIC DEVELOPER: Separating code from its environment - Programming environments shouldn't be tied to specific languages.
April 4, 2005... Programming languages and environments are an abiding passion of mine. I'm always on the lookout for a better mousetrap, and lately I've been working with three relative newcomers: the PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor)-based plug-in...

CTO CONNECTION: Under Mac attack - Call off the dogs -- we really do support Macs at InfoWorld, it's just not a religious thing.
April 4, 2005... If I learned anything from the feedback for my last column, it's that Mac loyalists remain a passionate bunch. The e-mails I received had my head spinning faster than Fast User Switching in OS X. Clearly, the response would have been kinder if...

REALITY CHECK: Green-card regulations encourage offshoring - New rules make hiring foreign nationals more difficult than ever.
April 4, 2005... I recently spoke with Frida Glucoft, a leading immigration lawyer and a partner and chair of the immigration practice at law firm Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp. She tells me that changes made by the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS)...

Ingrian's DataSecure puts locks in a box - Appliance mixes slow setup, fast performance, and strong data security.
April 4, 2005... Ingrian Networks' DataSecure network appliance provides centralized encryption for databases and applications, allowing DBAs to control who can view specific columns of private or sensitive data based on user and group privileges....

Niksun appliance brings TiVo-like abilities to enterprise networks - Niksun's NetVCR brings protocol analysis to another level.
April 4, 2005... It's one thing to implement a network protocol analyzer on a segment to determine traffic patterns and utilization; it's quite another to perform these functions and to capture and store every bit seen on the wire. Niksun's NetVCR 2005...

Product previews.(Ektron)
April 4, 2005... Fujitsu unleashes Itanium 2-based servers, Iomega expands NAS family, Compuware enhances performance-testing suite, Ektron takes the wraps off document-management system, and Xirrus crams functionality into Wi-Fi device By InfoWorld staff...

Borland turns hard-core - Core SDP role-based suites target software architects, analysts, developers, and testers.
April 4, 2005... Following up on the enterprise tools strategy it announced last autumn, Borland is now shipping Core SDP (Software Delivery Platform). With this move, the company adopts the model previously embraced by Microsoft and IBM, in which product...

Mirapoint RazorGate returns spam to senders - MailHurdle technology rejects unwanted messages before they hit mail servers.
April 4, 2005... After reviewing a half-dozen anti-spam products, I'm starting to take for granted that they'll screen out about 95 percent of spam with few or no critical false positives. A number of vendors are now shifting their efforts from improving spam...

SugarCRM appliance sweetens CRM pot - Open source-based Sugar Cube brings on-demand CRM in-house.(Customer Relations Management)
April 4, 2005... SugarCRM's latest release, Sugar Suite 2.5, is an open source-based commercial CRM project able to manage select tenets of customer- relationship management. The Suite is presented in several flavors, including a Professional, code-only...

HIPAA's barking -- and it may just bite - Getting up to speed is hard, but better business processes are a key fringe benefit.(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996)
April 4, 2005... Although it differs markedly from Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA demands as much serious interpretative and operational gymnastics on the part of IT managers, requiring them to navigate a similar sea of guidelines, some mandatory, others seemingly less...

Lessons learned on the road to compliance - Hindsight is a powerful lens when examining how to fall in line with the onslaught of federal regulations.
April 4, 2005... No one is doing jail time for failing to comply with the recent flood of federal regulations -- yet. So, it's too early to know exactly how the feds will deal with executives who don't bring their enterprises in line with all the new...

Four fixed-function servers stack up - High-function appliances yield plug-and-play simplicity -- for a premium.
April 4, 2005... Enterprise adoption of fixed-function server appliances increased significantly during the past three years, with ISVs and customers alike betting on them to boost their business success. Appliances may have found their start fulfilling basic...

Friendster scales the network with open source - When the upstart social networking site skyrocketed to success, its engineers turned to free software to handle the load.
April 4, 2005... Who says open source can't measure up to commercial software for mission-critical applications? Far from being a mere quick fix or low- cost alternative, open source software is helping real-world companies solve their most pressing IT...

The LAMP alternative to J2EE or .Net - Open source application stack delivers powerful capabilities on a shoestring budget.
April 4, 2005... When you think of enterprise web applications, it's only natural to think of J2EE and .Net. After all, these are the technologies most developers choose when implementing mission-critical apps. But as Friendster found out, the open source LAMP...

Databases rev up - Microsoft, Sybase blending OLTP, analytics.(online transaction processing)(launch of Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.0 and enhancement of Microsoft SQL Server)
April 11, 2005... There's nothing like the human brain. No nonbiological entity can process massive amounts of different types of data, integrate the data, analyze it, and respond to it in a split second. Yet to hear the major database vendors tell it, they're...

IBM sets out SOA tools - Implementation and management features are offered.(Service Oriented Architectures)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... IBM Global Services last week unveiled services to enable IT managers to plan, design, implement, and manage SOAs (service-oriented architectures). The "asset-based services" feature IBM software code, IP (intellectual property), and best...

Carl Banzhof - 2005 CTO 25 Award recipient: Vice president of technology and co-founder, Citadel Security.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... While other security vendors were devoting resources to vulnerability assessment and management, Carl Banzhof risked three years developing the first comprehensive, automated vulnerability remediation solution, with a library of hundreds of...

Ravi Arimilli - 2005 CTO 25 Award recipient: IBM fellow and chief scientist, IBM.(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... As the holder of more patents -- 305 -- than any other IBM employee, you'd think Ravi Arimilli would rest on his laurels. Instead, the youngest-ever IBM fellow is pushing ahead as chief scientist on the 500- person Power7 eServer development...

Brent Carlson - 2005 CTO 25 Award recipient: Vice president of technology and co-founder, LogicLibrary.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Back in 2000, when software reuse was widely dismissed as a nice but impractical idea, Brent Carlson had the vision to co-found a company devoted to the concept. LogicLibrary and its product Logidex help enterprises identify and understand the...

Brian Behlendorf - 2005 CTO 25 Award recipient: Founder and CTO, CollabNet.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Brian Behlendorf believes in developers working together. As one of the founders of Apache, he's seen how teams of geographically disperse developers turned an upstart open source project into the world's most popular Web server software....

Stuart Berman - 2005 CTO 25 Award recipient: Vice president and CTO, Emulex.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Switched Fibre Channel SANs brought tremendous performance, scalability, reliability, and flexibility to enterprise storage. But until Vixel -- recently acquired by Emulex -- came up with its InSpeed technology, the shared-bus architecture of...

Dan Foody - 2005 CTO 25 Award recipient: CTO, Actional.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... "A lot of people are afraid of change, but I like it because it's a new challenge all the time," says Dan Foody, CTO of Actional. Good thing. Three years ago Foody saw the need to dramatically change the direction of his company, which at the...

Eng Lim Goh - 2005 CTO 25 Award recipient: Senior vice president and CTO, Silicon Graphics.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Silicon Graphic Inc.'s Eng Lim Goh claims that increasing performance within a single constrained architecture won't suffice for the next generation of applications. Goh oversees SGI's Project Ultraviolet, which has produced exciting...

Laurence Grant - 2005 CTO 25 Award recipient: Chief technologist and vice president, Talk America.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... When you work for a fast-growing phone company, your customers expect high availability, stability, and performance from your back-end IT systems. During the past couple of years, Laurence Grant has directed a massive upgrade of Talk America's...

Eugene Kuznetsov - 2005 CTO 25 Award recipient: Founder and CTO, DataPower.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... XML-based mortgage applications, insurance quotes, and online banking might not be possible without the vision of Eugene Kuznetsov, CTO and founder of DataPower. In 1999 Kuznetsov proposed offloading XML processing onto network hardware to ease...

Jim Lester - 2005 CTO 25 Award recipient: Senior vice president and CTO, Aflac.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... At insurance giant Aflac, CIO Jim Lester took on the challenge of re- engineering a host of batch systems using Java to wrap key portions of the company's legacy code. As a result, the Fortune 200 company now presents, sells, and underwrites...

Scott Hrastar - 2005 CTO 25 Award recipient: CTO and vice president of engineering, AirDefense.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Even after 17 years in networking, Scott Hrastar, CTO of AirDefense, exuberantly insists, "There's no other IT discipline with a higher wow factor." The owner of 13 patents with another 13 pending, Hrastar's passion of the moment is getting...

Tim Howes - 2005 CTO 25 Award recipient: CTO and executive vice president, Opsware.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... For Tim Howes, the solutions for the big problems facing IT boil down to a single word: automation. As CTO for Opsware (formerly LoudCloud), he helped the company transform itself from a managed services provider to a developer of IT automation...

Addison McGuffin - 2005 CTO 25 Award recipient: CTO, Health Care Service Corp.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... When Addison McGuffin looks at Health Care Service Corp. (which offers BlueCross BlueShield insurance in Illinois, Texas, and New Mexico), he sees unlimited potential. As CTO, McGuffin leads the development of SOA- based applications to support...

Dave Martin - 2005 CTO 25 Award recipient: CIO, Farm Credit Services of America.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Dave Martin is proof that you can take the boy off the farm but you can't take the farm out of the boy. Martin, who grew up on a farm and started his career as a farm loan officer, has returned to his roots as CIO of the $8 billion Farm Credit...

Kristin Lovejoy - 2005 CTO 25 Award recipient: CTO and CIO, Consul risk management.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Talk about eating your own dog food. As CTO of compliance software vendor Consul risk management, Kristin Lovejoy conjures her company's product vision. In her role as the company's CIO, she uses that same software every day with the firm...

Robert Otto - 2005 CTO 25 Award recipient: CTO and vice president of IT, U.S. Postal Service.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... When Robert Otto joined the U.S. Postal Service in 1980, he took charge of computer security. Later, he helped lead the USPS's Y2K initiative. Today, as CTO and vice president of IT, Otto continues his mission to modernize. Under his...

Alberto Savoia - 2005 CTO 25 Award recipient: CTO, vice president of engineering, and founder, Agitar.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Agitar CTO and founder Alberto Savoia has a unique tool for testing code: lava lamps. On April Fools' Day 2004, Savoia connected two lava lamps to his testing network. When code passed, the green lamp glowed. When it failed, the red lamp lit...

Barry Robinson - 2005 CTO 25 Award recipient: Director of IT operations, Trizec Properties.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... When you manage high-rises in seven major cities, ensuring that employees and tenants know what to do in a crisis can make a life-or- death difference. Barry Robinson, chief technologist of Chicago's Trizec Properties, has been helping...

Barry Shuler - 2005 CTO 25 Award recipient: Senior vice president of IT strategy, Marriott International.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Predicting the future of technology has always been part of the CTO job description. Barry Shuler, senior vice president of information technology strategy at Marriott International, takes that mandate seriously. In 2002, Shuler -- who has 33...

Bruce Schneier - 2005 CTO 25 Award recipient: Founder and CTO, Counterpane Internet Security.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... As CTO and founder of Counterpane Internet Security, Bruce Schneier invented outsourced security-monitoring services. Following methodology similar to that used by the Centers for Disease Control, Counterpane has created a worldwide...

Toby Redshaw - 2005 CTO 25 Award recipient: Vice president of IT strategy, architecture, and e-business, Motorola.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Toby Redshaw likes to scout out promising new technologies. As corporate vice president of IT strategy, architecture, and e-business at Motorola, he was an early proponent of SOA, which has helped him reduce the cost of the average integration...

Brent Zempel - 2005 CTO 25 Award recipient: CTO, Life Time Fitness.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Can software make a health club great? The achievements of Brent Zempel, CTO of Life Time Fitness, beg the question. When the company needed a member management system in 2000, nothing on the market was up to snuff, so Zempel and his 60-person...

Greg Whitehead - 2005 CTO 25 Award recipient: CTO, Trustgenix.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... When Greg Whitehead left his previous employer three years ago, he'd already drunk the Kool-Aid about federated identity management. But he also knew something was missing. Standards efforts such as SAML and Liberty Alliance were on the right...

Pradeep Sindhu - 2005 CTO 25 Award recipient: CTO, Juniper Networks.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Pradeep Sindhu, founder and current CTO of Juniper Networks, believes the Internet has some growing up to do. In 2003 he proposed his Infranet Initiative, which describes a business-class Internet with improved QoS based on open standards...

InfoWorld CTO 25 - Our fourth annual awards honor CTOs whose vision has helped guide their companies and the IT industry.(chief technology officer)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Officially, InfoWorld's CTO Awards honor "the 25 most influential" individuals holding that position. But we have another agenda, too. We seek to highlight the achievements of those who reflect InfoWorld's readership: senior IT managers who...

New CEO shuffles the deck at CA - Focus is on systems and security management.(John Swainson reorganizes Computer Associates International Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Five months after joining Computer Associates, CEO John Swainson will implement an internal reorganization intended to focus CA on two core areas -- systems and security management -- and to increase the autonomy of the company's business-unit...

Microsoft Readies Office Accounting.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Microsoft, taking on Intuit, Best Software, and others, plans to release in September a new product designed to help small businesses operate better. Microsoft will sell Office Small Business Accounting as a stand- alone product and as part of...

Fujitsu Launches Itanium Servers.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Fujitsu unveiled two new servers last week designed to bring mainframe- class features to Windows and Linux users. More than two years in development, the systems, called PrimeQuest 480 and PrimeQuest 440, represent Fujitsu's first attempt at...

IBM Ships Data-Management App.(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... IBM announced several enhancements to its WebSphere Product Center software, which combines product-information management with out-of-the- box connections to commerce and portal solutions. With Version 5.2 of WebSphere Product Center, IBM has...

VMware Ships Desktop Package.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... VMware this week ships an improved version of its desktop virtualization software, which helps programmers collaborating in teams to provision multitiered applications and simulate real-world deployment scenarios more efficiently. VMware...

Windows Server Is Delayed.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Microsoft has pushed back the release of a special version of Windows Server for HPC (high-performance computing) until the first half of next year. The company needs more time to make the product easier to manage and deploy, a spokeswoman for...

Brocade, Sun Offer SAN Switch.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Brocade Communications Systems' SilkWorm 4100 4Gbps SAN switch is now available as part of Sun Microsystems' StorEdge portfolio of storage solutions. The SilkWorm family of fabric switches and software is designed to optimize data availability...

JBoss boosts indemnification - Open source app server company expands IP coverage.(Intellectual Property)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... JBoss last week strengthened its indemnification against IP (intellectual property)-related claims. The open source software company will take three steps to improve coverage for users of its middleware products, including JBoss...

Open source conference elicits diverse views - IBM, Microsoft, Sun officials offer their perspectives.
April 11, 2005... The open source Business Conference last week featured some curious commentary, including Microsoft citing the commercialization of open source and multiple-patent-holder IBM bashing U.S. patent laws. Noting that Microsoft is often cited as...

SpikeSource spurs open source adoption - Startup unveils testing stacks to ensure interoperability.(product launch)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Hoping to take the pain out of blending open source and proprietary applications, SpikeSource last week launched its first product and services to help with such integrations. SpikeSource also announced a network of business partners to support...

Storage industry partnerships abound - IBM, NetApp are new NAS powerhouse.(network attached storage)
April 11, 2005... The buzz in storage this spring has reached the decibel range, and the noise will continue this week at Storage Networking World in Phoenix. In the weeks prior to the show, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, and Network...

EDITOR'S LETTER: From trauma triage to IT - Schooled in emergency-care chaos, this SOA Executive Forum keynoter was definitely ready for IT.
April 11, 2005... When riots erupted in South Central Los Angeles on April 29, 1992, and ambulances began screaming into nearby emergency rooms, one of the physicians who responded was Dr. John Halamka, now CIO of Harvard Medical School and a keynote speaker at...

OPEN ENTERPRISE: Who should maintain open source projects? Do communities or companies have the edge when it comes to delivering open source software?
April 11, 2005... When making procurement decisions, it often all comes down to whom you trust. If you're buying a copier or a forklift, a strong brand name can give you confidence in your purchase. The same is true for big-name commercial software. But when it...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Veritas goes for the gold, Web casino breaks mold - Bugged by software bugs.(product defects of VERITAS Software Corp.)(defects of Google Desktop Search and McAfee SpamKiller)
April 11, 2005... Maybe because it's tax season or maybe it's spring fever, but my inbox is bursting with letters from Cringesters driven to madness by buggy software and bad service (including a mob of angry Intuit customers). If I had a dollar for every oath...

STRATEGIC DEVELOPER: Styles of Web application intermediation - Proxies between client and server are can be powerful tools for customization.(Column)
April 11, 2005... Certain aspects of Web technology continue to surprise me, no matter how well I think I understand them. Intermediation is one of them, and it comes in a couple of different flavors. First, there's protocol intermediation. Like all Internet...

AHEAD OF THE CURVE: Windows done right - Windows 2003 Server x64 Editions running on AMD's Opteron will be the darlings of the datacenter.(Product/Service Evaluation)
April 11, 2005... And now, the moment you've all been waiting for... Such a buildup usually guarantees an anti-climax, but with Windows 2003 Server x64 Editions and AMD Opteron CPUs, get ready for the thrill that keeps on thrilling. The 64-bit extended...

REALITY CHECK: Has blogger backlash come too soon? Knocking bloggers may be fashionable, but don't write off the real value blogs can bring to business.(Column)
April 11, 2005... It was bound to happen. Blogger backlash has set in. Witness Sapient, a leading business consulting and technology services company, issuing a "media alert" with the headline, "Blog tech doesn't live up to blog talk, according to Sapient...

CTO CONNECTION: Options add to end-user complications - End-users will love you for letting them choose desktop hardware, until something breaks.(chief technology officer)
April 11, 2005... One thread that runs through every important IT decision is control: How do you balance end-user freedom in the IT environment with the need for sane, predictable IT operations? The issue of end-user freedom versus IT control might just be the...

FalconStor VTL 3 brings virtual tapes to hosts.(launch of FalconStor Virtual Tape Library 3.0)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... FalconStor will release version 3 of its VTL (virtual tape library) software later this month, and I couldn't resist an early peek. You may have already seen VTL, though likely behind OEM camouflage: This flexible backup solution was adopted on...

Product previews.(Siebel CRM OnDemand 7.0, Permeo Base5 and Blinkx 3.0 launched)
April 11, 2005... Siebel boosts CRM OnDemand with more call-center features, Permeo adds remote access to security appliance, Blinkx opens new version of desktop search tool to Web, and Sterling Commerce issues latest edition of its b-to-b suite By...

HP brings value to Itanium servers - A solid entry-level server, Integrity rx1620-2 comes up short on cache and memory.
April 11, 2005... Who says the Itanium 2 processor is dead? Certainly not Hewlett-Packard, which has introduced a strong dual-processor server, the Integrity rx1620-2, into its enterprise lineup. HP, a co-inventor and longtime supporter of the processor, has...

Spam defenses get shot in the arm from Immunity 2.0 - Cloudmark software integrates well with Exchange, but beware complex setup process.(Product/Service Evaluation)
April 11, 2005... Most of the anti-spam products I've reviewed recently have been appliances. Although appliances are simple to install and set up, it's often less expensive to buy anti-spam software and install it on existing systems. For larger...

Write once, run everywhere -- no kidding - Primed for business, Oracle 10g AS Release 2 frees Java apps from traditional server binds.
April 11, 2005... As free servers continue to rack up rapid gains in the installed base, Oracle hopes to hang on to its third-place position among vendors selling commercial J2EE-certified app servers. To boost AS (Application Server) 10g's attractiveness...

Hossein Eslambolchi - 2005 CTO 25 Award recipient: CTO and CIO, AT&T.(chief technology officer and chief information officer)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... For more than 100 years AT&T was known as a world-class network delivering unprecedented reliability, says Hossein Eslambolchi, CTO and CIO of AT&T and president of AT&T Global Networking Technology Services. But that was the 20th century. The...

A whole lot more than a firewall - Caymas Access Gateway packs SSL, IPSec, and manageable, multilayered security into a single box.(Caymas Systems')
April 11, 2005... In a landscape already cluttered by secure, managed remote-access solutions, Caymas Systems' Caymas 525 Identity-Driven Access Gateway further blurs the lines between application firewall, end-point access control, and remote-application...

Despite dual core, AMD still out with Dell - Customers could benefit from choice of chips, but would Dell?(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)
April 18, 2005... Yet again AMD is poised to beat Intel to market with cutting-edge chip technology. But even though some customers are calling for Dell to use AMD processors, Dell -- the lone holdout among hardware makers -- has a strong incentive to pass. With...

Borland offers UML for Microsoft developers - Together suite features role-based tools.
April 18, 2005... Borland Software on Monday is upgrading its Together modeling suite for Microsoft Visual Studio .Net development. The suite now includes UML 2.0 capabilities. Borland Together 2005 for Microsoft Visual Studio also offers role-based...

Shakeups, Rollouts in CRM space.(Customer Relationship Management)(Brief Article)
April 18, 2005... Salesforce.com, Salesnet, and Siebel Systems are each making waves. Siebel ousted CEO Michael Lawrie and replaced him with board member George Shaheen. Salesforce.com foreshadowed the Summer '05 release, which includes Sforce 6.0, an upgrade to...

Windows Server 2003 Beta 2 readied.(Brief Article)
April 18, 2005... Microsoft later this month plans to release a second beta version of Windows Server 2003 R2 (Release 2), an update to Windows Server that the vendor expects to ship in the fourth quarter of this year. Windows Server 2003 R2 is an interim...

SAP launches BPO support.(Business Process Outsourcing)(Brief Article)
April 18, 2005... SAP has offered a helping hand to companies outsourcing administrative processes with a BPO (business process outsourcing) program called BPO Services Powered by SAP. The program will help set up and operate BPO delivery platforms in...

EMC, IBM storage battle gets NASty - New systems add ease-of-use, storage optimization.(Brief Article)
April 18, 2005... EMC this week announced a new NAS system to its lineup, playing a tit- for-tat game with IBM in the storage market. EMC's announcement comes on the heels of IBM's strategic deal with NAS heavyweight Network Appliance, in which Big Blue...