InfoWorld articles from June 2005

InfoWorld archives from June 2005

Borland, Macromedia back Eclipse - Flex, Peloton tools tuned for open source IDE.
June 6, 2005... Borland and Macromedia are making commercial tools for the open source Eclipse IDE. Macromedia plans to join the Eclipse Foundation on Monday, unveiling a plug-in planned for Eclipse. Borland already unveiled an incarnation of JBuilder last...

Product previews.
June 6, 2005... HP updates ProCurve lineup, Media Publisher unveils video platform, Netezza bolsters storage capacity, Accellion expands file transfer appliances By InfoWorld staff HP updates ProCurve lineup Hewlett-Packard's ProCurve networking...

HP weaves SOA wares into OpenView - OpenView SOA Manager and Compliance Manager align IT with business, help with regulatory compliance.
June 6, 2005... Hewlett-Packard plans to unwrap two new pieces of its OpenView lineup this week. The new software helps IT comply with government regulations and more effectively deliver services using an SOA. OpenView SOA Manager is built to help...

HP offers new thin clients.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Hewlett-Packard unwrapped three new thin-client devices last week, designed to help IT managers provide basic computing power for low-end users. The basic models include the $239 t5125 with 32MB of flash memory and 128MB of DDR, and the $289...

AMD launches dual-core chips.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... One week after Intel officially unveiled its dual-core Pentium D, AMD made available its highly evangelized Athlon 64 X2. The new chip contains two processors on a single piece of silicon. AMD's dual chip offers higher performance because it...

Japan aims for world's fastest supercomputer.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... With its sights set on surpassing the IBM Blue Gene/L, Japan's government rounded up Hitachi, NEC, and several Japanese universities to begin research for a new supercomputer it hopes will crunch numbers as much as 30 times faster than the IBM...

Microsoft touts 10 changes to Visual Studio - Company hones Visual C#, Web Forms, and icons in forthcoming toolset.
June 6, 2005... On the road to delivering a final version of Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft has instituted some changes to the upcoming toolbox. Visual Studio 2005, code-named "Whidbey," is due to ship in the second half of 2005, and the latest round of...

Office 12 jumps to XML - Forthcoming version of Office to adopt XML file formats for better data interoperability.
June 6, 2005... In a move that could bring a chorus of both cheers and jeers, Microsoft has committed to adopting XML technology as the default file format in the next version of Office, expected to enter beta testing this fall. The Microsoft Office Open...

Sun grabs StorageTek for $4.1 billion - Tape vendor expands Sun's storage portfolio.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Sun Microsystems acquired Storage Technology (StorageTek) for $4.1 billion in cash last week in a bid to bolster its ILM (information lifecycle management) strategy. "With Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, and other compliance issues, storage and...

EDITOR'S LETTER: Processing business - How technology is driving the evolution of business, just as business must drive tech.
June 6, 2005... This week Ephraim Schwartz reports on "business process utility," an outsourcing concept showcased in a recent Gartner study. The idea behind BPU is that companies will increasingly buy certain noncritical functions from outside providers based...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Feds discover the force, MS disses Netscape (of course) - Aging rumormonger leaves roosts, gets boost.(International Business Machines Corp)(www.punjabisingles.com )(Column)
June 6, 2005... I was walking Apache down Lonely Street when I stopped at my local for a quick one. I got to chatting with a lass who works for a social- networking startup. When I said I shoveled gossip for a living, she sparked right up. Apparently, these...

STRATEGIC DEVELOPER: Debugging SOA - The goal of truly hands-free, plug-and-play services is probably unrealistic.(Service oriented architecture )(Column)
June 6, 2005... Last month on my blog, I wrote about how my choice between two bookmark- sharing applications -- Rubric and Scuttle -- tipped in favor of the latter when I couldn't debug a database-related problem with the former (infoworld.com/2833). Rubric,...

AHEAD OF THE CURVE: Tiger's in the air - The menu for Apple's annual developer potluck features a stew of excitement and controversy.(Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference)(Column)
June 6, 2005... It's Microsoft's bad luck to have scheduled its TechEd conference during the same week as Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). The weeks preceding any performance of the Macintosh Tabernacle Choir, for which Steve Jobs is the opener,...

CTO CONNECTION: Secrets of a great off-site retreat - Fire up the lasers, order the pizza, and stay no longer than absolutely necessary.(Column)
June 6, 2005... It's not every day that you find yourself in a hastily assembled platoon of your IT colleagues, crouched behind a barrel with your finger resting nervously on the trigger of your gun, hoping the enemy doesn't shoot you from behind while you're...

REALITY CHECK: The rise of business process utilities - Are you ready for the next step in the evolution of outsourcing?
June 6, 2005... "Converging Trends in Outsourcing: Moving Toward the Light," a Gartner report written by Allie Young, has a lofty title but raises a very down- to-earth concern about where outsourcing will eventually lead us. We are witnessing the convergence...

SNIA works toward ILM standards - Industry body defines terms, best practice for enterprise information management.(Storage Networking Industry Association)(Information lifecycle management)
June 6, 2005... Implementing an ILM strategy is neither simple nor straightforward for any organization. For one thing, although the point solutions offered by storage vendors today address parts of the problem, true ILM must encompass the whole datacenter....

StealthWatch Xe shines a light on NetFlows - New Lancope appliance collects and analyzes NetFlow traffic data for anomalous behavior.
June 6, 2005... Shining a light in the dark often exposes nasty little critters that normally hide from view. Lancope's newly released StealthWatch Xe IDS appliance can do the same thing for your network. Working in conjunction with network infrastructure...

The poor man's pharm - Desktop pharming, accomplished via malware, may be a bigger epidemic than sophisticated server attacks.(Domain Name Service server)
June 6, 2005... DNS poisoning requires elite hacking skills, which is why most analysts believe it falls short of a large-scale threat. But before you get too complacent, take notice of the poor man's pharm, a less sophisticated and far less costly way to...

Words of wisdom from the father of DNS - Paul Mockapetris talks about the state of DNS.(Domain Name Service server)
June 6, 2005... When Paul Mockapetris invented DNS back in 1983, the Internet was the sleepy domain of university researchers and the military, hardly the sprawling engine of commerce and communication that it has become. In those early days, says...

Versatel boosts its IQ1500 - Improved media gateway adds density, redundancy, and more.(Versatel Networks Inc.)(Product/Service Evaluation)
June 6, 2005... It's hard to imagine what else could be done to improve Versatel Networks' IQ1500L media gateway. When I looked at the previous version several months ago, it was already a very capable product. Now it's been improved, expanded, and beefed up....

Never-die network services - Infoblox DNS/DHCP appliance makes HA clustering easy.(Domain name server)(Dynamic host configuration protocol)(Product/Service Evaluation)
June 6, 2005... If a network is like a car, then DNS is the ignition key. To extend that analogy, DHCP might be the battery. These two services are among the lightest available on any network, but no network can function without them. Without DHCP, address...

Taking charge of the enterprise information lifecycle - New, more intelligent storage tools promise better information management from start to finish.
June 6, 2005... There's a stage in the life of a new technology in which half the world thinks it's a whole new paradigm and the other half thinks it's all hype. Half says it will never happen whereas the other half says, "We're doing it now." And even the...

The looming threat of pharming - It's harder to pharm than to phish, but recent incidents prove that some hackers don't mind the extra work.
June 6, 2005... Security experts call it the soft underbelly of the Internet, and hackers, having drawn first blood, are ripping at it with new enthusiasm. The vulnerable spot is DNS software -- typically the widely used BIND (Berkeley Internet Name...

Tiger burns bright - Apple's Mac OS X 10.4 brings productivity to desktops, turnkey power to servers.(Apple Computer Inc.)
June 6, 2005... Users usually don't expect much from OSes. They're the foundation for prefabricated or build-it-yourself solutions, but none is a rich solution, a self-contained platform out of the box. If you want a complete productivity platform, you can...

Product previews.(email service from AppRiver)(Wi Fi services from T-Mobile USA Inc.)(new product from Pillar Data Systems)
June 13, 2005... Storage startup Pillar marries NAS and SAN, AppRiver launches secure e- mail service, T-Mobile builds out Wi-Fi service and hot spots, and Eclipse issues BIRT reporting tool By InfoWorld staff Pillar Data blends SAN, NAS into a single...

Apple developers sanguine about switch to Intel - Move is not without risk, but many expect it to be worthwhile.(Apple Computer Inc.)
June 13, 2005... The declaration that Apple computer will transition its microprocessor platform from the PowerPC to the Intel architecture has analysts, pundits, and prognosticators predicting doom and gloom for the company. One group seems unruffled, however:...

Oracle to Buy Database Vendor.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Oracle has agreed to buy TimesTen, which makes software for boosting the performance of database applications used for stock trading, airline reservations and other areas where fast response times are critical. Whereas customers use Oracle s...

JBoss Updates Partner Program.(JBoss Group L.L.C.)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... JBoss is reorganizing its partner program and considering moves into new types of software, including tools for building rich client interfaces, as it prepares to fend off increased competition from other providers of open-source middleware....

Nortel Eyes Outlook Multimedia.(Nortel Networks Corp., Microsoft Corp., contract)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Nortel Networks reached out to enterprises with multimedia communications software, announcing a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook that allows companies to integrate voice and other forms of communication with the widely used e-mail client. The...

Intrusion Protection Systems get hot - Web services and internal threats become a new focus.
June 13, 2005... Taxed with providing an ever-expanding range of complex security functions, IPS vendors are rising to the challenge, transforming their wares to go beyond simply identifying and stopping attacks based on updated threat profiles. The IPS...

Microsoft weighs in on VoIP - Deals struck with Amdocs, AT&T, Sylantro.
June 13, 2005... The ramp up of VoIP continued last week as Microsoft added its considerable weight to the technology with new products and services, and with strategic alliances with Amdocs, AT&T, and Sylantro Systems. Microsoft s goal is to provide VoIP...

Ballmer tells of "New World of Work" - At TechEd, Microsoft also sets a ship date for Visual Studio, SQL Server upgrades.(Steve Ballmer )(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... At the Microsoft TechEd 2005 conference last week Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer touted the company s vision of a New World of Work for information workers, with a focus on information access, business processes, and collaboration. Microsoft...

EDITOR'S LETTER: IT salaries heading north - But heavy workloads, tight budgets, and clueless management could spell trouble.
June 13, 2005... Finally, some good news! after three years of shrinking IT salaries, disconcerting budget forecasts, and mounting employment insecurity, the InfoWorld 2005 Compensation Survey shows the makings of a turnaround. As this week s cover story a...

SECURITY ADVISER: Another week, another few million confidential records lost - Sending customer data to Texas is asking for trouble with a capital T.
June 13, 2005... It's beginning to get a little too routine. Nearly every week, some well-known, highly respected financial institution a) loses, b) misplaces, or c) has in its possession stolen confidential consumer financial data. The week of June 6, it...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Apple hooks up with Intel, social nets kiss and tell - The old boy has some life in him yet, it seems.(partnership deal between Apple Computer Inc. and Intel Corp.)(Column)
June 13, 2005... So I looked up my new friend at that social-networking firm. She's got quite an impressive set of connections. It seems we're each three degrees away from Paris Hilton and Pee-wee Herman. I started by sending her a few e-mails, and now we're...

STRATEGIC DEVELOPER: Are Tiger's features compelling enough? The real competition for the new version of Mac OS X is the network itself.(Column)
June 13, 2005... Last week i upgraded to the 10.4 (tiger ) version of Mac OS X, and I ve been getting acquainted with its new features. The headline attractions are Spotlight (for search), Dashboard (for lightweight applications), and Automator (for scripting)....

AHEAD OF THE CURVE: Open source resumes - What weight would you give a prospective employee's open source experience?
June 13, 2005... Open source software is not unique to the United States, but America strikes me as one of the least likely places for it to take root. Americans live in a society that regards remuneration as the sole measure of labor s worth. In business,...

CTO CONNECTION: Money talks - Understanding any IT operation begins with a hard look at where the money is going.(Column)
June 13, 2005... As a high school kid with an unusual interest in politics, one of my favorite books (and movies) was All the President s Men, the Woodward and Bernstein classic on the Watergate scandal. Unless you ve been holed up in Uzbekistan, by now you ve...

REALITY CHECK: Putting a stop to counterfeit products - Electronic pedigree systems ensure authenticity throughout the supply chain.
June 13, 2005... Although a bottle of bogus Viagra might prove to be a big disappointment, a counterfeit bottle of a heart medication such as Lipitor could be deadly. On the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy s list of drugs most susceptible to...

Directory Server rides again - Red Hat revs and revamps LDAP server acquired from Netscape.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... On June 1, Red Hat announced the availability of RHDS (Red Hat Directory Server). The Linux community has had solid LDAP servers for years, such as the OpenLDAP project, but these servers haven t been particularly easy to manage. If you wanted...

Built for comfort, not for speed - Dell/EMC's iSCSI AX100i makes storage networking easy and affordable but slow.
June 13, 2005... If any technology is transforming from budget buster into budget saver, it s storage area networks. Just a few years ago the cost per gigabyte of SAN storage and the expertise necessary to implement a SAN far exceeded the resources of small and...

Server management from your beach chair - IP-enabled KVMs unchain admins from server rooms.
June 13, 2005... As a server farm matures, its managers often come to lean on KVM switches, because using a single keyboard, video, and mouse to control a small stack of servers and/or workstations is vastly more efficient. But as a stack grows, managers find...

2005 InfoWorld Compensation Survey - More money isn't everything. This year, dissatisfaction among IT workers and managers increases, even though total compensation packages are on the rise.
June 13, 2005... At first glance, results from the 2005 InfoWorld Compensation Survey show an industry looking up. As company performance has risen, so have salaries and bonuses in the IT sector, suggesting the downturn is over. Jobs are to be had. Purse...

Bonuses loom large in executive compensation.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Executive bonuses proved lucrative, and personal-performance perks lifted middle management compensation, but fewer IT staff garnered awards than they did the year before Click for larger view. Copyright (c) 2005 InfoWorld Media Group...

Regional rewards.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... With the exception of significant salary gains in Denver, the coastward migration of IT dollars continues Click for larger view. Copyright (c) 2005 InfoWorld Media Group Inc.

Shifting insecurities.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Tight budgets still give tech workers the job jitters, while the realities of outsourcing and offshoring threaten to further polarize the org chart Click for larger view. Copyright (c) 2005 InfoWorld Media Group Inc.

Staffing issues that affected the trends.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... This year's drastic HR actions were fewer in number and severity than last year - but worse than employers had forecasted Click for larger view. Copyright (c) 2005 InfoWorld Media Group Inc.

Tech bolsters budgets, business begs off.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... The tech industry is enjoying an influx of bucks, whereas business budgets slipped slightly. Once again, government and education organizations set a benchmark for making do with scarce resources Click for larger view. Copyright (c)...

The frustrations of running in place.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Bean counting and obliviousness to shifts in technology surpassed thin wallets as the top reasons tech professionals feel management has given IT shorter shrift Copyright (c) 2005 InfoWorld Media Group Inc.

The rationale behind cuts and raises.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Senior IT execs' salaries tended to follow company performance, whereas managers took home more pay for taking on more responsibilities Click for larger view. Copyright (c) 2005 InfoWorld Media Group Inc.

Turnaround in take-home pay.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Whereas IT staff benefited from slightly higher salaries, tech execs profited from the return of the bonus. Managers found a middle balance, with moderate gains in both forms of compensation Click for larger view. Copyright (c) 2005...

Better prospects, easier pickings.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... A nascent market for IT skills gives hope of an eventual payoff, as an increase in job openings makes competition among applicants less cutthroat Click for larger view. Copyright (c) 2005 InfoWorld Media Group Inc.

Short-changed and seeking new employment.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... More than half of IT professionals are entertaining thoughts of walking out the door, despite their 2005 salary increases Click for larger view. Copyright (c) 2005 InfoWorld Media Group Inc.

The value of IT by venue.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Salaries in the business and government/education sectors trended upward in the past year, but the tech industry still pays top dollar Click for larger view. Copyright (c) 2005 InfoWorld Media Group Inc.

Windows Storage Server unleashed - FalconStor iSCSI Storage Server brings SAN power to your Windows NAS.(storage area network, network attached storage)
June 13, 2005... When it comes to simplifying storage while still offering powerful administrative tools at a reasonable price, not many solutions can compete with FalconStor s ISS (iSCSI Storage Server). Offering a combination of block and file serving, as...

HP iSCSI pack kicks DAS - Amazing Application Storage Manager smooths migration to networked storage.
June 13, 2005... Migrating file servers, e-mail servers, and databases from DAS to networked storage improves resilience and performance, and it s probably less expensive in the long term, but it requires a mastery of a variety of storage technologies a...

Sun streamlines federated ID management - Products aim to smooth linking of identities across multiple sites and applications.(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... Sun Microsystems unwrapped two new identity management products this week, designed to ease the process of federating identity across multiple partners and customers. The Sun Java System Federation Manager can be used to build federated...

ASP trend counters software consolidation - More and more enterprises purchasing application services built for smaller companies.(application service providers)
June 20, 2005... It may fly in the face of current IT wisdom, but some departments within larger enterprises are turning away from centralized solutions and are buying their own on-demand and on-premises packaged applications. Although most CIOs say...

IBM beefs up clustering options.(enhanced network product)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... IBM rolled out a new version of its eServer Cluster 1350 powered by AMD's dual-core Opteron chip. The offering gives users access to a broader range of higher-end applications. The product, which supports the new AMD Opteron LS20cq for IBM...

Tacit enhances WAN optimization.(wide area network, Tacit Networks Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... Tacit Networks added e-mail acceleration, distributed software management capabilities, network and Web services, performance- increasing features, and flexible product packaging options to its WAN optimization products. The company's Ishared...

HP rolls Turion into notebooks.(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... Hewlett-Packard updated its slate of consumer notebooks, bringing AMD's Turion mobile processor to several models ahead of one of the more important PC-buying periods. AMD's Turion chips are now available on notebooks in the Pavilion ze2000...

Sun opens Solaris - OpenSolaris kernel and networking software available for free.(Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... Sun Microsystems has released the source code for a slate of technologies from OpenSolaris, the open source version of the Solaris 10 OS. Components, including the kernel and networking software, are available for free under Sun's Common...

Level 5 works to dissolve server bottlenecks - Ethernet-based EtherFabric bolsters CPU efficiency and server throughput.(product launch by Level 5 Networks)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... Level 5 networks this month begins shipping EtherFabric, an Ethernet- based high-performance interconnect aimed at enterprise datacenters and HPC (high performance compute) clusters. EtherFabric promises to improve CPU efficiency, reduce...

Oracle, Siebel ship major upgrades - Software giants add functions to business apps.
June 20, 2005... Enterprise software giants Oracle and Siebel Systems last week followed through on commitments to release upgrades to key products. Oracle enhanced its JD Edwards offering, whereas Siebel added marketing to its CRM OnDemand application. ...

EDITOR'S LETTER: An end to Enrons - New, real-time monitoring systems detect corporate misbehavior. But what then?(usage of network management systems)(Editorial)
June 20, 2005... Forget Michael Jackson. The real courtroom dramas today are the trials of Kenneth Lay, Bernie Ebbers, and Dennis Kozlowski in connection with misdeeds at Enron, WorldCom, and Tyco, respectively. Today's execs have more to worry about, thanks to...

OPEN ENTERPRISE: Solaris comes down from its high horse - Having tried everything else, Sun resigns itself to an open source Unix future.(intellectual property of Sun Microsystems Inc.)
June 20, 2005... Well, they did it. For months we've been hearing about Sun Microsystems' plans to open the source code of its flagship Solaris operating system. Last week, the company finally delivered the goods. The question is: Will Sun be any better off?...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Bedraggled Bobster discovers blind dates and bad diets - Bank data takes flight, Adobe is contrite.
June 20, 2005... So I had lunch with the social-networking diva last week. She's on a diet where she only eats foods beginning with the letter Q. Looks like I may be eating a lot of quiche, quesadillas, and Quaker Oats -- she's darned qute. Citi Ain't...

AHEAD OF THE CURVE: Inside the Intel-based Mac - Mac developers are enthusiastically on board, and the reason is Tiger.(production management of Apple Computer Inc.)(Column)
June 20, 2005... Apple's shift to Intel is a good thing for everybody who has or is considering acquiring a stake in the Mac. (I personally have no stake in Apple's future and own no stock.) The excitement at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference was off...

STRATEGIC DEVELOPER: The tacit dimension of tech support - Sometimes it's not what you know but what you can find out.
June 20, 2005... When I had dinner recently with InfoWorld Contributing Editor Phil Windley, he put his finger on something I've been trying to nail down for years. Like me, Phil works mainly in a home office, is married to a nongeek, and is often called on to...

REALITY CHECK: In search of the perfect price point - Price optimization software suggests retail pricing based on fluctuating consumer demand.
June 20, 2005... A year ago I rarely heard the term price optimization. Now on any given day my inbox has two or three e-mails announcing software with that capability. In addition, during the last year and a half the big four consulting firms have all added...

CTO CONNECTION: Intel at Apple's core - Thanks to open source, Apple's big shift from IBM to Intel will have little effect in the real world.(chief technical officer)(production management of Apple Computer Inc.)(Column)
June 20, 2005... The recent news about Apple adopting Intel chips for its hardware elicited roughly the same amount of excitement in me as washing a pile of dirty laundry -- that is to say, not much. My main reaction was this: Since when did Apple people care...

Product previews.(ManageSoft Corp. launches ManageSoft Refresh)(Entuity Inc. launches Eye of the Storm 4.0)(Composite Software Inc. launches Composite Application Views)
June 20, 2005... ManageSoft refreshes desktop management tool, Entuity releases version 4.0 of network management suite, Composite queries SAP and Siebel, and Macrovision automates software delivery By InfoWorld staff ManageSoft refreshes desktop...

ITM peers inside the inside threats - Oakley Networks' activity- monitoring agents stops information leaks at their source.(Insider Threat Manager 3.0)(Product/Service Evaluation)
June 20, 2005... Oakley Networks' ITM (Insider Threat Manager), an unobtrusive server- agent solution, provides enterprisewide monitoring of workstations and laptops, even those used remotely or wirelessly. Because ITM blocks policy violations at the source --...

High availability at the low end - Stratus ftServer W 2300 is light on horsepower but hard to kill.(Product/Service Evaluation)
June 20, 2005... Although the Stratus ftServer W Series 2300 doesn't deliver top-notch performance or provide much room to grow, it's still worth the extra dough. Running the Standard Edition of Windows Server 2003, this entry- level Intel-based server...

SOAPtest 4.0 targets Web services - New security tests, load testing make for squeaky-clean Web services.(Product/Service Evaluation)
June 20, 2005... Whereas most of us surf the visible HTTP exchanges between browser and Web server, Web services are transporting an increasing load of otherwise invisible traffic. With the help of SOAP, Web service clients and servers carry on unseen...

NeoPath offers clear route to flexible file server management - File Director's virtualized network shares make storage changes a walk in the park.(Product/Service Evaluation)
June 20, 2005... Many organizations find that file servers tend to pop up all over the place and are often hard to manage. Worse, consolidating the servers may disrupt end-users, because consolidation usually requires changing network mappings and user...

Exclusive: ECS agents protect you from the unknown - Elemental Compliance System ensures only compliant hosts connect to your network.(Product/Service Evaluation)
June 20, 2005... The only truly secure computer is one that's unplugged and buried in a hole 6 feet deep -- or so it's been said. Unfortunately, you can't disconnect and bury your servers to keep them safe. You can, however, move access control from the user...

Clamp down on security leaks - The InfoWorld Test Center scrutinizes solutions from iLumin, Reconnex, Tablus, Vericept, and Vontu aimed at stopping insiders from spilling your secrets or breaking the law.(Reconnex iGuard 3300 1.4, Tablus Content Alarm NW 2.1, Vericept Intelligent Protection Platform 7.1, Vontu 4.0 and iLumin Assentor Compliance 3.3)(Product/Service Evaluation)
June 20, 2005... Your organization's Sarbanes-Oxley audit is scheduled for this summer. Will you be able to show who has access to financial records and what they're doing with that data? Just as important, can you prove you're equipped to take immediate action...

Securing data at the point of use - Protecting data at the desktop keeps it from slipping out via removable storage, printers, and other means.
June 20, 2005... Inspecting content on the wire, the approach taken by the products in this roundup, is nothing new. In fairness to these vendors, they've put a lot of hard work into optimizing their solutions to handle high data volumes and the fresh ways...

Take a holistic approach to data security - Technology only goes so far in safeguarding your valuable data.
June 20, 2005... Technology that safeguards private data and intellectual property is clearly an essential part of a total security strategy. Experts say at least one of the technologies covered in this roundup should be installed to protect content, whether...

Cisco adds Intelligence to network gear - IBM, SAP, Tibco join partnership in AON messaging vision.
June 27, 2005... Embarking on a new path, Cisco Systems unveiled details of its first move into the messaging middleware business last week, with its AON (Application-Oriented Network) business unit. Armed with development agreements with several vendors,...

Product previews.
June 27, 2005... JBoss upgrades portal, Coraid unwraps storage appliance, iLumin introduces messaging compliance tool, Electric Mail beefs up anti-spam service By InfoWorld Staff JBoss upgrades open source portal JBoss this month rolled out...

Microsoft sells security package.(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... Microsoft said it completed its acquisition of the anti-virus software vendor Sybari Software and has decided to continue selling Sybari's products on a stand-alone basis. Microsoft will offer a host of Sybari products for Windows, including...

CA unveils SMB Protection Suites.(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... Computer Associates International introduced five Protection Suites that offer comprehensive security, storage, and data migration targeted at SMBs. The release of the Protection Suites adds support for 12 more languages and includes anti-virus...