InfoWorld articles from May 2005

InfoWorld archives from May 2005

HP Integrity servers get virtual - Upgrade of Unix OS delivers vPars capability.
May 30, 2005... Hewlett-Packard is putting the finishing touches on a new release of its Unix OS, which will deliver a long-awaited virtualization capability to the company's Integrity line of servers. The update will be available by the beginning of July as...

Product previews.
May 30, 2005... Altiris boosts security, Five Across makes Bubbler service, BMC releases next generation of Patrol, and AOL unveils Netscape 8.0 By InfoWorld staff Altiris addresses vulnerability assessment and remediation Altiris announced last...

Windows OS set for verticals.(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Microsoft has begun supplying a version of its Windows XP Embedded OS tailored to the retail and hospitality industries, marking the first time the company has customized an OS for a particular market. WEPOS (Windows Embedded for Point of...

Borland readies JBuilder 2006.(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Borland's forthcoming JBuilder 2006, due later this year, will include collaboration features such as shared code editor views and joint debugging, company officials said. Shipping date for JBuilder 2006 is expected to be sometime before...

Nortel teams on mesh network.(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Nortel Networks and Wireless Valley Communications have teamed up to offer MeshPlanner for Nortel, an intuitive planning tool that optimizes wireless mesh network design. MeshPlanner enables network designers to ensure reliable and secure...

Brocade makes SANs smarter - Company builds out resource management, switch, and services offerings.
May 30, 2005... To serve the continuing deployment of corporate SANs, Brocade plans to announce this week new application resource management products, additions to its SilkWorm 4Gbps switches, and professional service and support to meet growing enterprise...

IBM emphasizes teamwork in apps building - Company stresses business, software development unity.
May 30, 2005... IBM officials at the IBM Rational Software Development Conference in Las Vegas last week stressed the need to unify business and software development objectives. The disconnect between business users and software development has led to...

Oracle steps up to the PIM plate - PIM Data Hub aims to create a single repository for product information management.
May 30, 2005... With oracle joining the ranks alongside IBM and SAP, PIM (product information management) may be taking its place as the next megatrend in IT. Oracle last week was the last of the big three enterprise software vendors to unveil its...

IBM unveils new privacy technology - DB2 Anonymous Resolution enables selected data sharing.(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Claiming a technology breakthrough in privacy and security, IBM last week introduced software that allows corporate users to share information with each other and government agencies without having to reveal private details. The...

Interwise upgrades IP-based Web conferencing software - ECP Connect offers data, video, and VoIP meetings.(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Interwise launched Version 6.0 of its ECP (Enterprise Communications Platform) Connect IP-based Web conferencing software last week, adding new features for personalization and management. ECP Connect integrates Web, video, and voice in...

Grooming networks for VoIP - CA, Visual Networks offer management tools, pre-assessment software.
May 30, 2005... As VoIP services continue to grow, vendors are rolling out new management tools to help IT departments deploy and manage their VoIP systems. Computer Associates and Visual Networks have both released new VoIP management and assessment...

EDITOR'S LETTER: Wireless in Hawaii - Who knew product testing could be so physically demanding?(Editorial)
May 30, 2005... Your typical product test isn't the most aerobically challenging endeavor. Sure, there's some lifting of manuals, a bit of cable wrangling, and the occasional respiration-raising cussing fit when things aren't going well. But by and large,...

OPEN ENTERPRISE: Is Apple a good open source citizen? The Safari browser dispute highlights cultural differences within the movement.
May 30, 2005... It's no secret Apple's Safari Web browser borrows code from KHTML, an open source rendering library. Apple even advertises the fact on its Web site. But when it comes to the code Apple seeds back to the community, the KHTML developers are far...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: CEOs take in a load, Ted Waitt hits the road - Cranky columnist continues celibacy streak.(Chief Executive Officers)
May 30, 2005... My bad luck with women just continues. Lindsay Lohan isn't returning my voice mails (maybe that Pat O'Brien impersonation was a bad idea). The ex-programmer I met online isn't up for parole until 2008. Even the occasional PR babes I run into...

STRATEGIC DEVELOPER: SOA styles - Different operating environments foster different approaches to services.(Service Oriented Architecture)
May 30, 2005... Infoworld's first SOA Executive Forum rolled out in San Jose, Calif. two weeks ago. This week we held the second installment in New York. At both events it was my privilege to engage some of the industry's brightest minds in a series of...

AHEAD OF THE CURVE: Mobile hip replacement - Nokia and palmOne tout wireless pocket computers they think professionals have been waiting for.
May 30, 2005... I'm not as much of a gadget-hound as you'd expect. You can't sell me a mobile device unless it's one of two things: the ultimately converged cell phone/PDA/messaging device or a pocket-size computer that keeps me in touch, at office speed,...

REALITY CHECK: The end of pure cellular data networks? A hybrid of cellular and WiMAX might be a better bet for carriers and customers.
May 30, 2005... Has cellular technology hit a brick wall? Is 3G the last cellular-only service that will be offered to the public? Impossible, you say. Technology never stands still. Well, that's what you think. There is a force even mightier than the...

CTO CONNECTION: Terminal security - Before you fire an IT employee, especially one with network privileges, prepare for the worst.
May 30, 2005... Valrene Mae Schilke is every IT manager's worst nightmare. A trusted CFO friend of mine recently forwarded an alert newsletter from the law firm Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham (K&LNG) outlining a legal case involving Ms. Schilke, and...

Iona advances on ESB - Artix 3.0 Advanced reaches out to J2EE application servers.(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Iona Technologies' ESB (enterprise service bus), Artix, acts as a communication bridge within SOA infrastructures, weaving together enterprise information systems, mainframe applications, nonsimilar protocols, and various payloads and...

Wide-area slowdown - There's more to WAN performance than just the size of the pipe between offices.(Wide Area Networks)(multi protocol switching)
May 30, 2005... Ten years ago, the WAN was the exclusive domain of frame-relay communication and leased lines. Today, a WAN may use anything from IPSec connections and cable modems to MPLS (multiprotocol label switching) tunneled over multimegabit networks....

Some WAN things you just can't control - Think TCP tweaks can squeeze out better WAN performance? Think again.
May 30, 2005... In the quest for ultimate performance, IT folks tweak TCP stacks, strip out unnecessary services, and manage traffic flows. But where the WAN is concerned, some things are in the hands of the ISP rather than IT. That's a sad fact of life: As...

A low-price WLAN comes at a cost - Some APs cost less than wireless bridges, but the hassle and headaches pile up.(Wireless LAN)
May 30, 2005... In searching for alternatives for building-to-building or campus-to- campus connectivity, companies with much smaller IT budgets may wonder whether an 802.11b exterior WLAN is a viable alternative. Why not use $100 Linksys APs from CompUSA to...

Bridging connectivity gaps - Maturing wireless bridges are poised to challenge costly, slow-to-deploy WANs.(Wide Area Networks)(Column)
May 30, 2005... IT infrastructure requirements can shift quite suddenly. Say, for example, your company lands several large new accounts at the same time. The sudden influx of sales and account management staff so quickly outstrips your office's square...

Far-flung file serving - Wide area file servers cache documents locally and reduce WAN traffic.
May 30, 2005... WAFS (wide-area file sharing) appliances combine WAN optimization with file-caching in an effort to remove file servers from remote offices. Sometimes called wide-area file-server replacements, they also rely heavily on application-specific...

EMC's Invista eyes storage virtualization - HP, Hitachi, IBM already in market.(Brief Article)
May 23, 2005... EMC joined the storage virtualization pack last week as the storage giant unveiled its EMC Invista Network Storage Virtualizaiton Platform at its annual user conference. "EMC views network storage virtualization as a key enabling...

Tivoli looks to automate IT processes - IBM initiative includes software and services.
May 23, 2005... IBM's Tivoli division last week launched a technical initiative to help corporate users translate their IT processes into more manageable pieces or services and then automate the integration of the workflow. IBM kicked off the strategy,...

IBM Offers Blades with Express Line.(International Business Machines Corp)(Brief Article)
May 23, 2005... IBM unveiled a product that combines the company's blade servers with its Express line of applications. The BladeCenter Business Express, aimed primarily at midsize companies, is designed to allow users to build more integrated and customized...

Sigaba Secures BlackBerry E-mail.(Brief Article)
May 23, 2005... Sigaba has extended its messaging architecture to the BlackBerry and launched its first wireless application, Sigaba Secure Email for BlackBerry. The product enables end-to-end protection of sensitive messages sent and received on BlackBerry...

Microsoft REVS UP Search Toolbar.(Brief Article)
May 23, 2005... Microsoft released an upgrade to its MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search. The upgrade adds a number of enhancements, including the ability to preview documents on users' hard drives. This upgraded version of the search toolbar, for...

SAP revs up BI, CRM at Sapphire - NetWeaver hardware appliance, mySAP CRM launched.
May 23, 2005... Continuing its push past ERP, SAP unveiled a plethora of enhancements to its newest application suite, mySAP CRM, at its annual customer gala in Boston, Saphire 05. In addition, SAP rolled out a new hardware appliance to support its NetWeaver...

Compliance strives for automation - Virsa Systems embeds proactive compliance tools into ERP apps.(Virsa Systems)
May 23, 2005... The dust is settling after the initial stampede to comply with regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, and now enterprises are reaching for tools that automate compliance processes and prevent violations. To that end, Virsa Systems launched...

IBM targets Solaris with Linux initiative - Goal is to woo users of Sun's OS over to Red Hat.(Brief Article)
May 23, 2005... IBM has decided to lend Red Hat a helping hand in its struggle to wrest server operating system market share from Sun Microsystems. The two companies announced a range of initiatives last week designed to lure users of Sun's Solaris operating...

palmOne unveils 4GB handheld - LifeDrive lets users synchronize large file folders.(Brief Article)
May 23, 2005... Going where no handheld has gone before, palmOne unveiled last week the LifeDrive Mobile Manager, the first mainstream PDA to include a 1-inch, 4GB hard drive. The device measures 4.7 inches by 2.8 inches by 0.76 inches deep and weighs...

EDITOR'S LETTER: Business-ification of IT - The leaders of SOA must understand both business and technology deeply.(Service-Oriented Architecture )
May 23, 2005... Fresh from InfoWorld's SOA Executive Forum in New York, I'd like to share some observations from two days of very intense discussions at the sizzling intersection between business and technology. First, SOA is fast becoming vital to the...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Cisco is shamed, Microsoft gets gamed - Teen terror topples technocrats.
May 23, 2005... I almost didn't turn in my column this week because I was so busy messing around with Google Maps. It seems if you type "brothel" or "bordello" and a ZIP code, Google Maps spits out all kinds of intriguing results. For example, a search for...

STRATEGIC DEVELOPER: Getting HTTP right - Applications that respect the Web protocol's rules will reap its rewards.(Product/Service Evaluation)
May 23, 2005... Last month, when I discussed the proper use of the HTTP verbs POST and GET, the benefits and hazards seemed abstract. Recently, though, two compellingly concrete examples emerged. The first involved a collision between Google's new Web...

AHEAD OF THE CURVE: The great PC rip and replace - You could live without 64 bits and dual-core, but not hardware virtualization -- it'll cost you.(Pacifica and Vanderpool)(Product/Service Evaluation)
May 23, 2005... Were it not for AMD's reinvention of the x86 system for Opteron and Athlon XP, I wouldn't be surprised to find that most IT buyers have the location of Dell's "go to checkout" button programmed into their fingers. The lack of a need to do a...

REALITY CHECK: Dire forecast for IT jobs - Experts predict more permanent positions to be replaced by outsourced services.
May 23, 2005... A government report due out later this year will offer an analysis of the characteristics of the kind of IT work that is less likely to go offshore. My source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, says the report concludes that IT work...

CTO CONNECTION: A fresh look at Excel - A slight change in perspective leads to new respect for a commonplace tool.(Product/Service Evaluation)
May 23, 2005... When I was in high school, I was studious and made good grades, but I was somewhat of a clown, especially in Spanish class. The fact that my Spanish teacher assigned me the name "Guido" only enhanced my comedic gravitas, and I milked it for...

Stakka brings order to disc chaos - Imation's stackable disc management system keeps large software collections under control.(Disc Stakka)(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
May 23, 2005... How often do you waste precious time looking for a misplaced CD? Do you even know where all your software is? Disc Stakka, a new organizer for CDs and DVDs from Imation, combines a carousel with room for 100 discs and a slick application,...

Product previews.(Brief Article)
May 23, 2005... Motion unveils new Tablet PC series, iWay homes in on SOA, Ipedo blends SQL and XQuery, and Fiberlink partners to offer spyware protection service By InfoWorld staff Motion Computing launches new tablet series Motion Computing...

Managing the unmanageable datacenter - The full-blown utility vision requires a deep level of datacenter automation, but the management tools remain elusive.
May 23, 2005... Utility computing has several layers, none more important than a new perspective on datacenter management. Asked where the meat of utility- computing development will be during the next couple of years, William Fellows, a principal analyst at...

Utility computing: a dream deferred - For years, vendors and analysts have foretold a new era when computing would be sold and consumed as a commodity. Are we any closer?
May 23, 2005... Paradigm shifts were easier before the bubble burst. Serious change costs serious money, and few IT organizations have gobs of green stuff to throw around anymore. So it's no surprise that utility computing -- hailed as the biggest paradigm...

What's next after AJAX? There are some capabilities that Web-based apps can't handle -- yet.(asynchronous JavaScript and XML)
May 23, 2005... The rapid spread of the term AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) -- from Weblog to Wall Street Journal within weeks! -- might lead developers to assume it's a breakthrough that heralds the death of desktop applications. There's certainly a...

HP's 4U ProLiant DL585 is packed with Opteron power - Fast, flexible, and easy to manage, this is one solid state-of-the-art server.
May 23, 2005... The AMD Opteron x86_64 platform was first available only from smaller server vendors, but now Opteron-based servers are available from nearly every major server vendor, with the notable exception of Dell. Hewlett- Packard was one of the first...

Vivisimo Velocity brings structure to enterprise search - Search platform clusters data into useful, relevant categories.(Vivisimo Velocity 4.2)(Product/Service Evaluation)
May 23, 2005... In 2000, computer researchers at Carnegie Mellon University started a project to fundamentally shift how search results are organized. The idea behind the approach, called clustering, was to find meaningful connections among Internet search...

XML databases evolve - Open source Apache Xindice, Berkeley DB XML set solid base for content management.
May 23, 2005... Attention in the wide universe of databases and content management has been drawn lately to XML and, specifically, XML databases. You'll get a good indication of the state of XML-based content management technology by examining developments...

XQuery takes center stage in eXist database - Maturing open source database proves excellent handler of XML content.
May 23, 2005... eXist is an open source XML database that has matured into an impressive XML content search and storage system. In eXist, unlike in Apache Xindice or Berkeley DB XML, XQuery plays a central role, but eXist is not quite as scalable as these...

AJAX breathes new life into Web apps - Forget what you knew about JavaScript, DHTML, and the browser; it's a whole new ball game.(Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)
May 23, 2005... One year ago, Thomas Lackner didn't ask much of JavaScript. When he sketched out the architecture to a Web application, he knew he could count on the browser language for "set-a-cookie hacks" and for loading images, but he turned to the...

Flash applications for cell phones - With U.S. carrier support of Flash, the next generation of mobile apps may be on the way.
May 16, 2005... The announcement last week that small ISV Oddcast, which develops a conversational agent software called avatars, will be developing applications for cell phones using the Macromedia Flash development environment may help initiate a new era...

ECM tools gain process control, federation - Open Text, FileNet, Xythos showcase content wares at this week's AIIM conference.
May 16, 2005... New ECM (enterprise content management) tools debuting this week from Open Text and FileNet will expand the reach of content management into business processes and disparate content repositories. Meanwhile, Xythos Software this week plans to...

EMC, HP Drive Storage Agendas - Companies to debut new products at respective user shows this week.
May 16, 2005... EMC will let the good times roll this week while Hewlett-Packard will roll the dice as both companies hold conferences for users of their storage systems. As storage continues its reign as a major IT focus, EMC and HP both plan to debut...

Next Microsoft Office release eyed.(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... Microsoft plans to release a new version of its Office productivity software next year, company Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates said. Microsoft officials have been coy about the next Office release, which has been referred to...

RSA bolsters compliance capability.(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... RSA Security announced RSA Reporting & Compliance Manager, which enhances the auditing and reporting capabilities in its ClearTrust Web access management software. RSA Reporting & Compliance Manager provides centralized reporting capabilities...

IBM Sells Opteron Blade Server.(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... IBM has quietly begun taking orders for its first ultrathin "blade" server to be based on AMD's Opteron microprocessor. Called the AMD Opteron LS20, the server is based on IBM's BladeCenter design and will be available with a special...

Sun upgrades NetBeans open source tools platform - Development technology gains improved J2EE, third-party app server support.
May 16, 2005... Sun Microsystems on Monday is upgrading its open source NetBeans development technology and remains undaunted by the rival Eclipse platform. Available now at netbeans.org, the new NetBeans 4.1 Java IDE offers improvements in J2EE and...

Windows Mobile 5.0 needs a push - New version of Microsoft's mobile OS lacks a key enterprise feature.
May 16, 2005... Microsoft has raised the curtain on its Windows Mobile 5.0 platform, but despite early cheers from mobile-application developers, business users may not be quite as enthusiastic. Push e-mail, a key component that corporate users were...

EDITOR'S LETTER: Security in the headlines - Real safety requires behavior modification, not just technical wizardry.(Editorial)
May 16, 2005... At a conference last year, I made a potentially disastrous mistake. I walked off with someone else's laptop bag, leaving my own case -- a black, standard-issue, backpack-style bag -- propped against a chair leg. I noticed the substitution...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Microsoft sees the light, HP study's not right - Anyone wanna buy the Taj Mahal?
May 16, 2005... It seems I've been duped again. First it was that Romanian couple allegedly naming their baby Yahoo. Now it's the yarn about a businessman from Little Rock, Ark., who supposedly bought the Indian prime minister's house. Turns out this was an...

AHEAD OF THE CURVE: Your unsupervised PC - Virtualization is hampered by the x86 architecture's own-the-system design.
May 16, 2005... With all the relatively heavy lifting an x86 can do, having two copies of Windows run side by side -- or Windows and Linux, or Linux and Linux, or BSD and Windows, or what have you -- seems like a natural extension of the design. I can run...

STRATEGIC DEVELOPER: Secrets of screencasting - With a little diligence, short online videos can become powerful educational tools for IT.(single sign-on solutions)
May 16, 2005... I've mentioned Nic Wolff's nifty SSO (single sign-on) solution several times before. It's a simple JavaScript hack that empowers people to do something about a critical IT dilemma: weak passwords that are guiltily reused everywhere. ...

REALITY CHECK: Business continuity in the face of terrorism - Is America's invisible fiber backbone truly as resilient as business continuity demands?
May 16, 2005... Before Richard Clarke published his book, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror, and became associated with election year politics, he was a senior security advisor to the White House with expertise in counterterrorism and...

CTO CONNECTION: Hear it now - Exploring new IT frontiers begins with talk. Now you can listen for yourself.(Column)
May 16, 2005... When I look back on rolling my first code into production, I can't remember a line of code I wrote, but I recall the conversations with the mentor who gave me the IT bug. When I think about my early introduction to Linux more than 10...

Elemental agents control access - Elemental Compliance System 1.1 leverages the end point.(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... The days of simply providing a user name and password for network access surely are numbered. Pursuing the new grail of policy-based access control, the ECS (Elemental Compliance System) Version 1.1 is a server- based system that uses small...

Product previews.
May 16, 2005... Bowstreet touts new dashboards, IBM extends ID manager, MCI upgrades Ethernet services, and Systinet boosts Web services tool By InfoWorld staff Bowstreet Launches Portal-Based Dashboards Bowstreet on Monday will introduce two...

Exclusive: Data Domain DD460 Restorer puts the squeeze on data - High- compression disk-to-disk backup system could make tape vendors sweat.(Product/Service Evaluation)
May 16, 2005... With the advent of inexpensive disk-to-disk backup systems that offer faster, easier, and more reliable backups and restores than most tape systems, many administrators would like to abandon tape altogether. However, a standard schedule of...

Watching the Java stack - Wily Introscope peers deeply into Java application performance.
May 16, 2005... Most enterprise programmers know that the French playwright Jean-Paul Sartre was onto something when he wrote, "Hell is other people." But they would tell you that hell is really other systems. A set of Web services, databases, and Web...

NetMotion eases wireless remote-access headache - Mobile IP delivers smooth management, roaming control.
May 16, 2005... In the course of a career that centers on explaining new technologies, few things have given us more brain bruises than explaining the differences between the Mobile IP and VPN standards. Both handle remote users and provide encryption of...

The new SCSI: better, faster, smaller - Serial-attached SCSI promises more flexible enterprise storage, while new low-power, 2.5-inch models deliver better performance.(Small Computer Systems Interface)
May 16, 2005... That old standby storage standard, SCSI, is about to get a makeover. Two technology shifts, occurring in parallel and arriving this year, will change the kinds of disk drives enterprises use up and down their storage systems. One...

SAS on tape: high-end backup for less - Despite surprisingly little noise from vendors, tape drives should reap better price/performance from the new interface standard.(serial attached SCSI)(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... SCSI is used in tape drives, not just disk drives, but there's been little public attention paid to how SAS would be deployed in tape libraries. Seagate's Franco Castaldini notes that no tape vendors have yet attended the SCSI Trade...

Where iSCSI fits in - The IP-based storage protocol remains a separate matter: an evolving standard for remote drive connections.(Internet Small Computer Systems Interface)(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... Just as storage vendors start to sell SAS and 2.5-inch drives, they're also pitching iSCSI. But iSCSI isn't really a form of SCSI, nor does it have any real relationship with the SCSI technology evolution. iSCSI is actually an external...

Security's weakest links - It's been a lousy year for computer security, but there's still time to learn from the mistakes of others.
May 16, 2005... Not a month has gone by in 2005 without a far-reaching computer security breach making the nightly news hour. Headliners compelled to walk the plank of shame include Bank of America -- the nation's second-largest bank -- Ameritrade, Polo...

Exclusive: EMC goes virtual - EMC's Invista storage virtualization opens unprecedented manageability, access to heterogeneous devices.
May 16, 2005... Virtualized storage is hardly new, but it has been reinvigorated by interesting solutions from major vendors, such as Hitachi's TagmaStore and IBM's SAN Volume Controller. You can now count EMC as a member of that crowd, thanks to the...

Wi-Fi security is a pain that is slowly subsiding - Failure to upgrade to the latest encryption and authentication technologies amplifies vulnerabilities.
May 16, 2005... Wi-Fi security has come a long way since two 20-somethings sat in the parking lot of a Lowe's store in Southfield, Mich., hacked their way into Lowe's datacenter in Wilkesboro, N.C., and downloaded customer credit card numbers. Two years on...

PDF tools seek to undercut Acrobat - Arts PDF, ScanSoft roll out low- price PDF creation, editing apps.(PDF Converter Professional 3.0)(Nitro PDF)(Brief Article)
May 9, 2005... Zeroing in on the specific needs of business users, Arts PDF and ScanSoft are introducing PDF creation and editing tools designed to offer more functionality at a lower price point than Adobe's Acrobat products. ScanSoft this week...

Sun delays grid rollout - Launch of Sun Grid utility service pushed back to July.(Brief Article)
May 9, 2005... Sun Microsystems has delayed the rollout of Sun Grid, an Internet-based "utility" service that has been in development since late last year. A lack of computing resources has pushed back the public launch of Sun Grid, originally slated for...

Microsoft offers R&D to companies.(Research and Development)(Brief Article)
May 9, 2005... Microsoft has opened up a library of technologies developed by its R&D teams to small companies and startups. Under the program, called Microsoft IP Ventures, the software maker will license technologies to these companies to help ease their...

Serena bolsters app dev suite.(Brief Article)
May 9, 2005... Serena is upgrading its ChangeMan Professional suite for team-based application development, swapping out the Merant Tracker for Serena's ChangeMan TeamTrack product for change control. Serena ChangeMan Professional 9 also improves...

Symbol expands wireless security.(Brief Article)
May 9, 2005... Symbol Technologies announced wireless security and management products to help further adoption of enterprise mobility. Offerings include the Symbol Wireless Intrusion Protection System for detecting and preventing intrusions to a wireless...

IBM automates records management - Big Blue to send 'Hawk' to beta testing.
May 9, 2005... IBM pushed its data management and integration strategies forward last week with automated records management software. It also said it will send its WebSphere Data Integration Suite, code-named Hawk, to beta testers next month. The new...

Security highlighted at Interop - VoIP, wireless also make big splash at show.
May 9, 2005... Interop may be a networking show, but security came in a close second at last week's event. Cisco, for instance, unveiled a new line of integrated security appliances, the ASA (Adaptive Security Architecture) 5500, a family of...

H-1B: Patriotic or treasonous? One side of controversy calls for limits on visas; counterargument is that skills shortage justifies them.
May 9, 2005... The H-1B visa is either a betrayal of American IT workers or a necessity of the country's high-tech future, and in a fiery debate both sides are flaming about what should be done. For the high-tech community, what Bill Gates said about...

EDITOR'S LETTER: Fear and loathing at Interop - Security, compliance, and wireless were ubiquitous in Las Vegas this year.(Editorial)
May 9, 2005... "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" may be the rule for gamblers and dance club denizens, but I hope you'll forgive my passing along a few newsworthy items from the Interop show in that dusty desert outpost. Expanding government...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Apple protects its own, TiVo phones home - It ain't so easy living on Easy Street.
May 9, 2005... Thanks to the many Cringesters who sent me directions to Easy Street. It seems there are Easy Streets in Arizona, California, and Texas, among other locales. So how come none of the women I meet live there? Book 'em, Steve-o: Last week...