InfoWorld articles from September 2001

InfoWorld archives from September 2001

Wireless is big business - Wireless LANs based on the 802.11 standard are becoming essential to some businesses -- big and small. Even standards disagreements aren't slowing down adoption.
September 24, 2001... FROM THE PICK, pack, and ship processes of distributor Dee Electronics to the package-tracking capabilities of logistics giant UPS, wireless is becoming an integral part of network technology and business automation around the world. One...

Staying centered - CTO rises to the highest ranks of technical leadership, keeping his eye on innovation.(CenterBeam's Glenn Ricart)
September 24, 2001... WHEN THE TITLE CTO was still years away from being firmly planted in corporate culture, a young Glenn Ricart was well on his way to molding his talents for such a post. Having scored high on a standardized chemistry test -- before taking a...

Products to ensure e-mail security - Vendor offerings aim to simplify encryption of sensitive messages.
September 24, 2001... WITH THE RISE of e-business, companies face an ever-increasing need to transmit confidential and sensitive information via e-mail, but tools to provide encryption have unfortunately been complex in implementation and use, inhibiting their...

Feedback findings - Companies are discovering ways to speed product development with help from customers.
September 24, 2001... WITH SPEED AND accuracy critical to product development, more companies are putting customers in the driver's seat and using their feedback, collected online, on a product idea to streamline design and development processes. "This is...

ENTERPRISE STRATEGIES: IT put to the test - From capitalism to compassion, information technology holds strong, shows its mettle in time of need.(Sep 11, 2001, World Trade Center tragedy)(Column)
September 24, 2001... 911: A NUMBER we all associate with emergencies, and now, the historic date of a senseless act of terrorism against our country, Sept. 11. It will be two weeks since the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon by the time this...

SURVIVAL GUIDE: Being a leader today - It requires more than vision, motivation, and goals; it's about tolerance, courage, and showing up.(after the Sep 11, 2001 World Trade Center and the Pentagon tragedies)(Column)
September 24, 2001... "IT IS OUR duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist." -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin LEADERSHIP HAS A different meaning today. Before Sept. 11, leadership meant painting a compelling...

SECURITY ADVISER: Low-cost defense - You can guard against denial of service attacks without blowing your budget; just employ best practices.
September 24, 2001... FOR THOSE OF you who don't have hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend on fortifying your network, fear not. There are things you can do that won't break the bank. An obvious first step is to know the systems' normal behavior and follow...

WINDOW MANAGER: Fixing computer bugs - Lessons learned by a few thousand testers give us new tricks to cure their Windows failures.
September 24, 2001... I WROTE LAST week that several-thousand IT people have downloaded Bugtoaster, a free utility that captures the reasons why Windows fails. The analysis of the resulting reports by the experts at Bugtoaster.com has already resulted in several...

WIRELESS WORLD: Technology's limits - The tragedy of Sept. 11 puts the high-tech business and its capabilities into perspective.
September 24, 2001... FOR SOME of the public and for the FBI it is a tale told through cell phones. Passengers on doomed flights calling loved ones to say goodbye and to secretly give out information they understood could be used in the ensuing investigation. A...

CTO CONNECTION: Boundless generosity - The best way CTOs can help businesses hurt by the attacks is to help them rebuild their infrastructure.(related to the Sep 1, 2001, New York tragedy)(Column)
September 24, 2001... AS DID ALL of you, I struggled with my personal response to the tragedies in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania. As the recovery effort continues, and brave rescue workers continue sifting through the rubble, I think all of us share the...

THE GRIPE LINE: Transfer disappearing act - Without VeriSign's permission, customers have a difficult time transferring existing domain names to other registrars.(Column)
September 24, 2001... IF YOU DON'T LIKE the way a company is treating you, just take your business elsewhere -- unless the company is VeriSign, in which case you'll have to fill out a form confirming your desire to leave them, and then hope they acknowledge...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Mixing politics and religion.
September 24, 2001... TALKING RELIGION and politics in a technology column was a tough job. So I thank you for all your thoughtful comments in response to my suggesting forgiveness last week. I've read every one of them. Many of you agreed with my sentiments, and...

E-BUSINESS PULSE: IT on security alert - The recent terrorist attacks have forced many companies to rethink -- or develop -- their recovery plans.
September 24, 2001... AS DID MOST of us on the West Coast, I woke up on Tuesday, Sept. 11, to the news that two planes had flown into the World Trade Center towers and one into the Pentagon. A few hours later, I was at my desk, trying to carry on with the...

ABOVE THE NOISE: Heroes who work behind the scenes - We saw a lot of heroes after the attacks on America, and some were unnoticed IT workers.
September 24, 2001... SOME THINGS in this world are just too horrific to think about until they actually happen. Even then, it is only our enduring need to put events into some larger context that eventually forces us to make the attempt. Recent tragic events...

E-Business Barometer.
September 24, 2001... The e-business economic landscape was mixed prior to the events of Sept. 11, and the E-Business Barometer for August dropped slightly by 4 percent to 23. E-business stocks dropped by 17 percent in the month, whereas Internet-related merger...

Siebel seeks Web interface affirmation.(Product Announcement)
September 24, 2001... SIEBEL SYSTEMS is turning its focus to Web-enabled CRM systems with the launch of an upgraded application suite next week. Hailing a revamped Web client that will match its Windows counterpart in functionality, San Mateo, Calif.-based...

Adobe touts images.
September 24, 2001... NEW TOOLS FOR digital asset management and image creation will light up the publishing industry this week at Seybold San Francisco 2001, as vendors such as Adobe Systems, Quark, and Canto unveil offerings and technology. Adobe Systems...

The Bug Report.(Lotus Notes, Microsoft Windows 2000)
September 24, 2001... Bugs and fixes reported to BugNet LOTUS Notes 5.0.x's Calendaring and Scheduling feature might not work correctly when editing a repeating meeting entry. This is fixed in Lotus Notes/Domino 5.0.8. MICROSOFT says that after installing...

Lessons learned from Trade Center attack - The enormity of the damage inflicted by terrorists raises the stakes for recovery planning.
September 24, 2001... AT A TIME when the whole nation is grieving and trying to come to grips with an incomprehensible terrorist attack, some people must strive to put their emotions aside and focus on the tasks required to save their businesses: finding new...

Data sharing's call to arms - Technology to connect crucial databases could aid in terrorism prevention.
September 24, 2001... THE TERRORIST ATTACKS that occurred Sept. 11 have sparked a government wake-up call for information sharing and data integration among disparate law enforcement systems. Collecting information is not the problem; individual agencies such...

Industry coalition escalates charity work.(high-technology industry)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 24, 2001... TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES continue to maintain a focus on charity efforts as attention turns to helping businesses, families, and victims impacted by the recent attacks meet long-term needs. While generous financial donations continued to...

Industry toils to restore trading.
September 24, 2001... AS THE WORLD TRADE Center (WTC) towers came crashing down, traumatized IT managers at financial companies had to steel themselves for the Herculean task of restoring systems as quickly as possible. They more than rose to the challenge....

Agencies unite under IT banner.
September 24, 2001... AS SEARCH AND rescue workers continue to toil at the World Trade Center site, emergency organizations supporting the effort with rapidly built communications networks are emerging as unsung heroes. Working side by side with police,...

Attacks force users to rethink security.
September 24, 2001... BUSINESSES ARE re-evaluating their network security as the threat of cyberterrorism and computer attacks looms in the wake of the deadly New York and Washington strikes. The National Infrastructure Protection Center last week warned...

Fight DDoS attacks with intelligence - Emerging products and services arm companies with advice to ward off unseen enemies' zombie systems.(Distributed Denial of Service attacks)
September 24, 2001... IN THE PAST two years, DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks have gone from the realm of theory to the 6 o'clock news. Many high- profile corporate and government sites have fallen prey to these assaults, most recently when the first...

Fit EAI processes neatly in a box - Innovative appliances promise to bring structure to complex, chaotic application integration processes.(Enterprise Application Integration)
September 24, 2001... APPLICATION INTEGRATION PROJECTS are among the most expensive and difficult to manage. An intelligent appliance optimized for EAI (enterprise application integration) tasks would create remarkable savings and at the same time introduce some...

Connect with cost-savings - Wireless networks, integration appliances, and anti-DDoS tools bolster the bottom line.
September 24, 2001... WHY ALL THE FUSS over new technologies? There's always the gee-whiz factor -- smaller computers and faster networks are never boring. But the real magic behind new technologies, especially for hard-headed IT executives on a tight budget, is...

Wireless modules beef up access - Road warriors will always stay up to speed when armed with laptops supporting both 802.11b and Bluetooth.
September 24, 2001... WIRELESS ACCESS TO corporate data housed at headquarters is fast becoming ubiquitous, as evidenced by employees' growing use of wireless phones, PDAs, and other mobile devices. Their value is clear: When mobile workers can tap into...

Weeding out weak vendors - Reduce risks of working with vendors on the edge by undertaking stringent precontract evaluations.
September 24, 2001... WHEN KATZ MEDIA GROUP, a New York-based media representation firm, launched its collaborative Web site for negotiating sales of television commercials, the CIO planned on working with e-commerce solution provider Snickelways for years to...

Managing through a crisis - Managers need to prepare for employee reactions to tragic events.
September 24, 2001... CONDUCTING BUSINESS after the tragic events of Sept. 11 seems different than it did just a few weeks ago. How employees react to these terrorist attacks on the United States cannot be easily processed at a 4:00 all-staff meeting. But ignoring...

A bet on technology - Harrah's wins with a relaunched Web site with integrated CRM technology and a new look and feel.
September 17, 2001... HARRAH'S ENTERTAINMENT is known as a high-stakes player in the glitzy world of hotel casinos and gambling. But in contrast to the bright lights of Las Vegas, the company's Web presence was dull and static and did little more than house...

Banking on a profit - CTO credits a flexible tech strategy and strong business plan for success.(Interview)
September 17, 2001... IN AN ERA when business models based on the Internet are being shunned, companies that are turning a profit online really stand out. One such company is VirtualBank, a provider of online financial services over the Internet, servicing...

Going once, going twice - Dynamic pricing and auctions are keeping Web commerce alive in surprising places and surprising ways.
September 17, 2001... IN THE BEGINNING it sounded like science fiction: intelligent agents crawling the Web and using sophisticated analytics to get the best possible deal for buyers and sellers. But this vision of hypercapitalism in cyberspace never quite got...

ENTERPRISE STRATEGIES: Window-shopping - Web services are coming on, but many companies are still just looking when considering such technology.(Column)
September 17, 2001... WEB SERVICES may be on the lips of the entire tech industry, but corporate America seems to be conversing in a different dialect. I found the most telling statistics from the InfoWorld Test Center Research Report on Web services to be the...

SURVIVAL GUIDE: Controlling change - Think your employees are resistant to change? Try giving them some control and see what happens.(Column)
September 17, 2001... MANAGEMENT SPEAK: There's a new plan I want to talk over with you. TRANSLATION: You listen, I'll talk. -- IS Survivalist Sanford Wood suggests you listen carefully. IF YOU BELIEVE that people automatically resist change, offer...

SECURITY ADVISER: Waffling over disclosure - Patch for GroupWise raises the question of whether or not full disclosure of software defects is a good idea.(Novell's GroupWise 5.5 servers and GroupWise 6.0 servers)(Column)
September 17, 2001... THE MONTH OF August wasn't a good one for many of you who spent the dog days patching your servers. Whether you were fending off the Code Red worm or installing Novell's mysterious Padlock patch on your GroupWise servers, there was plenty to...

WINDOW MANAGER: Crash test dummies - A band of volunteers uses a program called Bugtoasterto learn why Windows gets hosed.
September 17, 2001... I WROTE LAST week that developers had shown how worms can silently capture the user name and password of Microsoft's Passport single-logon system on Windows 9x and Me systems. These programmers' primary tool is called Bugtoaster. When...

WIRELESS WORLD: Pocket PC a steamroller - With its enterprise hooks, Windows CE is sure to take over the market from pioneer and leader Palm.(Microsoft's OS)
September 17, 2001... I HAVE ALWAYS heard the faint rumbling in the background, like the sound of a huge machine that just won't go away. Now, as the rumbling gets more distinct, like the sound of a waterfall as you get closer and closer, I think the truth is...

CTO CONNECTION: The Windows XP yawn - Where's the pizzazz ... the jazz? Where's the 'gotta get me some of that' in Microsoft's latest release?(Column)
September 17, 2001... MICROSOFT HANDED over its gold code for Windows XP to manufacturers on Aug. 24, and the hype has begun. Yawn. I've never been less excited about a major software release from Microsoft than I have been about Windows XP. The launch of...

THE GRIPE LINE: A punitive puppeteer? Invoking licensing agreements, eliminating support, and requiring "voluntary" audits seems like more Microsoft control.
September 17, 2001... NOW THAT WE know Microsoft is going to remain one company, it seems an appropriate time to step back and take a look at the company's recent practices and what they tell us we can expect in the future. Readers have had a wide variety of...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Rumors take a backseat.
September 17, 2001... YOU'LL HAVE TO excuse me, but somehow it does not feel appropriate to write a normal column this week. If you don't mind, rumors, gossip, and humor must take a backseat for the moment. As it happens, my deadline fell on the day after we...

E-BUSINESS PULSE: No panacea for CRM - There's no single fix to CRM implementation challenges, but some common pitfalls can be avoided.
September 17, 2001... CRM IS STILL new, and many companies are in the early phases of implementation. If you've waited to do CRM, you can learn from the mistakes of the early adopters. Here's my take on the most common reasons CRM initiatives fail, and what you...

ABOVE THE NOISE: Reuse Grail is in sight with Web services - The software industry's Holy Grail may actually be pretty close at hand.(Editorial)
September 17, 2001... AS LONG AS anyone can remember, good times or bad, we've faced an application development backlog. In good times, we can't seem to find enough developers to satisfy demand. In bad times, we don't have the funds available to hire people to...

Crisis cuts short N+I show.(NetWorld+Interop 2001 abbreviated due to New York and Washington terrorist attacks)
September 17, 2001... THE TERRORIST ATTACKS in New York and Washington last week significantly diverted vendor and attendee attention away from the news and technology being presented at an abbreviated NetWorld+Interop (N+I) Atlanta 2001 conference. Before...

U.S. spy technology failed to signal attack planning - No indications that global electronic-surveillance network detected terrorists.(World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks)
September 17, 2001... THE ATTACK ON the United States last week took intelligence services by surprise, despite technology that allows monitoring of almost all communications worldwide. A global electronic surveillance network, known by the code name Echelon,...

Teleconferencing from PictureTel lends a helping hand.(after terrorist attacks in New York and Washington)
September 17, 2001... IN THE WAKE of the tragedies in New York and Washington, Andover, Mass.-based PictureTel is making as much of its bandwidth and distribution channel as possible available to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Red Cross, and New York...

Online resources.(Directory)
September 17, 2001... A multitude of legitimate online resources has emerged in the wake of last week's disasters at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The following is a quick reference guide to useful destinations. IT assistance AIT Global and...

Tech community hit by losses.
September 17, 2001... THE TECHNOLOGY community is mourning the loss of industry executives who died in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The victims came from a broad spectrum of industry companies, including Akamai, Sun...

Networks persist under immense volume.(after World Trade Center terrorist attacks)
September 17, 2001... TELECOMMUNICATIONS infrastructures were incredibly taxed but for the most part held up during last week's disastrous events, with double the number of voice and wireline calls streaming over local lines, some of which were crippled or...

Airports under IT microscope.
September 17, 2001... IN THE WAKE of last week's terrible disaster, industry experts agree that the scanning and security technologies used at national airports must improve immediately. If initial reports prove true, a critical concern is that the hijackers...

Privacy concerns raised - Authorities will need to weigh security needs against privacy rights.(in wake of World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks)
September 17, 2001... THE DEBATE OVER privacy and security concerns is sure to take a center role in the wake of the attacks in New York and Washington, as citizens, businesses, and lawmakers try to figure out how personal privacy and national security can...

Data systems offer answer - Government looks to EAI, business intelligence solutions for future security.(in wake of World Trade Center attacks)
September 17, 2001... A LACK OF technology needed to analyze and integrate data from disparate sources is proving to be an early answer to people asking how the U.S. disaster could have occurred, security experts admit. As New York and Washington continue to...

IT recovery efforts forge ahead.
September 17, 2001... THE EXTRAORDINARY damage caused by terrorist attacks last week on the World Trade Center (WTC) and the Pentagon has pushed traditional IT disaster-recovery practices to the limit and may spur the use of the Internet and IP-based networking as...

Internet infrastructure proves fragile in traffic crunch - Many popular news sites fail to handle flood of hits in aftermath of disaster.
September 17, 2001... THE VIABILITY OF the Internet as an information source was brought into question last week when terrorist attacks in the United States sent millions of users scrambling to Internet news sites only to find that the most popular sites were not...

Building a better b-to-b marketplace - Smoothing the way to e-business interoperability, ebXML is an emerging standard to watch.
September 17, 2001... WEB SERVICES HOLD great promise for bringing businesses and their applications together, but many of the integration particulars remain murky. As a result, CTOs are questioning the potential of Web services and, as our 2001 InfoWorld Web...

Getting serious about Web security - XML holds the key to secure Web services via extensions supporting authentication, PKI, and digital certificates.
September 17, 2001... USUALLY WE JUXTAPOSE the terms Web and security only to get a laugh, seeing as one seemingly can't go for more than a few days without reading about yet another Web security fiasco. But the sorry state of Web security hasn't stopped companies...

Leaders of the Web services pack - Vendors are struggling to secure the coveted pole position in the race to deliver a viable services framework.
September 17, 2001... TECHNOLOGY LEADERS have high expectations that Web services will meet a broad variety of goals -- everything from cross-enterprise integration to reducing development costs -- and their desire to explore is keen, according to our 2001...

Solving the Web services puzzle - Optimism for Web services abounds, but the concept and technologies involved remain a mystery.
September 17, 2001... DESPITE INCOMPLETE standards and an uncertain road map to implementation, there is unfaltering optimism about the impact of Web services. But much confusion surrounds the very concept of the term Web services and how the technology will...

A matter of disengagement - With millions of dollars at stake, b-to-b exchange developers and participants need to consider exit strategies at collaboration's onset.
September 17, 2001... IF THE YEARS leading up to the economic downturn were all about co- opetition, the next few years may be about disengagement. Industry experts now talk about endgame plans and exit strategies at the onset of industry collaborations,...

Hiring projections show increase - Research reveals fourth-quarter hiring is increasing for the purpose of realigning staffing to meet corporate skill needs.(Foote Partners, RHI Consulting)
September 17, 2001... COMPANIES ARE still hiring IT professionals -- although not at the pace seen during the dot-com boom. Hiring can occur, says David Foote, president of Foote Partners, in New Canaan, Conn., at the same time some companies are walking other...

It's a one-man show - Lone IT staffer takes on the task of modernizing and integrating his company's technology.
September 10, 2001... IT IS UNUSUAL to find a one-man IT department, and rarer still to find a lone technologist who is the CTO. But Tony Roberts, CTO of WorkSpace International (WSI) in Kennesaw, Ga., has that distinction. "When I came on board at WSI,"...

In the financial flow - Financial information gets an XML wrap thanks to users' push for open standards.
September 10, 2001... MONEY MAY NOT grow on trees, but XML seems to be sprouting up everywhere -- and now the financial information industry has some fresh new leaves of its own. After years of protecting proprietary data systems, financial organizations are...

Videoconferencing takes control - Videoconferencing is maturing from its gawky adolescence into a tool that can provide manageability, convenience, and cost savings.
September 10, 2001... ONCE A HIGH-TICKET novelty for only the healthiest of large enterprise budgets, videoconferencing price points are dropping, opening the door to a variety of industries to use it as a communication tool to cut costs and ramp up employee...

Meeting via video offers big rewards - No longer a luxury toy, videoconferencing now ranks as a strategic communications tool.
September 10, 2001... IN THESE TRYING economic times, companies must pursue strategies that accomplish more tasks with fewer resources -- all without sacrificing customer service. One plan of attack getting more attention is videoconferencing, which brings down...

ENTERPRISE STRATEGIES: Dynamic delivery - Open-source developers find much to like in PHP for its trouble-free, embedded server-side scripting.(Hypertext Preprocessor)
September 10, 2001... AS THE MOVEMENT in open-source development continues to mature, a little-known yet popular scripting language named PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) has been excluded from the limelight. But within the open-source community, the popularity of...

WINDOW MANAGER: Passport is cracked - A gaping hole in Microsoft's sign-on system is big enough to drive a credit card through.
September 10, 2001... MICROSOFT'S Passport authentication program, which is used by tens of millions of people to log on to Hotmail accounts every day, is trivially easy for a Trojan horse to compromise on Windows 9x and Me systems, according to developers. A...

THE OPEN SOURCE: Nick's misty farewell - Thanks for the memories; it's been a long, strange ride, and I'm glad I got to share it with you all.(Nicholas Petreley)(Editorial)
September 10, 2001... IT'S HARD TO believe that I've been writing for InfoWorld since 1984. I got my start by writing a review of the database rapid application development environment called Clarion. The company promptly pulled its ads out of InfoWorld due to my...

SECURITY ADVISER: Blame the boss? Reader fingers bosses for unpatched systems, but executives shouldn't control servers they don't understand.
September 10, 2001... I'M GOING TO keep the promise I made before my vacation and discuss the biggest lessons we learned from the Code Red incident. I was reminded that when considering computer security, you have to expect the unexpected. Who knew that...

SURVIVAL GUIDE: Science vs. business - The significant difference between scientific knowledge and business knowledge is simply communication.(managing organizational change)(Column)
September 10, 2001... MANAGEMENTSPEAK: You will have limited input. TRANSLATION 1: You'll have no input. TRANSLATION 2: You can make as many suggestions as you like. Of course, we'll ignore each and every one of them. -- IS Survivalist Kevin Bevins...

WIRELESS WORLD: Aggregation is the key - Staying connected anywhere you roam depends on some cooperation among wireless networks.(Column)
September 10, 2001... THE PHRASE hot spot is not new but its meaning is changing before our eyes. A hot spot is any public or private place where you can download or upload data, with or without wires. I believe the meaning of the phrase will eventually...

ABOVE THE NOISE: No time left means no time like now - The HP-Compaq merger could be a big win for both, if the struggling companies move quickly.(Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
September 10, 2001... AND SO THE worm turns. The only surprise about the proposed merger between Hewlett-Packard and Compaq is the timing. The event itself has been a foregone conclusion for the better part of three years. Ever since IBM began focusing its efforts...

CTO CONNECTION: Rampant confusion - Frequently misunderstood XML and Web services challenge IT folks to explain clearly to business execs.(Column)
September 10, 2001... I'M GOING TO start this week's column by making a couple of hype- challenged statements: XML is inherently useless; and Web services, although it's the next big thing to nontechnical folks, has been chugging along quietly for a few years...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Fresh layoff rumors abound.(rumors)(Company Business and Marketing)
September 10, 2001... "COME ON, get off your butt," Amber complained. As America enjoyed the Labor Day weekend, we spent the time bumming around the San Francisco Bay area. I even took the week off work in sympathy for all my unemployed friends. Sorry if you...

THE GRIPE LINE: The war against OEMs - Microsoft's License Assurance campaign looks more like a war against legitimate OEMs than a hunt for software pirates.(Company Business and Marketing)
September 10, 2001... SOFTWARE COMPANIES of all sizes lose money to piracy, so perhaps we shouldn't be surprised if they take harsh measures to fight it. But Microsoft's License Assurance campaign makes one wonder if piracy is what the software behemoth is...

E-BUSINESS PULSE: Train your customers - Some companies have incorporated e-learning into their e-business strategy to keep customers.
September 10, 2001... IN A TOUGH economy, training is often the first line item slashed from the budget. But be careful how you wield the knife around e-learning -- the word used to describe training that takes place over an intranet or the Internet. So far,...

Cisco touts next gen unified messaging.(Cisco Unity 3.0)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 10, 2001... At NetWorld+Interop in Atlanta, Cisco Systems will display Unity 3.0, its new unified messaging software solution that enables end-users to communicate via voice, fax, and e-mail from a wide range of devices, including PCs and touch-tone...

PGP Security to unveil security enhancements.(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... PGP Security, a division of Network Associates, plans a series of new product releases this week at the N+I show, including its PGP Corporate Desktop 7.5 Privacy product modules to manage and enforce security policies. Integrated with...

Avaya showcases 10Gb Ethernet switches.(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... Avaya will announce a 10Gb Ethernet solution this week for its P580 and P882 switches. The new technology is aimed at delivering higher network capacity and speed, as well as increased redundancy and load balancing. The networker said it is...

Microsoft unwraps Pocket PC 2002.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 10, 2001... Microsoft unveiled its new Pocket PC operating system, which the company said was designed to accommodate the requests of business customers, at the Demomobile 2001 conference last week. The Pocket PC 2002 OS, which will show up on PDAs on...

EMC takes Symmetrix to the masses.(EMC Symmetrix 8230, 8530, 8830)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 10, 2001... In a gesture to middle-market storage customers, EMC this week released three storage servers, the Symmetrix 8230, 8530, and 8830. The systems boast expanded 181GB drives and storage capacities expandable to 69.5TB. With the new systems, EMC...

The Bug Report.(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... Bugs and fixes reported to BugNet CISCO has fixed bugs that caused CBOS (Cisco Broadband Operating System) routers to lock up. Get an upgrade at www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-cbos-webserver-pub.shtml. NOVELL has issued a...

Government drops breakup bid.(Microsoft Corp.)
September 10, 2001... IN A MOVE many considered inevitable and pragmatic, the U.S. Department of Justice and state attorneys general told Microsoft last week they will not seek to break the software monopoly in two when the antitrust case returns to the U.S....

HP and Compaq place their bets.
September 10, 2001... HEWLETT-PACKARD AND Compaq Computer saw the writing on the wall. Faced with an unwavering industrywide decline in hardware sales, HP announced its intention last week to gobble up Compaq in an effort to right its ship and make enterprise IT...

Web services shuffles integration deck.
September 10, 2001... AS HARDWARE companies such as Hewlett-Packard-Compaq wrestle with crumbling margins, top-tier systems integrators are faced with their own paradigm shift many believe will intensify during the next 12 months. Systems integrators are...