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Oracle's Security BlanketOracle's Security Blanket
Oracle has a two-pronged strategy that includes standalone products and security built into its next-generation Fusion applications.
YouTooCanTube: How Businesses Can Put Web Video To Use
New products from Cisco and others will help them make informal video like YouTube's relevant to their companies.
Running The Numbers On Vista
With every month that ticks by before Windows Vista arrives, Microsoft needs to fill the white space with reassurances to companies that an upgrade will be worth their time and money. On Friday, Microsoft released new total-cost-of-ownership figures--the overall price tag of installing, running, and supporting its upcoming operating system--that show the best-managed IT shops could save as much as $340 per PC each year they run Vista, compared with today's Windows XP system. Any payback numbers
Beyond Financial Performance: Q&A With Forrester's Paul Hamerman
You've checked the SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) box and streamlined financial budgeting, planning and consolidation in the process. So what's the next performance management challenge? Paul Hamerman, Forrester's vice president of enterprise applications, looks at operational performance management and offerings from the likes of Oracle, SAP and Microsoft.
Businesses Seek Security In Windows Vista
With only two months (barring further delays) until Windows Vista is due for business availability, InformationWeek surveyed 672 business technology managers to gauge their plans for the operating system. Microsoft should be happy to know that 39% of the businesses we surveyed plan to upgrade to Vista within the first year of availability. The top reason? Security, what else?
Imaginestics Does Web Search With Drawings
Users can find parts on foreign language sites without needing to type in text queries, though text can be used to refine searches.
Former HP Chief Security Strategist: Company's Leak Investigation Crossed The Line
Ira Winkler, a former CSS at HP, talks about the bad decisions the company made in its boardroom leak investigation, where he thinks investigators crossed the line, and how common intelligence schemes are in corporate America.
Oracle Upgrades Berkeley Open Source Database
New features show Oracle isn't ready to give up on the database it got when it acquired developer Sleepycat.
Service Promises One-Stop Voicemail Pickup
The service aggregates multiple incoming phone lines into one number that customers can access through a Web interface.
DEMO Report: Startup Virtualizes Apps, Not Operating Systems
By taking an application-centric approach, Trigence says it can better ensure that the application will run in its new setting.
Open Source Database Gets An Oracle Upgrade
Berkeley DB, the open source database system frequently used in Linux applications, can now be patched while it's still running.
Tao Launches Gaming Architecture At DEMO
The company allows developers to build applications on one platform for use on multiple cell phones and operating systems.
Lirix Launches Ad-Supported Music Platform
The software inserts ads into downloadable music to make content free for consumers.
Get More From Your ERP Investment
Innovative companies have taken the lead in fully utilizing their ERP systems. The majority, however, have yet to take the first steps in using their ERP .investments to greater advantage.
Getting Search Into Business Intelligence
The first challenge for businesses looking to get search into BI is to identify the capabilities necessary for the user.
IDF: Intel Finds Energy Efficiency Religion
It may not have been as dramatic as Saul's Road to Damascus conversion, but getting hit upside the head by rival Advanced Micro Devices the past two years must have helped Intel see the light, and now Intel has belatedly become a full convert to the religion of energy efficiency.
Demo Report: Internet Consumer Technologies Creeping Into Enterprise Software
The ascendancy of "social networking" applications with possible business uses is in contrast to Demo 11 years ago. Now the new ideas are flowing based on Internet-based technologies.
SAP Completes On-Demand CRM Application Lineup
SAP Service on-demand apps provide tools for setting customer service priorities and managing SLAs.
CA Adds Configuration Management Database
The database includes more than 70 relationship templates, 140 predefined configuration item groups, and multiple adapters for integrating the collected information.
'Greatest Software' Story Triggers An Outpouring Of Recollections
When the story "What's The Greatest Software Ever Written?" appeared Aug. 14, it set off an explosion of memories from those involved in the early stages of computing. For example, one responder asked, "Do you recall the big board of the IBM 407 key punch processor into which the red, green, blue and yellow wires--each a different length--were inserted?" Hey, I may have learned to program with IBM punch cards, but I don't go back to wires-through-a-board.
JasperSoft Unveils Reporting Tools For Salesforce.com
JasperSoft, a maker of open-source business intelligence software, launches reporting tools for Salesforce.com.
The Good, The Bad, And The Implausible: More Predictions About The Impact Of Technology On The Future Of Society
A new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project reflects strong disagreement over whether technology is good for humankind.
Interestingly, the 742 handpicked "technology thinkers and stakeholders" who responded to the survey were largely in agreement about the ways that technology will evolve. But they contradicted each other about how this evolution will impact society in 2020.
No Full Stack For Red Hat Yet, But It's Building
Red Hat leverages JBoss acquisition with its own middleware offering, while it rapidly secures its already commanding lead as the largest enterprise Linux distributor.
Symantec Looks Beyond Antivirus
Partnerships with Dell, Juniper anticipate wider ''Security 2.0'' strategy, to be announced next month.
Microsoft Broadening Foray Into Health Care Market
The company is beginning a sales drive for a hospital-developed medical app it recently acquired and preparing more products for doctors and patients.
Financial Services Firm Uses Web To Guarantee Interviews To Applicants
Every job seeker who contacted Securian Financial Group via its "E-mail a Referral" program has been granted a face-to-face interview with the firm's human resources department.
Search Tool Looks Inward To Tap System Logs
Splunk 2.1 adds features that mimic another Google practice: furnishing command line APIs to the search engine so third parties can write independent applications that exploit its capabilities.
Technology Innovation One Scoop At A Time
MooBella's on-demand ice cream vending machines are powered by open source software and an AMD processor.
Louisiana School District Uses Data Mining To Analyze Troublemakers
A year's worth of disciplinary reports are scoured for patterns in behavior and punishment.
Five Questions For Paul Patrick, VP And Chief Architect For BEA Systems' AquaLogic Product Line
Patrick was appointed BEA's first chief security architect in 2002; he has high-level clearance with the federal government, where he sometimes serves as a security adviser. He's now in charge of BEA's AquaLogic product line for helping customers implement service-oriented architecture.
Broadband On A Budget
High-speed broadband has finally overtaken dial-up Internet access. According to a recent report by JD Power and Associates, 56% of residential ISP customers are now using broadband connections for applications such as Googling for the latest on Cameron Diaz, viewing online videos, and blogging about their pet dogs'
Oracle Ships 'Low Cost' Content Management Software
Oracle has launched software that the company says is designed to provide "low-cost" management of Office documents, PDF and image files, and other unstructured data.
Is Time Warner Finally 'Getting' The Internet?
Time Warner seems to be finally putting its six-year-old AOL merger debacle behind it, thanks to recent aggressive moves to promote a new Web strategy.
Symantec Prepares For Shift To 'Security 2.0'
Symantec will venture into the areas of system availability and performance management, CTO Mark Bregman says.
Oracle Off To Fast Start In Fiscal 2007; Revenue, Profit Up 29%
Sales of licenses for applications grew by 80%, but the company still gets most of its revenue from databases and middleware.
Citizendium To Be Professional Wikipedia
Larry Sanger, one of the principal founders of the Wikipedia public encyclopedia project, has recently announced the establishment of a project called Citizendium. The latter is expected to be managed by authoritative experts within a field and will rely heavily on formal partnerships, which stands in sharp contrast against the Wikipedia model of being a free-for-all where content can be edited by any and all comers.
BEA Unveils SOA Infrastructure Platform
BEA Systems has unveiled a software platform for building service-oriented architectures, reflecting a trend among infrastructure vendors to provide as many tools as possible to companies adopting the standards-based form of distributed computing.
Red Hat Plus JBoss Equals A New Horse Race
The rapid incorporation of the JBoss Application Server and other JBoss software is intended to make it easier to produce applications that run under Linux.
EMC Lays Groundwork for ILM
InfoScape crawls file systems and automatically tag files with basic metadata and clues to business value, sensitivity and content.
BladeLogic Enhances Data Center Management Platform
Release 7 adds functionality designed to allow timely and accurate application releases across the network.
Microsoft Pledges Not To Bring Patent Suit For Web Services
The company makes a public pledge that it won't sue individual developers using any of 35 key standards.
IBM Adds Problem Resolution Toolkit In Drive For Self-Healing IT Systems
The toolkit helps developers build a database of common problems and their solutions.
Construction Software Vendor Sues To Block Microsoft's Use Of 'Forefront' Name
Dexter & Chaney says it's been using that name since 1988, and that Microsoft's recent decision to use the "Forefront" brand for its security software risks confusing Dexter's customers.
Hewlett-Packard's Taskmaster
Heir to the chairmanship, Mark Hurd stays focused on growth and efficiency.
IT Confidential: Last DOS Standing
Microsoft products don't get old, they get better--don't they?
Former PC Industry Darling Tries For Comeback As Dell 2.0
Founder and Chairman Michael Dell acknowledged that the company's direct sales model is no longer enough.
Microsoft Hopes New Search Tool Draws Converts From Google
Microsoft may finally believe its search engine and search advertising platform have reached the point of being technically competitive with Google and Yahoo. But technology will only get Microsoft so far.
Credit Suisse Disruptive Technology Portfolio Mover Of The Week: RightNow
An index of companies shaking up traditional business models.
Apple's Future Phone
It's pretty much a given these days that Apple is hard at work on a mobile phone. The company won't acknowledge this, but it's hard to find an Apple rumor site or financial analyst covering Apple that hasn't speculated about the iPhone or whatever the fabled device eventually ends up being called.
Despite its studied coyness, Apple in
Open-Source Middleware Is Ready For Consideration
Businesses usually opt for commercial versions of middleware, but they may be missing out on open-source options that offer speed, cost savings, and reliability.
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The State of Cloud Computing - Fall 2020
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