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Tech giants chart research goals Power consumption, parallelism, and the rapidly-expanding world of mobile communications are among the leading areas of research and development currently being investigated within some of the IT world's largest companies. Mobile business apps middleware catches on Industry experts maintain that many business applications vendors are still struggling to successfully port their tools to mobile handsets. But some software makers claim that by partnering with wireless specialists to develop their systems, they are selling more licenses to end-users today.  September 7, 9:45 a.m. PDT Sourcefire acquires ClamAV open-source anti-malware project Network security specialist Sourcefire announced Friday that it has acquired ClamAV, an open-source gateway anti-malware project whose technologies are used in the products of a number of other vendors. August 17, 8:58 a.m. PDT Hospital undergoes wireless surgery For years, wireless technologies have only shown up in many U.S. hospitals in the form of rolling computers with Wi-Fi network access, but as evidenced at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital, times are changing. August 13, 2:37 p.m. PDT Novell buys endpoint security firm Senforce Novell announced on Monday that it has acquired Senforce Technologies, a provider of endpoint and network security tools, for an undisclosed sum. August 13, 9:40 a.m. PDT McAfee sets Rootkit Detective free On July 26, McAfee will begin offering a new application called Rootkit Detective, designed to detect and remove dangerous rootkit attacks. The software will also help end-users ward off the threats, as well as funnel new intelligence into the company's ongoing research operations. July 25, 1:12 p.m. PDT Using mobile logistics to streamline your business Field service automation is one of the most advanced areas for mobile applications development among enterprises, and at $280-million-per year laundry services provider Mac-Gray, IT managers say such a project has helped the company clean up both its operations and fuel growth. July 24, 2:44 p.m. PDT OpenSpan: Beyond the enterprise mashup The dream of every CIO, says Francis Carden, CEO of OpenSpan is to instantly turn all of their legacy applications into reusable components. May 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT Improve availability of enterprise data Ask an expert about data availability and how to ensure it, and the conversation quickly turns to the subject of human error. Not that IT mistakes are the leading cause of unplanned downtime; the research firm Gartner identifies software failures as the chief culprit, and “operator error” as the second most common cause, ahead of hardware outages; building or site disasters; and metro disasters, such as storms or floods, in that order. But of all of these major causes, human error is the one that IT can really do something about. March 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Open source rule management Considering that a high-end BRMS (Business Rule Management System) costs about $50,000 just to get started, and that annual maintenance, runtime fees, and professional services can drive the total toward a hefty half-million or more, organizations on a tight budget have incentive to seek alternatives. Thankfully, good options exist. Two of the better low-or-no-cost tools are Jess from Sandia National Laboratories, and JBoss Rules from JBoss, a division of Red Hat. November 2, 5:00 p.m. PST AMD CEO envisions users, not vendors, in control of IT The head of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) is predicting a seismic shift in the balance of power in both the chip industry and the world of IT as a whole, with influence shifting from vendors to users. The move could particularly benefit the health-care industry, which is still struggling to find ways to move forward with technology. October 23, 2:06 p.m. PDT Pay as you go, but how much? Missing from a future of pay-per-use software licensing are the tools that users will need to gauge just what they are paying for. And, given that most users still haven’t bought the software management systems they need just to keep track of the licenses they do have, this hole is not too surprising. September 25, 3:00 a.m. PDT Technology with no past To the extent that it’s possible, I’m declaring today the beginning of recorded history in information technology. On this day, the phrase “information technology,” abbreviated IT, came into being as shorthand for electronic devices that aid humans in storage and sharing of, analysis of, protection of, and access to significant amounts of digitized content. Content? That’s anything you’re capable of holding in your brain for even a nanosecond. IT is not a department or a group of people. It’s a smart phone. It’s a room full of SPARC servers. A telephone headset? A keyboard? I don’t know. They’re new terms. We’ll work that out as we go. I do know that if we didn’t have such things, information technology would be inaccessible. September 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT BMC updates batch management In a real-time world, batch processing has all the sex appeal of an old gray filing cabinet, but as Gur Steif, a product marketing vice president for BMC, said, "Almost every Web transaction we execute online actually ends up being processed in batches." So when you buy your Motorola Q phone with one click, the processes that order kicks off will crank some time later with a barrel full of others. August 28, 3:00 a.m. PDT Telecommunications: Grappling with M&A mania The challenges telecommunications carriers face are not so different from those of their enterprise customers. They’re just a lot bigger. And IT managers are meeting them by pursuing consolidation -- that is, reducing the number of systems and personnel -- with a vengeance. August 21, 3:00 a.m. PDT Update: Microsoft updates fix PowerPoint, Windows flaws Microsoft has issued nine security updates addressing critical flaws in its Office and Windows products. The updates patch two worrisome PowerPoint flaws that could allow attackers to seize control of a PC, the company said Tuesday. August 9, 4:20 a.m. PDT Inventors object to new patent reform bill A patent reform bill introduced in the U.S. Senate last week is earning praise from large IT vendors, even as small inventors and some technologists say the legislation would hurt the little guys. August 8, 1:51 p.m. PDT HP buys CIO access with Mercury deal Why did Hewlett-Packard plunk down $4.5 billion for Mercury Interactive? Two words: Adaptive. Enterprise. July 31, 3:00 a.m. PDT HP to acquire Mercury for $4.5 billion HP said Tuesday that it was buying Mercury Interactive for $4.5 billion in a deal to become a leader in IT management software. July 26, 9:00 a.m. PDT SAP updates application maintenance software SAP is updating its software maintenance application designed to help administrators manage upgrades, patches, and other changes to the company's software. July 25, 4:53 a.m. PDT Clash of the Java rule Titans Editor's Note: In this review, we inaccurately stated that we ran the WaltzDB benchmark on ILOG JRules 6 and Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor 6.1. Although we were able to run the benchmark on Blaze Advisor, we were not able to do so on JRules. As noted in the review's supplementary performance chart online, we thus reported one of two benchmark results provided by ILOG. We believed this number accurately reflected JRules' performance. Since that time, ILOG has asserted that the performance number we reported was based on a first-generation RETE algorithm and not the current algorithm which the product now uses. We plan to perform further testing of our own to better assess the performance capabilities of ILOG JRules and will provide those results when they are available. July 17, 3:00 a.m. PDT Exclusive: Corticon plays by different rules Dr. Mark Allen of Corticon caused quite a ruckus several years ago when he published a paper called “Rete is Wrong,” which took all of the rule-based engines based on the Rete (pronounced Ree-tee) algorithm to task for inefficiencies and poor construction. Allen explained that, in contrast to the Rete engines in market-leading BRMS (Business Rules Management Systems) such as ILOG’s JRules and Fair Isaac’s Blaze Advisor, Corticon had a DETI (Design-Time Inferencing, pronounced Dee-Tee) engine. July 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT Time is right to bargain with Microsoft I think it’s a wonderful thing that Bill Gates is retiring so that he can devote himself to his foundation. If he puts half the effort into doing good works that he put into building Microsoft, the world will benefit. However, that doesn’t mean your company has to continue funding his efforts by overpaying for Microsoft license agreements. June 27, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft weighs strong app IDs for Windows future Microsoft has plans to introduce stronger security for third-party applications that run on future versions of Windows, including "Vienna," the planned successor to Windows Vista. June 19, 3:00 a.m. PDT CSC wins US DOJ case-management contract The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has awarded Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) a US$42 million contract for a new case-management system, the DOJ announced Thursday. June 1, 10:05 a.m. PDT Easing app deployment with an open source sandbox I’ve just returned from a day at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va., where I participated in the annual Faculty Academy on Instructional Technologies. I greatly enjoyed the opportunity to give a keynote talk on 21st century literacy, and to discuss Web 2.0 with a panel of like-minded thinkers. May 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Akimbi virtualizes the application test bench In the average datacenter, a lot of IT resources are spent on preproduction application testing. Servers, networks, databases, and applications must all be deployed, followed by a series of installs and uninstalls for various versions of the application environment being put through its paces. The more homegrown applications you create, the more staff hours you burn on this repetitive but crucial work. “It’s all quite churny,” says James Phillips, CEO of Akimbi. May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Product previews Sun Solaris 10 to integrate ZFS and PostgreSQL Sun announced a June release of the solaris 10 operating system that will incorporate ZFS 1.0, Sun’s new 128-bit file system, and the open source PostgreSQL database. ZFS automatically detects and corrects data corruption and eliminates the need for a volume manager. PostgreSQL will help leverage Solaris’ predictive self-healing, OS containers, and DTrace (dynamic tracing) technologies. Solaris 10, Sun Microsystems May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Mercury hones in on change management A new product from mercury Interactive may provide IT managers with a big picture of systems changes and help them understand the impact of changes in an enterprise. May 1, 3:00 a.m. PDT Fujitsu to push for higher profile, profits in North America Fujitsu, the third largest IT infrastructure service provider in the world, is unveiling this week a slew of IT partnerships and products that company executives expect will raise the company’s profile and profits in North America. April 21, 12:28 p.m. PDT > Applications > Application management |
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