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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. Lack of standards stifles agility If you aren't happy with the performance of your software, the solution should be simple: Switch to different software. In practice, however, jumping ship is seldom that easy, and vendor lock-in is a reality with which most IT departments are far too familiar.  September 17, 3:00 a.m. PDT Centralizing IT gives rise to bureaucracy When you're having problems with your enterprise laptop or workstation, who do you call? Is your IT staff just down the hall, or are they on the other side of the globe? September 17, 3:00 a.m. PDT Pundits on parade: What’s next in tech You’ve heard of Christmas in July, that classic advertising gimmick designed to lure shoppers into stores despite the oppressive heat and humidity. We’ll, we’ve got New Year’s in August, which invites you to stay indoors and read “The next big things in IT” -- 15 predictions about the future of technology. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT EMC earnings strong as VMware spinoff approaches EMC reported a 20 percent increase in second quarter net income Tuesday on a 21 percent increase in revenue, driven in part by the success of its VMware subsidiary, a portion of which soon will be spun off in an IPO. July 24, 8:42 a.m. PDT Zenoss: Bringing open source to enterprise management If you curse your "tier-one" IT management solution as too cumbersome, too complex, and too expensive, you're not alone. In arecent Gartner study that declares the "Big Four" -- BMC, CA, HP, and IBM -- increasingly vulnerable to SaaS (software as a service) and open source alternatives, surveyed users gave their vendors mostly C's and D's, and a good number of incompletes. May 31, 3:00 a.m. PDT ClearApp gauges performance on a granular level ClearApp is announcing on Monday the availability of QuickVision 7, the company’s application performance automation product for SOA, J2EE, and portal applications. Root cause analysis improvements are highlighted. May 21, 5:30 a.m. PDT Microsoft shuffles server, developer groups in reorg A reorganization at Microsoft Corp., announced Friday, improves the focus of two of the main divisions at the company and could line up a successor to Steve Ballmer, the software giant's CEO. May 18, 1:38 p.m. PDT Homegrown high-performance computing Once the domain of monolithic, multimillion-dollar supercomputers from Cray and IBM, HPC (high-performance computing) is now firmly within reach of today’s enterprise, thanks to the affordable computing power of clustered standards-based Linux and Microsoft servers running commodity Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors. Many early movers are in fact already capitalizing on in-house HPC, assembling and managing small-scale clusters on their own. April 23, 3:00 a.m. PDT What the enterprise can learn from consumer technologies Today’s corporate end-users are far more tech-savvy than their productivity with IT tools indicates. After all, screen-deep in IMs, widgets, and elaborate consumer Web apps, they’re proving themselves well-versed in the production and distribution of content as facilitated by the consumer Web 2.0 craze. April 9, 3:00 a.m. PDT More IT war stories Off the Record, the real-world slice of life that graces the last page of InfoWorld, is one of our most popular columns. I know this from reader surveys and from all the e-mail I receive about it. As reader Roland Sickenberger put it recently, “It’s my favorite part of the magazine, kind of like a ‘Dilbert come to life’ thing.” March 5, 3:00 a.m. PST IBM veteran becomes first woman to win the Turing Award The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded the A.M. Turing Award to Frances Allen, a computer scientist at IBM and the first woman to receive the prestigious prize. February 21, 4:15 a.m. PST Back to school: Getting girls into IT Despite the success of various education initiatives in the past several years, there’s little doubt that the shortage of women in technology begins on the playground. As such, many industry leaders and experts believe the long-term solution to the gender imbalance in IT lies in women technologists going back to school -- way back, to high schools and even elementary schools to mentor young girls, who too often give up on math and science at an early age. January 29, 3:02 a.m. PST Activism provides competitive advantage for IT Encountering another woman working in technology was a rare event for me when I started out in IT many years ago. In the years since, women have made significant strides, sometimes against great odds, proving their mettle as both tech execs and engineers. January 29, 3:01 a.m. PST Gender crisis in IT You don’t need a degree in statistics to recognize that IT is a men’s club. Just walk the floor of any tech conference or, in all likelihood, your own office — XY chromosomes everywhere you look. January 29, 3:00 a.m. PST Tabblo’s approach to rich Internet apps If you want a peek into the future of RIAs (rich Internet applications), take a look at Tabblo (tabblo.com). The model that Tabblo has set into motion for photographers -- both amateur and professional -- will soon be adopted by enterprise IT to empower its user base. January 16, 3:00 a.m. PST Lattix tackles software architecture complexity Looking to salve complexity in enterprise software environments, Lattix on Thursday is announcing an upgrade to its software architecture management system, extending it to databases and Web services. January 4, 5:00 a.m. PST Technology of the Gods January is named after Janus, the two-faced Roman deity of beginnings and endings, who reportedly was able to look both forward and back. So for our Jan. 1 issue, we pay homage to the mythological immortal with our seventh annual Technology of the Year Awards, an analysis of where IT has been and where it’s going in 2007. January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST Review of reviews It’s coming up on closing time for 2006. All around us, everyone is going into holiday mode. Not to be curmudgeonly contrarians, InfoWorld will be following suit, taking a one-week break before returning on Jan. 1 with our first print issue of the year. (It’s really only a semi-hiatus; InfoWorld.com will continue to perk over the holidays with a slightly reduced slate of stories.) December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST Predicting user behavior still not an exact science A recent article in the Philadelphia Inquirer on the use of predictive analytics to determine which of Philadelphia’s parolees were likely to commit murder caught my attention. A broad definition of predictive analytics would be the process of matching statistics with historical data in order to predict future events, mainly human behavior. December 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Good ideas take time Two years ago, I publicly floated the concept that IT should start thinking more like entrepreneurs. What a disaster! I was speaking at a meeting of CTOs, and I mentioned that I’d heard of a few IT departments that were focusing, at least in part, on creating saleable new products and services for their companies. I asked the group what they thought of the idea. December 4, 3:00 a.m. PST Wanted: megatrend technology innovators From where will the next disruptive innovations in IT come? And who’s out there looking at the big picture, incubating the IT solutions we’ll need 20, 30, or even 50 years from now? December 1, 3:00 a.m. PST Redefining innovation Innovative ideas are a dime a dozen, according to Jim Andrew, senior partner at big-time consultancy BCG. In fact, at most companies, coming up with great concepts for a product, service, or process isn’t even an issue. But turning those ideas into money … ah, there’s the rub. October 30, 3:00 a.m. PST Cast your vote for IT's future Dear reader: Ask not what IT can do for you, ask what you can do for IT. With the crucial midterm congressional elections just a couple of weeks away (not to mention a bevy of state and local contests), it’s time to issue my first annual From the Analysts political endorsements. October 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Oracle broadens its applications management Oracle is to broaden its Enterprise Manager 10g software to include comprehensive applications management. The vendor will make the new capabilities available with the upcoming release of three new management packs for three of its different enterprise applications families. October 13, 4:44 a.m. PDT The uncertain future of R&D One of the more eye-opening business experiences i ever had was taking a daylong tour of Procter & Gamble’s R&D facilities in Cincinnati several years ago. The sheer scope of the operation blew me away -- I think they said P&G had more Ph.D.s on the payroll than Harvard and MIT combined. October 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT How to bungle a software upgrade Ten years ago, I was the IT manager at a successful software company whose main product was aimed at large insurance companies. It was a DOS app that read records from large data files, did a little processing, and passed the results to other apps downstream. It wasn’t particularly pretty, but it was accurate -- and it was fast! It worked in batch mode, processing thousands of records per minute, which was a critical feature, considering how many records our clients needed to manage each day. September 26, 3:00 a.m. PDT SAP extends relationship with CA SAP plans to significantly increase its own use of CA's Introscope application performance management software as well as its customers' access to the technology through an expanded relationship with the systems management and security vendor. September 18, 8:45 a.m. PDT IBM opens latest specialized 'Hipod' lab IBM has chosen Sao Paulo as the sixth global location for its specialized software and services laboratories known as "Hipods" or high-performance on-demand solutions facilities, which focus on resolving large-scale computing issues for IBM customers, including eBay and Google. September 5, 8:36 a.m. PDT The case for altruism The first timeI heard about Wikipedia, I thought, This has no shot. Why would highly qualified people devote their energies to an encyclopedia they couldn’t make a dime on? September 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT BEA snaps up metadata registry tech When Mercury Interactive plunked down $105 million for Systinet last January, that left just two prominent pure-play vendors of SOA registry/repositories standing: Infravio and Flashline. That number was cut by half last week, when BEA Systems bought Flashline for an undisclosed sum. August 28, 3:00 a.m. PDT Lessons from the verticals Every industry presents unique challenges, where IT must marshal more than the usual chunk of resources to solve extreme headaches. That may mean walking out to the edge of grid computing to garner greater compute performance, or it may involve management challenges such as accommodating a mobile workforce or connecting hundreds of far-flung offices. The greater the problem to overcome, the greater the potential to learn from successful solutions. August 21, 3:00 a.m. PDT Does “built to last” apply to IT? Over the weekend, I bought an amazing antique chair: a fancy wooden office swivel chair in practically mint condition, including all its original cast-iron hardware. Although probably made between 1900 and 1915 (the patent date is 1897), it’s remarkably modern, with fully adjustable height, tilt, and back support, like the best Aeron chairs of today (well, its wooden surfaces are a tad stiffer). With any luck, it will last another 100 years and be just as functional. August 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT InfoWorld NewsMakers: Hewlett-Packard's Tom Hogan In the Jane Austen novel that has become Mercury Interactive’s financial story in the past 12 months, it was HP playing the role of Mr. Knightley last month, riding to the rescue with an offer to buy Mercury for $4.5 billion and, thus, save the company from itself. August 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT Web site disasters made easy In 1997, I was working in the IT department at a midsize consumer products company in the San Francisco Bay Area. My job was mainly to keep the network up; the company had no Web presence. But as our competitors ate more and more of our lunch, it gradually dawned on management that we ought to be selling online. So I built a LAMP (Linux, Apache, and Perl/Python/PHP) sales portal that handled online ordering and a corporate Web site. It generated revenue from the outset. July 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT nVision upgrade eyes apps-related performance nVision Software Technologies will upgrade its AppVision application availability management software on Tuesday, adding components to gauge issues related to threads, memory, and CPUs. July 11, 5:00 a.m. PDT Upstart startups Startups aren’t typical fodder for InfoWorld stories. For that matter, we don’t devote all that much ink to tech companies in general, preferring to focus on technologies, products, and strategies that help IT do what it needs to do. May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Tech startups to watch Startups are back! or at least, startup fever is back. Scan the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and you won’t find any hockey sticks -- the level of investment in enterprise-related technology startups has actually remained fairly flat, hovering between $1.5 and $2.3 billion per quarter from 2003 through 2005. May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT High-availability Exchange made easy The obvious solution for bringing HA (high availability) to your Exchange server is to use Microsoft’s own Exchange clustering features. Although Exchange’s clustering is reliable and robust, this isn’t an easy configuration to set up. It’s also usually costly, not only in terms of additional hardware and software licenses, but also because it requires a skilled Exchange administrator. May 12, 3:00 a.m. PDT Product previews NetSuite Flexes Process Automation, Woos Verticals Hosted applications vendor NetSuite announced NetSuite 11.0, its latest integrated CRM and back-office suite. The new version, due in May, extends AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) beyond the current real-time dashboards into functional areas, including reporting, scheduling, and document management. It also adds complex process customization via a new scripting language, SuiteScript, built on JavaScript. The company also launched vertical editions of NetSuite for wholesale/distribution, services, and software companies. NetSuite 11.0, NetSuite April 17, 3:00 a.m. PDT ClickTracks and HitsLink cull Web site stats without the stress Web sites are an important conduit between customers, potential clients, and employees, so it’s not surprising that organizations invest heavily in watching how their sites are used. For this job, enterprises often turn to the big guns in Web analytics -- Coremetrics, NetIQ, Omniture, or WebSideStory -- because they present visitor behavior from practically any perspective. But this complexity can mean hours of trying to set up and then harvest useful data from reports. Even more difficult is using reports to spot potential click fraud. April 14, 3:00 a.m. PDT Cisco unveils ACE app acceleration blade Citing an epidemic of “fat and chatty” enterprise applications from Oracle, SAP, Siebel, and others, Cisco Systems on Monday unveiled a new product called ACE (Application Control Engine) and an update to its FineGround AVS (Application Velocity System), which the company claims will make applications run faster and more securely. April 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Modern strategies for managing Microsoft Exchange Let’s face it: administering a Microsoft-based network inevitably means dealing with Exchange Server. Microsoft continues to lead the messaging market in new-account sales “by a significant margin,” according to Erica Rugullies, principal analyst at Forrester Research. That’s amazing success when you consider that today, with e-mail already a staple of every corporate network, leading the market isn’t about finding new customers so much as it is about taking them away from someone else. March 16, 3:00 a.m. PST Philips, Dell: One size doesn't fit all Even if you're a global company and manage your IT operations centrally, that doesn't necessarily mean a one-size-fits-all approach to managing your desktops is the right strategy. February 22, 4:39 a.m. PST Fluke Networks hones in on VoIP Joining a line of other network-monitoring companies boosting the VoIP intelligence of their wares, Fluke Networks on Monday unfurled enhancements to its Visual UpTime Select network and application management solution. February 20, 6:00 a.m. PST Network General snags Fidelia Further blurring the lines between network and application management, network analysis vendor Network General Monday announced the acquisition of Fidelia, maker of business service monitoring application NetVigil. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. February 6, 8:55 a.m. PST PremiTech bridges the client gap Today’s distributed application platforms obscure the underlying architecture, making it difficult to pinpoint the source of a performance problem. With so many servers in the loop, maintaining a consistent user experience can be a real nightmare, especially when coupled with the pressure of the nearly ubiquitous SLA (service-level agreement). January 26, 3:00 a.m. PST FirstGov.gov revamps search functionality Internet users looking for information at the U.S. government's Web portal will get more complete and relevant results using a new search engine unveiled Tuesday, according to officials with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). January 24, 11:54 a.m. PST U.S. Department of Justice blasts Microsoft on compliance The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and state attorneys general slammed Microsoft Corp. in court papers Monday for lagging behind in compliance with some stipulations of the government's antitrust agreement with the company. January 24, 11:50 a.m. PST Wall Street Beat: Earnings bring mixed results Earnings season blew in with a vengeance this week, with disappointing fourth-quarter results from industry bellwethers Intel Corp. and IBM Corp. offset by better-than-expected reports from other vendors. January 19, 4:20 p.m. PST Microsoft closes UMT deal Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer Thursday announced the close of the company's deal to purchase software and other assets from portfolio management software vendor UMT. January 19, 12:54 p.m. PST High-performance computing: Supercharging the enterprise Merlin Securities, a new prime brokerage providing trading, financing, portfolio analysis, and reporting for multibillion-dollar hedge funds, needed a competitive edge. Its larger rivals, such as Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, and UBS, had the advantage of expensive mainframes that could consolidate and analyze millions of trades each day and return reports via batch processing the next morning that measured performance on a monthly basis. So Merlin outclassed its competitors by returning trade performance information in near real time with performance measured on a daily basis and performance attribution on multiple levels, including in comparison to other securities in a market sector, numerous benchmarks, and other traders in the firm. What’s more, it did it using an inexpensive compute cluster made up of four dual-processor Dell PowerEdge 2850 servers. January 9, 3:00 a.m. PST Top technologies of the year Welcome to our first issue of the year. For those of you who took a break, re-entry into the heady universe of work may be a bit discombobulating. Fortunately, last Saturday, the world’s ever-considerate timekeepers saw fit to give us an extra sliver of time -- a leap second-- to prep for the new year. And now, with the pop of the cork (or was that the buzz of a pager?), we’re ready to herald 2006, a potential banner year for the enterprise. January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST Hardware isn't enough IT buyers live in a golden age of commodity hardware. Processors, servers, networks, storage, you name it: Every segment of the IT stack keeps getting faster, cheaper, and more commoditized. No surprise, then, that IT managers often resort to a checkbook-waving strategy, throwing hardware at every IT problem, from a balky WAN to an application speed bump. November 28, 3:00 a.m. PST Pay cuts follow Tokyo Stock Exchange IT trouble Senior executives at the Tokyo Stock Exchange will get between 10 percent and 50 percent of their pay cut for up to six months following a systems failure that shut down stock and convertible bond trading on the bourse for several hours on Nov. 1, the exchange said in a statement. November 11, 3:58 a.m. PST Software glitch halts Tokyo Stock Exchange Stock and bond trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange was scrapped Tuesday morning as a result of a system glitch. November 1, 4:03 a.m. PST Heroix explores new territory with Longitude When it comes to deploying an enterprise-level systems management solution, one of the thorniest details is often maintenance of the ubiquitous data-collection agents. Depending on the size of the organization, maintaining the agent-related components of the enterprise software stack can become a real burden, especially when you factor in the need for revision testing -- to weed out bugs or incompatibilities with the agent processes. October 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Mercury heats up software testing Mercury Interactive on Monday is upgrading its product suites with the aim of helping CIOs run IT like a business. After pouring $500 million into acquisitions and R&D, Mercury will roll out new versions of its software testing, real-time application monitoring, and IT governance suites. October 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Dirty words, take II My column "IT's Seven Dirty Words" -- a subjective list of terms that shouldn't be repeated in polite IT company -- generated piles of e-mail from readers who were quick to add a few choice words of their own. In the interest of sharing, let me reproduce a few of their suggestions. September 5, 4:00 a.m. PDT Product Previews Oracle, Zend to ship PHP developement tool Oracle and Zend Technologies in late september plan to release a final production version of Zend Core for Oracle, which is currently available in beta release. Zend Core for Oracle integrates the Oracle database with Zend’s PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) development environment. Also featured is an Oracle OCI8 (Oracle Call Interface) driver, which provides the C code-level API for working with the Oracle API. Zend Core for Oracle, Zend Technologies September 5, 4:00 a.m. PDT Novell tools link Linux, Windows systems Novell on Monday announced that an upgrade of its ZENworks software will ship on Friday with complete life-cycle management capabilities for Linux systems and support for managing Windows PCs from servers running Linux. August 23, 5:46 a.m. PDT Decoding analyst-speak How many industry analysts does it take to change a light bulb? We’ll get back to you on that. But first, wouldn’t you like to purchase our Illumination Industry Survey, which predicts that yearly spending on light bulbs will reach $3.7 trillion by 2010? August 22, 4:00 a.m. PDT IT's seven dirty words Remember the George Carlin routine “The Seven Words You Can’t Say on Television”? (No, I’m not going to print them here; if you’re really curious, Google ’em.) I got to thinking the other day that IT has its own set of dirty words. Try saying any one of these in polite IT company, and someone will hand you a bar of soap to wash your mouth out. My filthy seven: August 15, 5:00 a.m. PDT Farewell, CTO Connection If you haven’t checked out this week’s columns yet, let me be the one to break the bad news: Chad Dickerson is hanging up his InfoWorld CTO spurs and heading off to Yahoo, where he’ll be toiling away in the brave new world of search. August 8, 5:00 a.m. PDT Software's common DNA Here are five species of application that seem, at first glance, to have little in common: mainframe “green screen,” Win32/VB, Java/Swing, Web browser, and .Net WinForms. An enterprise application portfolio is likely to include members of each of these species. Nobody chooses this diversity; it just happens, and it complicates everything from development and deployment to maintenance and testing. August 3, 5:00 a.m. PDT Cure for the common code gives apps more flexibility Alasdair Rawsthorne may have started out slowly, but he’s making up for lost time. August 1, 5:00 a.m. PDT Memory Firewall monitors apps at run time When it comes to foiling hackers, Saman Amarasinghe views the world in stark terms. August 1, 5:00 a.m. PDT Enterprise monitoring comes to PHP During the past few years, PHP has grown to be more than just a simple tag-centered scripting language for neophyte Web designers who want to do a bit of programming. A quick survey of the breadth and depth of the open source projects using the language shows that people can and will build enterprise-grade applications with the embedded tags. Now Zend Technologies, the company steering the language, is rolling out more tools to support the enterprise-grade servers that run these more serious applications. July 4, 5:00 a.m. PDT Cognos unveils new performance management system At its Cognos Forum gathering this week in Orlando, business software maker Cognos will talk about the steps it is taking to help customers better use its reporting and analysis applications -- a change that will focus on improving the processes around those applications, rather than the technology itself. June 27, 3:23 p.m. PDT SAP hunts execs for sport, Gates falls a little short Many thanks to readers who submitted their favorite quail recipes. My local market was out of quail, so they suggested I use Dove instead. I must say, it tasted a little soapy. Perhaps I'm not ready to foist my cooking on the social-networking diva just yet. June 24, 5:00 a.m. PDT Citrix buys NetScaler for $300 million June 2, 9:25 a.m. PDT IBM worker's day of action off to a slow start A worldwide day of action by IBM workers and unions in protest over the company's planned job cuts got off to a slow start with no reported action at company facilities in Asia-Pacific as of late morning. May 23, 4:04 a.m. PDT Getting HTTP right 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 Accelerator and an application called Backpack, which is built with Ruby on Rails, a Web application framework for the Ruby programming language. This was an unfortunate but timely demonstration of what can go wrong when HTTP-based software fails to distinguish between requests that alter resources and requests that do not. May 18, 5:00 a.m. PDT Watching the Java stack 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 applications that work well on their own can slow to a crawl or even deadlock when they’re stitched together. It’s not enough to do a good job on the individual parts because the sum of the parts is something completely different. May 16, 5:00 a.m. PDT Vanward beefs up Java project tracking Vanward’s Convergence adds yet another layer of capability to Maven, the already capable and powerful project-management system. Java developers are attracted to Maven because it enforces a structure on a development project’s directory organization -- making a large project easier to comprehend and maintain -- without forcing them to reinvent the wheel every time they begin a project. April 18, 5:00 a.m. PDT Product previews Fujitsu Joins Itanium Game Fujitsu has slated for this week the launch of a new line of multiprocessor servers based on Intel’s Itanium 2 processor. The new PrimeQuest machines will be Fujitsu’s first high-end Itanium servers. Fujitsu’s first two PrimeQuest systems will be the PrimeQuest 480, a 32-processor system that will ship with as much as 1TB of memory, and the PrimeQuest 440, which will house as many as 16 processors and 512GB of memory. Both systems will initially ship with the 1.6GHz and 1.5GHz versions of Intel’s “Madison 9M” Itanium 2 processor. Fujitsu’s servers will be breakable into as many as 16 partitions. Each server will also sport high-availability features and a “crossbar-type” interconnect to link processors. PrimeQuest, Fujitsu April 4, 6:00 a.m. PDT Dashboards for the enterprise Enterprise application performance or service level management solutions not only help companies adhere to business-defined SLAs. They also help IT staffs to identify problems quickly in complex, distributed applications that often involve multiple technology stacks from many vendors. When production issues do occur, these tools promptly pinpoint the problem. Time to resolution is cut short and finger pointing among different technology groups is eliminated. March 4, 3:00 p.m. PST Value servers feel the strain In the off-the-shelf world of value servers, surmounting challenges to high availability is your job. Management solutions make remote observation easier, and clustering is getting closer to standard fare for OSes. February 25, 3:00 p.m. PST Product Previews CA Takes Wraps off Asset Management Software Computer Associates last week unveiled Unicenter Asset Intelligence r11, asset management software that provides intelligence to help IT make business-driven resource- and process-related decisions. Unicenter Asset Intelligence conducts analytics based on the data collected by CA’s Unicenter Asset Management software. It combines technical and operational data about IT assets with information about a company’s organizational structure, which can be derived from e-mail, user directories, and/or human resource systems. This provides insight into how an organization is leveraging enterprisewide hardware and software assets over time, down to department and user levels. Unicenter Asset Intelligence, CA ca.com February 14, 6:00 a.m. PST Fiorina steps down as HP CEO, chairman Carly Fiorina has resigned as chairman and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard, effective immediately, the company announced Wednesday. February 9, 6:34 a.m. PST No magic IT formulas Technology workers who don’t see themselves as passionate, creative professionals, and who lack commitment to their work, will inevitably occupy the lower strata of the future job market. I’ve said that before. My new corollary to that is that all working people are consumers even on company time. We need to feel impressed and inspired by the tools and materials we’re given. February 4, 3:00 p.m. PST SAP and Mercury Interactive partner to test NetWeaver SAP America announced today that it will integrate a component of Mercury Interactive's LoadRunner performance optimization product into its NetWeaver platform. The LoadRunner component will give SAP's global technical support team the ability to do a remote test for a customer before the customer goes live with a new application. February 1, 6:00 a.m. PST Users put ObjectWeb software to work LYON, FRANCE - The ObjectWeb middleware consortium this week put the spotlight on corporate and government users who have adopted its software for production use. January 20, 1:04 p.m. PST Microsoft, BT team on software as services LONDON - Microsoft is ramping up its efforts to sell software as a service by teaming with U.K. telecommunications giant BT Group PLC to provide a platform for the delivery of its business applications. November 30, 5:45 p.m. PST Is this the end of IT as we know it? Halsey Minor, CEO of hosted integration provider grand central Communications, has a powerful message for IT: “In four years, ... basically the whole notion of enterprise application software is going to be dead.” He believes application functionality will instead be available as hosted, pay-per-use services delivered by companies such as Salesforce.com. Putting his money where his mouth is, Minor has recently launched a $50 million venture capital fund with his own money to fuel on-demand startups. For its part, Grand Central will handle data and process integration between enterprises and multiple on-demand services. November 26, 3:00 p.m. PST Gates touts software 'magic' to cut complexity COPENHAGEN -- Offering relief from managing complex, distributed systems, Microsoft Corp. Chief Software Architect Bill Gates took the stage of the IT Forum in Copenhagen Tuesday to introduce a handful of tools and a hatful of promises. November 16, 4:50 a.m. PST Europeans debate software patents, interoperability BRUSSELS -- The European Union's (E.U.'s) planned software patent rules represent a major threat to interoperability unless specific exemptions are made to the legislation, participants at a conference on the issue heard on Tuesday. November 9, 7:05 a.m. PST Stress test your Web applications Developers working on Web applications face the same challenges other developers do in ensuring app functionality and usability. But the nature of the Web means that the number of users on a given Web site may vary by several orders of magnitude, which should make load testing a priority. November 8, 3:00 p.m. PST Compuware looks to cut risks in apps deployment Compuware this week is upgrading its Vantage application service management software to highlight predictive analysis and performance assessment. October 27, 12:08 p.m. PDT CA posts Q2 loss on restitution charges Computer Associates International reported a six percent increase in revenue during its second fiscal quarter, but posted a $94 million loss after paying to settle government investigations into the company, it said Wednesday. October 20, 3:12 p.m. PDT APM gets smart with ProactiveNet's latest Intelligent software is the Holy Grail of application development -- especially in the APM (application performance management) arena, where system administrators are perpetually on the lookout for more efficient ways to sift through mountains of metrics and alert data. October 1, 3:00 p.m. PDT Update: CA cutting 5 percent of workforce Computer Associates International Inc. (CA) plans to cut 800 positions worldwide, 5 percent of its workforce, in hopes of shaving $70 million annually off its operating costs. September 29, 7:59 a.m. PDT Reports: CA may escape charges in DOJ deal Computer Associates International Inc. (CA) has reached a deal with the U.S. Department of Justice under which the company will pay compensation to shareholders and open its accounts to monitoring by an independent third party, in return for the DOJ deferring prosecution in its investigation of accounting fraud at the company, U.S. newspaper reports said Wednesday. September 22, 4:35 a.m. PDT New MOM to ease Microsoft management Microsoft in the fall will launch the latest version of its performance management product, offering it up as a key link in its ambitious DSI (Dynamic Systems Initiative) plan to reduce IT complexity by improving software and hardware manageability. August 28, 3:00 p.m. PDT Microsoft wraps up MOM 2005 management tool Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday said it has finished work on Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005, a major update to its MOM 2000 performance management software. August 25, 10:17 a.m. PDT Two takes on preproduction testing It’s a hard-core developer’s worst nightmare: You pour your heart and soul into a new project, double-checking every .Net I-interface and cross-checking every T-SQL statement only to discover — post-deployment — that a hidden flaw is killing your program’s scalability. Management is breathing down your neck and you’ve got that uneasy feeling that the outsourcing vultures are beginning to circle, but every line of code looks as perfect as when you first crafted it. July 16, 3:00 p.m. PDT ASAP spec proposed for delayed Web services OASIS is working on standard technology to enable Web services to function in situations in which business process communications have a delayed response, as opposed to the quick responses normally associated with Web services, an OASIS official said this week. June 11, 10:50 a.m. PDT Sonic tacks on high availability to integration suite Focusing on availability of application services, Sonic Software on Tuesday announced it is shipping Sonic Business Integration Suite 5.5, which utilizes the company’s “Continuous Availability Architecture” in development of service-oriented architectures. June 8, 4:41 p.m. PDT IBM, Teamstudio focus Java efforts IBM and Teamstudio are focusing on Java tools this week, with IBM updating its AspectJ programming language extension and Teamstudio forming a separate division for its tools. June 3, 4:25 p.m. PDT Murder by service, 1-2-3 “But my new system’s so slo-o-o-w.” May 28, 3:00 p.m. PDT > Application development > Applications |
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