|
|
Free Newsletters
|
|
|
|
|
|
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. From big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtualFrom big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtual While many IT shops see virtualization as a question of adopting EMC's VMware on servers running Windows or Linux, Nationwide Insurance has adopted the technology for both x86-based and mainframe-hosted servers. After all, notes Buzz Woeckener, the company's zLinux/Unix server manager, virtualization was invented for mainframes.  September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT On the road to the virtual desktop Click ‘n’ run. It seems like such a simple concept. Surf up to a Web page, select the desired application from a list, and click. Voila! Microsoft Word appears on your desktop. Or Excel, or Adobe Photoshop… you name it. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Herd behavior demonstrated at Demo "Whatever happened to working alone?” September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Transplace beefs up hardware for a virtual world Managing transportation logistics is all about handling scale. As transportation management services firm Transplace added consumer goods companies such as Del Monte, Office Depot, Home Depot, Auto Zone, and DirecTV as customers, it needed to quickly bring server capacity online. Already planning a hardware refresh to support continued growth, CTO Vince Biddlecombe decided to bring in server virtualization at the same time so that he'd have a more scalable, flexible platform for that anticipated growth. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Stonebridge Bank averts a capacity crisis It's a dilemma faced by IT administrators everywhere. "We ran out of rack space, air conditioning capacity, and UPSes at the end of 2004, but we needed more servers," recalls George Rapp, senior vice president of IT for Stonebridge Bank, a regional institution in Pennsylvania. Getting more power in and more heat out was just not an option for the bank's datacenter, so Rapp consolidated multiple Unix servers into one box to reduce the physical footprint and delay the crisis. "But it got us only part of the way," he notes. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Dell targets small business with simple storage array Hoping to gain customers among fast-growing small businesses, Dell launched a storage array optimized for simple operation and low price on Monday . September 10, 12:56 p.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 BPM vendor Metastorm buys Proforma Metastorm acquired Proforma on Wednesday, combining two companies that make software for improving business processes in large organizations. August 1, 9:27 a.m. PDT That sound you hear? The next datacenter problem The more servers that are added to a datacenter, the more cooling that center is likely to need. And the more cooling those servers require, the more "whoosh" is generated. Whoosh, for the uninitiated, is the annoying noise of fans and humming power supplies that can feel like a pressure in your head. July 31, 8:32 a.m. PDT Businesses having second thoughts about Vista Fewer businesses are now planning to move to Windows Vista than seven months ago, according to a survey by patch management vendor PatchLink, while more said they will either stick with the Windows they have, or turn to Linux or Mac OS X. July 31, 8:12 a.m. PDT Microsoft breaks ground on San Antonio datacenter Microsoft is relying on green technologies in its newest datacenters, including one in San Antonio where it is breaking ground on Monday. July 30, 11:21 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 HP's Thermal Zone Mapping helps keep datacenters cool, energy-efficient Hewlett-Packard (HP) is getting more detailed in how it analyzes the energy efficiency of its customers' datacenters. July 25, 4:21 a.m. PDT TB case highlights e-mail archiving trend E-mail archiving and recovery software has proved itself useful in the case of the American who flew to Europe even though he had tuberculosis (TB). July 10, 7:40 a.m. PDT Will Oracle Database 11g rope in customers? With Web 2.0, SaaS (software as a service), and open source grabbing all of the headlines, launches of enterprise infrastructure software that were once major IT events now sometimes seem like forgotten affairs. Certainly the new millennium marked a downturn in interest for traditional, monolithic back-end software. July 6, 10:18 a.m. PDT Spidering phantom blogs for IT best practices Someday someone will invent a spider that trolls all the blogs on the Web for best practices. And that piece of software will be a huge competitive advantage for the inventor's company. July 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Talend applies SaaS to data integration Talend, an open source data integration software maker, unveiled a new service-based software product Monday, Talend On Demand, a service (SaaS) version of the company's Talend Open Studio product. June 18, 12:05 a.m. PDT EMC strikes first partnership with Indian outsourcer EMC Corp. will train more than 1,000 Wipro Ltd. staff in the use of its storage technologies as part of an alliance announced by the companies on Wednesday. June 13, 4:09 a.m. PDT Former Hitachi Data Systems chief to head up HP storage In its quest to re-energize its storage business, Hewlett-Packard has recruited the former president and CEO of storage rival Hitachi Data Systems (HDS). May 25, 2:22 p.m. PDT Cleversafe takes a slice out of storage Cleversafe's CEO Christopher Gladwin can't be accused of thinking small. "Our plan is to create a method for the world to store its data in the same way that the Internet is a method for the world to inter-network," is the way he puts it. May 21, 3:00 a.m. PDT 3Leaf Systems: Scale up by scaling out 3Leaf Systems co-founder and CEO Bob Quinn is a betting man. A veteran of startups specializing in event-driven architectures, network processing, and scalable SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) systems, Quinn is now wagering that hardware and software technology will turn heaps of AMD and Intel x64 servers into virtualized "warehouses" of compute, memory, and I/O resources. May 11, 3:00 a.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 Microsoft eyes datacenters in a box Fast, cheap and all over the place. That's how technology experts behind Microsoft's fast-growing Live offerings envision the future of the enterprise data center in a Web 2.0 driven world. April 18, 10:42 a.m. PDT Oracle has big ambitions for Application Express As Oracle Corp. debuted the latest release of Application Express on Monday, the company was already looking ahead to the next version of the free Web application development tool, which it hopes to make more attractive to nontechnical users. March 26, 8:28 a.m. PST Information on demand: the new enterprise goal Dr. Ambuj Goyal is one of IBM’s heavy hitters. A 25-year IBM veteran who joined the company as a researcher at the T. J. Watson Research Center, Goyal did early work in scalable databases that laid the technology groundwork for DB2, then led the research effort to create the Deep Blue chess computer. In 1996, Goyal was elevated to be vice president, servers and software, and director, computer sciences, where he set IBM’s long-term research direction and oversaw the work of 1,500 researchers worldwide. March 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Tech heavyweights tackle datacenter power shortage The IT industry's thirst for energy is growing exponentially, far outpacing the supply of reliable, clean power. Now a group of leading IT firms has banded together to try to head off an impending energy crisis in the datacenter. February 26, 7:00 a.m. PST Hackers target hole in BrightStor Anti-virus firm Symantec warned today that exploit code is circulating for a known security hole in Computer Associates' BrightStor ARCServe Backup software, which provides data backup and restore for a variety of operating systems including Windows, Netware, Linux, Unix, and Mac. February 2, 1:32 p.m. PST Fast offers search alternative to data warehouses Fast Search & Transfer has developed an enterprise search system that it says improves on the benefits of data warehouses while cutting down on implementation time, cost, and complexity. January 29, 2:58 p.m. PST HP continues to put software house in order In the midst of a companywide restructuring effort, Hewlett-Packard has taken the next step in an ongoing reorganization of its software operation. The vendor has established a new unit to bring together its business intelligence (BI) and information management expertise, which is currently spread out across the company. January 17, 4:24 a.m. PST Update: NCR to spin off Teradata NCR and its Teradata data warehousing division will separate into two publicly traded companies in a move designed to better focus their respective business strategies, NCR said Monday. January 8, 8:08 a.m. PST 2006 Year in Reviews: Storage In EMC’s march on the enterprise NAS market, two big feet fell this year in the form of the company’s Rainfinity (global file system) and Infoscape (file classification) releases, which we took for early spins in EMC’s labs. The year also brought a smooth rev of Windows Storage Server, a swell mid-range SAN from Compellent, and a slick tape library from Spectra Logic. December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST DOE: No need for regulation to curb energy use The U.S Department of Energy (DOE) is stressing incentives over regulations to improve the energy efficiency of datacenters. December 7, 4:42 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 Novell Zenworks aims to manage virtualization Novell is expanding its Zenworks software lineup to span from the desktop to the data center, unveiling three new products and an update to another tool. November 28, 4:13 p.m. PST Dems score with better data Behind every big success these days, there's probably some darned good IT making it happen. That appears to be the case in the surprising electoral victory by the Democratic Party last week. November 15, 6:17 a.m. PST 2006 InfoWorld 100 Awards: Insurance The Phoenix Companies www.phoenixwm.phl.com On-Demand CRM and Application Development Project Lead: John Caine, Director, Technology Strategy, Life Insurance Division Project Description: Integrated Salesforce with legacy systems and built new applications for unique business needs. These projects include integrating Salesforce with the company's J2EE Web platform and legacy applications in the underwriting process. Phoenix's data integration between Salesforce and legacy systems allows it to combine data and create reports on their customers that they previously never had. The integration uses the AppExchange APIs. November 13, 3:00 a.m. PST Allegheny County maps data to an array of services It takes more than technology to make some tech projects succeed. It requires diplomacy, dedication, perseverance, a willingness to embrace change, and the vision to come up with new ways to solve old problems. November 13, 3:00 a.m. PST 2006 InfoWorld 100 Awards: Manufacturing Pitney Bowes www.pitneybowes.com Data Loss Prevention Initiative Project Lead: Trevor Odell, Manager of Security Administration Project Description: To better safeguard customer and corporate data, Pitney Bowes turned to Vontu's suite of data loss prevention solutions. The security team at Pitney Bowes is using Vontu Monitor and Vontu Prevent to monitor and prevent the loss of sensitive information over network messaging protocols including secure Web traffic. Ownership of the initiative spread beyond IT into the business organizations, reducing risk and demonstrating regulatory compliance. November 13, 3:00 a.m. PST 2006 InfoWorld 100 Awards: Health Care Alamance Regional Medical Center (ARMC) www.armc.com Transforming Care With Computerized Physician Order Entry Project Lead: Terri Andrews, R.N. (MBA); Jesse Long, CIO Project Description: Implemented Sunrise Clinical Manager, an electronic health record solution that enables immediate, secure access to patient records, streamlines care processes, and provides sophisticated clinical documentation capabilities. November 13, 3:00 a.m. PST 2006 InfoWorld 100 Awards: Pharmaceuticals McKesson www.mckesson.com RFID Tracking for Pharmaceuticals Project Lead: Paul Fowler,Vice President of E-commerce and Emerging Technologies Project Description: Implemented RFID to track the shipments of certain high-value Pfizer and GSK drugs flowing through its facilities. McKesson leveraged Blue Vector's network appliances to connect to RFID readers and other sensors. The system made it easy to quickly build a large widely distributed system that can be centrally managed and integrated with other systems. November 13, 3:00 a.m. PST Oracle OpenWorld makes a splash It was crazy in San Francisco last week as a rumored 40,000 people swamped Oracle’s OpenWorld conference — the first time I’d ever seen a tech conference have the clout to shut down a whole city block and set up tents in the street. November 3, 3:00 a.m. PST Putting data to work for the bottom line Quick. When was the last time you remember being pleasantly surprised by how effectively a company used data about you to improve your customer experience? We all remember back in the ’90s the wow of going to an ATM and seeing our actual name on the screen for the first time. We all remember the first time we experienced collaborative filtering from an e-commerce site — “if you liked this, you may also like … .” October 27, 3:00 a.m. PDT Reopening the data mart The growing acceptance of the SOA approach to enterprise applications has reopened an old IT wound: the sorry state of data in most enterprises. In the 1990s, the data warehouse and the enterprise repository were trumpeted as the solution for getting the entire enterprise on the same page, but these systems quickly became unwieldy dumping grounds, much like the cavernous Indiana Jones warehouse in which the Ark of the Covenant was stored to keep it safely out of reach. October 23, 3:00 a.m. PDT IT by the book Can something that’s been kicking around for more than 15 years qualify as an overnight success? It certainly feels that way with ITIL, a collection of nine books that lays out a blueprint for IT service management. In the United States, at least, ITIL has recently catapulted itself from a respected, if somewhat obscure, treatise for governance geeks to a mainstream discipline. October 23, 3:00 a.m. PDT IBM unveils 'Hawk' as information integration server IBM Corp. has provided pricing details and a new name for its data integration technology formerly code-named "Hawk," which the vendor acquired through the 2005 US$1.1 billion purchase of Ascential. October 16, 1:21 p.m. PDT EMC moves on data management, security There was a time when EMC was considered a rather staid tech company in a boring, if profitable market: storage. No longer. With regulations bearing down on enterprises, EMC is now a major player in areas such as security and content management. 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 Oracle introduces clinical trial data collection tool Oracle Corp. unveiled a new interface to its electronic data capture software as part of the database and applications vendor's bid to gain more presence in the life sciences market. September 19, 9:09 a.m. PDT Accenture: Investments in analytical tools pay off Enterprises are increasingly investing in analytics technologies, such as customer relationship management, data warehousing and business intelligence software, and investments in these technologies are paying off, according to new market research released Monday by Accenture. July 31, 6:15 a.m. PDT EMC seeks “Vision Thing” with RSA Buy EMC CEO Joe Tucci likes to describe his company’s acquisition strategy as a “string of pearls” approach, focusing on small buys of top-notch technology: Documentum, VMware, Captiva. All together, those pearls add up to something that’s really valuable. July 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT US government agencies look to efficiently convert old data The future of U.S. government IT systems will include a big focus on converting old data into electronic form, two government IT leaders said Friday. June 16, 12:06 p.m. PDT Cedars-Sinai cures storage ills with clustered NAS If your job is a daily fight against time to save lives, the vagaries of a storage system should not get in your way. This is the problem that Dr. Parag Mallick faced at the Cedars-Sinai Center for Applied Molecular Medicine in Los Angeles, where he is the director of proteomics for the research division of the hospital. The solution Cedars-Sinai chose was clustered NAS. June 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT When plain NAS beats clustering If clustered NAS is the way to go, why do traditional NAS systems still account for the majority of deployments? June 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Verizon-NSA case puts companies on notice A shadowy “three letter” U.S. government agency calls your company and asks for copies of your private customer data ... the kind you don’t share with outsiders and can get sued for losing. The agency says it needs the data to track terrorists, but won’t get too specific about how. May 22, 3:00 a.m. PDT Symantec sorting out Veritas mega-merger Nearly a year after Symantec’s $13.5 billion merger with Veritas Software, customers of both companies got a view of the new face of Symantec at the company’s Vision 2006 user conference last week in San Francisco. May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT EMC's focus still on virtualization, security EMC continued its buying spree last week by picking up Kashya, maker of data replication and protection software, for $153 million, and the Interlink Group, a professional services firm that specializes in Microsoft environments. May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT New models, challenges for open source businesses An open source software company is something of a paradox. On the one hand, it has to convince customers that software is increasingly becoming commoditized, that proprietary software is limiting and expensive, and that standards-based, community-developed and -supported open source software is the way to go. On the other hand, an open source company has to persuade those same customers that they should pay it for the use of that same software. May 8, 3:00 a.m. PDT Business Objects launches data management tools Business Objects launched new tools for data federation and metadata management on Wednesday. Both tools are intended to improve the quality and consistency of information provided by business intelligence reporting systems by presenting data from multiple sources through a common interface. May 3, 4:25 a.m. PDT SOA vendors link up for interoperability A gaggle of vendors specializing in SOA (service-oriented architecture) said on Monday that they were joining forces to make it easier to get technology from different vendors to interoperate. May 2, 3:00 a.m. PDT EMC banking billions on ILM EMC Corp. is investing US$1.2 billion this year to develop and acquire technologies geared to help businesses share, protect, manage and secure data, said Chief Executive Officer and President Joe Tucci in his keynote address at the EMC World conference in Boston Monday. April 24, 10:12 a.m. PDT Microsoft to take on Google's Gdrive Microsoft is developing an online storage service seemingly aimed at Google's Gdrive, which is under development, say sources familiar with Microsoft's plans. April 20, 3:06 p.m. PDT SAP: U.S. the growth driver SAP AG was able to increase sales in the U.S. for the 14th consecutive quarter of double-digit growth as the world's largest maker of business software continued to sell more products to existing customers and nibble away at the customer base of rival Oracle Corp. April 20, 10:44 a.m. PDT Top six steps toward disaster-recovery I recently got to write a fun piece for InfoWorld called "Stupid user tricks" about protecting your network from human error. Researching the article revealed to me how many variables folks tend to miss when running a network, as well as when planning to protect and recover that network. (By the way, if you were one of the folks who submitted anecdotes for this article, check out the SMB IT blog to see whether you’re on the list for a free InfoWorld backpack.) April 13, 3:00 a.m. PDT Enterprises struggling with privacy management Enterprises are under increasing pressure to safeguard the privacy and security of personal data, but the complexity of the task is making it difficult to meet higher expectations, a Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) project manager said Tuesday. April 11, 9:40 a.m. PDT Novell steers Linux to the virtualized datacenter At Novell’s annual gathering of the faithful in Salt Lake City, the company had plenty of news to share, including a new mobile server for GroupWise based on Nokia Intellisync, upgrades to Novell’s SSO (single sign-on) and storage management software, road map information for OES (Open Enterprise Server), and a partnership with Dell, which soon offer an edition of Zenworks Linux Management to server hardware customers running Red Hat or Suse. March 24, 3:00 a.m. PST Metered Web services Amazon’s new simple storage service, S3, burst on the scene a few hours before I had to hop on a plane. There was enough time to sign up for an account, download and run some sample programs, snag the documentation, and take the pulse of the blogosphere. But now, Wi-Fi-less at 35,000 feet, I can’t connect my laptop to the S3 data cloud in order to try out some of the ideas it has sparked. Frustrating! March 22, 3:00 a.m. PST Electronic archiving allows multiple access Southwestern Ontario hospitals are projecting a better image among patients with a new digital imagery archiving system that proponents claim has generated huge dollar savings and improved service efficiency. March 9, 3:00 a.m. PST Product Previews Sand/DNA Digs Into Compressed Data Sand Technology this week updated its DNA (Dynamic Nearline Architecture) data management technology, which compresses data to about 10 percent of its original size and allows the stored data to be searched without being decompressed. Sand is integrating its Sand/DNA Analytics analytic data repository with its Sand/DNA Access storage archival product, and adding new features to both offerings. The integration allows end-users to pull information transparently from DNA Access and load it into DNA Analytics using standard business intelligence tools. This removes much of the time spent on data modeling, according to Sand officials. Sand also introduced Sand/DNA for SAP Business Warehouse, which allows users to move, store, and access highly compressed data from a nearline data repository. Sand/DNA Access and Analytics, Sand Technology February 20, 3:00 a.m. PST PartnerWorld: IBM to unveil Tivoli Express mid-March IBM Corp.'s Tivoli Software unit will unveil its Express family of systems management products aimed at small and midsize businesses (SMBs) in mid-March. February 17, 1:46 p.m. PST Symantec and Zantaz simplify large-scale backups Administrators often battle with end-users over the amount of space they use on mail and file servers. Users would like to keep everything they might need, while administrators would like to avoid buying more disks and upgrading servers to handle huge inboxes and home directories. February 16, 3:00 a.m. PST Symantec moving ahead with database appliance After beta testing its "Big Brother" database appliance with a handful of customers, Symantec Corp. is moving ahead with plans to bring the device to market. The Cupertino, California, company is also toying with the idea of selling the appliance's monitoring technology as a software product, according to a Symantec executive. February 10, 12:43 p.m. PST Clean house, clean data Before you build anything, you have to get your house in order -- ripping out the old, reorganizing and cleaning up what’s left. I know this firsthand: Right now I’m neck-deep in a house remodeling project that will ultimately transform my grungy old basement into a family room, home office, and bathroom. February 6, 3:00 a.m. PST Communications panel studies lessons of Katrina An independent panel to study the effects of Hurricane Katrina on communications networks, convened by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), met for the first time Monday. January 30, 2:10 p.m. PST Oracle fires back at security researcher Oracle Corp. and a security researcher are trading heated barbs over a vulnerability in the company's software that has gone unpatched since it was discovered in October. January 27, 10:08 a.m. PST Virtualized storage, real rewards As senior director of enterprise technology operations at Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), a prison management firm that handles more than 60 facilities, Brad Wood faces several challenges. His group manages approximately 100TB of data -- including inmate medical records, operational records, e-mail, and so forth -- across four Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) storage arrays in two datacenters. Because of federal and state rules, much of the company’s data is mirrored three or four times to keep it accessible in case of failure. Adding to the complexity, Wood buys his hardware based on current price and performance, so he has a mix of suppliers. January 12, 3:00 a.m. PST The last IT worker standing For most of the past 10 years I was a computer operations manager for the R&D department at an up-and-coming pharmaceutical company. Initially it was a small operation. But as time passed, we were gobbled up by bigger and bigger fish. Finally, last year, we were swallowed by a Great White Shark. My site was the most productive one in the entire company, but it was poorly located and expensive to expand or upgrade. The Shark decided to close it. January 10, 3:00 a.m. PST Document management systems go to court Two proposed amendments to the federal Rules of Civil Procedure, if passed by Congress, will have a major impact on corporations and their IT departments. One expert I spoke with called the situation a legal Chernobyl. December 27, 3:00 a.m. PST Oracle turns to Fortify to secure source code Startup source-code security technology developer Fortify Software Inc. scored a major triumph on Tuesday as Oracle Corp. announced plans to use Fortify's tools to seek out holes in Oracle's database and middleware software. December 20, 10:09 a.m. PST IBM deepens Alphablox integration with WebSphere IBM Corp. shipped the latest version of its Alphablox analytics software last week, adding deeper integration support for linking the software with its Rational Application Developer and WebSphere Portal Server products. December 19, 10:05 a.m. PST E-gov't underway in Macedonia with Microsoft help Macedonia and Microsoft Corp. announced Monday several e-government Web sites have opened as part of a two-year-old partnership agreement to enhance IT in the Eastern European country. December 19, 5:31 a.m. PST Tech reviews for the holidays Even IT takes a holiday now and then. Same goes for the InfoWorld staff, which chills out by taking a one-week break following the publication of this, our 51st and final issue of the year. December 19, 3:00 a.m. PST HP to consolidate data marts into single warehouse Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) plans to consolidate its 762 data marts around the world into a single enterprise data warehouse, according to the head of the company. The move is a way for HP to both get a better sense of its own business and how best to serve its customers. HP also intends to reduce its more than 85 data centers in 29 countries down to six global facilities. December 13, 7:50 a.m. PST Forrester index finds US tech sector healthy for now The U.S. technology industry has recovered from a recession of 2001 and 2002 and is about as healthy as it's been in three years, according to a new tech sector economic index released Monday. December 12, 9:49 a.m. PST Scaling your applications to 64-bit computing At Microsoft’s annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in April 2005, Bill Gates predicted that 64-bit hardware, operating systems, and software would “transform the way we work and play.” Systems using 64-bit processors would be mainstream by the end of 2006, he said, and 64-bit computing at the server level would happen more quickly than any other platform changeover in the past. December 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Zimbra breaks the mail server mold Your typical mail-contacts-calendaring system is about as well-integrated as blocks of wood nailed to a bowling ball, but the Zimbra Collaboration Suite is different. An open source collaboration server now in Beta 2, Zimbra truly behaves like a single application. A commercial edition also in the works adds features that should please enterprise admins. November 28, 3:00 a.m. PST Is it time to scrap your Big Iron? See correction at end of article November 17, 3:00 a.m. PST Data hubs target top line growth With data integration and master data hubs now seen as a high-level enterprise investment, enterprise software vendors are extending their feature set to include both technologies. October 31, 5:00 a.m. PST IBM leads charge for open source storage IBM and eight other storage vendors are teaming up to form an open source organization called Aperi. The companies intend to work together to develop common storage software to manage multiple vendors' systems, making it easier for users dealing with disparate storage systems. The software will be made available free of charge. October 31, 3:00 a.m. PST Are CIOs headed for extinction? Is the CIO a dinosaur? Will it be an extinct position in a few short years? Merial, a large animal health care enterprise co-owned by Merck and sanofi-aventis, believes so; in fact, it's already buried the title. I spoke with Steve Lerner, IS director at Merial, about what led to its decision to eliminate the CIO position. The answer, in short, is Sarbanes-Oxley. October 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT HP to resell Mendocino's backup software Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has entered into an agreement with Mendocino Software Inc. to resell its RecoveryOne software as part of HP's storage management software lineup, the companies announced Monday at the HP Technology Forum 2005. October 17, 2:09 p.m. PDT Mastering data comes at a price It’s all about the data. IDC this month is reporting that the market for “master data management” solutions is growing at a fast 13.8 percent annually, and should reach $10.4 billion by 2009. Is that a lot? Well, it turns out that $10 billion is also the total value of razors and blades sold globally, according to a recent article in CNN/Money. October 14, 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 IAnywhere readies 'Jasper' database IAnywhere Solutions Inc. plans to offer the first details on Monday about the next big upgrade to its SQL Anywhere mobile database software, and said developers can register now to try out the beta. August 21, 9:04 p.m. PDT Seeing the future with BI Patterns gleaned from the past should always inform planning for the future. In most enterprises, though, there’s been a serious disconnect. August 18, 4:00 a.m. PDT Security expert: More developer education needed Software vendors need to create comprehensive security education programs for their programmers in order to deliver more security software products to their customers, an Oracle Corp. security expert said Thursday. August 11, 11:28 a.m. PDT The real returns of RFID Despite the hype associated with RFID, when you hear success stories from a very large organization, you have to believe there really is something there. August 9, 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 > Applications > Databases > Data management > Databases > Data management > Platforms > Databases > Storage > Databases |
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
