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IT trainer offers master's degree for hackers In an effort to produce the next generation of chief security officers and IT systems defense experts, an online training company is offering a new master's degree program in security science. Infrastructure threats: Botnets show DoS who's boss Malware-infected botnet PCs have overtaken DoS attacks as the top security issue facing Internet service providers and other Web infrastructure hosting players, according to a new survey of the organizations.  September 18, 3:54 a.m. PDT Intel's vPro chips in more security for businesses With the introduction of its latest vPro microprocessors on Monday, Intel contends it is injecting a heavy dose of new security capabilities for the benefit of business customers and third-party technology providers alike. August 27, 8:00 a.m. PDT SMB technology: Replacing in-house software with applications in the cloud In the near future, there's only one way to go for SMBs when it comes to purchasing business software -- and that's out of house. Whether it's full-on SaaS (software as a service), where users access all facets of the application through a browser, or a hosted product (including hosted Exchange, where only the server component is off-site and users employ a standard desktop client such as Outlook), either model is simply too cost-effective for SMBs to ignore. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Processors: Dividing chips into many virtual cores The current approach taken by x86 CPUs -- to stuff as many processor cores and as much cache memory as will fit on one chip -- will prove impossible to scale beyond a certain point. And adding more, big, hot processor cores may not be the best fit for server roles that call for managing large workloads over long periods of time. August 20, 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 Apps security to dominate Black Hat Black Hat kicks off this week in Las Vegas with a big shift in focus from Internet viruses to application security. July 31, 3:00 a.m. PDT Companies open wallets for secure data An annual VanDyke Software-sponsored survey of IT network and systems administrators finds that businesses have increased their spending on secure data communications technologies and also have undertaken significant work to improve their internal processes to benefit security. May 22, 11:42 a.m. PDT Octopz grabs on to Web collaboration Nobody's sure exactly how it is that social networks like MySpace and Facebook are really going to make money for their corporate masters. But one thing people have figured out is that online social networks are great mediums for people to share ideas and collaborate. Now one startup, Octopz, is hoping to apply that logic to the topsy-turvy community of creative professionals. In the process, the company is making a splash in the ocean of Internet collaboration hopefuls. May 19, 3:05 a.m. PDT Microsoft-Yahoo deal still worth doing When Sun Chairman and then-CEO Scott McNealy first heard about the HP/Compaq merger in 2001, he likened it to ‘two garbage trucks colliding with each other.’ Some analysts see the rumored Microsoft-Yahoo discussions in the same light: an act of desperation by two lumbering incumbents that are falling further behind Google each day. May 7, 9:50 a.m. PDT oDesk: job search meets the online exchange Back in the day, dot-com marketplaces -- virtual bazaars where buyers and sellers could shop, haggle, and conduct business -- were all the rage. (Remember eCattle.com, the online exchange for livestock?) Most of those environments went down with the bursting of the Internet bubble, but that doesn't mean the idea of online exchanges wasn't a good one --just that it needed time to mature. May 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT Making sense of Websense's SurfControl buyout Websense's $400 million buyout offer for rival network filtering specialist SurfControl should help position the two companies for short-term growth and possible acquisition in the future, according to market watchers. May 1, 11:27 a.m. PDT Innovation, startups hot again in the enterprise Five years ago enterprise startups hit the skids, stung by a perfect storm of commoditization, vendor consolidation, and the IT spending downturn. In the intervening years, however, the skies have cleared and, to paraphrase Ronald Regan, "It's morning again for enterprise startups." May 1, 7:00 a.m. PDT VeriSign to increase .com, .net domain fees VeriSign is planning to raise the wholesale cost of registering a .com or .net domain name in October to generate more money for infrastructure improvements, the company announced on Thursday. April 5, 2:28 p.m. PDT ShmooCon hacker event gets under way The third annual ShmooCon convention kicked off in Washington, D.C., on March 23 and will run throughout the weekend with a series of lectures and presentations covering a wide range of enterprise security issues. March 23, 2:12 p.m. PST Train more workers, say IT industry leaders IT companies are finding it harder to recruit skilled workers, and government and industry alike must take action to restore the balance. That was the message from industry and government leaders at the opening ceremony of CeBIT, the world's largest IT trade show, in Hanover, Germany, on Wednesday night. March 14, 1:47 p.m. PST 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 Women in technology: A call to action A quick scan of almost any IT department -- from the trenches to the corner office -- confirms it: Women who embrace technology as a lifelong career remain a rare breed. To be sure, opportunity for women in technology has advanced in the past few decades, as have education initiatives aimed at leveling the playing field, but for every woman rising to prominence or embarking on a profession in IT, there seems to be another opting out of her career in technology. January 29, 3:03 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 The smart business of diversity Carly Fiorina served as CEO of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005, the first woman to run a Fortune 20 company. After she was ousted, along with a $21 million exit package, Fiorina did what a lot of us would do if we had millions of dollars in the bank and some time on our hands: She wrote a book. In Tough Choices, published in October, Fiorina talks about rising to the top of a male-dominated culture. Fiorina spoke with InfoWorld correspondent Carmen Nobel for our upcoming feature on the issues women face in IT. January 22, 3:00 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 Microsoft tech support swoons, Google promises the moon Cringefan and computer science prof. Georges M. was trying to set up a Web site using Office Live Basics when his home page got corrupted. So he bravely contacted Microsoft support. He got back an e-mail asking him to answer 15 questions, try 26 troubleshooting steps, and let Microsoft lock him out of his account for four days while techies investigated the problem. The reply also contained this gem: “Only Content controls are allowed directly in a content page that contains Content controls.” Meanwhile, reader Seval G. posted a question to Microsoft’s Live QnA Beta site asking, “Why is Microsoft tech support so horrible?” He’s still waiting for an answer. So are the rest of us. December 29, 3:00 a.m. PST Update: Santa's Web site hacked With Christmas fast approaching, Santa Claus reached out for a little help from Stopbadware.org this week. December 22, 9:39 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 MIT will train students to build a better Web A group of professors has formed a research collaboration to train students how to design future versions of the World Wide Web. November 2, 11:24 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 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 IT laughs at itself A British TV show has taken the best and worst of IT administrator stereotypes and packed them into a clever, side-splitting comedy. August 9, 4:16 p.m. PDT InfoWorld CTO 25 The top technology slot in the enterprise has changed. Once, forward-looking CTOs and CIOs scanned the horizon for new technologies that would improve the lot of IT. Today, as many of this year’s top 25 CTOs can tell you, technology leaders must also focus on understanding the business goals of the enterprise -- and then craft technology strategies to meet those objectives. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Zimbra's Web-based platform takes aim at conventional e-mail Managing a high-volume e-mail system using traditional tools can be a demanding and costly task. That’s why Zimbra wants to rewrite the book on enterprise messaging. “It’s a clean-slate view of the world,” says CEO Satish Dharmaraj. 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 Google: We build for enterprise end user Building tools for users teaches Google how to make a better enterprise search product, the head of the company's enterprise unit told Interop attendees in a keynote address Wednesday in Las Vegas. May 3, 1:48 p.m. PDT Orbitz gets up and running fast with open source When Orbitz launched its online travel site in June 2001, it had two well-entrenched competitors: Travelocity and Expedia. Orbitz's goal was to offer something better, quickly. April 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT eFashion Solutions seeks agility, not do-it-yourself To deliver branded e-commerce sites for customers such as JLO by Jennifer Lopez, Members Only, and OP, eFashion Solutions wanted a platform it could easily customize and enhance, without being chained to custom, homegrown code. Open source was the answer, says Mitch Pirtle, the company’s director of open source initiatives. April 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT ICANN's 3-year plan under scrutiny at meeting The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is seeking to refine its master plan for the next three years at its international meeting in Wellington, New Zealand, ICANN Chief Executive Officer and President Paul Twomey said Monday. March 27, 2:01 p.m. PST AOL patches serious Winamp bug Users of America Online Inc.'s Winamp 5.12 media player are being told to upgrade their software following the release of malicious code that could be used to take over a Winamp user's system. January 30, 3:07 p.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 Silicon Valley group pushes for local wireless network The region that spawned the microprocessor and helped wire the world now wants to unwire itself with the help of local chip giant Intel Corp. January 30, 12:01 p.m. PST State CIOs need more IT security support from DHS The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must improve its support for U.S. state and local governments so they can better protect their IT infrastructures from attackers, two organizations of top IT officials said Wednesday. January 25, 2:57 p.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 Google News emerges from beta with new features Google Inc. has added new search-based features to its news site, which on Monday emerged from beta testing more than three years after its introduction, according to a company spokeswoman. January 23, 3:44 p.m. PST Microsoft hopes to MIX in with Web designers With a new conference slated for March, Microsoft Corp. will attempt to woo a developer segment that's traditionally been a hard sell -- creative types who build and design multimedia Web applications. January 20, 12:19 p.m. PST Microsoft offers free 'Elixir' for unified CRM GUI Microsoft Corp. Monday made available free code samples and technical information for a project the company undertook to make its Outlook client the centralized GUI (graphical user interface) for its in-house CRM (customer relationship management) applications. January 9, 11:55 a.m. PST 2006 Technology of the Year Awards: The winners' list See correction at end of article January 2, 3:00 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 Do-it-yourself software services? If you’re a regular reader of my column, you know that I’ve been looking closely at the pluses and minuses of the SaaS (software as a service) model recently. SaaS solutions let you easily deploy standard functionality across a wide spectrum of users cheaply, as opposed to best-of-breed, on-premises applications, which cost more but offer product and competitive differentiation. December 13, 3:00 a.m. PST WSIS - Net governance: Will anything change? Let's call it a clash of cultures: engineers who know the Internet inside out on the one side and government policy makers grappling to understand it on the other. November 23, 8:04 a.m. PST Toward swappable Web services Walt Johnson is an IT planner at California Independent System Operator (CalISO), the not-for-profit operator of the state’s wholesale power grid. I met him at InfoWorld’s SOA Executive Forum last week, where he described CalISO’s transition to service-oriented architecture. November 16, 3:00 a.m. PST New processes for Thomson Prometric "The biggest challenge we've faced in creating an SOA has been identifying exactly what a service is," says Christopher Crowhurst, vice president and chief architect at Thomson Learning. "Understanding what the business is doing, converting that to a set of services, and working out how to expose those services in a granular, extensible way so that you're not constantly breaking consumers' interfaces -- we learned that many people just can't do it." November 7, 3:00 a.m. PST Putting AJAX to work It's easy to see why AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) has captured the imaginations of so many Web developers. For the first time, browser-based UIs are rich and full-featured enough to do away with so-called thick-client desktop applications. October 17, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft adapting to Web platform, execs say As the Web increasingly becomes a platform for creating, distributing, and running applications, bypassing a role often played by Windows, Microsoft is adapting to the change and sees opportunities, not threats, Microsoft executives said Wednesday at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. October 6, 4:16 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 That Aha! moment You gotta love Greg Raleigh’s attitude. The man who invented the technology behind the forthcoming 802.11n Wi-Fi standard insists that solving problems is easy. The real challenge, he says, is “deciding what problems are interesting to solve.” August 1, 5:00 a.m. PDT Sonic’s ESB takes new approach to fail-over If the SOA movement had an official flag, on that flag would be a diagram of an ESB (enterprise service bus) — an open and distributed integration platform that provides interfaces to a wide variety of systems and applications and ensures reliable messaging among them. And if you dotted the flag with the logos of leading SOA vendors, Sonic Software’s would surely have to stand out from the rest. August 1, 5:00 a.m. PDT Starwood nears end of SOA revamp Every major enterprise applications vendor has hopped on the SOA (services-oriented architecture) bandwagon and extolled the virtues of using standards-compliant software to expose business processes as Web services, reducing the pain of integrating heterogeneous systems. But for customers, implementing an SOA environment in their own data centers can be a complex and lengthy process. One chief technology officer nearing the end of a five-year SOA project says the results, though a long time coming, are worth it. July 20, 10:40 a.m. PDT Glitches delay international Mozilla releases International users waiting for a number of recent security fixes to appear in The Mozilla Foundation's browser and e-mail client will have to wait a bit longer, Foundation representatives said Monday. The delay is being caused by a number of software glitches that were introduced in last week's release of English-language versions of Mozilla's Firefox Browser and Thunderbird e-mail client, they said. July 18, 3:27 p.m. PDT Netli accelerates Web services Netli on Monday rolled out a new service designed to speed the delivery of Web-services traffic over the Internet. July 18, 2:34 p.m. PDT Microsoft patches critical bugs in IE, Windows Microsoft released 10 security patches, including three deemed "critical," for bugs in a variety of the company's products. Released Tuesday as part of the company's monthly updates, the critical patches repair flaws in Windows and Internet Explorer that could allow attackers to take complete control of a computer, Microsoft said. June 14, 2:51 p.m. PDT Firefox reintroduces 7-year-old security flaw June 7, 6:39 a.m. PDT The looming threat of pharming Security experts call it the soft underbelly of the Internet, and hackers, having drawn first blood, are ripping at it with new enthusiasm. June 6, 5:00 a.m. PDT SOA styles Infoworld’s first SOA Executive Forum rolled out in San Jose, Calif. two weeks ago. This week we held the second installment in New York. At both events it was my privilege to engage some of the industry’s brightest minds in a series of conversations about SOA, and I’d like to thank everyone who participated. May 25, 5:00 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 Microsoft updates Web hosting tools Microsoft is continuing to build out its Web hosting products, offering service providers new tools Tuesday to integrate Windows-based applications into their sites and help improve site management. May 17, 4:56 a.m. PDT W3C gets proactive with Mobile Web Initiative The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) formally launched the Mobile Web Initiative at its WWW2005 Conference in Chiba, Japan, on Wednesday, putting out a call for participants to join two working groups focused on making Web access from mobile devices as natural and easy as making a telephone call. May 11, 5:18 a.m. PDT The great business process handoff During the past 15 years, standards such as Java, Windows, and TCP/IP have made it much easier to outsource various aspects of IT, spawning a huge IT outsourcing industry. But that trend may pale in comparison to the next outsourcing wave: BPO (business-process outsourcing). May 9, 5:00 a.m. PDT SOA panelists say corporate IT culture delays deployment SAN JOSE, Calif. -- At the InfoWorld SOA Executive Forum on Thursday, the last session of the day entitled "SOA -- Reality Check" had a panel made up of IT managers with hands-on experience in deploying service-oriented architectures. May 6, 5:00 a.m. PDT SOA drives compliance, open services opportunities San Jose, Calif. -- SOAs are creating opportunities for enterprises grappling with regulatory compliance challenges and seeking creative data sharing with key partners and customers, according to a group of IT executives speaking during a panel discussion here at the InfoWorld SOA Executive Forum. May 5, 5:06 p.m. PDT Paving the information footpaths I’m sure there are dozens of versions of this story, but I heard it from Larry Wall, the father of Perl, and it goes like this: Instead of laying down sidewalks, the builders of a new university campus waited for footpaths to emerge on the lawns. Then they paved the footpaths. Larry designed Perl around this idea of structure emerging from use, but that was an unusual case. We typically lay down the sidewalks first, and when footpaths emerge we profess surprise or try to ignore them. May 4, 5:00 a.m. PDT Akamai service speeds apps Akamai Technologies this week will roll out a new managed service designed to bump up the performance and scalability of Web applications. May 2, 5:00 a.m. PDT The LAMP alternative to J2EE or .Net When you think of enterprise web applications, it’s only natural to think of J2EE and .Net. After all, these are the technologies most developers choose when implementing mission-critical apps. But as Friendster found out, the open source LAMP platform is a mature alternative that has a lot to offer, particularly for projects on a tight budget. April 4, 6:00 a.m. PDT The consultant's view Steve Manzuik is an independent IT security consultant. March 28, 6:00 a.m. PST The CTO's perspective Kevin Bernstein is CTO of platinum capital group. March 28, 6:00 a.m. PST Novell debuts ZENworks for Linux Novell on Friday at the CeBit show took the wraps off its Linux-based management system, emphasizing its lifecycle management capabilities, which are intended to lower the overall costs of an IT operation. March 11, 11:00 a.m. PST Patrick Grady's calculated debut How did Patrick Grady manage to build his service when others have failed? How did he draw in big-name customers? In addition to his forceful personality, 10 years in high-tech venture capital gave him extraordinary access. In the early development phase, for example, senior technologists from Ariba, BEA, BellSouth, CommerceOne, Genesys Labs, Palm, and Sun got together once a week to advise him on architecture. That lends some credibility to Grady’s claim that his platform will become “the global de facto standard for how you describe and discover and deliver and transact for services.” February 28, 6:00 a.m. PST Infinite demand loops Given that so much of publishing -- here, as elsewhere -- takes place on the Internet, many at InfoWorld have read with great interest Test Center Contributing Editor Mike Heck’s comparison of four leading Web analytics solutions (see “Chart your Web site's success”). February 18, 3:00 p.m. PST Venafi releases digital certificate manager Venafi today introduced AutoCert Manager, a digital certificate management program designed to maintain the security and scalability of e-business operations. February 7, 9:36 a.m. PST Symphoniq launches Web app performance tools Symphoniq on Monday rolled out a set of Web application performance monitoring tools designed to leverage real user experience to track and manage Web-based applications. January 31, 3:54 p.m. PST McAfee tool identifies exposed data Recognizing that Google’s search engine can become a repository for far too much information, McAfee this week released an updated version of its Foundstone SiteDigger security tool that helps enterprises identify damaging information that may be exposed on the Web. January 10, 5:00 a.m. PST IBM opens on demand tech center Hoping literally to bring users more in touch with its on demand technologies, IBM on Monday announced the opening of a new technology center in Gaithersburg, Md., to help users implement a number of different orchestration and provisioning capabilities. November 29, 6:00 a.m. PST On-demand apps demand a richer browser Can the browser meet the demands of on-demand? On-demand apps are by definition Web apps. That won’t come as a shock to enterprises because most of the latest internally deployed enterprise apps — besides a few client/server holdouts — already rely on the browser to deliver user experience. November 26, 3:00 p.m. PST The top 20 IT mistakes to avoid We all like to think we learn from mistakes, whether our own or others’. So in theory, the more serious bloopers you know about, the less likely you are to be under the bright light of interrogation, explaining how you managed to screw up big-time. That’s why we put out an all-points bulletin to IT managers and vendors everywhere: For the good of humanity, tell us about the gotchas that have gotten you, so others can avoid them. November 19, 3:00 p.m. PST Panel: Gov't can't mandate security WASHINGTON - Now is not the time for the U.S. government to mandate cybersecurity standards to private industry, despite significant threats and a lack of understanding by many company executives. So concluded a panel of government officials that met to discuss the issue in September. November 15, 12:38 p.m. PST Content networks deliver on-demand apps Once limited to Web content and images, content delivery network providers are shifting focus to tackle the on-demand delivery of distributed applications. To that end, Akamai Technologies this week plans to introduce four J2EE-based Web applications that enterprises can deploy quickly without purchasing any hardware or fixed assets. Meanwhile, Speedera Networks next week will launch its FlexComputing service for distributed application hosting and delivery. October 18, 6:00 a.m. PDT AOL to have desktop searching in new browser America Online will have a desktop search capability in a new browser the company is now beta-testing, an AOL spokeswoman said Friday. October 15, 2:04 p.m. PDT CA to name CEO in 30 to 45 days Computer Associates International Inc. (CA) expects to fill its chief executive officer (CEO) vacancy within the next 30 to 45 days, the company said Friday. October 1, 1:24 p.m. PDT Offshoring: More fret than threat? This year's survey participants cite a wide range of projects underway and a broad set of challenges facing them in the coming year. But there is one area that our respondents clearly aren't too concerned about, despite the persistent news buzz: offshore outsourcing of application development projects. September 24, 3:00 p.m. PDT ECM wares seize control of records creation, management Under the shadow of government regulations IT must comply with, a host of ECM (enterprise content management) vendors are blending previously stand-alone RM (records management) capabilities into their CM and compliance recipes. August 23, 6:00 a.m. PDT The shaky state of enterprise security Faced with a seemingly endless onslaught of virulent Internet worms, spam, and e-mail scams, less than half of IT professionals report strong confidence in the security of their enterprise networks, according to the results of the 2004 InfoWorld Security Survey. July 23, 3:00 p.m. PDT Patrolling an always-on network Butch Johnstone looks back at the past year with a mixture of pride and concern when it comes to the issue of enterprise security. July 23, 3:00 p.m. PDT Security: It's time for management to get a clue It’s easy for people to say that they’re extremely or very confident that their IT department’s security is up to par, and it’s even easier for executives to become convinced of a company’s invulnerability to computer-borne attacks. Even though our respondents were no more confident than they were last year, they still seem to be convincing management they know what they’re doing. July 23, 3:00 p.m. PDT Google offers to rev up sites with two new services Google Inc. unwrapped two new search services for Web site publishers on Friday, promising to help them increase traffic and revenue from their sites, while extending the search giant's own reach in the online ad market. June 21, 5:09 a.m. PDT The Google PC generation The Google supercomputer is changing how we think about Internet-scale software. June 18, 3:00 p.m. PDT WebSideStory files for $57.5 million IPO Web site analytics company WebSideStory Inc. added its name Thursday to the growing list of tech companies planning to go public, filing registration papers to raise up to $57.5 million through an IPO (initial public offering). May 27, 12:25 p.m. PDT Feds jump online integration hurdles Can services-oriented architectures help government agencies provide better self-service? In the race to provide online government self-service, integration is one of the biggest roadblocks. Most governments are heavily invested in custom legacy applications. Linking Web-based self-service applications to those systems is difficult for any organization, but for government agencies, the problem is compounded. May 14, 3:00 p.m. PDT Government veers onto the Web Imagine if dealing with the government online were as easy as dealing with Amazon, Dell, or Southwest Airlines. Want a building permit? No problem. Have to track a benefits check? Just a few clicks. May 14, 3:00 p.m. PDT Miami’s self-service push is ‘never-ending’ There’s no huge secret behind one of the most innovative government self-service portals, miamidade.gov. “A lot of analysis and homework,” says Miami-Dade County Senior Web Developer and County Webmaster Assia Alexandrova, referring to the ongoing effort to bring county services online in an integrated, easy-to-use fashion. “It’s still not enough,” she says. “It’s never-ending.” May 14, 3:00 p.m. PDT Netli bolsters application delivery Netli this week enhanced its application delivery network services with the addition of performance monitoring and business continuity services. May 7, 3:06 p.m. PDT Report: Other nations doing more to combat piracy WASHINGTON - Many U.S. trading partners are taking significant steps to improve protection of intellectual property, including software, but several nations still need to combat piracy and counterfeiting, according to a report released Monday by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). May 4, 3:30 p.m. PDT > Applications > Internet applications > Applications > Security > Web services |
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