Application Trends

The reality of virtualization

Category: Transform

As the business world catches on to virtualization, its value beyond hardware consolidation may surprise enterprise users.

The SOA-wise enterprise

Category: Integrate

All the fanfare about service-oriented architectures falls short when IT teams still learn the hard way on these projects. Best practices are emerging, but some analysts say it's too soon to rely on early lessons.

New ways to police the enterprise

Category: Special Report

More important than ever, intrusion detection and prevention systems offer new ways to reduce data overload and false alarms.

Options on demand

Category: Manage

Enterprises use utility computing, Software-as-a-Service and other on-demand models to ply new markets, serve customers and use IT resources more efficiently.

Application security comes under attack

Category: Integrate

There's a renewed focus on application security, but experts say most enterprises still don't have a handle on how to go about fortifying their apps. That's partly because getting control of the app-dev lifecycle to add security measures is just plain tough.

Show-Me State first to integrate with Global Justice XML Data Model

Category: DE-CODER

Although Missouri's initiative to integrate its court systems is still underway, the show-me state is probably ahead of the national curve based on the sheer scale of its XML data exchange project.

Developing Linux for the desktop market

Category: DE-CODER

Bits & Bytes

Category: DE-CODER

Virtualization, security and other best practices

Category: Opinions