Akamai recently announced the availability of its Dynamic Site Solutions, a suite designed to accelerate B2C sites that integrate AJAX and other Web 2.0 technologies. The company claims its customers will see a five-times increase in Web performance and not have to add hardware.
Google's steady march into the applications business has serious long-term implications for developers and IT managers on the way software will be delivered in the not-to-distant future.
This summer AOL plans to add two tools to its repertoire to provide users with firewall, antivirus and antispyware security—tools that will likely rival similar products from Symantec, McAfee and Microsoft.
Ounce 4.0—built on the company’s source code analysis engine and security knowledgebase—marks the industry’s only enterprise-level architecture for software security assurance.
A new version of Mainsoft’s Visual MainWin for J2EE, Portal Edition provides end users with the ability to intermingle ASP.NET and Java apps within Web portals.
The latest version of Altova’s XML tools suite adds features such as CSS support in StyleVision, hyperlinked error messaging in XMLSpy, and Visual Studio and Eclipse integration for MapForce.
The IT security landscape is about to be hit with a potentially devastating seismic shift: the convergence of phishing e-mails and spyware that could take the bad guys to a whole new level.
SOA Software and Parasoft are partnering to offer an integrated governance and testing suite for service-oriented architectures that will allow end users to combine Web services management and error refactoring for SOA and Web service-based apps.
Vista’s arrival will shake up the $3.6 billion Windows security market, according to Yankee Group. With more security built into Microsoft’s next operating system, many enterprises will jettison at least some of the third-party Windows security products they use, to save money and management time. What are the implications for IT managers?
Service-oriented architectures are expected to have a stronghold over future apps but those implementing the integration process today continue to encounter uncertainties from the corporate world.
Many companies moving towards SOA and legacy integration may not be prepared to deal with the disconnect between the mainframe and other developers responsible for the enterprise architecture. Overstaffing and stratification of roles can create an information Tower of Babel, with different languages, redundant apps, and overly complex interfaces.
What impacted the Java community most this year? See who the JCP recognized as outstanding innovators in its fourth annual awards.
Symantec security came under scrutiny this week after researchers exposed a flaw in the antivirus software’s latest versions. Experts say the security flaw makes the software susceptible to a debilitating worm attack that could put users at the mercy of remote hackers.
Google’s OneBox Enterprise ecosystem picked up two more BI heavyweights last week, as both Business Objects and Information Builders announced OneBox-ready modules.
A newly discovered vulnerability in Microsoft Word XP and Word 2003 allows malicious hackers to mount Trojan-based attacks through e-mail attachments, establishing a backdoor that allows them to control compromised Windows PCs.
Symantec has asked a U.S. court to block the further development, sale or distribution of Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista operating system, claiming that the Redmond, Wash., software maker is wrongfully incorporating storage technology that it owns into the next-generation OS.
CA officials are touting the first fruits of the Niku acquisition—in this case, the integration of Niku’s Clarity portfolio and project management assets with its existing service desk and software lifecycle management solution stack.
We have yet to agree on a sharp-edged definition of "Web 2.0," but many of the technologies coalescing around this loosely defined, hyper-hyped buzzword—everything from Web services, the Ajax Web development technique, and service syndication, to wikis, tags, podcasts, and even blogs—should begin figuring into every IT leader's business strategy.
In fact, say Gartner analysts, all revenue-generating channels should be operating in a Web 2.0 architecture by 2008.
Headline-grabbing news at the 11th annual JavaOne developer conference, which wrapped up on Friday, was CEO Jonathan Schwartz's announcement that Sun Microsystems would release its industry-standard Java programming language under an open-source license—eventually.
Another attention grabber was Sun's new Operating System Distributor's License for Java that allows Linux and OpenSolaris distros to repackage JDK binary bits as appropriate for those open-source operating system platforms.
Sun Microsystems honored the winners of its 4th annual Duke's Choice Awards last week at the JavaOne conference. The awards are given to the most innovative Java-based apps of the year. The contest attracts a wide range of submissions from developers and companies around the world. The winners are selected by James Gosling, VP and Sun fellow, along with a panel of Java technology experts at Sun.