Disaster recovery planning is on just about every company's to-do list these days. Prompted a few years ago by 9/11, spurred by new regulatory requirements and amped up by images of hurricane-ravaged coastal communities on the 11:00 news, a lot of organizations have implemented disaster planning and assessment projects. But planning for trouble is one thing, says Jim Sangster, director of marketing for Sun Microsystems' Cluster and N1 products, putting those plans into action is another.
Things that worry Java development managers who oversee teams of five or more developers are code quality and the inability to minimize bugs before code is released. That’s the upshot of a survey released this week by Clear Horizons, a technology research company.
A survey on mobile security released on Monday by Good Technology, a handheld computing software and service provider, suggests enterprises are seeking new ways to address handheld device and security management.
In its latest IT management tip, Evergreen Systems, an IT technology and process consulting firm, advises IT departments to take the lead in mapping business audit standards to IT operations.
Identity Engines on Monday introduced an enterprise-grade platform designed to deliver highly reliable, centrally-managed network identity management services.
Seapine Software announced last week the availability of TestTrack Pro 7.5, a new version of the defect tracking and issue management software, featuring cross-platform user and administrator clients, full Unicode character support and expanded workflow functionality.
TDWI’s Fall Conference kicked off on Monday with a keynote presentation on performance dashboards, delivered by research and services director, Wayne Eckerson.
Red Hat said on Tuesday it plans to focus on reducing IT infrastructure costs for customers in 2006 and 2007. Enterprise savings will come from developer enablement, virtualization and stateless Linux because they increase organizational efficiency and agility, according to the company.
Deloitte Consulting, a professional services organizations, and iRise, an app definition software and services company, announced on Tuesday that they have signed a new alliance agreement. The alliance aims to help clients reduce the cost and effort associated with software development projects, while helping improve the effectiveness of these initiatives, the two companies say.
What's the biggest stumbling block for the Symbian device OS? According to D’arcy Salzmann, senior product and tools partners manager at Nokia, it's the lack of a coherent tools story.
IT pros can expect starting salaries in 2006 to increase an average of 3 percent over 2005, according to the just-released Robert Half Technology 2006 Salary Guide.
The next time you feel like complaining about your software management challenges, consider Don Rasure's problem: Much of the software he looks after is in space.
LogicLibrary and AgilePath announced on Monday that the two companies will incorporate AgilePath’s SOA Playbook methodology into Logidex’s metadata repository. The combined offering is intended to be an out-of-the-box solution for service identification and modeling combined with SOA governance and enablement.
The word “consolidation” summons visions of cost savings and operational efficiencies that leave enterprise execs salivating over their balance sheets. Industry analysts report that between 60 and 80 percent of IT departments are pursuing server consolidation projects.
When Dr. Gautam Shroff met CollabNet cofounder Brian Bellendorf in 2003, Shroff's company, Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS), was in the market for tools to help with internal management of its increasingly distributed software development activities. Neither expected the meeting to turn into a partnership.
Sun Microsystems on Monday said it has integrated Java Enterprise Systems (Java ES) and its suite of developer tools within the Solaris OS to provide developers a complete, open and affordable software solution.
Systinet announced on Monday the release of version 6.0 of its Systinet Server product family for creating Java and C++ Web services.
A group of storage-industry leaders that includes IBM, Cisco Systems, Computer Associates and Sun Microsystems disclosed this week plans to form a new open-source community to build a common platform for managing all brands of storage systems.
Computer Associates is set to port its Unicenter Database Management System to Sun Microsystems' Solaris 10 operating system, supporting both Oracle and IBM databases. CA also plans to make its BrightStor storage management solutions available on the OS.
Lots of people talk about the growing success of open-source software, says Winston Damarillo, but few recognize that much of that success comes from technical underpinnings that make open source work.