CIOs are smitten with legacy apps again, but keeping decades-old behemoths running is extremely costly. IT departments rely on application portfolio management tools to ease this burden, so sales for APM tools skyrocketed 280 percent in 2004, according to a recent Forrester Research study.
Because service-oriented architecture is catching the eye of CEOs and other senior executives, mainframe pros should expect to have SOA plans ready to go.
Most businesses have tackled viruses, hammering best practices into their users and implementing anti-virus software. However, these same enterprises and their users still don’t realize spyware’s potential damage, according to a session at a recent SHARE user conference in Boston.
At the Sybase Techwave 2005 Conference this week, Sybase unveiled the beta versions of PowerBuilder 10.5, PowerDesigner 12, PocketBuilder 2.0.3 and DataWindow .NET 2.0, which it says will enable developers to rapidly design, develop and deploy apps.
The tech industry is on a new "performance per watt" course that will deliver powerful Intel-based computers that are increasingly smaller, sleeker and more energy-efficient, says Intel CEO Paul Otellini.
Wily Technology has released Wily 6, a solution for monitoring the availability and performance of Web applications as they cross from browser to backend.
Cloakware has expanded language support for its Cloakware Security Suite to include C, C++ and Java, extending the range of code that can be protected from reverse engineering when the software is stored on a disk, and against tampering when the software is stored on disk or running in memory.
Sun Microsystems President and COO Jonathan Schwartz has been talking up the company’s Open Media Commons initiative, an open-source community project developing a royalty-free digital rights management standard. Schwartz is calling for immediate cross-industry collaboration in developing an open, safe and business-friendly approach to the free creation, duplication and distribution of digital content.
Spare Backup began shipping a monthly backup service in a box this week. It is aimed at small-to-medium businesses and home workers. The service is packaged as a product for retail store shelves.
It’s not much of a surprise, but according to a survey of attendees at this week’s SHARE user meeting in Boston, the person to have had the greatest impact on IT in the last 50 years is no other than Bill Gates.
EnterpriseDB is on a roll. The company won an award in the best database solution category at LinuxWorld and announced the general availability of EnterpriseDB 2005 in only a little more than 2 months after emerging from stealth mode.
VMWare, which nearly single-handedly revived interest in technologies that provide a logical, rather than a physical view of computing resources, has plans to support paravirtualized Linux and Sun Microsystems’s Solaris x86 operating systems in future releases of its infrastructure platform products, Workstation, GSX Server and ESX Server.
Bruce Perens led his biannual “Open Source State of the Union” talk at the recent LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco with a hard knock on the plan to create a “patent pool” to protect open-source projects from patent lawsuits.
Sales associates at Gordmans, an apparel and home fashions retailer, found they were spending more time waiting for inventory data than they were spending on customers.
Nine commercial distributors of Debian-based products have formed an alliance to maintain a set of essential programs, or packages, that will serve as a common foundation for each member’s distribution.
CopperEye introduced a business event repository that allows companies to store hundreds of terabytes of data indefinitely and retrieve it when necessary.
Accelitec, a transaction management systems provider, has unveiled PayPilot, an end-to-end RFID payment system. Using Automated Clearing House’s credit and prepay systems, PayPilot allows for faster, more secure, and convenient payment methods, while reducing interchange transaction costs and giving retailers greater control, Accelitec says.
IBM introduced business intelligence software aimed to allow AIX users to archive, integrate and analyze vast amounts of historical data.
Although a majority of enterprises plan to boost IT staffing this year, it will be difficult for them to find the talent they are looking for. The most difficult-to-hire positions for IT organizations include project manager, Web applications programmer, security analyst, database administrator and network engineer.
The Liberty Alliance Project, a global consortium for open federated identity standards and identity-based Web services, announced that products from eight companies passed testing at Liberty’s most recent interoperability conformance event.