With internal auditors breathing down their necks over compliance and security issues, many large companies are eager for help organizing IT operations infrastructure. That helps explain the mushrooming popularity of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library.
The Apache Software Foundation's (ASF) open-source J2EE application server project, Geronimo, has cleared a significant hurdle on its way to full J2EE certification: successful completion of Sun Microsystem's J2EE test compatibility kit 1.4.1.
Java users are more likely to use open-source software than non-Java users, according to research by Evans Data Corporation.
Visual Numerics is targeting financial, business intelligence, bioinformatics and life sciences companies that are seeking a framework for tailored analytical applications. The company recently introduced JMSL Numerical Library 3.0, a Java numerical analysis package for Java programmers.
UNICCO Services Company is widely known as a leading provider of facilities services. Its customers come to the operation to outsource everything from janitorial services and landscaping to production support, lighting and administrative/office services. Information technology innovations are, says the company's VP of IT Jeff Peterson, the last thing on their minds.
Finding and solving performance problems isn’t easy for IT staffers. But what if some of those problems were caused by IT’s lack of communication? ShopNBC.com recently dealt with such issues to improve its customers’ experiences.
UC4 Software recently released software to help companies monitor enterprise job scheduling and data center automation in complex environments.
Backbone Media, an Internet marketing consulting firm, has released the results of its 2005 corporate blogging survey and a series of case studies. The blogging survey sought to understand what results business bloggers have received from their blogs.
Earlier this week, Microsoft took the wraps off its upcoming CRM 3.0 suite, which includes several new features and the opportunity for customers to choose between on-site licensing or subscription-based licensing for customers that prefer a hosted offering.
There's a deafening buzz in service-oriented architecture around repositories,
which appear to be emerging as a core component of SOA. What is actually emerging,
says Miko Matsumura, is an integrated registry-repository model, which could
serve as the core technology of what amounts to an SOA platform.
Hardware-based two-factor authentication has been around for about two decades, but interest in sign-on solutions that require something you know (your password) and something you have (a hardware token) has recently gotten some serious gotten mass-market attention.
The biggest challenge today’s IT organizations face isn’t selecting the right technologies—it’s finding skilled developers to perform complex, multi-platform integration tasks, often involving legacy systems. That need, in turn, is helping drive the outsourcing of application development.
Caseworkers for the State of Wisconsin needed to access their records, but it was hard to do with the state’s IT infrastructure. Wisconsin operates more than 30 agencies whose staff accesses applications and critical information on about 5.5 million Wisconsin residents that is housed on mainframes and servers.
Oracle Corporation and Sun Microsystems will serve as co-specification leads for the Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 spec, the two companies announced last week (6/29).
When Sentara Healthcare decided to add a manager self-service application for human resources to its Web portal last year, senior business analyst Judy McConnell began gathering requirements for the project.
Oracle recently proposed it will lead the Eclipse Foundation’s tooling project for Business Process Execution Language. BPEL helps simplify the development of service-oriented architecture applications, consequently helping to reduce cost, complexity and inflexibility of integration projects.
IBM is extending its 11-year-old Java licensing agreement with Sun Microsystems for another decade.
Sun Microsystem’s announcement this week of its intent to purchase SeeBeyond Technology shakes up the application integration space, but the impact of the deal will largely depend on Sun’s skill in executing the purchase.
Microsoft MSN and Vodafone have teamed up to launch an instant messaging service between computers and mobile phones. The service will combine some 165 million MSN Messenger users with nearly an equal number of Vodafone customers worldwide.
The World Wide Web Consortium recently approved XML Key Management System 2.0, adding public key management to the W3C XML Security Framework.