The future revealed: What the year ahead holds for customers
It's a new year, but the IT industry's expectations have a familiar ring. Security will remain the top driver of IT infrastructure
investments, following a year in which industry watchers logged 150,000 virus outbreaks. Wireless LANs (WLAN) will become
more pervasive - at work, at home and in-between.
The future revealed: Industry expert predicts what's hot,what's not
I look back at the past year and realize that everything changed and nothing changed in 2005.
Any patch in a storm? The debate rages anew
As network professionals scramble to repel a series of exploits that target a hole in the Windows Metafile image-rendering
engine - a vulnerability some say Microsoft was tardy addressing - disagreement is flaring again over the wisdom of applying
unauthorized patches as a stopgap in such situations.
Wireless wows 'em at crowded Vegas show
'It was very overwhelming.' That was how Andrew Hintz, Internet technology director for the California Democratic Party, summed
up Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' razzle-dazzle digital lifestyle presentation at last week's sprawling, hyperkinetic International
Consumer Electronics Show.
Moving beyond server virtualization
On the desktop, virtualization helping with security, management.
What customers want in this new year
Heightened communication, standards, disaster recovery and virtualization are just a few of the areas IT managers are focused
on as they chart their courses for the coming months. Purse strings are still tight, so products and services with big price
tags are out. Instead, the themes in 2006 will be about increasing efficiency, tightening security and enhancing communication.
Hosted apps handle holiday rush
In the last few weeks of the season, online shoppers responded to Web promotions in force, according to industry watchers.
ComScore Networks reports online sales between Nov. 1 and Dec. 25 totaled $18.11 billion - a 25% increase over the 2004 holiday
shopping period.
CA has Wily plan for app management
CA completes deal to acquire Wily Technology, which produces application-management software.
File format shifts have users worried
As an industrywide tussle rages over standardized word-processing and spreadsheet formats, end users say the real issues are
the costs of reformatting archived documents, support and training, and the possibility that multiple formats could make it
difficult to share documents with customers and partners.
In brief: Ethernet Alliance to push new uses for Ethernet
Plus: EMC stepping up grid technology activities; McAfee to pay $50 million penalty; Microsoft releases Python for .Net; women
starting to pull even with men in Internet use; Yahoo releases IM translator; Infor to buy Datastream.
In brief: Masergy provides view bandwidth usage
Service provider Masergy Communications has introduced a service add-on that lets customers of its WAN transport services
monitor use of network bandwidth. Massergy Network Analyst provides a view of how bandwidth is being used based on IP address,
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Stage is set in Congress as sides prepare for broadband showdown
When Congress begins work this year, it will restart a heated debate about how much lawmakers should regulate the Internet
and emerging communications technologies - with some advocates saying the future of the Internet is at stake.
CareGroup checks out Symantec database security tool
However, CareGroup didn't have a way to monitor traffic going to the patient records stored in IBM and Oracle databases at
the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's data center, which supports applications for all the CareGroup hospitals.
In brief: Business Objects expands services group
Looking to speed up its growth in 2006, Business Objects plans to expand its professional services group and develop more
products tailored to specific vertical industries. To effect these changes, the business intelligence vendor announced last
week, Ma
