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Tech Update
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August 24, 2004
Videocast: Next-generation IP
The Internet has grown from upstart network into a backbone of enterprise computing. Beyond Internet access, many companies are adding other IP-based
services for voice, video, VPN and hosting.
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July 6, 2004
Top down, bottom up security management
A large company typically has dozens of security devices
installed that track millions of events. Given the high cost
of security breaches, enterprises must take a proactive
approach to security management that encompasses bottom
up automated code analysis and remediation as well as top
down correlation engines to assess vulnerabilities based on
information gathered from every relevant data source. It's
the only hope of staying a step ahead of malicious hackers. ...
June 30, 2004
James Gosling Face to Face
Sun Microsystems' James Gosling, father of the Java programming language and the Unix text editor, Emacs, is one of the tech industry's rock stars. Gosling is currently a Sun Fellow and CTO for Sun's Developer Products group. ...
June 29, 2004
Sun's new success formula: NPV
: Sun president Jonathan Schwartz believes the "ruthlessly competitive" pricing of the company's subscription model will be a disruptive force in the market. Fundamentally, Sun is hoping to commoditize the infrastructure required to service billions of client devices. At minimum, Sun's subscription pricing model will force other vendors to rethink their pricing and bundling scenarios. At maximum, it will resurrect Sun's fortunes. ...
June 21, 2004
Face to Face: Vint Cerf
More than 30 years ago, Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn hatched the
underlying protocol of the Internet--TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol). The Internet took more than 20
years to reach a mass audience, but in the last seven years the population of Web users has gone from 50 million to more than
800 million. Cerf, who is also senior vice president of technology strategy at MCI, continues to steward the Internet in his
role as chairman of (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the international
organization responsible for IP address space allocation, top-level domain name system management, root server system
management, and other functions.
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June 8, 2004
Federation acceleration
Federated identity is beginning to gain some traction among
corporations, according to a survey. Most wanted by
respondents: single-sign on for partners, ease-of-integration
and vendor interoperability. ...
June 2, 2004
Mainsoft unites .Net and Java programming
Software developer Mainsoft's development environment allows .Net programmers to create fully compliant, Java 1.4 bytecode without learning the Java language. At $5,000 per developer seat and a yearly 20 percent maintenance fee, Visual MainWin for J2EE can be a lot cheaper than hiring expensive and often scarce Java developers....
June 2, 2004
Blades: 2004 and beyond
Blades servers continue to gain acceptance in enterprises as companies look to server consolidation to lower costs and increase utilization. IDC is predicting that blades will rise from about 4 percent of servers sold to at least 25 percent by 2008. Blade servers include processors and memory on a single board, but cooling, power, storage, and network connections are accessed through a backplane and can be shared among a collection of blades. For companies that need a flexible and more manageable model for scaling out server capacity, blades should be given careful consideration....
June 1, 2004
Sun pushes to innovate and disrupt IBM
Now that Sun has buried the hatchet with Microsoft, CEO Scott McNealy's verbal barbs are targeting IBM's product family and global services organization. McNealy's goal is to transform Sun's R&D investments into disruptions that benefit customers and stockholders, and cause pain for competitors. When McNealy can say that server sales are no longer the leading success indicator, Sun will have done something truly innovative and disruptive. ...
May 23, 2004
Bombast makes vendor claims even more suspect
The gloves are off as SAP and Peoplesoft sling mud on each
other's flexibility and adaptability. The rhetoric is a side
show, however. The issue for enterprises is which vendors
can provide the most reliable, cost-effective solutions that
scale with organizational growth. ...
May 12, 2004
SAP: Integration without rip and replace
SAP chief executive Henning Kagermann announces a development partnership with Microsoft and an agreement with several hardware vendors to provide virtualization services for SAP's Netweaver. Little here is new, except this: The company isn't asking customers to rip and replace their existing infrastructure and applications to gain the technology's benefits....
May 10, 2004
In search of better search results
Moore's Law marches on, the Web keeps growing expotentially,
and storage gets faster and cheaper. On the other hand,
finding what you want on the Web or in data warehouses is not
improving rapidly. A Web Usability 2004 survey published last
week cites search as a major stumbling block to successful
use of the Web. Usability guru Jakob Nielsen characterizes
internal, intranet search implementations as "beneath
contempt." And don't expect major breaththroughs any time
soon. ...
May 4, 2004
WinHEC highlights Microsoft's biggest gamble
Improving the user experience has been one of computing's most
vexing problems, and digital convergence is raising the stakes.
Microsoft hopes to carry its dominance from the traditional
PC world into this new era of converged digital, IP-based
infrastructure. But can the company become relevant to people
on a personal level that evokes emotion?
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April 26, 2004
Googlemania and the enterprise
Given how Google has evolved since it first opened
its doors nearly six years ago, the IT community can expect the company to
become a major, global infrastructure player. In fact, Google
may become as relevant within enterprises in the future as
Microsoft or Cisco are today. ...
April 22, 2004
Top strategic technologies for 2005
IT executives are faced with a broad array of technologies that
could have a material impact on competitiveness and the bottom
line. Determining which new or existing technologies align with
the business goals and are ripe for exploitation can be a
difficult undertaking. As a starting point, Gartner has selected
ten top strategic technologies for 2005....
April 21, 2004
Security from the inside out
Most security solutions deal with attacks from the outside in,
building security perimeters across a network. Start-up Fortify
Software is pioneering an automated inside-out, root-cause approach
that could improve the security of software by systematically
weeding out vulnerabilities as an integral part of the software
development process....
April 16, 2004
Business blind spots can have devastating consequences
The constant chatter about insufficient budgets, technology complexity and regulatory compliance is valid, but it masks the underlying failure to inculcate a culture that can overcome those problems with a clear and strategic focus on identifying the key business levers and extracting the relevant data.
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April 5, 2004
Too much information, too little trust
Within five years, as technology eliminates conventional notions of maintaining secrets, privacy as we know it will no longer exist. Gartner analyst Richard Hunter says the only defense is for individuals to gain control of their digital information. For companies, the potential for more profits and long-term customers should be enough of an incentive to build competency around the concepts of privacy and trust.
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March 30, 2004
In 2015: sensors everywhere, computers invisible
Ten years from now, computers will be invisible and disposable. Digital information and services will be delivered by trillions of RFID sensors to almost everything we touch-—kiosks, airplane seats, newspapers and a broad array of new devices. The privacy issue will prove to be the most daunting challenge in bringing about the fully connected world. ...
March 29, 2004
Gates: In 2014, magic software, free hardware
With a few waves of his wand, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2004 attendees that within 10 years, hardware will be almost free, while free software won't cut it for most applications. ...
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