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The article focuses on three different computer systems that can provide the core functionality of a good social networking system. These include the SharePoint Server 2007 from Microsoft Corp., the highly flexible, open-source content management system called Plone, and WordPress, the most popular blogging platforms in use. SharePoint Server is designed to offer a platform for centralizing business data and integrating enterprise applications. Features needed to run a social networking site is available in Plone, including personal pages, discussion groups, wikis, tagging, and deep user collaboration. The development of the multiuser WordPress capable of being used as an enterprise social networking platform.

Explores approaches which can be employed by business organizations to respond to computer network security alerts. Assessment of response to security breaches; Systematic way of dealing with the growing number of security alerts; Factors to consider when determining the appropriate response to security breaches.

Discusses measures used by corporate information technology (IT) managers to build stronger defenses against electronic mail-borne viruses. Emergence of virus protection products that can proactively evaluate the behavior of code coming from the Internet; Establishment and enforcement of enterprise-wide security policies; Why virus-scanning technologies are having difficulty in coping with new viruses. INSET: Worst virus attacks may be yet to come, by A.C..

Evaluates several Internet portal applications for business. Back-end data integration and reporting capabilities of Brio Technology Inc.'s Brio.Portal 6.0; Java and extensible markup language (XML) architecture of DataChannel Server 4.0; Microsoft Corp. technologies used by the InfoImage Freedom 2 portal. INSETS: Building portal connections, by J.R.;The more things change...;EVal spec check: Enterprise information portals..

The article focuses on disaster recovery technology and business continuity needs of enterprises. Numerous solutions are available to take care of the disaster recovery and business continuity needs of enterprises; the key is to find a solution that can protect data while advancing other business processes. The implementation of a new disaster recovery solution allowed Donna Fawcett, director of technical services for Canadian Depository for Securities(CDS) Ltd., to consolidate mainframe and open-systems storage management while keeping bandwidth usage under control. Bank of America Corp. previously used in-house replication software to keep its data centers in sync, but that solution became burdensome to maintain and upgrade. CDS holds more than $2.3 trillion on deposit and processes more than 62 million securities trades annually. CDS guarantees its clients that data will be restored in 2 hours in the event of a disaster, an ability the organization must demonstrate at least twice a year to maintain its SLAs (service-level agreements). Indeed, with proper planning and some ingenuity, IT managers can leverage disaster recovery projects to help their organizations gain a technological edge.

Piper Rudnick LLP, one of the nation's largest law firms, has built an airtight case for hosted applications. Over the past five years, the Baltimore-based firm has increasingly outsourced its online systems to Hubbard One, a Chicago solutions provider that specializes in hosted applications for the legal industry. Through the relationship, Piper Rudnick has gained secure extranets that enhance communications with its clients. Over the next few weeks, Hubbard One will extend those extranets to support former Piper Rudnick employees and potential clients- two prime audiences for revenue growth. Like many modern solutions providers, Hubbard One is more than a Web integrator, site designer or traditional consulting firm. Since its founding in 1997, the company has developed its own software platform, known as FirmConnect, for its clients. The article concludes by stating in the words of Kent Zimmerman, vice president of Hubbard One "General business knowledge is a great base to build on, but what our clients value most is our combination of technology and specific legal industry domain expertise."

In an unexpected shift, attackers are now going after different groups of people than they did last quarter, according to Proofpoint's third-quarter 2018 Protecting People report. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews Google's Cloud Platform (GCP) services developed by the American technological company Google, to help administrators of organizations to view their metrics and interact with company's cloud computing platform related to their business workload.

The article overviews the move of networking hardware services company Cisco Systems Inc. to improve its implementation of its Jasper platform, an Internet of Things (IoT) for its business and integration of its products and services. The (IoT) platform addresses the business needs for improved management flexibility and implementation of IoT. The platform will also integrate for wide range of industries.

The article describes how an IBM Security study has revealed that businesses affected by ransomware are willing to pay to get data back. Ransomware is typically delivered to victims as an email attachment. Over the course of 2016, IBM X-Force observed a massive increase in the volume of spam emails that contained ransomware attachments, growing to nearly 40 percent in 2016 from 0.6 percent in 2015.

The article focuses on the impact of the increasing adaptation of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) attitude of employees on corporate network safety of business enterprises worldwide. It says that employees are progressively using personally owned mobile devices including smartphones and tablets to access business applications, according to the 2011 consumerization study conducted by IDC. It notes that the study found out that the BYOD trend continues despite security and support issues.

The article focuses on the details behind updation of Microsoft Windows 10 by computer technology company Microsoft. Topics discussed include implementation of Windows 10 for communicating updates to the operating system after listening to feedback of disclosure for Windows 10 updates; views of Jim Alkove, former corporate vice president of Microsoft Enterprise and Security, feedback from enterprise customers of the Windows 10, and features of Windows 10.

The article offers several suggestion for preventing cyber-attack lifecycle by business enterprises and way in which cybercriminals attack. Topics discussed include need for cyber-attack prevention than detection; cybercriminals who extract public information in presence of network vulnerabilities; intruder code embedded in computer files like a PDF and Word document; and need to prevent malwares by enterprises in their networks.

The article provides information on the efforts of software developer VMware Inc. to offer a more complete data center solution to grip with the increasing competition in virtualization space. Paul Maritz, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of VMware, said that the company's upcoming data center management platform, Virtual Datacenter OS (VDC-OS), is more than just giving a platform for cloud computing. Maritz has envisioned VMware's virtualization as the engine for a new flexible data center providing enterprises novel ways in managing both the hardware and the applications which reside within virtual environments.

The article focuses on the list of offerings under the HP Data Center Transformation by the Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) to better manage the data center, including physical hardware and virtualizations. This innovation by HP aims to help businesses meet their Information Technology (IT) needs by establishing flexibility into data centers through a combination of technology and services. According to Paul Miller, vice president of marketing for HP's Enterprise Storage and Servers division, the firm also offers Virtual Server Environment (VSE) where it allows IT staffs to allocate resources across one system.

The article focuses on the rise of developing social computing tools for businesses in electronic commerce, marketing, and media markets. The rising demand of these tools made the young high technology vendors to create white-label social networks for businesses willing to pay for them. One of them is Sparta Social Networks that offers the platform for enterprises to build and deliver these networks. According to its Chief Executive Officer Jerry Sheer, the company helps more than businesses that need alternative methods of understanding their customers' attitudes.

The article discusses the streamlining and integration of data collection tasks and related computations. Documents are not the end in itself because they provide insufficient guidance during data capture, instead, they are business process snapshots of the state of business information. Further, conventional applications cannot be accessed for improvement by business process experts. Documents need not be entirely of the user experience. At some level in a process, documents need to be created with electronic characteristics like encryption and signature.

The article announces the launch of new computer network security software by the small companies. These software perform health checks on desktop and laptop computers will be available in abundance at this weeks RSA Conference in San Jose, California. Industry leaders Cisco Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are not commenting about their long-promised integration of their dominant network access control (NAC) architectures. The IT managers are wondering whether to go with one of the solutions that is already available or wait for an integrated offering that may never come. The old as well as the new computer network security industry unveil new NAC products and show off updates at the RSA Conference. The show could serve as a launching point for rapid adoption of end-point security products by the business enterprises in the next year. Almost after 14 months of the pledged of Cisco and Microsoft to cooperate, Executives of these companies still have little to say about how their endpoint security architectures will work.

The article focuses on complexity of disaster recovery and business continuity planning in large companies. Even large companies with talented in-house information technology (IT) staff and financial wherewithal are bringing in consultants to make sure they can bounce back from any problem. The consultants walked us through a typical enterprise disaster recovery planning consultation, and many of the best practices and recommendations they offer can be used by any company that wants to make sure its disaster ducks are in a row. During disaster recovery consultation, the vast majority of time will be focused not on the IT department but on the business units of a company. The next steps in the process are application performance testing and monitoring, both of which are key to determining how the entire infrastructure is functioning during normal business times. IT managers can then set expectations as to the level of performance that business managers can expect after a disaster has occurred. Consultants will also check on the health and optimization of a company's backup infrastructure to determine, for example, that backup systems are not wasting tapes by backing up data that hasn't changed in years. INSET: Disaster recovery recommendations.

The curtain will fall on Windows 98 this week, as of January 12, 2004, when Microsoft Corp. withdraws the product from the market-place and ceases to provide support or even security-based patches for the operating system. With the release of Microsoft's next-generation "Longhorn" operating system at least two years away, enterprises face upgrading Windows 98-based systems to a newer Windows version, running systems without support or moving from Windows to an alternate platform. In addition, more than 27 percent of the total PCs deployed at the 670 organizations surveyed were running Windows 95 or Windows 98, compared with about 7 percent using Windows XP, according to AssetMetrix, of Ottawa.

Reports on Internet service provider (ISP) EarthLink Inc.'s venture into hosted applications. Offer of business management tools for sales force automation (SFA) and customer relationship management (CRM) to Web hosting customers; Accommodation of small business' need for inventory, sales lead and human resource applications; Availability of hosting of Microsoft Office in summer 2001.

Reports that companies in the United States, are offering software to make it easier for information technology managers to add personalization features to their internal Web portals. Yahoo Inc.'s partnership with TIBCO Software Inc. on a customizable portal offering called Corporate Yahoo; Sequoia Software Corp.'s XML Portal Server 3.0.

The article offers suggestions for maintaining cyber-exposure profiles by business enterprises to prevent cyber attacks, as of July 2015. Topics include inclusion of Internet searches for significant company information such as financial statements in cyber-exposure profile; analysis of data leakage; examining the availability of similar domains that might trick consumers; and identification of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.

The article outlines the reasons why personal computer (PC) users keep on using Windows XP operating system over the years. It cites the operating system's benefits for enterprise users, its ability to provide the same experience at home and work, and its flexibility across computing devices, markets, and applications. It also mentions the service packs offered by Microsoft, the favorable views of users, vendors and developers regarding XP, and the shortcomings of Windows Vista.

The article reports on the focus of open cloud company Rackspace Hosting on the hybrid cloud market. It mentions the company's belief that all types of cloud computing will lead to the hybrid market. According to Rackspace chief technology officer (CTO) John Engates, enterprises will eventually create a cloud that features public cloud capabilities.

The article reports on the issues regarding network security in business enterprises. It tackles topics on Internet traffic, web applications, user activity and network devices. It also discusses the research conducted by Tom Cross, director of security research at computer network security company Lancope Inc., which focuses on the preparedness of organizations against cyberterrorism.

The article presents results of the survey of data protection solutions provider Varonis Systems Inc. on the lack of companies to have data breaches protection in the U.S. Varonis found that 40% of security professionals have limited or no automated and real-time capabilities to spot data breaches. Moreover, 24% of respondents affirmed that they do not possess automated technologies to detect data breaches.

The article focuses on the Security Intelligence Report released by Microsoft Corp. on April 17, 2013 which shows that the attack of the wormlike programs Conficker and Autorun declines in 2012 while Web-based attacks increase in corporate networks. It says that computers without anti-malware protection are at a higher risk of infection with malicious code. It mentions that the company recommends that anti-malware software and other security systems should be used in business networks.

The article focuses on the IBM SmartCloud Desktop Infrastructure solutions to help business enterprises manage bring-your-own -device (BYOD) trend in the workplace. It states that the information technology solution allows central management of desktops while users can still access applications from any device or location. It mentions that it supports wide range of virtualization platforms, software and hardware. It adds that it also improves disaster recovery and data security.

The article highlights the need for companies to integrate a cohesive, encrypted and secured computing environment. It notes that integrating such will be a foundation of the next computing infrastructure that will protect the identity and privacy of a company. Sun Microsystems chief executive officer (CEO) Scott McNealy claims that Google Inc. is among the cloud vendors that will provide a well-developed encryption within its cloud business applications.

In this article the author discusses the failure of Apple Inc.'s Xserve server for enterprise information technology (IT). The author relates that he was impressed when the company added the Xserve RAID to its lineup in 2003. The author says that Apple kept on refreshing the specifications of the Xserve hardware annually by moving from PowerPC G4 processors to the G5. Moreover, he adds that the company stopped Xserve RAID marketing in 2008.

The article reports on the challenges facing business enterprises concerning the implementation of cloud-based computing software in the U.S. It discusses the failure of the Simple Storage Service (S3), an Internet-based software offered by Amazon.COM Inc. on July 20, 2008 and the transformer explosion at the data center of 365 Main Inc. in July 2007 which affected the connections of various companies utilizing the software. It reveals that reliability and security are the common problems facing the use of cloud computing software. The author stresses that eliminating the use of software offered by outside service providers by businesses will help them address the security risks offered by Web-based software.

The author discusses the advantages of providing employees remote access to companies' network to give them an option to work in a place they want to. He cites the telecommuting in which most employees and employers benefit because it gives them high productivity and turnover. He stresses that business applications be tuned for remote access as the rule rather than the exception.

The article discusses the growth of social networking web sites, particularly for businesses. According to a March 2007 study by the Institute for Corporate Productivity, 65 percent of business professionals use personal and professional social networking web sites. Fifty-five percent use online social networks to share best practices with colleagues, while 47 percent use them to connect with potential clients and market their skills. Further, some web sites focus on business-to-business connections, especially for small businesses of which these online social networks are a big help for them.

The article focuses on the acquisition of Microsoft Corp. with Parlano Inc., the manufacturer of MindAlign, an application for enterprise group chat which enables people to carry on topic-specific, multiparty, and instant messaging discussions. It is inferred that Parlano's group chat functionality will be added as a new feature of Office Communications Server (OCS) and Microsoft Office Communicator in 2007. It is implied that Parlano's software was used by companies in a variety of industries including financial services, call centers and technology, to conduct ongoing business-critical conversations.

The article discusses the author's views on the growth of wireless technology and how business enterprises deal with the trend. It is cited that the evolving integration of this technology in the enterprise networks increases the demand for services that manage the new complex network infrastructure, and enterprises are turning to solution providers for expertise in the area. The author describes the significance of wireless networks by adding them as an overlay to the existing enterprise network or coupling the wireless access points to internal data transport. He has also noted that wireless could be the best alternative for solution providers to offer services.

The article reports that Internet security solution providers SonicWall Inc. and Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. are better companies for computer value added resellers to start selling their managed firewall/router appliances. Both the companies offer devices that combine router, firewall, DSL modem and intrusion detection into a small single box. Kevin McDonald, vice president of Alvaka Networks, a SonicWall VAR, says that SonicWall recognizes that they have to custom-tailor their program to individual VARs' needs, and are phenomenally supportive of their VARs.

The article discusses the value of the Nexus project for J.C. Penney Co. Inc. Through the Enterprise Performance Management and Forecasting team, the Nexus project enabled J.C. Penney to automatically correlate business workload with metrics with network metrics, thus ensuring that its IT infrastructure can buttress current and foreseen business demands. Through Nexus, J.C. Penney avoided wasteful infrastructre costs, achieved better harmony of infrastructure capacity with business demands, more consistent application service delivery.

The article presents results of a study conducted by Ponemon Institute LLC on problems related to spyware. More than 500 North American IT security professionals were interviewed for the study. Majority of respondents said despite having technology and procedures in place to prevent and remediate attacks from spyware, their companies are facing problems related to spyware. Spyware is being built to steal personal information and is used for identity fraud. Larry Ponemon, chairman of the company and author of the study, said that anti-spyware capabilities of many packaged anti-virus products may not be doing enough to stop attacks.

The article reports on the open source enterprise service bus (ESB) which can provide many advantages and efficiencies for a business. It discusses the two new open-source ESB products which include the Celtix and Mule which are based on J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition). These open-source applications provide solid core ESB functionality from JMS (Java Message System) and IP-based connectivity to strong support for SOA (service-oriented architecture) standards such as SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol).

The article discusses the features of the Google Mini appliance, one of the products of the Google search appliances designed to provide searching capabilities to huge web sites and company intranets. The bright blue colored Google Mini appliance was created to provide search capabilities for as many as 300,000 documents. Its price is fitted for small and midsize businesses which cannot afford the much higher cost of the bigger Google appliances. According to the author, the Google Mini has performed well during some basic tests. It provides search interfaces and results with which Google users are familiar with.

The article reports that Trend Micro Inc. is preparing for a major product expansion that will introduce hardware, software and services that will move the company beyond its prowess as an anti-virus provider. The company is to introduce the new Inter- Scan Web Security appliance, a hardware-based version of the company's InterScan software, with anti-spyware, anti-phishing and content filtering feature, and is planning to release more multifunction security appliances later in 2006. Moreover, Trend is planning an aggressive expansion of its service-based offerings for business enterprises and consumers, including a fee-based version of its free HouseCall security scanning service and intelligence services to help Internet service providers fight compromised computer networks.

The article presents information on SAP AG, a German software giant. According to Marc Benioff, CEO of SALESFORCE.COM, SAP is innovation free. He also believes that its software code is bulky and inefficient, as it is expensive and unloved by its users. Right before SAP launched its own on-demand customer relationship management software service, Benioff's description surfaced in an e-mail. It says that a company with the resources of SAP can bring much more. The problem here lies in the fact that observers tend to overestimate the creativity and innovation that entrenched technology companies can bring to a particular problem. They also underestimate the effect of business model conflicts. According to Benioff, like Oracle Corp. and Microsoft Corp., SAP now risks cannibalizing its existing customer base.

Presents tips and advisories in securing corporate server and client network from spyware. Necessity of granting user of set of system administration privileges required to get work done; Importance of delegating limited user accounts and software installation rights in the corporate settings; Efforts of Microsoft Corp. to make limited user accounts work more smoothly in its Longhorn operating system.

The article presents news from the high technology industries. Microsoft Corp.'s Business Solutions division is enhancing one of its lesser-known business software suites with capabilities that should help users better manage projects through a more unified environment. Solomon 6.0, which was announced last week and is geared toward the smaller end of the small and midsize business sector, integrates a number of standard functions with capabilities from other Microsoft offerings for a more streamlined approach to project management. For example, this latest version of Solomon consolidates accounting and project tasks into one system for better accounting and payroll processes. In addition, the suite is now integrated with a handful of Microsoft environments, including Office Project, FRx and SharePoint Services, with enhanced integration to Microsoft Business Solutions Business Portal 2.5. The integration with Office Project enables users to be assigned to tasks within Solomon's Project Controller, rather than going outside to another application.

Discusses how the SSL VPN appliances are being tested. Evaluation of the system responsiveness when one member of a cluster failed; Configuration of each SSL VPN cluster to authenticate users to two separate external resources; Delegation of access to network applications according to Active Directory group membership.

The EdgeForce Accel, ServGate Technologies Inc.'s first Gigabit Ethernet firewall, provides content- aware firewall capabilities, robust performance and adequate management tools. However, the product is a little rough around the edges. The EdgeForce Accel uses network-based anti-virus scans. Integrated appliances from companies such as Symantec Corp. also scan for viruses at the network level, but they cost more. The basic EdgeForce Accel includes a VPN concentrator with 50 client licenses.

With no tried-and-true (or even agreed-upon) methods to secure XML messages and schemas, the march toward Web services has been halting and unsteady, despite the efforts of standards organizations to develop frameworks to secure Web services. The lack of a guaranteed level of trust between enterprise Web services deployments represents a major stumbling block to widespread Web services deployment beyond the enterprise. Take one look at public-key infra- structure, which struggled for years to gain acceptance, and it should be obvious that Web services security issues must be resolved for the technology to become ubiquitous beyond enterprise borders.

Winternals Software's Defrag Manager 2.5 is an enterpriseclass defragmentation solution that cleans up file systems in a hurry. The new defrag engine provided peppy performance in tests. Defrag Manager 2.5 works with Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 Professional and Server, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Prices for Defrag Manager 2.5 start at $49.90 for an individual server license and $16.90 for a workstation license. Volume discounts apply as the node count increases.

Security Profiling Inc.'s SysUpdate 4.1.4.4 and Policy Compliance & Enforcement 1.0 module promise IT administrators one-stop patch and security policy remediation across the enterprise. However, despite decent multiplatform support and some nice features, tests showed the SysUpdate PC & E package needs to mature before eWEEK Labs can recommend it. SysUpdate PC& E differs from Altiris Inc. and Patch-Link Corp. products by way of its modular security policy enforcement capabilities and burgeoning multiplatform support. Remote management console users have no way to see what jobs are being installed across the enterprise, nor can they predict what job will be scheduled next.