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One type of MAN service garnering attention in recent years has been the broad category of 'storage networking.' To the enterprise, that would refer to the need for back office [...]

CIOs need to take responsibility for eliminating vulnerabilities in software. According to a 2002 study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), buggy software's cost to the national economy amounts to as much as $60 billion annually.

Tips for protecting the enterprise are identified and explained.

Portfolio management can provide a CIO with an overall view of IT projects across an enterprise, facilitating alignment of IT with corporate strategy.

Protecting and managing data across an enterprise is becoming more difficult and problematical, and at the same time, it is becoming more immediately and pressingly necessary. New areas of exposure are appearing, and at the same time, the scope of the need for data protection is expanding to encompass data lifecycle management.

Separating storage from servers permits organizations to configure enterprise storage resources in conformance with business needs. Use of network-attached storage (NAS) and use of storage area networks are described and discussed.

Next-generation collaborative e-business networks present both opportunities and penalties for network managers. On the one hand, there's the opportunity to make the value of networks and the ROI of network [...]

Is it time to consider converting your site-to-site WAN to an IP-VPN? To improve network flexibility and reduce operating costs, many large enterprises are evaluating the use of VPN devices, [...]

How to use Borland's Delphi Personal 7.0 development software to program a 'message of the day' application is explained. Such an application typically is used to transmit a message to be displayed to all users on a network.

Research by Gartner indicates that consolidating storage can significantly reduce costs while greatly increasing the amount of data that can be managed. How to develop an effective data storage strategy is discussed.

It has become clear that the key competitive differentiator for all lenders is not technology itself but the efficient and effective management of business processes. This has given rise to [...]

Forecasting is hard--especially when it's about the future. IBM is proposing to change all that with three new autonomic software technologies that it planned to unveil today and demonstrate at […]

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--Another batch of companies went through the grinder at Demo--the one conference that continues to focus on practical innovation, and surprise, there are some likely survivors. For the first […]

According to a new Yankee Group report, search is a critical component of enterprise information management, serving as a bridge between often-disparate components of the information management infrastructure. The report, […]

Failures of consultant-led enterprise software projects are causing CIOs to demand more from consultancies or to do without them.

Security companies and systems integrators need their computer systems to operate flawlessly all the time. They cannot afford to have an operational slowdown--especially if they operate a central station--much less [...]

Configuring an effective arrangement for implementing network security typically implies creating a system that tells people they cannot be trusted. CIOs need to make their organizations aware of the sensitivities of security issues and of levels of trust and openness that are inappropriate.

The Real-Time Enterprise (RTE), defined by Gartner as an enterprise that 'competes by using up-to-date information to progressively remove delays to the management and execution of its critical business processes,' is regarded by many as the Next Big Thing. Some myths and misconceptions about RTE are noted.

Every few weeks, a software vendor urges me to clarify for a breathlessly awaiting user audience the true meaning of "enterprise content management." Not surprisingly, the definition each vendor has […]

Data storage systems, generally speaking, remain under-managed. And generally speaking, the larger and more distributed the enterprise environment, the greater is the potential for cost savings.

Everyone knows that losing customers impacts the bottom line, whatever the cause may be. However, losing customers to security breaches and mistrust can be devastating. Consider the following research from [...]

Technology requirements for effective corporate anti-spam solutions are described and discussed.

Burdened by inadequate information retrieval systems, enterprises will increasingly turn to search engine companies such as Google, AltaVisa and Inktomi. That's the projection from London-based consultantancy Ovum, which predicts the [...]

Garner identifies records management as an enterprise application--an equal among such strategic technologies as customer relationship management or enterprise resource planning. The designation is a two-edged sword: while it legitimizes […]