Although Lotus Development's Domino makes it possible to use the Notes development environment to develop and host Web applications that offer access to dynamic data and applications residing on a Notes server, it previously required a substantial infrastructure investment that was cost prohibitive for some companies.
In the wake of rapidly proliferating electronic-business initiatives, the adoption of public key infrastructure (PKI) and certificate-based authentication implementations has surged.
Content management on the Web has taken various specialised forms, from dynamic personalisation of a visitor's experience to full-blown portal solutions offering data warehousing and indexing capabilities.
In my organisation, as in many others, an increasing percentage of the budget each year is allocated to laptops. With these purchases comes an added hit to IT budgets due to the costs and obstacles integral to the maintenance and support of a mobile computing environment.
With the Internet now well established as a means of increasing profitability in data-dependent markets, businesses are clamouring to build new applications and repurpose old data sources to benefit from the Web's proficiency.
Now that intranets and extranets are an acknowledged way to improve corporate productivity, and Internet portals, such as Yahoo, have proven a huge hit with consumers, software vendors are attempting to combine the best of both ideas in the form of corporate portals.
As prices for 10/100Mbps Ethernet switches and hubs continue to plummet, Hewlett-Packard is showing several new, inexpensive, entry-level networking solutions for small to mid-size networking environments.
Regardless of the size of your enterprise, your network is your business lifeline. Beyond managing network performance, it has become increasingly important to proactively thwart downtime and performance degradation, which could potentially impact your company's bottom line.
With diverse staffing options and distributed team development becoming the de facto standard, it's more difficult than ever to track projects and manage workflow. Mesa Systems Guild's Mesa/Vista Enterprise 3.0 provides a complete process-management clearing-house for project and resource data. Designed for enterprise use, its Web-based tools for collaboration and communication integrate with your Web server to provide a tightly knit working environment for team development.
The beta version of NetCracker Professional 2.0, from NetCracker Technologies, shows promise as a network diagramming tool that allows network administrators to quickly visualise and validate data, voice, and video networks from the application to the cable layer.