Web site vandals pose biggest threat online
Electronic business is toppling internal sabotage - intentional or not - as the greatest threat to networks, Gartner Group security analysts told attendees of its Symposium/ITxpo '99 last week.
Electronic business is toppling internal sabotage - intentional or not - as the greatest threat to networks, Gartner Group security analysts told attendees of its Symposium/ITxpo '99 last week.
Learn to love chaos, to thrive on that heart-in-the-throat feeling you get just before you fall, and you're on the road to the virtually integrated enterprise (VIE) model that Gartner Group says will be the hallmark of the successful e-business.
Computer Associates International and Computer Sciences Corp (CSC) publicly buried the hatchet last week, calling off pending lawsuits against each other and announcing an expansion of their global software licensing agreement.
With Storage Manager 3.7 released late last month, Tivoli Systems Inc. is trying to help customers protect their most vulnerable data: those on laptop computers.
Regular backup procedures can't reach mobile computers, and users, typically facing long connect times at low speed, are usually less-than punctual about backing up files.
In its 28th acquisition in 18 months, Lucent Technologies Inc. last week agreed to pay US$3.7 billion for International Network Services in Sunnyvale, California.
Lucent's NetCare services have focused on operations support for multivendor data and video networks, voice systems and networks, and call centers. What INS brings to the table is a greater concentration on professional services, network integration and migration, and skills transfer. Both companies have worked extensively with service providers.
Worldwide sales of Lotus Notes lag those of Microsoft Exchange by 673,000 individual user licenses for the first half of 1999, according to a report to be released yesterday by International Data (IDC) in Framingham, Massachusetts.
Tivoli Systems wants network and systems managers to rely on its revamped and expanded Decision Support best practices guides.
The World Wide Web offers business little choice: Get on the e-commerce train or watch your business be forever left behind. Fail to weave your Web applications seamlessly into your infrastructure and watch your business fail. So warned Charles B. Wang, president and CEO of Computer Associates International Inc. in Islandia, N.Y. During CA's annual user conference this week, Wang spoke with Computerworld senior writer Sami Lais.
Cabletron Systems has cut many of the ties that bound its software and hardware divisions by spinning off the unit that develops its Spectrum network management software.
Cabletron Systems has cut many of the ties that bound its software and hardware divisions by spinning off the unit that develops its Spectrum network management software.
It's a sign of today's merger mania: When 100 CIO-level executives met here earlier this month, a hot topic was how to integrate the information systems of two corporations after a merger or acquisition.
Change. Change now. Change or die.
Ten minutes at Tivoli Systems' annual Planet Tivoli conference here last week was long enough to recognise the motif.