Saturday | 19 July, 2008
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SAP pushes up software maintenance fees 21 April, 2008 09:19:56
Maintenance fees have long been the cash cow of enterprise software manufacturers and a source of pain to many end users. As the economy slows, SAP appears to be trying to bolster this income stream, but at whose expense?Analyst estimates say recurring maintenance fees can account for nearly 50 per cent of most application vendors' total revenues. - +
Are you ready for 'green SOA'? 17 April, 2008 09:17:04
The IT industry has been increasingly moving toward greener practices in order to cut costs and consumption, and adopting SOA is seen as the next stepAll of a sudden "green" is the "in" color. In 2007 the IT industry embraced the green data center concept. What followed was an avalanche of PR from vendor after vendor claiming that they were greener than their competitors. - +
Getting a Lift from SOA 02 April, 2008 14:01:09
Building an SOA naturally entails a few challenges, but it will pay dividendsWhen Air Canada spun off Aeroplan, its frequent flyer rewards program, as a separate entity in 2001, the new company faced some tough challenges. Not the least of them was building an IT infrastructure, including e-commerce capabilities, almost from scratch. Virtually from day one, though, the Aeroplan IT brains trust agreed that the best way to achieve their goals was by implementing a service oriented architecture (SOA). - +
How to Get the Most from SOA 02 October, 2007 11:25:48
According to Comcast CIO Andy Baer, service-oriented architecture is not about architecture, and certainly not about technology. It’s about billing, ordering, customer service, human resources, payroll – you know, the business. And that’s where the benefits lieService-oriented architecture, or SOA, has moved from buzzword of the moment to a concept that has absorbed the attention of CIOs at enterprises large and small (but mainly large). According to our State of the CIO 2007, 19 percent of local respondents were already working on their SOA, 15 percent were planning to start this year and 22 percent defined it as a long-term goal - +
Enterprise Data Protection Tools Remain Nascent 28 June, 2007 11:32:00
Finding the right way to apply the various tools is one of the most crucial issues for most companies today in making headway with their data protection projectsTechnologies aimed at bolstering enterprise data protection remain tough to manage, but companies can derive significant benefits if they utilize the tools with a pragmatic approach, said security industry experts. - +
Philosophical Differences 05 June, 2007 10:41:18
Zen and the art of service-oriented architectureEven after 25 years in the IT industry it has taken me a fair amount of time to get my head around the topic of service-oriented architecture (SOA) - +
SOA Adoption Crawling at a Snail's Pace 31 May, 2007 12:44:25
Because SOA is a way to build the underlying structure of an IT organization, it should be deployed enterprise-wide and have governance to define roles, responsibilities and processesDespite considerable hype, only a minority of enterprises have adopted service-oriented architectures and most that are using SOA do so only within specific departments or projects, rather than throughout a company, US-based Saugatuck Technology says in a new research alert. - +
Scent of a Merger 07 May, 2007 15:04:48
Most mergers and acquisitions fail to deliver the expected business value. But Coty’s acquisition of Unilever’s cosmetics and fragrance subsidiary has been a success. The secret formula was a new approach to integrationOn December 14 and 15, 2005, Coty, one of the world's largest cosmetic and fragrance makers, held an all-hands-on-deck executive meeting at the company's headquarters in New York City. Five months earlier, Coty had acquired Unilever Cosmetics International (UCI), a subsidiary of the eponymous conglomerate, and Coty's IT team was just finishing moving UCI employees off Unilever's infrastructure and onto Coty's - +
SOA: A Governance Nightmare 03 April, 2007 15:04:14
How do you protect and connect applications as services across departmental and organizational boundaries in a flexible and scalable way?As a graduate student years ago, Layer 7 CTO Dr Toufic Boubez used to have a poster on his wall that read: "A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." - +
How SOA Increases Your Security Risk 02 April, 2007 11:46:54
Combating malware -- whether it is associated with SOA or someone downloading "free" music from a file-sharing site -- requires a strategy combining technology with education.Service-oriented architecture changes the security equation by introducing a greater reliance on third parties for application development and operation. But according to Ray Wagner, managing vice president of information security and privacy at Gartner Inc., this is a matter of degree rather than an introduction of a totally new security exposure. - +
The Four Stages of Enterprise Architecture 07 February, 2007 14:04:06
An exclusive MIT survey maps the evolution of IT architecture and explains why you can’t skip any stepsIt was 1999, and addressing any potential Y2K flaws in all of State Street's computer systems consumed the giant financial services provider's IT attention.
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CIO Live Podcast #79: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires Part II 05 October, 2007 06:00:00
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #78: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires 28 September, 2007 17:34:25
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #77: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part III 21 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part three in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #76: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part II 14 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part two in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #75: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part I 07 September, 2007 07:00:05
Part one in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
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Lessons learned from the Kaminsky DNS vulnerability 18 July, 2008 10:25:47
What do we know about the Kaminsky DNS vulnerability, and what has come to light in the time since the initial announcement?There has been a lot of speculation devoted to the impending release of information about a DNS vulnerability discovered and initially announced by Dan Kaminsky almost two weeks ago. A lot of the coverage has been back and forth arguing about whether what has been discovered is relevant or not but the best thing to have done in the intervening period is to have sat on your hands and waited. - +
How CAPTCHA got trashed 15 July, 2008 09:02:49
The wiggly words are now most useful for malware authorsCAPTCHA used to be an easy and useful way for Web administrators to authenticate users. Now it's an easy and useful way for malware authors and spammers to do their dirty work. - +
Five lessons learned about computer security 16 July, 2008 11:15:22
How a hacker turned an illegal hobby into a useful career.Reformed hacker-turned-security-consultant Kevin Mitnick served five years in federal prison for breaking into phone and software company networks. He talks about his past hacking exploits, computer security, and how he turned an illegal hobby into a useful career. - +
Insider threat looms as San Francisco crisis plays out 17 July, 2008 07:54:00
City trying to wrestle its network off jailed 43-year-old who is still refusing to relinquish controlThe unfolding cliffhanger in San Francisco this week -- in which a city network administrator has been arrested for allegedly holding the network hostage -- represents an extreme example of the insider threat that IT security vendors and others have been sounding the alarm about for years. - +
Hack a million systems - earn a job 16 July, 2008 16:12:54
The idea of employing an admitted botnet creator and carding software author might not be palatable for many, but not so for an 18-year old New Zealander.It has been a number of years since the fantasy that hackers will be offered a job by those who they hacked was even a potential reality, but there are reports that this might still be the case in New Zealand.
Satyam’s Q1 revenue up by 43% and Net Profit by 45% YoY; revises revenue and EPS guidance upwards for FY09 18 July, 2008 16:58:00
Informatica Reports Record Second Quarter Results 18 July, 2008 13:01:00
Tumbleweed Releases MailGate 3.6 18 July, 2008 10:01:00
Convergys to Acquire Intervoice, Enhancing Leadership in Relationship Management 17 July, 2008 14:41:00
Borland Management Solutions Put the "M" in Application Lifecycle Management 17 July, 2008 13:43:00
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