Chronic slip syndrome
What level of oversight and control produces the best R&D results? My series of columns has discussed how the CTO balances each of the key R&D factors comprising strategic technology management. In the last column in this series, we detailed…
Muddled concepts of privacy can bring muddled results
The first step in saving ‚privacy‘ is to define what we mean by it What is this thing called “privacy”? We hear a lot about it. Some people are hard-liners about preserving it. Others are only too willing to trade…
DISA’s CTO views Demo offerings
With an eye to security, the CTO of Defense Information Systems Agency reports on Demo 2002 DAWN MEYERRIECKS, CTO of Defense Information Systems Agency, attended the Demo 2002 conference in Phoenix from Feb. 11 through Feb. 12. She took the…
Oblix focuses on identity management
CTO Enrique Salem explains his company’s approach to securing access privileges THE FIRST LINE of defense in any security plan is authorization. If an IT organization cannot identify its users, then anybody can gain access to its systems by usurping…
A one-man e-commerce site that pays off well
Simple design, plus usability, equals profitability. With all the moaning about “dot-bombs,” it’s nice to find e-businesses that are simple in design, small in scale, but still provide the owner with financial rewards. ISBN.nu is one such site. Operated out…
Farming out CRM
Outsourced CRM is poised to take off as companies look to avoid the frustrations and failures of implementing CRM in-house RATHER THAN saddle themselves with the difficult and expensive task of running their own CRM applications, many enterprises are opting…
Eclipsing NetBeans?
Sun supporters may not like IBM’s NetBeans-like endeavor, but competition breeds better products SOME ADHERENTS TO Sun Microsystem’s NetBeans are miffed at IBM’s latest open-source effort, Eclipse. The problem appears to be that Eclipse has a great deal of similarity…
Web services leave a wake of security worries
Security tops every company’s list of priorities, but when it comes to the next generation of software systems based on XML Web services, the industry is still groping for direction. With various vendors and standards groups attacking the core problem…
NAT Traversal connects
New standard allows IPsec VPNs to function with network address translation, bringing stronger security to remote access connections THE FAST-GROWING use of the Internet led to a shortage of IP addresses. To deal with this problem, the Internet Engineering Task…
The Web services horizon
The Web Services Toolkit from IBM alphaWorks shows off advances and innovations at a price anyone can afford MAINTAINING A GRASP on Web services development platforms and environments can be a challenge. To help developers remain familiar with these innovations,…
