Why Is IT Security Such A Big Problem? by Robin Bloor, Partner One cannot help but look at the wide array of IT security technology and wonder. There?s antivirus software, anti-spyware, firewalls, VPNs, encryption technology, biometrics, email filtering, intrusion detection, data audit and quite a lot more. Indeed there is a vast array of […]
How To Dismantle An Atom Bomb? by Robin Bloor, Partner, and Fran Howarth, Principal Once upon a time, software developers didn?t need to worry about security. They wrote applications that were implemented on secure computers, and that was that. The realm of application software was locked up tight. End of story. But along came […]
What is BSM, Anyway? By Fern Halper and Marcia Kaufman, Partners There is a fundamental shift occurring in the way businesses view, comprehend, and map their IT resources to their business goals. Many IT executives are beginning to reorient the way they monitor and optimize their IT resources in a way that speaks directly to […]
New Search Technology Advances: The Mining of the Invisible Web by Rikki Kirzner, Partner Yahoo, Google, and other major search engine companies have estimated there are between 8 and 20 billion documents on the Web. It isn’t so. The truth is that the Web is home to more than 500 billion Web based documents that […]
Whither Oracle? What’s Behind the Strategy and Will It Work? By Judith Hurwitz I like irony. I guess you can’t be in the computer industry as long as I have and not get a kick out of watching the absurdities of the shenanigans of industry players who are fighting hard to be king of the […]
The JavaOne Conference: Is Sun Becoming Irrelevant to the Future of Java? By Rikki Kirzner This year’s tenth annual JavaOne conference in San Francisco unveiled a very impressive showcase of innovative technologies and solutions from a great number of vendors – vendors who largely discounted many of Sun’s announcements along with its half-hearted move toward […]
Basel II Compliance: Another Burden for European CSOs? By Fran Howarth The Basel II capital adequacy framework is a regulatory tool that is designed to help mitigate the risk that haunts financial institutions. Its designers had a clear purpose in mind: to create safer and sounder financial institutions by mandating that the amount of capital […]
Data Quality Evolves By Fern Halper and Marcia Kaufman Data quality is an integral part of any company’s information infrastructure and poor data quality, therefore, impairs the organization in a number of ways. Poor data quality affects operational efficiencies, decision making, and reporting – to name only a few of the more obvious targets. And, […]
The Future of Email By Robin Bloor Microsoft’s recent acquisition of FrontBridge Technologies will provide a much needed functionality boost to Microsoft Exchange. A minor surprise in this is that the functionality FrontBridge delivers was already on the Exchange roadmap. Microsoft has decided to buy rather than continue to build, probably for the sake of […]
Security, Privacy, Accountability – Let the Party Begin by Carol Baroudi & Robin Bloor Headline: CardSystems Solutions Exposes 40 Million Credit Cards to Security Risk. Headline: BJ’s Wholesale Club Settles FTC Charges of Creating Unnecessary Risk and Failure to Use Available Security Measures. The emperor has no clothes. Again. The sad – […]
