IT Solutions Guide

Click here to download this article in its complete printable .PDF format DOWNLOAD A FREE EVALUATION COPY! Test early. Test often. Like flossing, you know it's a good habit. But if you aren't conducting automated testing throughout development, you are exposing your company to a "root canal" problem - a software error that will be both costly and painful to fix. Quality is the problem Quality is a proven lever for increased business value in manufacturing, product design and customer service. Despite emerging standards, the software side of business has failed to realize quality. The overall failure rate of enterprise development has remained steady, with only 25 percent of implementation projects successfully meeting budget and timeline. Errors in deployed systems amount... (more)

EV1Servers: Four Steps to Web Hosting Success

For more information, please contact us at: www.ev1servers.net Since 2000, I've had the good fortune of working with over 15,000 EV1Servers customers, including enterprise managers and small business owners, software developers and multi-player gamers, content providers and community forum operators. Ongoing interactions with these dedicated web server users have helped shape our direct... (more)

Parasoft: Ensuring Security and Reliability in Web Services Deployments

To learn more about Parasoft Web services solutions, go to: http://www.parasoft.com/ITmag_article. As enterprises today increasingly depend on IT to help drive business innovation and provide competitive differentiation many are turning to web services and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) to create the flexible and agile IT infrastructure necessary to be able to be responsive to changi... (more)

IT Services from Quest Extends Microsoft Active Smart Card Authentication

At the RSA Conference 2006, Quest Software announced support for multi-factor authentication using smart cards across Windows, Unix and Linux environments with Vintela Authentication Services. User authentication is at the core of identity management, and through its Vintela products, Quest extends the strong user authentication capabilities of Microsoft Active Directory to Unix and Linux... (more)

Creative Science Systems: Middleware for the Masses

Click here to download this article in its complete printable .PDF format Creative Science - http://www.creativescience.com Once upon a time, middleware meant the laborious process of building customized interfaces between applications. Message hubs that sat at the center of the infrastructure replaced these "spaghetti networks" of point-to-point connections. Messages would be routed to the... (more)