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HP Announces New Customer Wins for its Midrange Storage Line

Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:00:00 EST

HP today announced that Rydex Investments and Wheaton Franciscan Services have deployed HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays (EVAs) in their IT environments.

TSI Selects Xenos IT Solution to integrate With Its New Container Management System

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:15:00 EST

Xenos Group announced that TSI Terminal Systems has selected the Xenos EDI terminalONE solution to integrate with their new container management system to improve the movement of containers at two of the largest container terminals at the Port of Vancouver. Xenos terminalONE is a key element in an information supply chain that links multiple trading partners to TSI.

IT Services from Quest Extends Microsoft Active Smart Card Authentication

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:15:00 EST

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.

Xenos Publishes IT Solutions on AIIM Solution Center

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:45:00 EST

Xenos Group announced that it has authored and published two new white papers on the AIIM Solution Center for Financial Services.

Quest Software's New Compliance Portal Gives IT Users Secure Remote Access

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:00:00 EST

At the RSA Conference 2006, Quest Software today introduced Quest Compliance Portal, an integrated web portal that enables IT and business users to securely and remotely access compliance-related information. This announcement coincides with the availability of Quest InTrust 9.0 as the latest enhancements to the Quest Compliance Suite for Windows.

Quest Software and Sybase Team Up Builds IT Solution

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:45:00 EST

Sybase and Quest Software database and infrastructure management solutions, today announced the general availability of the Sybase Database Expert Option and the Sybase SQL Expert Option for Sybase ASE 15.0, an enterprise-class relational database. Based on Quest Software technology, Sybase Database Expert and Sybase SQL Expert help deliver optimal database performance and enable rapid migration to version 15.0 of Sybase ASE. These products are available through Sybase worldwide.

Quest InTrust 9.0, New IT Solution

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:30:00 EST

At the RSA Conference 2006, Quest database and infrastructure management solutions, today announced availability of Quest InTrust 9.0, the newest version of Quest?s heterogeneous auditing product that is part of Quest's Compliance Suite for Windows.

Quest Software Introduces New Freeware

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:15:00 EST

Quest Software announced today its plans to offer solutions to help IT professionals track, understand and control their Microsoft SharePoint-based infrastructure. The first product, available for download at no cost, is an automated discovery wizard that identifies and reports on an organization's entire SharePoint environment.

Quest's New IT Program Offers Single Sign-On for Applications

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 13:15:00 EST

Quest Software announced today the availability of Vintela Authentication Services 3.0. The new version advances cross-platform integration in several key areas. Vintela Authentication Services 3.0 provides native single sign-on for packaged and custom applications, as well as enhanced reporting on access to system resources. The product also eases migration off NIS or other Unix authentication mechanisms by eliminating the requirement to reconcile multiple user identities when moving to Active Directory.

Xenos: B2B Over IP – Fulfilling the Promise of EDI

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 17:15:00 EST

Agility, flexibility, and integrity are attributes which underscore any successful business. Typically, this success is based on the way businesses process information. From design and production, through order entry and shipping, information is the critical commodity, so much so that over the years, businesses have gone to great expense to optimize information flow within their supply chain. The reliance on EDI and x400 networks has been one such investment.

Arc-Mind: Welcome to Arc-Mind, Inc.

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 11:00:00 EST

Arc-Mind is a full-service, software development company that can help you succeed on your next project. Arc-Mind provides systems integration, consulting and mentoring services serving Global 1000 companies with a primary focus on J2EE, Hibernate, Maven, Spring and JSF (Java Server Faces).

Xythos Software: Document Management Everyone Can Use

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 01:45:00 EST

Unstructured data is doubling in size each year within most enterprise organizations. Yet in many of these same organizations, this vital information is hidden within individual desktops and fragmented in server silos across the enterprise. Employees spend countless hours looking for relevant content and waste many more hours reproducing work, ultimately costing employers millions of dollars in lost productivity.

Azul CentiCore Solution "Delivers the Power of 100 CPUs For the Price of 2 Dell Servers"

Wed, 30 Nov 2005 07:00:00 EST

Azul Systems, Inc., has announced the availability of the Azul CentiCore integrated solution, combining the power of multicore architecture with open source software designed to provide SMP processing power at an affordable price for small or medium size enterprises (SMEs). The CentiCore solution is a pre-configured integrated solution comprised of one specially configured 96-way Azul Compute Appliance with 32GB shared memory, two 2-way/1GB Linux servers, an HP ProCurve Gigabit Ethernet switch both from Penguin Computing, and the open source JBoss Application Server and JBoss Portal.

"Wait...You Guys Support That?" How HostMySite.com Topples Standard Support Models

Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:30:00 EST

A Google search for 'hosted business software' returns a hulking 32,300 products, yet the average hosting company supports fewer than 40. But if your website requires one of the 32,300 online software products not supported by your host you're likely to spend a ton of money only to be left out in the cold.

Parasoft: Ensuring Security and Reliability in Web Services Deployments

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 07:30:00 EST

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 changing business demands. The potential for Web services to deliver considerable business benefits by connecting organizations to partners and customers cannot be overlooked in today's intensely competitive marketplace. However, the flexibility provided with web services also introduces a significant degree of complexity that is consistently underestimated.

MapInfo: Location Intelligence

Sat, 26 Nov 2005 09:00:00 EST

Your company collects enormous amounts of information. Data that tells you a lot about the 'who,' the 'what,' the 'when' and the 'how many.' Whether you realize it or not, that data contains a hidden asset you can't see in a spreadsheet or chart that can provide you with a significant competitive advantage.

Extentech Inc.: Announcing ExtenXLS Round Trip ReportingTM

Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:00:00 EST

What if you could update and expose business-critical formula logic to your Enterprise applications simply by uploading a spreadsheet to your server? What if you could seamlessly utilize existing spreadsheets as a data entry tool, requiring zero coding effort and user training to get updated data back into your system?

Elastic Path Software: How To - Building Enterprise Apps with Open Source Frameworks

Sat, 19 Nov 2005 13:45:00 EST

Any software developer worth the price of their iPod will tell you that 'reusability' is one of the Holy Grails of software development: it is incredibly valuable, but equally as elusive. How many developers working on insane deadlines have time to sit back and think about all the wonderful ways that their business components 'might' be used in the future? Even standards committees led by industry experts have trouble with this.

DocSoft: A New Element

Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:00:00 EST

We live in the thick of the Information Age - the explosion of digital information in all sectors of modern life has hindered business and organizations from quickly and accurately finding information. The challenge in our time is quickly finding relevant information in the proverbial haystack of material which grows ever larger by the second.

Hosting.com: Hosting Companies Missing the Mark on Customer Experience

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 14:00:00 EDT

With competition in the web hosting industry becoming more and more rigorous, companies must continuously find new and innovative ways to bring value to potential and existing customers. While almost all hosting companies claim expertise in areas of 'hardware provisioning', 'infrastructure' and 'uptime', those that are leading the pack are focused on the total customer experience. Successful hosting companies use the inherent strengths of their technical staff to create new and innovative solutions. These solutions are ideally customized to meet the customer's ever-changing needs.

Verio: Verio Enables Companies To Maximize IT Business Value

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 14:00:00 EDT

As companies increasingly serve customers online, deploy more Web-based business tools, work to secure their enterprises and meet regulatory rules, one thing has become critical: Ensure their online presence and operations are based on rock-solid business solutions and state of the art infrastructure.

JadeLiquid Software WebRenderer: Seamlessly Connect the Rich Client to the Server

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 13:30:00 EDT

With the number of J2EE based Web infrastructures growing at a phenomenal rate there is a need for presentation layers to display complex Web based content. The challenge for client-side Java applications is to display this rich Web content in a meaningful way. Java does not have a standards compliant Web content rendering engine built into the J2SE SDK. This poses a challenge for Java developers with a requirement to display rich Web content.

Visual Paradigm Suite: Build Quality Applications Faster, Better and Cheaper

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 13:15:00 EDT

Do you ever have the feeling that you've spent lots of money for a developer tool without gaining the productivity boost you were hoping for? Do you find it hard to track the status of your development against the project requirements? Does it seem difficult, keeping your design and implementation in-sync so that you can generate accurate documentation? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then probably you are using the wrong tool!

Extentech Inc: It's 1 a.m. - Do You Know Where Your Business Logic Is?

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 13:15:00 EDT

You don't need a whitepaper to tell you that whenever numbers and calculations are involved, the spreadsheet is the de facto standard for business applications. Ever since the invention of the graphical user interface, businesses have relied heavily on the spreadsheet as an invaluable analysis tool.

Parasoft: Automatically Improve Java Reliability, Functionality, Security, and Performance

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 13:15:00 EDT

Parasoft Jtest is an automated Java unit testing and coding standard analysis product that improves Java code reliability, functionality, security, performance, and maintainability. To prevent common Java errors and security vulnerabilities, Jtest checks whether code complies with 500+ Java development rules and automatically corrects many reported violations. Rules can be customized without coding, and user-defined rules can be created graphically or automatically.

EV1Servers: Four Steps to Web Hosting Success

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 12:15:00 EDT

GraphOn Corporation: Application Publishing Made Easy and Affordable

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 12:15:00 EDT

For the enterprise or department looking for an easy, plug-and-play solution to publish or Web-enable existing applications, an excellent alternative is GO-Global from GraphOn. Without touching a single line of code, GO-Global provides instant access to Windows, UNIX, and Linux applications from anywhere. By eliminating the complexities and heavy licensing requirements of Citrix MetaFrame and Microsoft Windows Terminal Services (WTS), GO-Global provides a fast, simple, and affordable thin-client solution.

Quest Software: Evolving Custom Application Management: From Business Disruption to Business Value

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 12:15:00 EDT

Where's the problem? Who needs to put out the fire - a system administrator or a developer? How can we prevent this in the future? These common questions emphasize how systems management directly impacts the effectiveness of IT - and, ultimately, a company's profitability.

ClearNova: RAD Productivity Is Now Available for J2EE & Open Source

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 12:15:00 EDT

J2EE is powerful yet very complex. While it provides reliability, scalability, and security, those benefits are achieved slowly and at high cost. It's well known that Java suffers from a lack of high-productivity development environments. Existing tools are designed for J2EE programmers and are not geared toward business application developers. As a result, many developers who were productive in 4GLs such as PowerBuilder or business languages such as COBOL or RPG find themselves essentially locked out of building J2EE web applications because of the steep learning curve of traditional low-level Java coding.

MapInfo: Location Intelligence

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 12:15:00 EDT

IntelliVIEW: Reporting Made Easy!

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 12:00:00 EDT

Have you faced a situation where your reports pose more questions than answers? IntelliVIEW is a simple easy to use reporting tool that can be used by IT Managers to integrate interactive reports into their .NET/ Java/ COM Applications.

pdf-tools.com: Quality Assurance in PDF

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 12:00:00 EDT

If you bake a cake, you start by checking the 'best before' date on the cake mix, smelling the milk to ensure it's still good, and looking at the eggs when cracking them open. If any of the ingredients are bad or have reached their expiry date, you won't use them. In comparison, how many companies check the PDF documents they receive from external (or other internal) sources before entering them into business processes, where the cost of failure is considerably higher?

JadeLiquid Software / WebRenderer: Seamlessly Displaying Web Content Within Your Java Application

Tue, 31 May 2005 14:15:00 EDT

Within today's vast Web infrastructure businesses run distributed systems. These distributed systems serve an array of content, more often than not in a web descriptive form such as HTML. The challenge for client-side Java applications is to display this rich Web content in a meaningful way. Java does not have a standards-compliant Web content rendering engine built into the J2SE SDK. This poses a challenge for Java developers with a requirement to display rich Web content. Java rich-client application developers are forced to use the built-in system browser external to their rich-client application when displaying Web content (due to a lack of means to display Web content).

EV1 Servers: Four Steps to Web Hosting Success

Thu, 26 May 2005 09:00:00 EDT

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 direction. I would like to think that we have also contributed to our customers' success. Many of them have expanded from one single server to dozens - or even hundreds - during the course of our partnership. I have often heard that Web hosting is a commodity business in which three factors - pricing, bandwidth and disk space - are all-important.

FusionWare: Reducing Complexity Through FusionWare Integration Server

Fri, 10 Dec 2004 00:00:00 EST

There must be 50 ways to Web services-enable a legacy system, and at least 500 ways for consultants to make money off companies attempting to do so. While I don't mean to knock the consulting profession (I am one myself, after all), there are some things companies should be able to do on their own. That includes extending new data sources to applications, or bringing on new electronic trading partners. I've heard accounts of companies taking up to six months trying to agree on formats and protocols before exchanging purchase orders and acknowledgements - an exercise that must have put many a consultant's child through college.

PointBase: J2EE Development with PointBase Embedded

Mon, 06 Dec 2004 00:00:00 EST

Steve Jones is the managing director for engineering and support at PointBase. He is responsible for PointBase product development, which includes an innovative family of 100% Java, SQL Relational Database Management (RDBMS), and Synchronization products that are ideal for embedding in a wide range of applications. Because they are all Java, they are highly portable. Here, he talks about the need for embedded products and what they can do. Can you briefly describe the reason PointBase exists in the market today? Where did DataMirror see a need for this type of offering?

Enerjy Software: Why Coding Standards?

Sat, 04 Dec 2004 00:00:00 EST

It's a fact of life: different developers like to write code in different styles. Show me code written by 10 different developers, and I will show you 10 different coding styles. So why try to develop and enforce coding standards? There are two core reasons: Adopting a set of coding standards makes it easier for developers to read and understand each other's code. Although peer review is not the norm in every development shop, almost everyone has to maintain - or, at least, step through - code written by someone else.

NetOp Remote Control Enables Building Automation

Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:00:00 EST

Imagine sitting at a computer and controlling the physical operations of a building that's located miles away. Like something out of a James Bond movie, you can unlock/lock and open/close doors, adjust the temperature in the building control the building's security, and even adjust air pressure in the building; all at the push of a button. Control Installations of Iowa (CP3) does just that. By engineering a graphical user interface based off a building blueprints, employees at CI3 monitor and control their client's buildings on a daily basis.

Simplifying Java Development with Gluecode SE

Sat, 19 Jun 2004 22:00:00 EDT

Open source has gained broad acceptance among enterprises as a reliable source of infrastructure software. The Linux operating system and the Apache Web server are only two examples of open source technologies that are depended upon to power the world's mission-critical servers and web sites. Even as open source continues to proliferate up the technology stack, it remains difficult to make the most of what open source has to offer.Developers face an overwhelming choice, since there are literally thousands of open source projects to choose from.

Itemfield: Defining the Benchmark for Complex Data Transformations

Sat, 19 Jun 2004 22:00:00 EDT

In today's IT environment, complex data represents an ever-increasing proportion of enterprise data. Companies are struggling to transform and integrate complex data and often turn to costly IT development. Business drivers, such as customer self-service, regulatory compliance (e.g., Sarbanes-Oxley), operational and IT efficiency require high-performance, mission-critical applications that exploit real-time data transformations between a variety of complex data formats. The challenge of complex data transformation is the ability to address the diversity of very complicated, poorly defined or undefined data formats used by applications.

Global Knowledge: Why Open Source Software Can Help Create a More Secure IT Infrastructure

Sat, 19 Jun 2004 22:00:00 EDT

Evaluating the state of IT security and associated market statistics, it is apparent that traditional operating environments have not consistently provided acceptable levels of security to enterprise computing. Security-related exposures, liabilities, and losses are rapidly increasing, while conventional computing (hardware, system software, and network bandwidth) costs are all decreasing strongly year over year. Most of the operating environment vendors do not embrace a holistic approach to security - it is clearly an afterthought. There are major systemic flaws in their approach to security - and users are suffering the consequences every day.

Promind Systems' XSL Maker:Complete Toolset for Building Web Pages from XML Data with XSL & CSS

Wed, 26 May 2004 09:00:00 EDT

Challenges of Building Web Pages from XML Data in XSL Technology Developing professional Web pages based on XML data using XSL has historically been a time-consuming and expensive task due to the following challenges: Basic knowledge of XSL is insufficient for implementing fully-featured Web pages Hand-coding in XSL is very time-consuming Existing XSL code editor and mapper products are not sufficient for building professional-grade Web pages No XSL tools support both XSL and CSS In XSL it is very difficult to incorporate other Web languages such as JavaScript, Struts, VBScript, Php, ASP etc that are necessary to build fully-featured professional Web pages These complexities are exponentially compounded when Web pages need to perform advanced operations such as: joining content from multiple XML sources; reading live XML/RSS feeds; and including other Web pages XSLmaker was developed to overcome these challenges to the widespread realization of the significant benefits of Web pages based on XML. XSLmaker is a development environment that integrates all of the components required to develop fully-featured Web pages using XSL.

Candle Corporation: Citizens Financial Group Realizes Tactical and Strategic Gains From Application Infrastructure Initiative

Sat, 17 Apr 2004 00:00:00 EDT

After a brief pause, merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the financial services industry has resumed its breakneck pace. Financial services organizations are pursuing ambitious acquisition strategies to secure regional leadership. Industry leaders understand, however, that acquisitions to establish regional dominance will only carry them so far.

ClearNova: ThinkCAP Rapid Application Development Environment Cuts App Dev Time By Over 50%

Fri, 16 Apr 2004 00:00:00 EDT

There is a better approach to application development. ClearNova's ThinkCAP offers a faster, easier way to produce business applications that meet schedule, cost, and skill constraints. ThinkCAP is focused on one thing: to simplify and accelerate the development and maintenance of web-based business applications. It produces applications that are robust, reliable, and roll out in less than half the time.

Creative Science Systems: Middleware for the Masses

Thu, 15 Apr 2004 00:00:00 EDT

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 hub from various systems, their format and structure transformed and relayed to the receiving applications or networks.

Dralasoft: Dralasoft Debuts Workflow 3.0 For Web Services

Wed, 14 Apr 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Dralasoft, Inc. announced the release of Dralasoft Workflow 3.0, the newest version of its well-known Business Process Management (BPM) software. Leading the improvements in Version 3.0 is an extensive new SOAP interface that can be used to invoke Workflow Engine as a web service, enabling business partners to seamlessly collaborate in mission-critical workflows via the web.

GraphOn Corporation: Global Application Access Made Easy

Tue, 13 Apr 2004 00:00:00 EDT

GraphOn offers cost-effective application publishing and Web-enabling solutions that dramatically lower TCO by enabling access to Windows, UNIX and Linux applications from any location on any platform using ultra-thin-client technology.

Ensemble: Rapid Enterprise Integration for Rapid Results

Mon, 12 Apr 2004 00:00:00 EDT

InterSystems Corporation's Ensemble is a comprehensive integration platform that enables exceptionally fast integration and composite application development. Designed to leverage today's Web and service-oriented architectures, Ensemble offers the power to handle any scope of integration project and the ease to quickly integrate and rapidly develop to meet the tight deadlines typical of today's competitive environment.

iTKO: Automated Testing for Enterprise Java

Sun, 11 Apr 2004 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Merant: The Team Solution for Today's Distributed Development

Sat, 10 Apr 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Built by Merant, the leader in proven SCM solutions and maker of award-winning PVCS products, the new Professional 8 suite focuses on the unique needs of the contemporary development team: managers, developers, build managers and QA/testing engineers working collaboratively.