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DOUGLAS SOLTESZ, vice president and CIO at Budd Van Lines, is facing a common problem: A seemingly endless flood of data. 'If you gave me an infinite amount of storage, [...]

FOR CASH-STRAPPED IT SHOPS looking to get out from under manual storage management chores, storage orchestration software looks like a lifeline: It promises to let users choose from a catalog [...]

WHEN IT CONSULTANCY OpenCredo set out to launch three new applications within seven months for a major insurance underwriter, it had three goals in mind: Trim development time from the [...]

WITH THE ECONOMY STILL SHAKY and the need for storage exploding, almost every storage vendor claims it can reduce the amount of data you must store. Trimming your data footprint [...]

MICHAEL GLENN was wasting storage, and he knew it. A document-scanning project had created a single, 1.4TB LUN of old court records. Glenn, senior IT manager for the Ohio Court [...]

ABOUT 15 miles from its medical center in downtown San Antonio, Christus Health is building a $23 million data center to house a flood of digital information ranging from patient [...]

RICK KING helps run a $3.1 billion information services business for The Thomson Corp., and he says it's crucial to get enough power to store the 2.5 petabytes of legal [...]

HOPING TO save money and respond more nimbly to changing business conditions, companies are increasingly going 'virtual' with their data centers, outsourcing the management of key applications and data. But [...]

BUILDING the next-generation data center is one thing. Managing it will be another. Much of the technology to virtualize and consolidate servers, networks and storage is here today or on [...]

Mike Kronenwetter has big dreams for his service-oriented architecture: He wants it to align his IT efforts more closely with the needs of the business. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] But Kronenwetter, vice […]

IT leaders will pick and choose their projects this year, aligning each closely with business goals. Here are the top five projects the Premier 100 IT Leaders for 2003 will [...]

IT'S 1960. Gas costs about 30 cents a gallon. Only big business, government and academia own computers. The first phones to use buttons instead of a rotary dial are still [...]

For many application developers, webmasters and information systems managers, Java is clearly 'The Next Big Thing.' It promises to cut the time it takes to develop applications for their business [...]

A new generation of 'push' software could help sales representatives find new prospects, alert field offices to sudden price changes and even make it easier for information systems managers to [...]

-------------------- Keith Wood is a true believer. A Sunday pilgrimage to Phoenix in search of converts left him stranded like some prophet in the desert -- his battered 1980 Subaru [...]

No matter what kind of business you run, your company's growth, even its survival, depends on your smart use of information technology. If you haven't done so already, you need [...]

If you wait until 1999, 1998 or even next month to begin testing your year 2000 repairs, you'll be too late. You need to start the test process now if [...]

Recognizing that they can't live without their information networks, nearly seven out of every 10 corporations plan to invest more next year in network infrastructure and reliability. That's one of [...]

Doron Cohen still isn't happy. And that means big changes for his information systems organization at TransCanada PipeLines Ltd. Sure, he has already helped transform the Calgary, Alberta, company from [...]

The Computerworld Smithsonian Awards program each year honors technological innovation that brings about economic, educational and social change. From hundreds of nominees, five finalists are selected in each of 10 […]

Michael J. Zeitlin lifts an imaginary four-cubic-mile chunk out of the earth's surface and slices it like a delicatessen clerk would carve roast beef. With clicks of a mouse, he […]

It's not unusual for in-demand IS professionals like Glenn Hansen to get several calls a week - or even several a day - trying to lure them to new jobs. […]

A graduate student takes only three and a half hours to break the most secure encryption code that can be legally exported. A fired employee encrypts the company's vital databases […]

It's Dec. 9, 1996. Do you know where your year 2000 problems are? If not, you had better get cracking. Most practitioners and consultants say if you aren't well into [...]

Merger Options: Quick cash or long-term payoff Immediate IT conversion: Pro: Quick cost savings; lets you move on to other work more quickly. Con: Demoralization amid the loser's IT staff; [...]

Adventurous U.S. firms are tapping pools of programming talent from Belfast to Bombay to cut costs and focus development. It's 9:45 a.m. in Secunderabad, India, as Systems Analyst Satya Subbalakshmi [...]

One former member of Xerox Corp.'s IT department has almost lost track of the number of reorgs he's seen over the past few years. 'They become such a way of [...]

'I went to work now to learn the shape of the river; and of all the elusive and ungraspable objects that ever I tried to get mind or hands on [...]

Henry Bertolon strides through his computerized trading room. Dozens of his traders are working the phones, shouting questions or orders between calls. But this isn't New York, London, or Tokyo. [...]

By Robert L. Scheier Aprudent, conservative approach to banking is a source of pride at Society Corp., a regional bank holding company head-quartered in Cleveland. So it's promises to be [...]

By Robert L. Scheier Whether centralized at corporate headquarters or dispersed in offices around the world, the structure of information systems (IS) departments often closely resembles the organizations they serve. [...]

By Robert L. Scheier, Contributing Writer After years--or decades--of hiccups in the supply chain, component vendors and distributors have coping down to a science. Sony's delay of the PlayStation 3 […]

In 1989, THEN-PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan summed up his view on arms treaties with the Soviet Union with some famous advice: 'Trust - but verify.' At least he had spy satellites [...]

After years of gorging on IT, CEOs and boards of directors have indigestion. They're demanding greater returns from their existing systems before buying more. One way to deliver that return [...]

* IntelliVisor, an online analytic service offered by SAS Institute; offered as an ASP service hosted by Electronic Data Systems Corp. www.sas.com * Spotfire Decision Site from Spotfire; one of [...]

230 Park Ave., Suite 1000 New York, N.Y. 10169 (877) 358-2858 Web: www.kvsinc.com Niche: Microsoft Exchange archival storage and knowledge management Why it's worth watching: It boasts strong capabilities for [...]

Sometimes it's the mundane problems that waste the most time. Consider e-mail. When Microsoft Exchange message stores grow too large, they degrade the performance of Exchange servers. To prevent the [...]

With 50 million to 60 million Microsoft Exchange users worldwide, there's built-in demand for any tool that can make an e-mail administrator's life easier. Within that user base, between 30% [...]

Like any good security manager, Phill Bakker can't be too careful. As senior security architect at eHealthDirect Inc., a Lexington, Mass.-based health care application service provider, he's responsible for safeguarding [...]

Location: 600 Clipper Drive, Belmont, Calif. 94002 Telephone: (650) 769-1237 Web: www.asera.com Niche: Software and services for developing Web-based applications and integrating them with back-end systems; e-commerce sell-side applications Why [...]

The market for enterprise application integration is huge: Framingham, Mass.-based IDC estimates that worldwide revenues for integration services alone will grow from $5 billion last year to almost $21 billion [...]

Considering the gloom around initial public offerings and technology start-ups in general, not many emerging companies are making ambitious claims about the future. But Asera Inc. CEO and President Warren [...]

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. You create a scalable Web architecture in the same way: by dividing your Web systems into well-thought-out components so […]

Company: Avis Group Holdings Challenge: Web-enable mainframe systems without rewriting them. Strategy: Find crucial data and business rules in current applications and build clean interfaces between them and Web applications. [...]

Location: 1 Hines Road, Kanata, Ontario K2K 3C7 Telephone: (613) 599-3888 Web: www.watchfire.com Niche: Monitoring the integrity and accessibility of Web site content Why it's worth watching: Watchfire's products promise [...]

Watchfire plays in a loosely defined space it calls 'Web content integrity,' which means it helps ensure that content on a Web site is accessible to users. The company's niche [...]

Few start-ups are talking about getting funding these days, much less going public. Web site analysis tool vendor Watchfire Corp. is a happy exception. Having raised $25 million in venture [...]

Steve Etzell saw for himself how quickly a minor unauthorized change can foul up a Web site. Etzell, director of Web technology at Select Comfort Corp. in Minneapolis, was on [...]

Xcert International Inc. is an independent, public-key infrastructure (PKI) company at a time when many PKI firms are merging with or being absorbed by others. In fact, PKI is so [...]

Location: 1981 North Broadway, Suite 330, Walnut Creek, Calif. 95696 Telephone: (925) 274-9300 Web: www.xcert.com Niche: PKI software and services Why it's worth watching: Offers easy-to-use, scalable and open PKI [...]