Jacqueline Emigh

A growing number of administrators are concerned over how to manage corporate laptops at public hotspots. And soon, many enterprises are likely to face the prospect of managing additional wireless technologies beyond mere Wi-Fi. Customers ranging from Sears to Schlumberger are already implementing customer service or sales applications with major wireless WAN (wide area network) […]

While many businesses keep clinging to existing Windows, NetWare, and OS/390 solutions, more and more are turning to Linux clusters for high performance computing (HPC), high availability (HA), and Web farm applications. To get the most out of Linux clusters, however, you need to know the ins-and-outs of installation and maintenance, as well as the […]

Tens of millions of workers today are using instant messaging (IM), and the number is projected to soon skyrocket into the hundreds of millions. To ensure more administrative control, organizations are starting to deploy enterprise instant messaging (EIM) systems, which add features like policy-based rules, logging, archiving, and encryption. IM vendors still need to achieve […]

Only a few years back, corporations like Cisco and Procter & Gamble painstakingly put together elaborate streaming media systems for their own use. In stark contrast, during the current era of company budget-slashing, multimedia isn’t exactly a mission-critical IT priority for most organizations. At the same time, though, demands for streaming video and audio are […]

Tulane, Volvo, and Coca-Cola are just a few of the organizations that have started to use commercial content management (CM) solutions. Products in the CM category tie together web pages, database files, e-mail, and other content into a single, searchable place. Major systems vendors like IBM, Microsoft, and Sun are also making big plays in […]

Beyond public proclamations of fuller open-source support, Novell is using its annual BrainShare conference to quietly spell out some of its long-term plans for Zenworks, GroupWise, eDirectory, and other flagship networking products. Aside from the Zenworks suite that shipped this week, Novell is now readying another Zen release, codenamed Zeus, that will roll in asset […]

IBM Tivoli will debut a large set of new products at IBM developerWorks Live! later this week, giving star billing to an autonomic engine, toolkit, and assessment tool. Many observers see the upcoming announcements as boosting Tivoli’s stature in the areas of crossplatform management, security, and autonomic computing vs. industry rivals, particularly HP’s OpenView. Other […]

In rolling out low-cost, Oracle-based server clusters on Wednesday, Dell CEO Michael Dell mentioned Linux and Windows as “standards” in almost the same breath. At the same press conference in New York City, though, members of a Dell customer panel indicated that momentum for Linux could be starting to outweigh attachment to Windows and other […]

With equipment prices falling and the number of hot spots rising, wireless LANs will become more predominant in 2003 than ever before. For network managers, though, vendor interoperability is expected to remain an issue across areas ranging from encryption to configuration management tools. According to recently released research from Gartner Dataquest, worldwide end user spending […]

Imagine, if you will, a world in which Microsoft Windows helps provide application-level management on other operating systems — and possibly vice versa. With its emerging “self-healing” architecture, Microsoft hopes to gain ground in crossplatform enterprise management by partnering with other operating system (OS) vendors. At this early stage of the game, observers are expressing […]