Monthly Archives: December 2002
Yaha Worm Spreads Beyond Middle East
A new variant of the Yaha worm, discovered last week in several Middle Eastern countries, has begun spreading more rapidly and widely, anti-virus experts...
No Slowdown in Collaboration
2002 was the year of collaboration right up until the very end as three companies--Hipbone Inc., SiteScape Inc. and eDial Inc.--announced new collaboration offerings...
Exploit Code Posted for SSH Flaws
Subscribers to the BugTraq security mailing list got a belated and unwanted Christmas present over the weekend when someone posted exploit code for a...
Lessons From My Friend James
As someone who interacts mostly with IT professionals and with large IT shops, I dont get many chances to see how the rest of...
IBM, J.P. Morgan Sign $5 Billion Deal
IBM Global Services this morning announced that it has won the much-anticipated J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. outsourcing contract, valued at over $5 billion.The...
Can Video Really Save the Hard Disk Industry?
The march toward technological progress is seldom smooth, except for the occasional documentary on the History Channel. Hard disk manufacturers hope that the personal...
C# Strengths Arent Enough Without Developer Smarts
Thinking back over 2002, strictly from a developer perspective, it seemed to me that the biggest dog that isnt barking is C# ("C sharp"),...
Nextance Updates Contract Management Suite
Enterprise contract management software maker Nextance announced Monday the next iteration of its application suite.Nextance 3.0 provides applications to manage contracts and commitments, along...
Storage News Digest: 30-Dec-02
Enterprise StorageHDS Takes on Modular Storage MarketHitachi Data Systems is trying its hand at modular storage with the Thunder 9500 V Series of virtualized...
Disk-Based Backup Makes an Impact
Thanks to the low cost of ATA disks, advanced backup features arent just for, or built by, large companies anymore.Connecting to servers with TCP/IP...