Debra Donston

IT budgets are having a tough time keeping pace with just about everything these days—but most especially with the growing need for storage. Fortunately, emerging technologies such as iSCSI and Serial ATA hard drives are helping storage managers meet the data demand for less. Cases in point: the city of Steamboat Springs, Colo., and Channel […]

IM is not an officially sanctioned technology at Bose, in Framingham, Mass., but IT management there recognizes that it is being used to considerable business advantage and is trying to balance the risk with the reward. “There is significant value to instant messaging—real-time communication, instant response—its a great tool,” said Frank Calabrese, Boses manager of […]

The IT community has developed checklists of must-have technologies and accepted best practices for solid protection, but even the most vigilant enterprise IT professionals have been forced into reactionary postures by ceaseless new vulnerabilities, increasingly sophisticated hacker tools and heightened threats of cyber-terrorism. Security in depth is critical to business continuity and customer trust, but […]

Like all eWeek Labs Evaluations, this eVal of enterprise information portals was designed to test products in real-world environs and against the criteria of IT professionals. When we put out the call for participation to our Corporate Partners—our most direct conduit to the “real world”—we were amazed at the response: Nearly half of the 28-member-strong […]

The biggest security risk to any organization comes from within. The Computer Crime and Security Survey conducted by the Computer Security Institute has found that an average of 70 percent of respondents over six years has cited disgruntled and dishonest employees as a likely source of security problems. But a report from the SANS Institute […]

Wireless lans represent “a new financial model for delivering technology,” said Marian Moore, vice chancellor of technology at the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill. College students are historically on the cutting edge of technology, so the use of laptops on campus is a common sight. Starting with UNCs class of 2004, however, laptops […]