John S. McCright

Insurance carriers are deploying project management software from Business Engine Inc. and application integration tools from Vitria Technology Inc. to provide broader access to data in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, known as HIPAA. The first component of HIPAA, which will be enforced beginning in April, requires businesses involved in health […]

As a potential new outsourcing powerhouse combination arrives on the scene, an existing outsourcing giant is winning new business. Hewlett-Packard Co. and NEC Corp. on Thursday announced an alliance to jointly provide outsourcing services to enterprises in China, Japan and the United States, with future offerings targeting Southeast Asia and Europe. News of the deal […]

Borland Software Corp. is out of the gate fast in early results from a new benchmark that tests the performance of Java-based software in a Web application. The Scotts Valley, Calif., company recently completed testing of its Borland Enterprise Server (application server edition) Version 5.2 running with its JDataStore 6.03 database against the SPECjAppServer2001 benchmark. […]

Users of Citrix Systems Inc.s MetaFrame server-based computing platform will be getting new collaboration capabilities, as well as performance and ease-of-use enhancements. At its iForum show in Orlando, Fla., last week, Citrix announced Project Pearl, a technology to allow dispersed employees or workgroups using MetaFrame to share access to any published application. Project Pearl, due […]

Oracle Corp. and Microsoft Corp. will ratchet up their ongoing database battle with each announcing new and upgraded features that hit at the others strengths. At the OracleWorld conference in San Francisco this week, Oracle will introduce real-time features for its Collaboration Suite, ease-of-use enhancements to its EM (Enterprise Manager) database management software and a […]

Users of Citrix Systems Inc.s MetaFrame server-based computing platform will be getting new collaboration capabilities, as well as performance and ease-of-use enhancements. At its iForum show in Orlando, Fla., this week, Citrix announced Project Pearl, a technology to allow dispersed employees or workgroups using MetaFrame to share access to any published application. Project Pearl, due […]

Nortel Networks Corp. last week unveiled a new vision and several products for enabling enterprises to deliver voice, data and multimedia over a converged IP network. The goal of the Brampton, Ontario, companys “One Network, a World of Choice” campaign is to create a seamless experience for employees and customers whether they are accessing corporate […]

Transportation logistics software has made its way online with hosted versions that promise to give enterprises greater visibility into the processes affecting the delivery of raw and finished goods. Nistevo Corp., Elogex Inc. and Manhattan Associates Inc. are enhancing their respective hosted offerings, which link suppliers; their customers; and the truck, air and rail freight […]

Nortel Networks Corp. has a new vision and several new products for enabling enterprises to deliver voice, data and multimedia over a converged IP network. The goal of the Brampton, Ontario, companys “One Network, a World of Choice” campaign, unveiled Tuesday, will be to create a seamless experience for employees and customers whether they are […]

One ant on the tablecloth would not spoil a picnic, but a thousand ants would. Similarly, a single log file can be easily stored and searched. But businesses in todays Internet age are practically flooded with such an abundance of log file data that their IT systems can be overwhelmed and the data can lose […]

Inventions may, as the axiom goes, require 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration, but getting the fruits of that labor to market can also take a sizable chunk of money. Typically, the money to fund development of IT innovations comes from government sources—take the Internet, for example—or from large companies such as IBM. Enter […]

F5 Networks Inc. is looking to solve security and scalability issues on IP networks with a major upgrade to its Big IP traffic management software and hardware. Big IP 4.5, which will be announced next week, can understand a broader array of packet types, including XML, SQL and Session Initiation Protocol. This enables Big IP […]