Lisa Vaas

Microsoft Corp., still scrambling to help customers glue their systems back together following the SQL Server “Slammer” worm, on Friday will put out a new version of tools designed to help users figure out whether theyre at risk. In addition, the company plans to put out a third version sometime next week. There are three […]

Microsoft Corp., trying to make up for the disappointing uptake of Windows Server 2000 and that softwares headache-inducing Active Directory installation process, is expected to announce today tweaks to technology, programs and services for Windows Server 2003. Bob Ellsworth, director of Microsofts Windows Server Product Management Group, in Seattle, said that a key motivation for […]

IBM Tuesday rolled out a beta version of the first product to come out of its years-long Xperanto data integration research project. Consisting of two products, the DB2 Information Integrator and the DB2 Information Integrator for Content, the software encapsulates IBMs goal to help customers access, integrate and analyze all forms of data within and […]

The patches that could have stopped last weeks attack on Microsoft Corp. database software were so difficult to install or so poorly publicized that some of Microsofts own database administrators failed to install them. The Redmond, Wash., developer released last July patch MS02-039 to fix a known vulnerability in its SQL Server database and wrapped […]

Computer Associates International Inc. is consolidating a line of database utilities and bundling it for free with an upgrade to its Unicenter Database Management for DB2 for z/OS and OS/390. CA Value Pack for DB2, which is being announced this week along with the Unicenter upgrade, streamlines and automates database tasks, according to officials at […]

A federal court on Friday sentenced former brain-dump site owner Robert Keppel to 12 months and one day in prison, as well as ordering him to pay $500,000 in restitution to Microsoft Corp. Keppel, owner of the defunct brain dump sites CheetSheets.com and Cheet-Sheets.com, in August pleaded guilty to charges of theft of trade secrets, […]

Nowadays, IT professionals who are not angry about offshore outsourcing of IT work are likely a) still employed and b) not scared enough about the imminent loss of their jobs. Judging by data presented at a conference on business process outsourcing within the financial services industry in Boston last week, it is high time to […]

IBM on Wednesday made a $500 million pledge to helps its 90,000 business partners snag a chunk of the $300 billion small-and-medium business marketplace. Big Blue is putting the money into a broad initiative, called the IBM SMB (Small and Medium Business) Advantage, that will consist of channel-enablement activities, incentives, demand-generation tools and teaming opportunities, […]

Versant Corp. and Embarcadero Technologies Inc. are each rolling out new and enhanced tools to better manage and monitor databases. Versant, of Fremont, Calif., last week introduced VMC (Versant Monitoring Console), a systems management software tool that enables visual, real-time monitoring of operational parameters and status of Versant object databases. Versants Object Database Management System […]

IBM and Partner Voltaire Inc. last week at the LinuxWorld Expo in New York introduced technologies that will enable enterprises to scale their Linux-based applications running on DB2 databases. IBMs new DB2 for Linux Clustering solution lets businesses swamped by e-business-generated data scale systems from two to 1,000 nodes, adding nodes as required. The offering […]