Sean Gallagher

Did you know that:The process never endsBringing your systems into compliance with a new financial reporting law may be your biggest information-technology expenditure this decade. Some say implementing compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is a bigger project than Y2K bug fixes. “That might seem extreme,” says Kraig Haber, director of financial product marketing at SAP. […]

At a busy McDonalds on East 42nd Street in Manhattan, Internet access comes free with a Value Meal purchase. Or, at least, the promise of it does. The dining room at this high-volume restaurant, just across the street from Grand Central Station, doesnt seem to lend itself to casual Web browsing. In fact, “No Loitering” […]

David Black has a crazy idea that just might work. Accentures senior manager of security technology thinks the best way to cut down on spam is to spam back. Its certainly an idea worth trying, if only because nothing else seems capable of stopping the scourge of unsolicited e-mail that tries to hawk everything from […]

STORAGE ARCHITECTURES The conventional wisdom is that network-attached storage is easy to set up but slow, and a storage area network is difficult but fast. New storage technologies merge these models into a lower-cost Internet Protocol-based architecture; real products, however, are a year or two away. Storage Area NetworkA SAN is a private, high-speed network […]