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2006-09-18T14:06:00.000-04:00

If you're looking for new posts from the editors of WhatIs.com about new technologies, online trends or unusual terms, you can now find them at "Our Latest Discovery" instead of this space.

While we appreciate all of the feedback and the subscribers to this blog over the past six months, we're going to let "the Big Picture" go dormant, though you'll continue to see new content appear in the Grazr feeds in the sidebar as new Words of the Day, podcasts and Buzzword Alert newsletters are created.

If you're looking for more of the original news content which made up the bulk of our previous posts please visit Searchtechtarget.techtarget.com, where you'll find the freshest, most relevant enterprise IT industry news around.

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OWASP to pay people to work on projects

2006-09-12T17:29:00.000-04:00

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) aims to deliver more products, as well as increase corporate sponsorship with its Autumn of Code initiative. Read more...

PCI council formed; revised standard includes app security requirement

2006-09-12T17:28:00.001-04:00

American Express, Discover, JCB, MasterCard and Visa have created an independent PCI standards council. Their first act was to release version 1.1 of the PCI Data Security Standard, which clarifies existing requirements as well as adds a new one for application security. Read more...

Champy: Four processes to successful retention

2006-09-12T17:28:00.000-04:00

Increased turnover within an IT organization can lead to an overall decrease in productivity and quality of work. In his monthly column, James Champy suggests an offensive approach to retention and offers four tips for retaining qualified IT employees. Read more...

Gartner: Enterprise CRM returns

2006-09-12T17:27:00.000-04:00

At the Gartner CRM Summit, analysts explain why enterprises are once again taking on large CRM projects and why it's more about processes than technology. Read more...

Open source stacks move into critical operations

2006-09-12T17:26:00.000-04:00

IT managers must understand the changing dynamic of open source software stacks if they hope to benefit from flexibility and vendor independence down the road, says analyst Raven Zachary. Read more...

G-Log acquisition bears fruit with Oracle Transportation Management 5.5

2006-09-12T17:16:00.000-04:00

Oracle today unveiled Oracle Transportation Management 5.5, the first major release to integrate the spoils of Oracle's purchase of G-Log Software last year. Read more...

Storage IPOs bode well for competition

2006-09-12T17:15:00.000-04:00

Analysts say new public players could breathe competitive life into the market, but it all hinges on how well execs can balance the needs of users and shareholders. Read more...

New Exchange exams likely to emphasize server roles, security

2006-09-12T17:10:00.000-04:00

Brush up on your knowledge of Exchange Server roles and security. These changes in the next generation of Exchange will likely factor heavily in the certification exams. Read more...

Eclipse director: Open source development bests proprietary

2006-09-11T17:09:00.000-04:00

At Eclipse World, Eclipse Foundation's Michael Milinkovich tells SearchOpenSource.com that open source plug-in model will outshine Vista’s 'hairball' of code. Read more...

Open Season: openQRM membership surges; Red Hat champions new public forum

2006-09-11T17:08:00.000-04:00

A free preview from Alfresco; Black Duck wins over Eclipse Foundation; Red Hat champions a forum for public discussion; openQRM gets hot. Read more...

Three patch updates coming for Windows and Office

2006-09-11T17:07:00.000-04:00

Microsoft said it will release two security updates for Windows and one for Office next week. The Office update will address at least one critical security flaw. Read more...

Three patch updates coming for Windows and Office

2006-09-11T17:06:00.000-04:00

Microsoft said it will release two security updates for Windows and one for Office next week. The Office update will address at least one critical security flaw. Read more...

Security Blog Log: Word doc scam evades spam filters

2006-09-11T17:03:00.000-04:00

A researcher gets a harsh reward after flagging a University of Southern California Web site flaw -- and more blogs are keeping an eye on the latest security breaches. Read more...

Review: ISM Express 1000 a mixed bag

2006-09-11T17:02:00.000-04:00

ISM Express is a powerful, useful product with strong reporting and policy management capabilities, but its surprisingly lax security should be tightened. Read more...

Xen startup Virtual Iron breaks ranks on paravirtualization

2006-09-11T17:01:00.000-04:00

Virtual Iron questions the wisdom of paravirtualization while promoting unmodified operating systems to members of the Xen community. Read more...

Why VMware still trumps Microsoft Virtual Server

2006-09-11T17:00:00.000-04:00

The differences between VMware Server and Microsoft Virtual Server demonstrate why VMware Server is still quite popular despite Microsoft's Virtual Server being freely available. Read more...

Gartner's Bittman predicts virtualization's future benefits and hassles

2006-09-11T16:59:00.000-04:00

Gartner's Tom Bittman says that IT managers will find virtualization useful for speeding through deployments and balancing compute power. Tracking VMs, however, will be a hassle. Read more...

Brocade monetizes SAN Health tool

2006-09-11T16:56:00.000-04:00

For an annual fee of roughly $2,500, Brocade will provide more advanced features to its SAN Health tool; also new are updates to directors and file management software. Read more...

webMethods buys Infravio for SOA governance tools

2006-09-11T16:51:00.000-04:00

According to the CEO of webMethods, SOA is reaching an "inflection point" with an increasing number of multi-million dollar implementations that demand governance. Read more...

Dissecting the AD architecture: SID filtering and the authentication firewall

2006-09-11T16:45:00.000-04:00

In this article, Windows expert Dean Wells describes the process of security identifier (SID) filtering and breaks down several components of the authentication protocol in his continued analysis of the Active Directory architecture. Read more...

HP's data center consolidation provides management insights

2006-09-08T16:45:00.001-04:00

Hewlett-Packard Co. has a vision for the data center of the future, and it is using its own massive data center consolidation project as the proving ground for its ideas. Read more...

HP Integrity servers get new Itanium chip

2006-09-08T16:45:00.000-04:00

Hewlett-Packard continues to push the Intel Itanium 2 chip over RISC-based processors with the expansion of its Integrity server line to include the most updated Itanium. Read more...

Financial sector data center veteran leads consulting arm of Aperture

2006-09-08T16:43:00.000-04:00

After spending 30 years as a data center manager for Verizon, First USA, Bank One and JPMorganChase, Gary Aron has decided to head up the consulting services division at Aperture -- a data center software company in Stamford, CT. Read more...

RFID continues to raise security concerns

2006-09-07T23:02:00.000-04:00

As more applications are developed for radio frequency identification technology, CIOs need to pay closer attention to the potential security risks. Read more...