April 20, 1998
Priorities 64-Bit Computing Takes Off Interactive Research Win98 Nearly Set Hacker Stoppers? Architecture Battle Heats Up Resellers Fight Dell Scheduling Solutions Taking Stock: Diversified AMS Bounces Back |
Bank Shot
Industry consolidation promises to give banks and other financial institutions fresh resources to transform their businesses with IT.
PC Vendors Emphasize More Than New
Machines
Focus on price, cost of ownership, Web-based sales.
EMC Boosts Support For Fibre
Channel
Vendor plans to offer switches as part of fibre-based storage infrast ructure.
GM Prepares Rollout Of Integrated Intranet
Platform
Plan calls for huge desktop procurement.
MCI Customers Protest Rate Hikes To Cover
Subsidy
Carrier, rivals say charges are a must to offset universal service obligation.
Tools Help Divvy Bandwidth
Products can help users delay increasing capacity.
Microsoft Seeks E-Mail Upgrade
Business
Discounts offered on Exchange in battle with Lotus.
Terminal
Server On Track
Software not tested with BackOffice apps.
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Priorities
What are IT managers' top priorities? Business issues--not pure technology decisions--top the list.
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64-Bit Computing Takes Off
Lower prices, more support spur demand.
Sol
ution Series: Legacy Apps To The
Web
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Interactive Research
Sports, health-care data moves to Web in subscription service offerings.
Service Helps IS Managers Compare Internet
Software
Intraware's Compariscope lets users assign their own weighting to various criteria
eRoom Upgrade Boosts Scalability
Instinctive's 'teamware' revision supports more users and is easier to administer.
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Win98 Nearly Set
Microsoft woos business users with ease-of-use features, disaster recovery.
Aurum Revises Sales Suite
Components work together, separately.
Savant Boosts Q Diagnostic Center
Database diagnostic tool adds event management, SQL tuning, trend analysis.
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Hacker Stoppers?
Companies bought $65 million worth of network-intrusion tools last year, but capabilities still lag what's promised.
Vendors Beef Up VPN Products
Management, security features added.
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Architecture Battle Heats Up
NUMA or SMP? For server customers, price/performance is still what really matters.
Silicon Graphics Maps Out Survival
Plan
Graphics leader plans to move to Intel-based systems, streamline business.
Pentium II Upgrade May Spur Workstation
Migration To NT
Memory, throughput gains seen as benefits to technical apps.
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Resellers Fight Dell
Channel uses pricing, marketing tactics to lure customers from direct marketer.
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Scheduling Solutions
Field-service businesses find that whether they build or buy, the right scheduling software can boost efficiency and customer service.
Price Waterhouse Makes Sense Of
Resumé Chaos
Global tracking system stores to Notes database.
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Taking Stock: Diversified AMS Bounces B
ack
IT consulting firm rebounds from telecom contract problems by rebuilding confidence among investors and tech managers.
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