Jaikumar Vijayan

Sun Microsystems Inc. this week will boost the capabilities of its Sun Open Net Environment (ONE) Portal Server 6.0 technology with new secure remote access functionality.

Sun Microsystems Inc. last month announced details of an ambitious initiative, informally called N1, that's aimed at helping companies better utilize their data centre computing resources while reducing systems management complexity.

Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to announce details of an ambitious initiative, informally called N1, that's aimed at helping companies better utilize their data center computing resources while reducing systems management complexity.

Gone are the days when companies relied on managed service providers to host static, single-server sites. With Web sites becoming more sophisticated, companies are now asking their outsourcers to monitor and manage a slew of complex, real-time transaction-processing activities running across multiple sites and servers. And with financial turmoil in the Web outsourcing market, these customers want to know more about their vendors' financial records, business models, operational strategies and future plans.

A computer incident response team, or CIRT, is a lot like a firefighting crew

Gartner Inc. is cautioning NCR Corp.'s Teradata customers against overpaying for some recently introduced hardware, in response to what the research firm is calling "illogical pricing practices."

Hewlett-Packard Co. will focus on delivering a wide range of IT consulting and business process services as part of its postmerger strategy, a senior executive said last week.

Organizations that fail to show due diligence when it comes to protecting their data assets face a very real risk of legal problems in the not-too-distant future, analysts said.