Jaikumar Vijayan

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.

Organizations replicate and mirror data for a variety of reasons. Since Sept. 11, a major driver for data replication has been disaster recovery and business continuity planning. Companies are hoping to bolster their capabilities in these areas by maintaining copies of data and applications at one or more off-site locations.

The recent theft of 13,000 customer records from a major credit reporting agency shows why it's important for companies to ensure that their business partners are following strong security practices, analysts and users said.

Spending on IT projects will remain flat for the rest of 2002, according to a recent survey by Gartner Inc. and The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

Security analysts are warning of a self-propagating worm targeting Microsoft Corp.'s SQL Server software.

Following disclosures by Sun Microsystems Inc. that four top executives plan to give up their jobs, including president and chief operating officer Ed Zander, users and analysts are looking for explanations that go beyond the company's initial statements.

With three new releases, Unisys Corp. is building on efforts to migrate users of its two proprietary mainframe lines to a common architecture based on Intel Corp. and Windows technologies.

With three new releases, Unisys Corp. is building on efforts to migrate users of its two proprietary mainframe lines to a common architecture based on Intel Corp. and Windows technologies.