Lucas Mearian

Wall Street IT executives are hammering home the point that hacking and cyberterrorism is a mounting threat best fought by the private sector and government through creation of a centralized way of alerting and disseminating information about attacks

In the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, financial services executives plan to rely more on their employees' ability to work from remote locations using virtual private networks (VPNs) as firms widen the distance between office locations to mitigate the impact of possible future disasters.

As the economy continues to force IT shops to tighten their belts, some firms are turning to server and storage monitoring software to restrict the amount of space used by business units and to charge those departments for their use of IT and data resources.

As the economy continues to force IT shops to tighten their belts, some firms are using server and storage monitoring software to restrict the amount of space used by business units and to charge departments for their use of IT and data resources.

Three storage vendors are claiming to have cobbled together a SCSI-over-IP storage network from off-the-shelf hardware, beating by a year industry expectations about when the first viable iSCSI storage area networks would ship.

Top executives from Google Inc. and 3Com Corp. took their best shots today at summing up what the IT industry could do to improve its business prospects after all that went wrong last year.

Sears, Roebuck and Co. plans to deploy 95TB of new storage capacity by April, tripling the amount it now has installed and allowing the retailer to consolidate two key data warehouses and build a storage-area network.

Citibank is looking into the feasibility and cost of using biometric technology as a more efficient and secure method of identifying its customers. Meanwhile, Huntington Bancshares Inc. is studying the impact of identity theft and fraud with a close eye on biometrics as a possible approach to reducing the chronic problem.