Project Management

In some cases, narrow identity management solutions will scale up to greater ambitions. In others, the scope may remain small. At both extremes, identity management pays off in very concrete ways when the scope and details are determined by the needs of the business.

At a rather unusual conference in Toronto on Thursday, speaker after speaker graphically described just how messy things get when IT implementations go awry.

Tales from the depths of IT departments.

A recent Gartner Inc. report suggests that the ROI case for architected rapid ap- plication development (ARAD) or model-driven pattern-based (MDPB) development methods and tools is a solid one.

This version appeared only two days after a security flaw in Windows IE was made public by two hackers, according to reports.

According to The Meta Group, IBM's recent acquisition of Venetica demonstrates that the ability to "virtually consolidate" disparate repositories to unify content and metadata will be key, as organizations gradually move enterprise content management facilities to the infrastructure layer and provide various content and related services to users.

Several companies will be making product announcements at this week's Computer Security Institute (CSI) show in Washington, but the show opens on an eye-opening note with a new study indicating network attacks are on the increase.

Users who hired Symantec to manage their security infrastructures will now also be able to get extensive information on threats particular to their IT systems as well as global cyberthreats