Project Management

Just as Windows 95 ushered in the Internet era, Windows Vista, which will be released to U.S. consumers at midnight on Tuesday, sets the stage for the multimedia hub the PC is set to become in the future.

"The business doesn't care about 99.9 per cent uptime unless you're talking about the uptime of a business process or an end-to-end capability," says Peter Weill, director of the Center for Information Systems Research and senior research scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Network executives planning to deploy network access control should start with very specific goals, not intricate schemes to quarantine and remediate insecure devices, shut down badly behaving machines and record every connection each device attempts to make on the network.

You still hear a variety of interpretations as to what SOA will be and what you will need. It may take a decade for SOA to become fully adopted by the majority of the industry, says one expert.

Industry watchers and Microsoft customers have expressed concern that many applications won't be available for Vista in time for its launch on Jan. 30. But this week Microsoft partners of various sizes have stepped forward to back the OS, the first major release of Windows in five years.

Visitors to the German Web site of Google Inc. were met with a strange sight early Tuesday morning: gone was the Google logo, replaced by the name of a local Internet service provider with the message that no content was available for the domain.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is adding a new business unit within its Enterprise Storage and Server (ESS) organization as a way to highlight its IT management, automation and virtualization software.

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