VOLUME 17: Table of Contents
COVER STORY
Reusability in Enterprise Architecture
Reusability is an oft misunderstood term in the information technology industry. Some treat it with distrust and some praise its efficacy in making software development fast and easy. This article looks into reusability and its benefits in enterprise architecture.
CIO WATCH
External Threats vs Internal Risks
There are shocking rumors in the hacker community that the source codes of many software packages have been leaked onto the Internet, including the codes of leading security products. Hackers can potentially examine these source codes for loopholes to exploit. Couple this disturbing news with the increasing popularity of wireless networks and unsecured wireless connections, and conditions look excellent for hacking incidents and other forms of data theft.
INTERVIEW
Q&A with Ivo Totev, Vice President of Crossvision Product Marketing
Software AG made headlines recently with its acquisition of webMethods for USD 546 million. Since the announcement came to light, speculations have been circulating on how this move may change the SOA landscape, how the companies are going to deal with overlapping offerings and culture clashes. SDA Asia sat down with Software AG’s Ive Totev, Member for the Extended Executive board and Vice President of Crossvision Product Marketing to clear the air whilst and got the latest scoop the future of the Software AG-webMethods merger and ultimately the future of SOA.
EVENT REVIEW
SAP Sapphire 2007
SAP’s annual SAPPHIRE Conference was back this year revolving around the theme “Business at the Speed of Change”. Hosted at the Georgia World Congress Center at Atlanta, Georgia and spread over two and a half days, the event attracted some 14,000 attendees—the largest number in history—encompassing CEOs and IT executives from customer and partner organisations, industry experts, analysts, bloggers and press from around the globe.
PRODUCT REVIEW
Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security Appliance
Trend Mirco’s latest Interscan Messaging Security Appliance (IMSA) 7.0 offers a multi-level layered approach to deal with evolving multicomponent threats, offering protection from spam, phishing, bots, spyware and viruses at the gateway level which means that threats are detected and blocked before they can even enter infrastructure.
DATA & STORAGE
Reconciling the Different Faces of The Customer
According to IDC, the market for MDM-CDI is approximately USD 2 billion in 2007; projected to surpass USD 5 billion in 2008, and the market will reach USD 10 billion by 2009. Clearly, the business world is rapidly embracing CDI and MDM and in a big way. Read on to find out why.
WIRELESS & MOBILITY
Accelerating the Path to WAN Optimisation
In today’s fast-paced and technologically-driven environment, WAN is a sort of lifeline between the branch offi ces and the headquarters or data centre. But most organisations are finding that it is not suffi cient to provide the access and interactivity needed for critical centralised applications. Find out why fully solving the issue of WAN optimisation requires a combination of application acceleration and security or policy control.
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT: E-GOVERNMENT
Transformational Government: Integarting Policy and programs for an Agile Public Sector
Seeking to optimise and modernise operations, over the past decade, government organisations around the world have transformed how they function—following a clear path of technological advancement and modernisation that will be referred to for the remainder of this paper as “transformational government.” Today, most government agencies fall into the third phase of this evolution. However, they are still using disparate and ineffi cient processes to manage their information assets, often managing records as afterthoughts.
The Value of Enterprise Content Management in Asian Government
These are exciting and challenging times for governments. In a still growing, more mobile, increasingly heterogeneous and more demanding population, governments and – agencies worldwide need to focus not only on better servicing Citizens, but more judicially managing the public funds to operate effectively and efficiently.
Stopping Barbarians at the Gate
When we introduce the notion of Internet and security, it is often seen as necessary, or even mandatory, for today’s large and growing corporations worldwide. It is no longer a luxury to have complex firewalls, virtual private networks, antimalware protection, and other more esoteric defenses, against the backdrop of today’s sophisticated hackers and digital mercenaries.
Collaborative eGovernment
Egovernment has become an explicit component of public sector reform, as an instrument to increase effi ciency, strengthen competitiveness and enhance modernisation. In this context, the present paradigm on the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in eGovernment focuses on greater quality and efficiency in public services.
Governance: the Board’s—and the CIO’s—Business
The new regulatory environment has intensified governance and riskmanagement demands on CEOs, CFOs and their boards of directors. The large amount of money companies spend on information technology, and the strategic opportunities and risks those investments present, necessitates board-level risk-management and governance activities for IT. Unfortunately, IT remains a neglected function for most corporate boards—a situation some experts believe could lead to very visible failures. That deficiency has intensified the importance of IT governance at the departmental level within enterprises. CIOs will be called upon more often to demonstrate that they have the essential components of sound IT governance in place.
NEWS & TRENDS
Data Storage Will Become a Major Challenge by 2010
FeedBurner Acquisition Will Make Google the New Web Master
Nokia, Cisco Team on Fixed-Mobile Convergence
Technology Vendors Make Poor Use of CRM, says Upset Customers
IBM, HP Fight for No.1 Slot in Server Market
Businesses Increase Spending on Secure Data Communications Technology
NETGEAR to Acquire Infrant Technologies
Business Objects Whisks off Inxight Software
TIBCO Sets Foot in Business Analytics
Acer Snubs Gateway Acquisition Rumours
BMT Acquires Singapore-based BrightFire
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