• Brainware Teams with Fujitsu on Document Capture Solution

  November 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Brainware, a young company that makes document scanning and content management software, has partnered with Fujitsu to sell pre-integrated data capture solutions based on Fujitsu’s scanning hardware and Brainware’s software, the companies announced last week. Brainware was founded in 2006 following a management buyout of a subsidiary of SER Systems, a German developer of enterprise content management and call center software. Today, the company has its U.S. headquarters in Virginia and offices in several European countries. Brainware claims that more than $100 million have been invested in its core “neural network” classification and search technology, also called Brainware,

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• Wavelink Secures RF Connections with WPA

  November 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Wavelink, a developer of software for mobile devices, rolled out a new product last week that ensures only authorized users can connect mobile devices to corporate radio frequency (RF) networks. Called the Avalanche Certificate Manager, the new product will help prevent hackers from stealing corporate assets from rouge devices, while giving companies the user-level customization they need. The danger posed by wireless LANs and RF networks hit home earlier this year when it was revealed that hackers broke into a major retailer’s servers by logging through unprotected wireless networks, a technique that’s become known as “war driving.” To protect

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• Two System i Log Management Webinars Scheduled for Tomorrow

  November 11, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Partners PowerTech and LogRhythm are teaming up this Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. ET to offer two free Webinars on System i log management for financial institutions. The IBM i operating system possesses a mature and comprehensive log management capability that exceeds the functions of many of its peer OSes. Unfortunately, it speaks a different language than most other platforms, requiring a bit of work to integrate it with the rest of the network. For many shops, this integration is achieved with a cross platform security information event management (SEIM) platform, which captures and normalizes logs from a

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• Lawson Fast Tracks Security Software for S3

  November 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Lawson Software last week rolled out a new solution, called Lawson Security FastTrack, aimed at speeding the implementation of its security offering for its S3 suite of ERP software, Lawson Security 9.0. Security FastTrack combines an implementation methodology with pre-built content to reduce the time it takes to implement Lawson Security to as little as six weeks, the company claims. The offering was developed by security experts, and includes a preconfigured and customizable set of task-based security classes, processes, templates, training modules, and tools. Lawson Security implements a role-based, rule-based object oriented security system. The software is based on Lawson

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• SMBs Cautious About Tech Spending in ’09

  November 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Surprise, surprise: Small and mid size businesses (SMBs) are pulling back on IT spending plans in reaction to the economic crises. This, according to a new survey from Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA). CompTIA conducted an online survey in September in which it asked 772 SMBs (companies with between 10 and 999 employees) in the United States, Canada, and England about their spending plans for technology and overall expansion in the next 12 months. The results showed a nearly even split: 51 percent of respondents said they planned to increase spending on IT, while 49 percent said their IT spending

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• RFID Spending to Grow 15 Percent Per Year, ABI Research Says

  November 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  A study released last week by ABI Research predicts that spending on radio frequency identification (RFID) products will grow at an average rate of 15 percent over the next five years, becoming nearly a $10 billion industry by 2013. However, that number could drop as a result of the global economic crisis. ABI Research is a company based in New York, London, and Singapore that conducts studies and publishes forecasts of interest to manufacturers in the automotive, consumer electronics, wireless, and broadband industries. Its primary focuses are wireless connectivity, telematics and navigation, and home networking and consumer video technologies. The

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• A Few More Strands in the DNA of the Midrange

  November 10, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Information about the midrange of the corporate computing market–the place where hundreds of thousands of companies worldwide generate tens of billions of dollars in server and storage spending a year–is a little hard to come by. I always have an eye out for statistics because it is so rare to see anything quantitative that is available to the public. I am sure there is plenty of data available on the midrange from the server makers themselves and the big IT market researchers, but that is the kind of information that costs big bucks these days. That has not, however, always

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• The Winds of Change: How Presidential Politics Informs IT Transformation

  November 10, 2008 Jake Sorofman

  For most people, the prospect of fundamental change is about as comforting as a root canal. By their state of nature, most people are change averse, preferring the quiet predictability of the status quo to the frothy tumult of a fundamental shift. That is, until change seems to be the only tenable answer. America voted for change during this election cycle because change seemed to be the only tenable answer. Putting politics aside, few will argue against the notion that this country faces some great challenges, many of which are fairly troubling. This sort of recognition tends to trigger a

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• Wholesalers Making Adjustments During Economic Storm

  November 10, 2008 Dan Burger

  To find out what companies in the wholesale and distribution business are doing to succeed in these turbulent economic times, I set up an appointment with IBM‘s wholesale industry segment executive, Roberto Sanchez, who works not only with customers, but also with independent software vendors and resellers in the sales channel. Sanchez understands the System i because many companies rely on it in this market and also because he was once a systems engineer for the AS/400. Like most executives at IBM, Sanchez would rather not talk about platform specifics. His point of view is solution specific instead. Customers

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• As I See It: Growing a (Non-Binding) Conscience

  November 10, 2008 Victor Rozek

  When the Internet was first spreading around the globe with the speed and infectiousness of an airborne virus, it soon became evident that many nations would not tolerate the unchecked proliferation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Governments that could not abide opposition became intent on regulating what would otherwise facilitate a dangerous flow of uncensored data and subversive ideas. Toward that end, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) were subjected to some economic arm twisting. What specific threats were made, or incentives offered, is unknown. What is known is that America’s technology giants capitulated to the will of foreign governments. To

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