Month: April 2005

Primer: Business Service Management

What is it? Software that can correlate the performance and availability of your company’s information systems with its business goals. Such business service management products

XOsoft: Pricey, and Proud of It

In 2001, XOsoft abandoned its original business, which offered a content-distribution service over the Internet, a la Akamai Technologies. Instead, it switched to selling data

When Failure Isn’t An Option

Every business backs up its critical data. But how quickly can employees access the backup, and how up-to-date will it be? Data replication software can

Veritas Software: Default Position

Some customers who use Veritas Software’s replication software backed into it—they picked it because they were already using the company’s storage-management applications. While they say

Base Technologies 11

The Federal Reserve Board uses several software tools—many built by a body of international economists—to dissect and analyze trade and fiscal data to determine the

Player Roster: Insiders and Outsiders

Alan Greenspan,ChairmanDue to retire in January after five terms as chairman, Greenspan is known for his ability to combine computer models, human intelligence and his

Verity: Finding a Foothold

What if Alan Greenspan wanted to quickly find an economic statistic buried somewhere deep within gigabytes of Web pages, Microsoft Word files and other documents