Mention the word “Epidemic”, and images of fear and widespread panic will most likely appear before you. Mention the phrase “Data Integration”, and thoughts of computers and rows of data servers will probably start floating in your mind...

Ten years ago S&S Media started Java Magazine in Germany which has since been published more than 100 times and has garnered a worldwide reputation of being the biggest independent publication on Java.Since its birth in 2005, SDA Asia Magazine has dedicated intense coverage to Java as well...

The benefits of virtual environments are beginning to be realized. Companies intent on cashing in on the advantages of virtualization technologies are eager to reduce the financial and physical footprint associated with racks of computers.

John runs a small marketing firm. He, along with five other employees, manages most of the company's operations from sales to customer service. When John decided to use Internet as a marketing medium to attract more customers, he knew he didn't have the expertise to build a website himself nor could he afford to hire someone full time. He decided to outsource this activity. But where will he find someone who can do this work? He could ask around or advertise his requirement. Then, he remembered purchasing his computers over the Internet on eBay. It was easy. He went on the website, searched for computers, bid on them and got them delivered. It was cheap and faster too.

With organizations running many disparate systems – including Windows servers, UNIX servers, AS/400 systems, and IBM-compatible mainframes – the issue of interoperability has become increasingly important. As a result, businesses in Asia continue to rank the integration of diverse applications and the automation of business processes among their most pressing IT needs...

Lately, a variety of PowerBuilder customers have been asking whether or not they should stay with PowerBuilder or go to .NET. This really isn’t a valid question because PowerBuilder and .NET are not mutually exclusive...

In today’s heterogeneous IT marketplace, “interoperability” can be defined as the ability of diverse IT applications or systems to exchange and use information. This is increasingly required of industry and governments alike. IT users of all types continue to demand interoperability, in order to reduce costs and complexity, and they are increasingly deploying the best products from multiple vendors to meet their IT needs...

The global business arena is a diverse and dynamic one, constantly buffeted by changes in customer trends, government regulations and larger social-political issues. Every year, IBM conducts an annual survey of more than 1,400 executives worldwide to find out what are the critical issues of...

The effective use of IT to address changing business requirements are central to any company’s ability to compete, and this holds especially true in the banking industry today. With the advent of new technologies and the use of the Internet to achieve tighter integration with customers, financial institutions can bank on the potential of IT to enjoy high returns on investment...

Linux has survived many stages of its evolution as a disruptive technology. Today, it is alive, dynamic, and thriving on broad acceptance in a vast, rapidly growing array of application domains...

In particular, web services are providing a way to "front-end" legacy applications, as well as allowing applications developed for competing platforms such as Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and .NET to talk to each other...

The defining feature of Eclipse 3.1 is full support for Java Tiger (J2SE 5.0). Of course, there are other important features in the project plan for Eclipse 3.1 [1], each affecting a different functional area...

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) is a mature middle tier technology that has become the norm for building production quality enterprise applications. Scalability, reliability, extensibility, security, etc. are few main operating qualities which give J2EE its edge over competing platforms...