Anne Chen

About

As a senior writer for eWEEK Labs, Anne writes articles pertaining to IT professionals and the best practices for technology implementation. Anne covers the deployment issues and the business drivers related to technologies including databases, wireless, security and network operating systems. Anne joined eWeek in 1999 as a writer for eWeek's eBiz Strategies section before moving over to Labs in 2001. Prior to eWeek, she covered business and technology at the San Jose Mercury News and at the Contra Costa Times.

Keeping Web Services Royalty-Free

BOSTON—Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium, opened The Open Group Conference here on Monday by asking his colleagues to preserve the universality and openness of the Web as they build Web services as the foundation for the future of the Internet. And, said Berners-Lee, a key to preserving openness on the Web […]

Open Source Gets IT Scrutiny

Once smuggled through back doors into the stolid world of corporate computing, open-source software is now beginning to get the full red carpet treatment at enterprises such as Visa International Inc. and Edmunds.com Inc. As open-source platforms including the Apache Web server and the Linux operating system make their way through the front doors of […]

Getting Fried By Spam

How many times a day do I need to consider refinancing my mortgage at an astonishing low rate!, getting listed on the International Executive Guild CD-ROM, or losing weight instantly? If you look at my e-mail Inbox, apparently I need to do things multiple times an hour. According to Ferris Research Inc., 10 percent of […]

Make Room for Data

Just because his IT budget isnt growing much these days doesnt mean that Kent Morrisons need for more storage capacity is slacking off. As much as Morrison, IT director at the city of Steamboat Springs, Colo., has tried to keep storage growth under control, the demand for primary and backup capacity is increasing by about […]

Averting Web Identity Crisis

In Craig Gorens book, the customer is king, even if that means his staff will be required to integrate with multiple Web-based frameworks. Thats one reason the president and chief technology officer of Centerpost Inc., in Chicago, said his company will support any identity management system customers want to use, even if that means his […]

Blade to Order

Time may be money, but for Lance Braunstein, who is responsible for the care and feeding of the servers that run Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co.s Morgan Stanley Online Web site, data center space and server manageability are just as important. Thats because as the number of Web, application and other servers needed to […]

VoIP Shoots, But Does It Score?

I dont know about you, but Im having trouble keeping pace with all the action at the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Sure, abusing the corporate Internet usage policy by watching streaming replays (www.fifaworldcup.com) helps, but too many questions remain unanswered. Will Zinedine Zidane recover in time to save France from first-round elimination? Will David Beckham […]

HP-Compaq Sets Platform Security

At the world wide web conference in Honolulu last month, Richard DeMillo, Hewlett-Packards vice president of technology strategy and chief technology officer, announced HP will release a set of secure platforms to the open-source community. SPA (Secure Platform Architecture) is a set of software interfaces built on top of HPs Itanium-based product line and will […]

Web Services Secure?

Gwen Alexander Moertel isnt the cheerleader type who jumps on every technology trend. But when the IT director for Wachovia Securities Inc.s Equity Capital Markets division heard about Web services last year, she quickly became a true believer. So sure was Moertel that Web services would be the best way to help the division speed […]

Web Services Security: A Political Battlefield

At the International World Wide Web Conference held here this month, Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium, reiterated his organizations obligation to preserve interoperability on the Web. The only way to do so, he said, was for the W3C to recommend specifications that would allow software to work together regardless of who […]