Debra Donston

A Web service is helping the Colorado Department of Agriculture more efficiently track and report on its captive deer and elk population. The CDA has authority over the states “alternative” livestock, classified as deer and elk. The department must compile information from a variety of sources, including a proprietary database running on a Macintosh, laboratory […]

Upstart airline JetBlue Airways Corp. is leveraging the upstart Web services platform—slowly but surely. JetBlue is considering Web services deployments ranging from a security application to making its extranet a collection of Web services that partners can use and brand themselves. Right now, though, a Web service is driving transactions on JetBlues company store. The […]

eWeek Labs recent special report on spam examined a number of ways to at least slow the flood of spam, including blacklists and filtering software. A new service from Habeas offers another way: haiku. What? Youre wondering how a 17-syllable poem can stop spam? It all has to do with copyrights and trademarks. The Habeas […]

Hunting, fishing and outdoor gear retailer Cabelas got a relatively late start to the dynamic B2C game, but ATGs Consumer Commerce Suite has helped it make up for lost time. I spoke recently with Sam Sidner, Cabelas Internet marketing manager. In addition to site development and maintenance, Sidner works with the marketing teams to implement […]

When eWeek Labs was getting ready to publish its 1999 review of the Linux 2.2 kernel, we struggled with the headline. Would “Linux: Enterprise-ready” be too strong? We decided then that Linux was enterprise-ready, and open sources reach has grown in the years since. In fact, its not a question of whether open source should […]

What if you held a meeting and nobody came? Its a scenario not without the realm of possibility in an economy where money and time are in increasingly short supply, and its one that makes Web-based meetings and collaboration all the more compelling. This stressful climate makes Web-based meetings attractive for two important reasons: The […]

IT budgets are having a tough time keeping pace with just about everything these days—but most especially with the growing need for storage. Fortunately, emerging technologies such as iSCSI and Serial ATA hard drives are helping storage managers meet the data demand for less. Cases in point: the city of Steamboat Springs, Colo., and Channel […]

IM is not an officially sanctioned technology at Bose, in Framingham, Mass., but IT management there recognizes that it is being used to considerable business advantage and is trying to balance the risk with the reward. “There is significant value to instant messaging—real-time communication, instant response—its a great tool,” said Frank Calabrese, Boses manager of […]

The IT community has developed checklists of must-have technologies and accepted best practices for solid protection, but even the most vigilant enterprise IT professionals have been forced into reactionary postures by ceaseless new vulnerabilities, increasingly sophisticated hacker tools and heightened threats of cyber-terrorism. Security in depth is critical to business continuity and customer trust, but […]

Like all eWeek Labs Evaluations, this eVal of enterprise information portals was designed to test products in real-world environs and against the criteria of IT professionals. When we put out the call for participation to our Corporate Partners—our most direct conduit to the “real world”—we were amazed at the response: Nearly half of the 28-member-strong […]