TechTarget News Roundup - March 31, 2006

Search400.com
Q&A with Mark Shearer, Common Spring 2006
http://search400.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid3_gci1176396,00.html
Search400.com sat down on Monday with Mark Shearer, General Manager for IBM System i at the Common conference in Minneapolis.

Reporter's notebook: Spring 2006 Common conference
http://search400.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid3_gci1176709,00.html
Common conference experts drop the ball at the town hall meeting, letting Mark Shearer and the System i team get off easy by asking the same question over and over again.

SearchCIO.com:
Selling your CEO on BPM
http://searchcio.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid19_gci1176780,00.html
To build support for business process management, keep it simple.

SearchCRM.com:
Voices of CRM: Microsoft's Brad Wilson
http://searchcrm.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid11_gci1176691,00.html
In our inaugural podcast we talk with Brad Wilson, general manager of CRM at Microsoft, about his take on the market, hosted CRM, the news from Convergence and "the next killer app in CRM."

SearchDataCenter.com
American Fidelity shows how DR planning gets done
http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid80_gci1177035,00.html
American Fidelity Assurance Company's number one priority is paying claims -- especially in a disaster. To make sure it meets those needs, it tests core IT systems twice a year.

Target builds a better data center
http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid80_gci1176301,00.html
Just five years after Target built a new data center, it's building another one to keep up with company growth.

SearchOpenSource.com:
Engineer's take on Novell's new SuSE desktop, server, Linux roadmap
http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/columnItem/0,294698,sid39_gci1176440,00.html
Novell's new SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED 10) is beating Microsoft Vista to market by months, and the Xen virtualization features in the upcoming SuSE Enterprise Server are right on target. In short, Novell's Linux roadmap looks great. Now, can Novell get business customers to travel its road?

SearchOracle.com:
Blue Shield cleans up HR with Oracle-PeopleSoft HCM
http://searchoracle.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid41_gci1177051,00.html
Blue Shield of California deployed Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management 8.9 to automate transactions, centralize IT and modernize its HR department.

SearchStorage.com:
Users evaluate new and improved HP EVA
http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci1177009,00.html
As part of its storage renaissance in the last year, HP recently announced new midrange EVA arrays; users tell SearchStorage their likes and dislikes.

SearchWebServices.com:
Special Report: How much is that SOA in the window?, part 1
http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1177050,00.html The confluence of two major movements in the software industry -- service-oriented architecture and open source software -- is promising to cause a change in how vendors make money on technology, and how customers spend money on technology.

SOA tools top Eclipse priority list
http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1177027,00.html An Eclipse project leader says architects and developers face technology gap in SOA and that Eclipse needs to fill the void.

Ajax and Ruby do Vegas
http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1176649,00.html With Java growing ever more complex and Ajax still unsteady, programmers at The ServerSide Java Symposium espoused the utility of Ruby on Rails.

Sonic beefs up ESB for large-scale SOA deployments
http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1176311,00.html
The latest release features an Eclipse-based workbench for project lifecycle management and support for advanced Web services standards.

SearchWinIT.com:
Microsoft repackages e-mail hosting service
http://searchwinit.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid1_gci1176782,00.html
Microsoft renamed FrontBridge Technologies' hosted e-mail technology as Exchange Hosted Services. It includes services for antispam, archiving, encryption and disaster recovery.

New boss, new role for Microsoft Active Directory
http://searchwinit.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid1_gci1176854,00.html
Microsoft's senior director of identity and access management Peter Houston is marshalling Active Directory through a new phase in its development. It's familiar territory for the executive, who was the technology's first product manager.