Novacoast, an IT professional services firm and developer of Rapid Deployment methodologies, announces StorageManagerRD, the rapid deployment of Novell's Storage Manager 2. StorageManagerRD is the full implementation of Storage Manager 2, Novell's policy-driven storage management solution.

IBM has announced software to automate identity management for .NET environments, expanding IBM Tivoli software's existing identity management support for Java and Windows environments.

Enabling secure access improves communication and facilitates business with customers, strengthens partner relationships, and bolsters employee productivity. So Overnite Transportation was careful about picking how best to make sure its customers will be able to receive the full benefits of identity management within its existing e-business environment.

Sun's EVP of Software, Jonathan Schwartz, stated at a Software Day on the Sun Microsystems campus this week, that 'Sarbanes-Oxley will be a huge driver, as viruses and Sarbanes-Oxley are essentially about the same thing: knowing where the content is coming from and who the source is.'

Cisco remains in the forefront of the battle for more secure networks, with new additions to its market-leading Catalyst line of products on display at CeBIT this week.

Web services provide the architecture for allowing different systems to interoperate. By removing many of the challenges associated with systems integration, Web services allow organizations to achieve significant business results with current systems.