IBM unveils ambitious plans

IBM wants to provide customers with one-stop shopping for tools and services for IT governance and risk management, says Internetnews.com.

Company officials are presenting a mixture of existing products and services, along with a strategy that provides businesses with the capabilities they need to satisfy regulators, auditors, and management, ensuring the safety and integrity of their IT infrastructures.

Some of the software offerings that IBM is pointing to as being in the vanguard of its GRM initiative are Tivoli Business Service Manager, Tivoli Security Operations Manager v4.1, and the IBM Rational Portfolio Manager v.7.1.

Provider of software governance solutions, Black Duck Software, has marked the third anniversary of its delivery of the protexIP platform to the market, reports Tmcnet.com.

Companies around the world have selected protexIP and Black Duck's other solutions to manage licensing and other requirements governing the software they use, develop or distribute.

The company's client list grew by 1 486% since this time in 2005, as customers opted to go with its solutions.

MessageGate has released an extensive study that uncovers top issues and concerns surrounding information security and IT governance for enterprise messaging, says Tmcnet.com.

The study, dubbed "Reshaping Information Security: The Convergence of Content & Security in Corporate Messaging," is based on multiple events in collaboration with The Roundtable Network, where more than 40 executive-level participants discussed the challenges of e-mail and messaging governance.

The participants represented a broad range of industries with an average company size of 25 000 employees and over $13 billion in revenue. The report said IT and security professionals face two major forces related to enterprise messaging: content deluge and security deficiency.