Customers of Renaissance Cruises® Inc. say the best way to experience paradise is to take a Renaissance CruiseTour to a warm, sunny destination. The Mediterranean. The Greek Islands. Or Tahiti and the South Pacific. According to Frank Peluso, Renaissance director of software development, the first step on the way to paradise is a friendly, yet factual conversation with a Renaissance travel consultant.

Earlier this year we unveiled the Secure Network Platform, our vision for a secure, cost-effective way to help you become more competitive as an e-business. Our solution, branded under the SecureWay name, enables you to locate resources and connect to them in a secure fashion. Now, through a number of product announcements over the last few months, we're proving that we can deliver that vision to you.

With the vast majority of business data residing on mainframes and other host systems, growing e-businesses need fast, easy, and efficient ways to securely extend host data to intranet, extranet, and Internet users. Now, with the recent announcement of new products and enhancements for its SecureWay host integration family, IBM is re-inventing host integration for e-businesses.