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October 06, 2008
IBM is expanding the free beta trial for Bluehouse, a Web-hosted social networking and collaboration service based on Lotus software. CA this week plans to unveil a data center automation product to help IT staff offload server resource-provisioning duties and give CA an advantage over competitive products from BMC and HP. (5:12)
October 03, 2008
Internet infrastructure vendors are working on patches for a set of security flaws that could help hackers knock servers offline with very little effort; This week, California became the second state to pass a law making it illegal to steal data from RFID (radio frequency identification) cards. (4:25)
October 02, 2008
Following a similar move by VMware in August, Microsoft Wednesday released a free, low-footprint version of its Hyper-V virtualization software; Gas shortages in the southeast United States are prompting companies to consider expanding their telework programs so employees can conserve fuel. (5:03)
October 01, 2008
Cisco study of 2,000 professionals finds changing work environments increase common data leakage mistakes; Aruba Networks has unveiled a new release of software that’s designed to improve wireless LAN throughput and reliability. (9:16)
September 30, 2008
Identity management appliance vendor engages turnaround specialist to sell off assets; Enterprises continue to pay too much for security software, a Gartner analyst said Monday. (4:53)
September 29, 2008
A biometrics "jumpkit" is helping American soldiers in Iraq to identify dangerous persons by immediately comparing detainees’ fingerprints against an Army database in the United States, using a satellite link for speedy analysis. EBay will be one of eight individuals and corporations awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation Monday at the White House. (4:55)
September 26, 2008
Microsoft may be the only company in a position to provide "any real competition" for Google in the online search business; Microsoft to go head-to-head with high-end Linux, Unix servers. (5:30)
September 25, 2008
Web surfers have a standard reaction to error messages that pop up in their Web browsers, according to new research published this week: They click "OK" and hope it will disappear; Google changed the world with a simple idea, and is now offering $10 million to help anyone who can do the same. (4:56)
September 24, 2008
T-Mobile showed off its new G1 mobile phone at a press event in New York Tuesday; Novell is getting into network access control via an OEM agreement with StillSecure. (6:29)
September 23, 2008
Microsoft Monday said it would ship Windows High Performance Computing — HPC — Server 2008 on Nov. 1; McAfee on Monday announced an agreement to acquire Secure Computing in a transaction valued at $465 million that is expected to be complete by year-end. (4:48)
September 22, 2008
All federal agencies are deploying DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) on the .gov top-level domain; Extreme Networks and Alcatel-Lucent this week are unveiling equipment designed to further whet carriers' appetites for Ethernet. (5:32)
September 19, 2008
Attackers have hacked the Web site of the Texas National Guard and are using it to serve up offers of fake security software and plant rootkits on unpatched PCs, a security researcher said Thursday; A hacker has released attack code that exploits an unpatched vulnerability in Apple's QuickTime. (5:47)
September 18, 2008
Hackers say they have gained access to U.S. vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo account and published some of its contents on the Wikileaks Web site; Brad Pitt, Beyonce and Justin Timberlake top list of celebrity names most abused by malware writers; GAO report torches US for dumping electronic waste in foreign countries. (4:49)
September 17, 2008
Google looks to build floating, power-saving data centers; CEO Paul Maritz says VMware considered open sourcing its hypervisor and supporting rivals’ virtualization technology, but no changes are imminent. (7:46)
September 16, 2008
Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and AIG trouble stoke recession fears; Juniper this week is introducing a family of flexible, high-speed security gateways that scale to handle massive traffic streams in the largest corporate networks via gigabit and 10 gigabit Ethernet ports. (5:23)
September 15, 2008
Switching will take center stage at this week’s Interop New York conference, where vendors such as Foundry Networks, Enterasys Networks and Force 10 Networks will roll out new and enhanced products in defiance of a downcast IT spending environment. Cisco this week is unveiling enhancements to its Carrier Ethernet lineup designed to scale and upgrade services for business, residential and mobile users. (5:12)
September 12, 2008
The IEEE working group that is putting the finishing touches on the 802.11n 100Mbps wireless LAN standard is about to launch a new project, for a 1Gbps WLAN standard; Microsoft and Novell Thursday released a virtualization bundle that represents the pair’s first fully supported joint product since their historic interoperability partnership was forged in 2006. (5:38)
September 11, 2008
Former VMware CEO Diane Greene’s husband, Mendel Rosenblum, has followed his wife out the door, announcing his resignation just days before VMware hosts an annual event to showcase its virtualization technology; Industry watchers are once again lowering their forecasts for IT spending as enterprise IT buyers report they are cutting budgets and approaching future investments with caution. (5:09)
September 10, 2008
Bundle of gear and services is designed to streamline home-office deployments; BlueStripe Software aims to solve the application visibility issues that crop up when multi-tier applications rely on virtual servers. (8:01)
September 09, 2008
Microsoft yesterday said the Live Migration feature of its hypervisor technology will ship with Release 2 of Windows Server 2008; Encrypting voice-over-IP calls for mobile workers talking over Wi-Fi links is one of several new features in Agito Networks’ cellular-to-wireless-LAN convergence appliance. (5:24)
September 08, 2008
The Center for Internet Security is devising new metrics that companies can use to evaluate their security status, including measuring how many systems are properly patched and how long it takes to recover from a security incident. Plus: Do cybergangs work on evil “product upgrades” to improve their crimeware and attack methods? (5:28)
September 05, 2008
IT security budgets are on the rise, reflecting growing concern over data breaches and increasing CEO involvement in the task of protecting sensitive data; Business management guru Michael Hammer has died at the age of 60. (5:20)
September 04, 2008
CIOs and senior IT executives lack the "green" to go green even though they overwhelmingly believe that a more energy efficient data center will become mission-critical, according to a recent survey; For the second consecutive year, total international Internet capacity grew faster than total Internet traffic. (5:14)
September 03, 2008
Google Tuesday released its own browser with a revved-up Java Script engine called V8 designed to make its online applications run better and with an eye toward eventually taking on Microsoft on the desktop; Novell Tuesday is launching its Compliance Management Platform, a combination of existing identity management and security-event management products with additional reporting and analysis tools. (6:24)
September 02, 2008
Comcast's decision to put a 250-gigabyte cap on monthly bandwidth use for its residential customers may look like a generous number, but some critics suggested the cap may cause problems for users in the future; When IT employees are dismissed, watch out! A new survey by Cyber-Ark Software, a provider of identity management products, reports that theft of sensitive information by disgruntled former insiders is out of control. (4:58)
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