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Tech giants chart research goals Power consumption, parallelism, and the rapidly-expanding world of mobile communications are among the leading areas of research and development currently being investigated within some of the IT world's largest companies. Fifteen backup programs to safeguard your data There's no way around it: Malware happens, drive failure happens, natural disaster happens. If your data isn't backed up, it's gone -- or it will require an extremely expensive, not-certain-to-succeed recovery operation. September 25, 9:30 a.m. PDT From big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtualFrom big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtual While many IT shops see virtualization as a question of adopting EMC's VMware on servers running Windows or Linux, Nationwide Insurance has adopted the technology for both x86-based and mainframe-hosted servers. After all, notes Buzz Woeckener, the company's zLinux/Unix server manager, virtualization was invented for mainframes.  September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT On the road to the virtual desktop Click ‘n’ run. It seems like such a simple concept. Surf up to a Web page, select the desired application from a list, and click. Voila! Microsoft Word appears on your desktop. Or Excel, or Adobe Photoshop… you name it. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Herd behavior demonstrated at Demo "Whatever happened to working alone?” September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Transplace beefs up hardware for a virtual world Managing transportation logistics is all about handling scale. As transportation management services firm Transplace added consumer goods companies such as Del Monte, Office Depot, Home Depot, Auto Zone, and DirecTV as customers, it needed to quickly bring server capacity online. Already planning a hardware refresh to support continued growth, CTO Vince Biddlecombe decided to bring in server virtualization at the same time so that he'd have a more scalable, flexible platform for that anticipated growth. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Stonebridge Bank averts a capacity crisis It's a dilemma faced by IT administrators everywhere. "We ran out of rack space, air conditioning capacity, and UPSes at the end of 2004, but we needed more servers," recalls George Rapp, senior vice president of IT for Stonebridge Bank, a regional institution in Pennsylvania. Getting more power in and more heat out was just not an option for the bank's datacenter, so Rapp consolidated multiple Unix servers into one box to reduce the physical footprint and delay the crisis. "But it got us only part of the way," he notes. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Vontu 7 covers your end point Information leak prevention solutions have evolved predictably. First, they identified, and then blocked, sensitive data moving around your networks. Next, the cycle repeated with information resting in data repositories. The latest installment safeguards data at end points. This is especially important for mobile workforces with sensitive files residing on laptops and other portable devices; if the unit is stolen or otherwise compromised, data loss is clearly a major problem. September 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Google calls for global online privacy standard Search giant Google will propose on Friday that governments and technology companies create a transnational privacy policy to address growing concerns over how personal data is handled across the Internet. September 14, 6:12 a.m. PDT Update: AMD sales chief steps down AMD sales chief Henri Richard will leave the company in September, AMD said Wednesday. August 22, 1:30 p.m. PDT Sourcefire acquires ClamAV open-source anti-malware project Network security specialist Sourcefire announced Friday that it has acquired ClamAV, an open-source gateway anti-malware project whose technologies are used in the products of a number of other vendors. August 17, 8:58 a.m. PDT Hospital undergoes wireless surgery For years, wireless technologies have only shown up in many U.S. hospitals in the form of rolling computers with Wi-Fi network access, but as evidenced at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital, times are changing. August 13, 2:37 p.m. PDT Novell buys endpoint security firm Senforce Novell announced on Monday that it has acquired Senforce Technologies, a provider of endpoint and network security tools, for an undisclosed sum. August 13, 9:40 a.m. PDT Enterprise mashups: A blend of risk and reward The mashup is an almost irresistible idea. Take two or more external apps, data sources, or services, blend them together, and voila, you’ve got an entirely new, eminently useful creation. The classic mashup takes something like Google Maps, combines it with a public data source (say, a listing of ATMs), and spits out a Web 2.0-style clickable, annotated map. August 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT File encryption dos and don'ts I've been involved with multiple projects with file encryption lately, and even though I've been assisting with data encryption projects for years, I'm still learning something new every day. They say if you don't learn something new each day, then the day is wasted. Me, I'd settle for not looking like a goon in front of the client. August 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT P-to-P users expose U.S. government secrets Contractors and U.S. government employees are sharing hundreds of secret documents on peer-to-peer networks, in many cases overriding the default security settings on their P-to-P software to do so, according to a company that monitors the networks. July 27, 8:31 a.m. PDT McAfee sets Rootkit Detective free On July 26, McAfee will begin offering a new application called Rootkit Detective, designed to detect and remove dangerous rootkit attacks. The software will also help end-users ward off the threats, as well as funnel new intelligence into the company's ongoing research operations. July 25, 1:12 p.m. PDT HP's Thermal Zone Mapping helps keep datacenters cool, energy-efficient Hewlett-Packard (HP) is getting more detailed in how it analyzes the energy efficiency of its customers' datacenters. July 25, 4:21 a.m. PDT The SMB backup dilemma Every time I hear a pitch for an SMB backup solution it comes complete with a chilling statistic that suggests smaller companies are tone-deaf to data protection. July 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Health experts: E-health records privacy rules needed The U.S. needs new medical privacy rules as the country moves toward greater use of IT to store health records, a group of health-care experts said Wednesday. July 18, 9:01 a.m. PDT HP's Trusted Hardcopy secures paper documents Hewlett-Packard has developed technology at its lab in Bangalore, India, that secures paper documents against fraud and integrates paper documents with electronic processes by allowing paper to be used as a medium for data transfer. July 13, 5:15 a.m. PDT Cisco, Microsoft, EMC join on gov't data project Several technology companies will build a system to let the U.S. government share data securely among its various agencies, a goal it has struggled to achieve since the September 2001 terrorist attacks. July 10, 4:51 a.m. PDT Is VMware feeling the heat? While the rest of the country swelters in the July heat, InfoWorld’s Test Center reviewers are keeping cool in their air-conditioned labs and banging on some high-profile products. Senior Contributing Editor Paul Venezia leads off with his in-depth look at XenEnterprise and Virtual Iron Enterprise, two hard-charging contenders in the server virtualization derby. July 9, 3:00 a.m. PDT EU clears Swift to continue giving banking data to US Financial data transfer company Swift can continue to pass details of European citizens' transactions to U.S. authorities provided the firm signs a formal get-out clause granting it immunity from European data protection laws, the European Commission said Thursday. June 28, 8:05 a.m. PDT Fed weighs future of contactless payments You can call it 'cash 2.0': a new age of wireless payment technology that may replace even the smallest cash transactions in the coming years with the wave of a credit card or mobile phone. June 28, 3:00 a.m. PDT Data breaches start at the gas station Using a credit card at a gas station could pose more of a risk for data theft than shopping online, as point-of-sale terminals have emerged as a weak link in the security chain, according to a Gartner analyst. June 26, 4:14 a.m. PDT NextPage manages documents with a light touch “Compliance” is a word that can make a CIO cringe, especially when it comes to document retention and -- just as important -- destruction. June 21, 3:00 a.m. PDT Talend applies SaaS to data integration Talend, an open source data integration software maker, unveiled a new service-based software product Monday, Talend On Demand, a service (SaaS) version of the company's Talend Open Studio product. June 18, 12:05 a.m. PDT Online crime group logs millionth complaint Online consumers in the U.S. have had a million things to complain about. Literally. June 16, 11:49 a.m. PDT U.S. may give ground in passenger data stand-off The U.S. may be willing to give some ground in a dispute with European regulators over access to trans-Atlantic passenger data, although reaching a compromise before a July deadline remains uncertain. June 14, 10:32 a.m. PDT US may require European visitors to register online Europeans who visit the U.S. will be required to fill out an online questionnaire two days before they enter the country under a proposal being studied by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. June 14, 8:48 a.m. PDT Diagnosing health care IT A few weeks ago I stirred up a heap of contention with my column “RIP, electronic medical records?” about the battle at Kaiser Permanente over its pioneering health care digitization megaproject. The comments posted on the column by readers were like an instant replay of the finger pointing and armchair quarterbacking that’s apparently been going on inside that organization -- an interesting skirmish that showed the passion flaring on all sides of this issue. June 14, 3:00 a.m. PDT PayPal CTO: Security, mobility to spur growth PayPal's Chief Technology Officer, Scott Thompson, is a prime example of what might be called the "payments geek." June 13, 9:07 a.m. PDT EMC strikes first partnership with Indian outsourcer EMC Corp. will train more than 1,000 Wipro Ltd. staff in the use of its storage technologies as part of an alliance announced by the companies on Wednesday. June 13, 4:09 a.m. PDT Former Hitachi Data Systems chief to head up HP storage In its quest to re-energize its storage business, Hewlett-Packard has recruited the former president and CEO of storage rival Hitachi Data Systems (HDS). May 25, 2:22 p.m. PDT Euro data protection chief backs Google Data protection officials from 27 European countries have warned Google it is storing data on people's searches for too long -- but Europe's top privacy guardian, the European Data Protection Supervisor Peter Hustinx, believes Google's efforts to respect the privacy of European citizens in its Internet search software "is not just window dressing." May 25, 7:29 a.m. PDT Hyperic: Open sourcing systems management Many a successful startup owes its creation to a wild gamble that paid off. Think about Andy Bechtolsheim's $100,000 bet on Google, a promising search company that didn’t even have a bank account yet. May 22, 3:00 a.m. PDT Built-in encryption is the key to protecting against information leaks It hasn’t happened to me so far (fingers crossed), but I imagine there are very few things more disturbing than having your personal information put at risk because someone lost or misplaced a tape cartridge or a laptop. May 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT IBM contractor loses employee data An unnamed IBM vendor has lost tapes containing sensitive information on IBM employees, the computer maker confirmed Tuesday. May 15, 4:29 p.m. PDT RIP, electronic medical records? And so the story of the largest, most visible attempt to digitize health care delivery in the U.S. has finally been told on page one of the Wall Street Journal. And it ain’t pretty. April 26, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft eyes datacenters in a box Fast, cheap and all over the place. That's how technology experts behind Microsoft's fast-growing Live offerings envision the future of the enterprise data center in a Web 2.0 driven world. April 18, 10:42 a.m. PDT Get a grip on communications slips [This story has been updated for clarity since it first posted.] April 12, 3:00 a.m. PDT Getting compliance out of the datacenter Every now and then I have to touch on compliance -- not because I like the topic, but because it has quickly become a significant aspect of data management and, therefore, of storage. March 23, 3:00 a.m. PST Improve the quality of enterprise data When I was a young programmer at an investment bank, my desk was next to the department of “data integrity,” a small group with the thankless job of making sure that the databases held accurate records of stock transactions. The bank’s computers could process millions of transactions in seconds, but a mistyped key or a missing value could jam the entire assembly line for data. March 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Information on demand: the new enterprise goal Dr. Ambuj Goyal is one of IBM’s heavy hitters. A 25-year IBM veteran who joined the company as a researcher at the T. J. Watson Research Center, Goyal did early work in scalable databases that laid the technology groundwork for DB2, then led the research effort to create the Deep Blue chess computer. In 1996, Goyal was elevated to be vice president, servers and software, and director, computer sciences, where he set IBM’s long-term research direction and oversaw the work of 1,500 researchers worldwide. March 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Clariion call I have this recurring dream where a promising storage start-up whose products I have reviewed or analyzed ends up being purchased by a big guy. Only it's not a dream but a common reality in this ultra-competitive storage market. Vendors are constantly trying to differentiate their offerings with promising implementations of new technologies...and it's often easier for the large vendors to acquire a technology than develop it in-house. February 23, 3:00 a.m. PST Crypto Expert: Moore's Law fuels app obesity epidemic Cryptography is no mean field. After all, the science was invented by humans for the purpose of concealing information from other humans. That means that the best cryptographers have to be blindingly smart, with a mastery of mathematics but also a firm grasp of human psychology and, these days, fields such as computer science. February 19, 3:00 a.m. PST Hackers target hole in BrightStor Anti-virus firm Symantec warned today that exploit code is circulating for a known security hole in Computer Associates' BrightStor ARCServe Backup software, which provides data backup and restore for a variety of operating systems including Windows, Netware, Linux, Unix, and Mac. February 2, 1:32 p.m. PST Softek a key piece of IBM strategy IBM Corp.'s plan to acquire data mobility specialist Softek Storage Solutions Corp. marks another step along the way in transforming IBM's services business, according to company executives. January 29, 10:03 a.m. PST Getting data asset management right So your organization has decided to take the plunge into DAM (digital asset management). Now what? January 8, 3:00 a.m. PST The free multimedia opportunity As 64-bit processing becomes mainstream, the next major computing platform shift is due to arrive by 2008. If the open source community doesn't step up to the plate and address major impediments to widespread desktop adoption, Linux could be left behind. January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST 2006 Year in Reviews: Storage In EMC’s march on the enterprise NAS market, two big feet fell this year in the form of the company’s Rainfinity (global file system) and Infoscape (file classification) releases, which we took for early spins in EMC’s labs. The year also brought a smooth rev of Windows Storage Server, a swell mid-range SAN from Compellent, and a slick tape library from Spectra Logic. December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST U.S. tally of data breach victims tops 100M A stolen laptop at The Boeing Co. has pushed a widely watched tally of U.S. data breach victims past the 100 million mark. December 15, 4:22 a.m. PST Backup Software: Bah, Humbug There is no better computer security defense than having a known, good, safe data backup, right? Then why is nearly all backup software so complex and buggy? Why do backup drives frequently fail? Why do backup tapes fail so often? December 15, 3:00 a.m. PST 2006: A year of IT highs and lows It happens every year: as the calendar gets ready to turn over, we get an itch to pause, to be quiet, to reflect. That’s probably why “year in review” stories are so popular at this time of year: they channel a seasonal compunction among editors and readers alike. December 11, 3:00 a.m. PST Good ideas take time Two years ago, I publicly floated the concept that IT should start thinking more like entrepreneurs. What a disaster! I was speaking at a meeting of CTOs, and I mentioned that I’d heard of a few IT departments that were focusing, at least in part, on creating saleable new products and services for their companies. I asked the group what they thought of the idea. December 4, 3:00 a.m. PST Oracle tackles identity governance There’s a common nightmare haunting CISOs (computer information security officers) that features a glance at the morning paper, and 72-point banner headlines with the name of their employer and the words “LOST” and “CUSTOMER DATA.” December 4, 3:00 a.m. PST Data security means going beyond e-discovery This column hits the Web just one day before the new Federal Rules of Civil Procedures (FRCP) take effect. For more details on the impact of these rules, don't miss Ephraim Schwartz's recent analysis. November 30, 3:00 a.m. PST Forefront client security out and about It’s good to hear people laugh. Like when I asked the InfoWorld editors if I could go to Barcelona to attend the Microsoft IT Forum that’s going on there right now. At first, it felt good to give them some stress relief, but then they just kept chuckling until I had no choice but to get steamed. I mean, you’ve got to maintain their respect because the InfoWorld office is a lot like Oz -- the TV show, not the land created by L. Frank Baum. So on my way out of the office, I smacked the mail guy around a little. With his own shoes. Should restore the proper level of fear. November 16, 3:00 a.m. PST 2006 InfoWorld 100 Awards: Insurance The Phoenix Companies www.phoenixwm.phl.com On-Demand CRM and Application Development Project Lead: John Caine, Director, Technology Strategy, Life Insurance Division Project Description: Integrated Salesforce with legacy systems and built new applications for unique business needs. These projects include integrating Salesforce with the company's J2EE Web platform and legacy applications in the underwriting process. Phoenix's data integration between Salesforce and legacy systems allows it to combine data and create reports on their customers that they previously never had. The integration uses the AppExchange APIs. November 13, 3:00 a.m. PST Allegheny County maps data to an array of services It takes more than technology to make some tech projects succeed. It requires diplomacy, dedication, perseverance, a willingness to embrace change, and the vision to come up with new ways to solve old problems. November 13, 3:00 a.m. PST 2006 InfoWorld 100 Awards: Manufacturing Pitney Bowes www.pitneybowes.com Data Loss Prevention Initiative Project Lead: Trevor Odell, Manager of Security Administration Project Description: To better safeguard customer and corporate data, Pitney Bowes turned to Vontu's suite of data loss prevention solutions. The security team at Pitney Bowes is using Vontu Monitor and Vontu Prevent to monitor and prevent the loss of sensitive information over network messaging protocols including secure Web traffic. Ownership of the initiative spread beyond IT into the business organizations, reducing risk and demonstrating regulatory compliance. November 13, 3:00 a.m. PST 2006 InfoWorld 100 Awards: Health Care Alamance Regional Medical Center (ARMC) www.armc.com Transforming Care With Computerized Physician Order Entry Project Lead: Terri Andrews, R.N. (MBA); Jesse Long, CIO Project Description: Implemented Sunrise Clinical Manager, an electronic health record solution that enables immediate, secure access to patient records, streamlines care processes, and provides sophisticated clinical documentation capabilities. November 13, 3:00 a.m. PST 2006 InfoWorld 100 Awards: Pharmaceuticals McKesson www.mckesson.com RFID Tracking for Pharmaceuticals Project Lead: Paul Fowler,Vice President of E-commerce and Emerging Technologies Project Description: Implemented RFID to track the shipments of certain high-value Pfizer and GSK drugs flowing through its facilities. McKesson leveraged Blue Vector's network appliances to connect to RFID readers and other sensors. The system made it easy to quickly build a large widely distributed system that can be centrally managed and integrated with other systems. November 13, 3:00 a.m. PST Oracle OpenWorld makes a splash It was crazy in San Francisco last week as a rumored 40,000 people swamped Oracle’s OpenWorld conference — the first time I’d ever seen a tech conference have the clout to shut down a whole city block and set up tents in the street. November 3, 3:00 a.m. PST AMD CEO envisions users, not vendors, in control of IT The head of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) is predicting a seismic shift in the balance of power in both the chip industry and the world of IT as a whole, with influence shifting from vendors to users. The move could particularly benefit the health-care industry, which is still struggling to find ways to move forward with technology. October 23, 2:06 p.m. PDT IBM, Tibco tackle data management Knocking down silos is harder than you think. That’s a realization that countless enterprise IT administrators are coming to as they try to figure out a way to pull together data scattered throughout an enterprise into a coherent set of services. October 23, 3:00 a.m. PDT IT by the book Can something that’s been kicking around for more than 15 years qualify as an overnight success? It certainly feels that way with ITIL, a collection of nine books that lays out a blueprint for IT service management. In the United States, at least, ITIL has recently catapulted itself from a respected, if somewhat obscure, treatise for governance geeks to a mainstream discipline. October 23, 3:00 a.m. PDT SMEs, say farewell to DAS Not long ago I had an interesting conversation with a group of folks from a major storage vendor. They had requested a briefing to discuss how to improve their infrastructure to better support product reviews. October 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT EFF files lawsuit to gain information on FBI database The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) seeking information about a huge database containing the personal information of potentially millions of people. October 17, 1:24 p.m. PDT McAfee buys compliance vendor Onigma McAfee has acquired Onigma, an Israeli vendor of data-leak prevention software. The $20 million acquisition was concluded last Wednesday, said Vimal Solanki, senior director of marketing with McAfee. October 16, 5:12 a.m. PDT Microsoft locks down Vista, Longhorn Microsoft’s long, strange trip to protect its software from piracy took another twist last week after the company introduced Microsoft Software Protection Platform for its upcoming Vista and Longhorn server operating systems. 3:00 a.m. PDT European airlines in legal limbo as data talks collapse An agreement sheltering airlines from European privacy laws, allowing them to hand over passenger data required by U.S. authorities, expired Saturday, leaving most European airlines in legal limbo. October 2, 5:05 a.m. PDT Windows Clustering a costly option for Exchange fail-over Microsoft Windows Server 2003 supports running Exchange in a cluster of as many as eight nodes, and the functionality is great. If any of the nodes fails or is brought down for maintenance, the Exchange server is simply moved to one of the other nodes in the cluster. The interruption to handling incoming mail or client requests is minimal, amounting to the time it takes for Exchange services to come up when you boot a server. So why not use native clustering? October 2, 3:00 a.m. PDT Fail-over friends keep Exchange chugging An e-mail server can stop delivering e-mail for several reasons: a loss of Internet connectivity, a hardware failure, an operating system crash, an e-mail server software crash, or a corruption of the database that stores the messages. The traditional backup-and-restore process can take hours to resurrect a server, and any mail that comes in while the server is down will be lost. As a result, not surprisingly, many organizations demand CDP (continuous data protection) for e-mail. October 2, 3:00 a.m. PDT Commerce Department reports loss of 1,137 laptops The U.S. Commerce Department reported that 1,137 laptops have been lost or stolen since 2001, with 249 of them containing some degree of personal data. September 22, 4:59 a.m. PDT Covering your (tape) assets With two major vendors -- IBM and Sun -- announcing tape encryption technologies, Sept. 13 should have been a turning point in datacenter security. Well, it wasn’t. September 21, 3:00 a.m. PDT Technology with no past To the extent that it’s possible, I’m declaring today the beginning of recorded history in information technology. On this day, the phrase “information technology,” abbreviated IT, came into being as shorthand for electronic devices that aid humans in storage and sharing of, analysis of, protection of, and access to significant amounts of digitized content. Content? That’s anything you’re capable of holding in your brain for even a nanosecond. IT is not a department or a group of people. It’s a smart phone. It’s a room full of SPARC servers. A telephone headset? A keyboard? I don’t know. They’re new terms. We’ll work that out as we go. I do know that if we didn’t have such things, information technology would be inaccessible. September 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Copan takes on conventional storage You may remember that just two years ago, Copan began shipping the Revolution 200T, an archiving system that emulates tape libraries by using cabinets filled to the brim with SATA drives. The Revolution was the first system to pack almost 900 SATA drives into a single cabinet and to complement that exceptionally dense capacity with management software for great reliability and low power and cooling requirements. (Here's a quick recap of how the Revolution works.) September 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT BEA looks to tap Web 2.0 for Enterprise Long a player in the geeky world of enterprise middleware, BEA will soon be diving into a frothy Web 2.0 space as it tries to tap into the genius of Web sites such as del.icio.us, Wikipedia, and YouTube, according to Mark Carges, executive vice president of business interaction at BEA. September 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sun, IBM launch tape encryption technology Sun Microsystems and IBM are both introducing data tape encryption technology this week, protecting against a security breach that can endanger or embarrass an enterprise. September 13, 4:53 a.m. PDT Enterprise DRM products protect documents from prying eyes Enterprise DRM (digital rights management) shares DRM’s basic concept of controlling content use. However, it goes beyond unauthorized-copy protection to help stop sensitive information from being read, altered, or shared outside an origination -- while not interfering with users’ work, including their ability to collaborate with colleagues. As such, it’s an important complement to other data leak solutions, such as network scanners. August 31, 3:00 a.m. PDT Survey: U.S. firms frequently lose sensitive data Loss of confidential data -- including intellectual property, business documents, customer data, and employee records -- is a pervasive problem among U.S. companies, according to a survey released this week by Ponemon Institute and Vontu, a San Francisco-based provider of data loss prevention products. August 17, 8:35 a.m. PDT Feeling vulnerable at the security-storage crossroads Sometimes you find some very surprising things in the results of a survey. Last week I was looking at a survey that Symantec conducted during a recent Black Hat convention. August 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Strengthening iSCSI storage The weather and sudden power blackouts are taking their toll all over the States in these torrid summer weeks. Case in point: the July 26 post of fellow blogger and Hitachi Data Systems CTO Hu Yoshida, which has the revealing title, "Sitting in the dark". August 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT VA drops credit offer after FBI says data is safe The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs last week withdrew its offer to pay for one year's worth of credit-monitoring services for the 26.5 million veterans and active-duty personnel whose data was exposed in the security breach at the VA. July 24, 9:46 a.m. PDT IBM aims continuous data backup software at SMBs IBM has partnered with an e-commerce services company to sell its continuous data protection software to consumers and smaller businesses. July 21, 8:38 a.m. PDT OMBs encryption deadline hinges on enforcement Zero to encrypted in 45 days? That’s the amount of time the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) gave federal civilian agencies to fall in line with National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidelines regarding the encryption of stored data. July 17, 3:00 a.m. PDT EMC seeks “Vision Thing” with RSA Buy EMC CEO Joe Tucci likes to describe his company’s acquisition strategy as a “string of pearls” approach, focusing on small buys of top-notch technology: Documentum, VMware, Captiva. All together, those pearls add up to something that’s really valuable. July 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT RSA confirms acquisition rumors RSA Security confirmed published rumors that it is in discussions to be acquired, but declined to reveal the companies with which it is negotiating. June 29, 3:00 a.m. PDT InfoWorld CTO 25: Amichai Shulman Amichai Shulman, CTO and founder of Imperva, heads Imperva’s Application Defense Center (ADC), a research arm of the company devoted to building “the most advanced … security knowledge base in the world.” June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT VA data loss could prompt federal privacy law A massive security breach at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) this month may refocus Congress on stalled data breach legislation, some backers of the legislation said. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Laptop theft compromises Hotels.com customer data Hotels.com LP is warning nearly a quarter of a million customers that they may have had their credit card numbers stolen, following the theft of an unencrypted laptop belonging to the travel Web site's auditor, Ernst & Young GIobal Ltd. June 2, 4:37 p.m. PDT Hack Tales: Network auditing on a shoestring What do you do when the auditors are breathing down your neck, wanting to see an exhaustive report on the Windows network security of a 2,000-user network across eight sites? That’s easy. Break out a text editor and start writing some Perl. May 29, 3:00 a.m. PDT Nortel, Symantec team on app security Symantec plans to announce Monday a deal to put its intrusion prevention system (IPS) software on Nortel Network's application switching hardware. May 22, 8:50 a.m. PDT Verizon-NSA case puts companies on notice A shadowy “three letter” U.S. government agency calls your company and asks for copies of your private customer data ... the kind you don’t share with outsiders and can get sued for losing. The agency says it needs the data to track terrorists, but won’t get too specific about how. May 22, 3:00 a.m. PDT NetSuite gets the boot, E3 nixes birthday suits So it turns out that hacking a Diebold touchscreen voting machine is just slightly harder than opening a box of Cracker Jack and stealing the prize inside. All you need is a PC Card, a little know-how, and a few minutes alone with the machine to change how it counts votes. A Diebold spokesbot said such a hack would require election officials to be “evil and nefarious” -- and, of course, such people simply don’t exist. So everything’s hunky-dory. Isn’t it great to live in country where anyone can grow up to fix an election? May 19, 3:00 a.m. PDT Analysts, users disagree on Vista pros, cons As Microsoft slouches toward its first full operating system release in five years, code-named “Vista,” Microsoft-watchers are beginning to debate the impact of the system’s security enhancements, which could be more pain than gain. May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Symantec sorting out Veritas mega-merger Nearly a year after Symantec’s $13.5 billion merger with Veritas Software, customers of both companies got a view of the new face of Symantec at the company’s Vision 2006 user conference last week in San Francisco. May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT EMC's focus still on virtualization, security EMC continued its buying spree last week by picking up Kashya, maker of data replication and protection software, for $153 million, and the Interlink Group, a professional services firm that specializes in Microsoft environments. May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT > Applications > Databases > Data management > Databases > Data management > Platforms > Databases > Storage > Databases |
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