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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. 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 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 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 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 Web 2.0: New technologies greet the enterprise However you define Web 2.0, most agree that it’s woven from a fabric of technologies designed to ease collaboration and break down information silos, whether they’re individual Web sites, portals, or business intelligence systems. Enterprise RSS gained significant ground in 2006 as a better way to aggregate and publish this information; social networking also made significant inroads within organizations. A third swatch, represented by enterprise search, transformed the way all this content is organized and categorized. January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST Congress fails to pass net neutrality bill The U.S. Congress adjourned Friday without passing a much-debated broadband bill or strengthening network neutrality rules. December 12, 11:37 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 Service providers like Cisco router Cisco Systems Inc. says it has turned the corner in getting service providers to adopt its biggest router. August 9, 5:05 p.m. PDT exalead and Siderean guide users down differing paths to data troves As a rule, search engines should return reliable results. So when unanticipated responses appear, it’s possible that the initial query was too broad or ambiguous. To help users sharpen their searches, vendors have turned to grouping results into manageable collections. Clustering and faceted categorization are two popular methods. July 28, 3:00 a.m. PDT Yahoo enters enterprise waters with partner X1 X1 Technologies will release an upgrade of its desktop search tool for enterprises that uses Yahoo technology, X1 plans to announce on Monday. June 19, 4:13 a.m. PDT Building connection engines with metadata In “Scan This Book!” -- a May 14 manifesto published in The New York Times Magazine -- Wired’s Kevin Kelly explores the copyright battle provoked by Google’s ambition to digitize millions of library books. It’s ultimately a clash of business models, he concludes. In a networked world, where copying is implicit in every transfer of information, copies lose their direct economic value but gain indirect value as “discovery tools” that attract attention, sponsorship, and subscription. June 14, 3:00 a.m. PDT Enterprise Search goes after BI The high rollers of enterprise search and retrieval are betting heavily on BI (business intelligence). May 22, 3:00 a.m. PDT Accessing the web of databases I've just posted the fourth installment in my new series of Friday podcasts. It’s an interview with Kingsley Idehen, CEO of OpenLink Software. OpenLink’s flagship product is a universal database and application server, Virtuoso, which I last wrote about in 2003. May 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT Splunk touts partnership with CA Log file search and indexing specialist Splunk announced a partnership with CA on Monday that will include an integration module between the startup's software and CA's Unicenter systems management product. May 1, 7:16 a.m. PDT Google unveils new search appliance Google shored up its enterprise-search portfolio on Wednesday, announcing Google OneBox for Enterprise, a new feature for doing real-time searches on business-application data. April 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Set my data free Last weekend I helped a friend categorize her Schedule C expenses. All of her business income is in QuickBooks, but the expenses aren’t. I would have to reconstruct those from bank and credit card records. Although this friend has online accounts at both institutions, my Spidey sense was tingling: I knew there was going to be trouble. April 12, 3:00 a.m. PDT Reinventing the intranet In an interview long ago, Marc Andreessen told me about the moment he knew Netscape’s business plan would succeed. That plan, as you may recall, was modeled on Gillette’s: give away razors (browsers and mail/news clients) and sell blades (enterprise servers). For Andreessen, the magical moment came when, shortly after the word “intranet” was coined, he heard it echoing all around him in a restaurant. April 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Can Google gain a foothold in the enterprise? Google's got its eyes on your corporate data, and if its ability to parlay its whip-smart Web search technology into a vast empire of consumer services is any indication, you may be Googling enterprise apps and data sooner than you think. February 17, 4:15 p.m. PST Speeding retrieval with in-memory data management My first real Java application, back in 1997, was a servlet-based group scheduler. It wasn’t quite the smash hit that Hanson’s “MMMBop” was that summer, but as some of you may recall, it had its charms. February 15, 3:00 a.m. PST Paid search results often not worth the click Microsoft Corp. does not think much of Secure Computer LLC. It says the company and its partners have "exploited computer users," and that the company's antispyware product is of "questionable effectiveness." Last week, it went so far as to join forces with the Washington state attorney general and sue the White Plains, New York, company over its business practices. February 6, 4:53 a.m. PST Operating systems vendors prep for next-gen hardware IT organizations usually stay loyal to the OS choices they make, but every once in a while, vendors and projects yield a bumper crop of OSes so compelling that the strength of ties binding IT to their chosen operating systems are tested. January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST Document management systems go to court Two proposed amendments to the federal Rules of Civil Procedure, if passed by Congress, will have a major impact on corporations and their IT departments. One expert I spoke with called the situation a legal Chernobyl. December 27, 3:00 a.m. PST Forrester index finds US tech sector healthy for now The U.S. technology industry has recovered from a recession of 2001 and 2002 and is about as healthy as it's been in three years, according to a new tech sector economic index released Monday. December 12, 9:49 a.m. PST Why data synchronization still matters The physics of data management used to dictate that your data could be either consistent or highly available but never both at the same time. The discipline of data synchronization sits uncomfortably on the horns of this Heisenbergian dilemma. As times change, though, so do the trade-offs associated with synchronization and its uses. November 30, 3:00 a.m. PST Microsoft is stuck on the C: drive Bill Gates’ Nov. 1 announcement that Microsoft would soon be in the SaaS (software-as-a-service) business should be taken as a warning sign to the faithful: Something is rotten in Redmond. In the past, Gates has aimed his message at the consumer, both business and personal. He usually extols the virtues of whatever technology is being unveiled and explains to his audience how it will fundamentally change their lives (for the better, of course). This time he had nothing substantive to offer them. November 8, 3:00 a.m. PST Product previews Juniper jumps into access control Juniper Networks announced the availability of its Enterprise Infranet Controller, an end-point security and network access control system built on the policy and control engine of its Secure Access SSL VPN products. The heart of the product is the Infranet Controller appliance, which pushes an on-demand host-checking Infranet Agent to each connecting client and makes access policy decisions based on user role and current state of the host system. Noncompliant end points, such as those lacking anti-virus or firewall software, can be steered to a remediation site or security zones on the network. The Infranet Agent, as well as any Juniper firewall updated with ScreenOS 5.3, can handle enforcement. Juniper Infranet Controller 4000 and 6000 appliances, Juniper Networks October 31, 3:00 a.m. PST The importance of interaction data The twin themes of this year's Accelerating Change conference were AI (artificial intelligence) and IA (intelligence amplification). On the AI track, people talked about making systems smarter. On the IA track, people talked about harnessing collective human intelligence. The tension between the two groups struck some sparks. October 12, 3:00 a.m. PDT Effective description, discovery, and integration The Rodney Dangerfield of Web services standards is clearly Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration. UDDI don't get no respect. Its original conception -- a global e-marketplace for services -- looks, for now, like a dot-com-era fantasy. October 5, 4:00 a.m. PDT WinFS and social information management I saw my first demo of Microsoft’s Cairo OFS (Object File System) back in 1993. It was briefly unveiled at the Professional Developers Conference that year, and then shelved. This week I installed the beta version of its successor, WinFS. September 7, 4:00 a.m. PDT Windows Vista offers view of integrated desktop search There’s no reason to postpone planning your enterprise desktop search deployment while waiting for far-off OS-based search technologies. Still, that doesn't mean these developments aren't worth tracking, considering that they have the potential to significantly alter the way we locate information. With that in mind, I examined Microsoft's first Windows Vista beta to see how the desktop search experience may change for end-users. September 1, 4:00 a.m. PDT Desktop search gets down to business When enterprises roll out search applications, it's usually a big IT effort to keep indexes refreshed and the overall systems running. Because of this complexity and the reality that most enterprise knowledge resides on workers' PCs, consumer desktop search technology has infiltrated organizations -- and has caught IT executives off guard. September 1, 4:00 a.m. PDT IBM's new search framework and the blogosphere You can find Irving Wladawsky-Berger’s fingerprints on most of IBM’s key initiatives: on-demand, open source, Linux, autonomic, and grid computing. So when he launched his blog in May, I became a charter subscriber. August 17, 5:00 a.m. PDT > Data management > Enterprise search |
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