We all know what a meter, hectare, litre, and second mean, but we may not be aware of the standards …
Microsoft plugs critical Exchange, IE holes
Microsoft Corp. today patched eight vulnerabilities — three of them marked “critical” — in Internet Explorer, Office, Exchange and SQL …
Managing software assets
The current climate of company mergers and downsizing is putting CIOs under pressure to keep the lid on software costs …
McAfee touts integrated compliance suite
McAfee has taken steps to integrate its vulnerability assessment and policy management products in a single suite to make it …
Don’t be a data loss victim
Somebody was siphoning customer financial data from a chain of gas station/convenience stores. The perpetrator covered his tracks so well …
Google gives a boost with iPhone sync
A sales rep finally convinces a key client over lunch to schedule a meeting to talk about new contracts. The …
Managing security in bad times
The global economic downturn is making everyone's jobs harder, and IT security executives are in the hot seat, too, struggling …
IBM prepares to take on 21st century infrastructure
IBM aired plans to integrate physical and digital worlds, manage ever-growing amounts of data and reduce inefficient environments for customers …
Kaspersky says Web hack ‘should not have happened’
It's the worst thing that can happen to a computer security vendor: This weekend, Moscow's Kaspersky Lab was hacked. A …
The WAN plan
Is WAN optimisation gaining popularity in the Middle East? What is driving the market? The Middle East market as a …
Reaching toward unity
Storage resource management (SRM) products provide the means for collecting information on the heterogeneous resources – operating systems, host computers, …
Amazon opens up payments Web service to all
Amazon continues to expand its set of web services. Flexible Payments Service (FPS), which allows developers to tap into Amazon's …
Microsoft reveals ‘My Phone’ backup, sync service
Just hours after Microsoft Corp. accidently launched, then yanked, a Web site promoting its new “My Phone” backup and sync …
Top 10 spam-friendly registrars named and shamed
Spam-fighting organization KnujOn has released a report on the top 10 registrars it has linked to spam and other illicit …
Oracle to buy apps management vendor mValent
Oracle Corp. is acquiring application configuration management vendor mValent Inc., with the goal of enhancing the Oracle Enterprise Manager platform, …
Virtualization brings EMC and Microsoft closer
EMC and Microsoft have extended a partnership that focuses on interoperability of products related to virtualization, security and content management, …
‘IT security jobs largely untouched’
Information security jobs may not be the most glamorous ones in the technology industry. But at least they appear to …
Project management for networking geeks
Network professionals are typically well-versed in the technical aspects of networking: router and switch configuration, server deployment and management, and …
Completing data recovery
When the world's largest disk-makers joined last week to announce a single standard for encrypting disk drives, the move raised …
McAfee builds SaaS arm
McAfee on Monday announced that it has rolled its SaaS security offerings into a new business unit. The new unit …