Monthly Archives: October 2005
Sun, Google to Partner on Software
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Sun Microsystems and Google on Tuesday announced a partnership that will see the two Silicon Valley firms distribute and promote each others...
Liautaud: Bringing Business Objects to the Next Level
A relatively stable company, Business Objects S.A. has had a shake-up or two recently at its top levels. The companys founder, chairman and former...
EMA Makes Data Safe and Sound
Jonathan Rothman knows the value of information, and, as an executive in the emergency services field, he also places top priority on issues of...
SpreadFirefox.com Shut Down After Security Breach
The Mozilla Foundation has temporarily pulled the plug on its SpreadFirefox.com marketing site after a hacker break-in put user accounts at risk.
The non-profit Foundation,...
IBM Announces —Again— PC Storage Software Deal
Over the next few weeks, IBM is expected to unveil a bundling, co-development and co-marketing deal around the resale of Symantecs storage and cluster...
Xiotech Pitches Scaled-Down SAN for SMBs
Xiotech has introduced a scaled-down version of its Magnitude 3D 3000s SAN intended for small and midsize organizations. Intended as an entry-level storage cluster...
Decoding the “Managed” Label
Like the phrase "Personal Computer" after IBM trademarked "IBM PC" in 1981, the generic label of "managed code" has apparently acquired a vendor-specific aura—as...
Dell Says There Are Too Darned Many Linuxes, Too
This is annoying.
No sooner, no sooner I tell you, do I write a column about there being too darn many Linux distributions, then Michael...
The Security Side of Sarbanes-Oxley
What is SarbOx anyway?The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is a set of rules passed by Congress in order to force American public corporations to...
AES: How to Keep Secure Data Private
Though its a hot topic now, the need to encrypt data stored on tapes and hard drives, or transmitted across a network, is far...