Monthly Archives: June 2006
Storage Software Market Continues Its Growth, IDC Reports
The worldwide storage software market grew in double digits again—10.2 percent year over year to $2.4 billion in the first quarter of 2006—marking 10...
Microsofts New WinFS Challenge: Managing Live Services
BOSTON—With WinFS, its next-generation file store technology that it has been working on since 2002, Microsoft admittedly bit off a tough challenge: to provide...
DB2 Crack Lets in Attackers Without Database Credentials
Security researchers have uncovered a critical client/server protocol flaw in IBMs DB2 database.
Impervas Application Defense Center reported on June 12 that it had discovered...
Microsoft Outlines App Integration Plan in Tech Ed Keynote
BOSTON—Microsoft is using its annual Tech Ed developer conference to stress the tight integration of its applications and how this will allow developers to...
RuBee May Be Savior for Frustrated RFID Proponents
For years, RFID proponents have pointed to item-level tagging as the Holy Grail, the ultimate payoff when all of the RFID pieces fell into...
Is Vista Heading for a Flash Nightmare?
Now is the time for IT managers to get ready for trouble. The source will be found in Windows Vistas "Ready" twins: ReadyBoost and...
The Top 10 TechEd Hot Buttons
Its TechEd time.
And at this years annual gathering of Microsoft IT pros and developers, which starts on June 11 in Boston, Microsoft is expected...
IBM Grows Reach of Blade.org
IBM is getting a boost for its Blade.org group in the form of more financing, additional members and a new product.The Armonk, N.Y., technology...
Symantec Settles One Tax Bill, but a Larger One Looms
Security and data storage software powerhouse Symantec has agreed to pay $36 million to settle an outstanding Internal Revenue Service tax claim, but a...
IT Managers Should Keep an Eye on New Display Tech
SAN FRANCISCO—Monitors are a commodity item for most enterprise desktops and few IT managers give their selection a second thought, other than for considerations...