Monthly Archives: May 2007
A Booster Shot for Anti-Virus
No security solution can promise to identify every threat, block every zero-day exploit and scrub away every virus strain that strikes enterprise infrastructures, but...
ITIL in the Data Center: Adoption Low, but Interest High
A study conducted by Symantec found that IT professionals worldwide are counting on a variety of technologies, including Information Technology Infrastructure Library frameworks, storage...
Activist Rails Against Myth that U.S. IT Skills Are Inferior
On the heels of a busy season for H-1B-related activity—a record-breaking depletion of the temporary worker visas, two related pieces of Senate legislation and...
Novell to Release Microsoft Patent Agreement Documents
SAN FRANCISCO—Novell plans to share more details of its controversial patent and interoperability agreements with Microsoft when it files its 10-K annual report, which...
IBM, Hewlett-Packard Dominate Server Market in Q1
The first quarter of 2007 proved another winner for both IBM and Hewlett-Packard as the two IT giants led the industry in both server...
Cisco, RSA Combine on SAN Fabricwide Encryption
ORLANDO, Fla.—Cisco Systems and EMCs RSA security division introduced May 23 an extension of their partnership that entails development of encryption for spinning disk...
Microsoft IP PBX Partners to Support OCS 2007
LAS VEGAS—Microsoft at Interop on May 22 announced interoperability partners on the other side of the VOIP coin for Office Communications Server 2007.
In the...
Red Hat CEO: Open Source Now Legitimate
SAN FRANCISCO—Open-source software and the community around it does not need to be legitimized anymore as it is now legitimate, Red Hat CEO Matt...
nCircle Nabs Cambia Security
Security vendor nCircle announced May 23 that it has completed the acquisition of Cambia Security, a company specializing in agent-less configuration auditing.Cambia makes Cambia...
IBM Expands Chip Development Agreements
IBM is looking to expand its reach into the consumer and embedded microprocessor market with a new series of cooperative agreements to co-develop new...