Monthly Archives: October 2007
Congress Forbids IT from Working with Repressive Regimes
U.S. Internet companies would face criminal penalties for turning over personal data to governments that use the information to suppress political dissent under legislation...
VM Security Risks: Phantom or Menace?
NEW YORK—Virtual machines are threatening to crack the walls of data centers with a host of potential security threats—nothing thats been publicly exploited yet...
EMC Files Another Rosy Quarterly Report
EMCs storage infrastructure juggernaut racked up its 17th consecutive quarter of double-digit top-line growth in its third-quarter earnings report issued Oct. 25.The Hopkinton, Mass.-based...
Visa: Large Retailer PCI Compliance Hits 65 Percent
Sixty-five percent of the nations largest retailers are now compliant with the industry-standard Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, Visa reported Oct. 24, up...
BEA Counters Oracles Bid
The ball is back in Oracles court. BEA said Oct. 25 that it is prepared to talk about a sale of the company to...
Sun Files Countersuit in NetApp File System IP Dispute
Fifty days after Network Appliance filed a lawsuit Sept. 5 against Sun Microsystems seeking damages and a permanent injunction, claiming Sun infringed on several...
Diplomacy, MasterCard-Style
A school for diplomatic nuance, MasterCard aint. (My apologies for using the never-correct word "aint," but every so often, a journalist blogger must set...
TJX Intruder Moved 80GB of Data Without Detection
Citing new information about the TJX data breach, attorneys suing the clothing retail chain amended their complaints on Oct. 25 and want a jury...
NEC Targets IBM Supercomputer Status
After years of falling behind IBM and other companies in the race to build the worlds fastest supercomputers, NEC is looking to gain back...
Run Book Automation Gains Momentum
Systems and security management provider NetIQ on Oct. 25 threw its hat into the IT process automation ring with the launch of a new...