Monthly Archives: January 2008
How to Implement Your Own SAN
Our school system provides just enough money to keep the system running and updated; any new systems or services are paid for on an...
How to Control All Those Virtual Lies in Your Data Center
Everything's rapidly becoming virtualized -- in data storage, in the data center, in video game playing, in life itself. Movies, for example, are becoming...
No Surprise: Oracle Locks Up BEA Systems
When it's in a hunt, Oracle always manages to capture its target. The news Jan. 16 that the Redwood City, Calif.-based enterprise systems maker...
Social Networks Close at Hand
Many IT departments have probably started to feel comfortable with the Web 2.0 technologies they have deployed within their businesses. Finally, they've figured out...
Cisco Swats Critical CallManager Bug
Switching and routing giant Cisco has shipped a high-priority update to fix a critical flaw affecting its CallManager software product.The bug, discovered and reported...
Why Sun Is Buying MySQL
Today, Sun Microsystems turned heads by announcing plans to lay down seven and a half percent of its current market capitalization to acquire open-source...
How to Minimize Risk from Zero-Day Attacks
As I wrote in this piece over at eWEEK.com, rigged Microsoft Excel files are being used to exploit a zero-day (previously unknown/unpatched) vulnerability and...
Sun Bets MySQL Can Penetrate Mission-Critical Deployments
Officials at Sun Microsystems are placing a $1 billion bet that the acquisition of MySQL AB will create a strong opportunity for deeper penetration...
Oracle’s Second Attempt to Acquire BEA Succeeds for $8.5B
As it turns out Oracle is in fact the best buyer for BEA. After Oracle's first overtures for BEA in October 2007 -- followed...
Thomson Bags B2B Social Search Vendor
Proving several analysts clairvoyant, or at least bullish about the demand for social tools in businesses, The Thomson Corporation, Jan. 15, agreed to buy...