Monthly Archives: March 2008
Pervasive’s Platform Plan is to Persist in the Cloud
Pervasive Software, a 20-year-old data management and integration software vendor, is betting that its older, legacy technologies will give it an edge in a...
Facebook Declines to Join the OpenSocial Foundation
Facebook has declined to join the OpenSocial Foundation, a blow to an effort forged by Google, Yahoo and MySpace to create applications that work...
Vista Works! (After 16 Months of Trying)
If I know anything, I know operating systems. My first one was CICS/MVS on an Amdahl mainframe, followed by VAX/VMS, CP/M-80, TOPS-20, more Unix...
Report: 9 of 10 Sites Are Sitting Ducks
Nine out of 10 public Web sites are vulnerable to attack, according to a new report from White Hat Security, a Web site security...
Red Hat: More Customer Involvement with Community Needed
SAN FRANCISCO-Red Hat hasn't done a good enough job of promoting its position as the leading Linux vendor, and also needs to do a...
Partnerships are Key in Virtualization Security
While the world waits for the first major hypervisor exploit, vendors are doing their best to build technological defenses for virtual environments. However, developing...
Elastra Keeps Head in the Cloud
Elastra wants to take application infrastructures into the cloud, starting with the database.The company March 25 announced the release of Elastra Cloud Server with...
Portege R500 Is an Ultralight Heavyweight
Chic, fashionable and distressingly underweight-if there is a supermodel of notebook PCs, the Toshiba Portege R500-S5003 is it.Weighing in at a mere 1.72 pounds,...
Google’s Unlocked Approach to IT
Putting the brakes on employees' incessant demands for total access to technology may be tough at most companies, but can you imagine how hard...
Google Wants to Fill in the White Spaces
Having been kicked to the curb by Verizon in the recently concluded 700MHz spectrum auction block, Google is reaching out with hungry hands to...