Brian Prince

SAN FRANCISCO—Following in the footsteps of other speakers at Oracles OpenWorld conference, Dell Chairman and CEO Michael Dell stressed the need to simplify IT and push for more energy-efficient products. Dell has had its share of announcements this week, from a partnership with Sun Microsystems that puts Suns Solaris and OpenSolaris operating systems on Dell […]

SAN FRANCISCO—While Oracle executives collectively have spent much of this years OpenWorld conference talking about Fusion Middleware and Applications, their Database 11g still looms large over the show. During the conference, there have been several announcements around 11g, from a partnership with Cisco Systems to develop an acceleration protocol to increase scalability for Oracle RAC […]

Cisco hopes to ease the process of managing guest network access with a new feature in their network admission control product. The companys new Network Admission Control Guest Server adds the Secure Guest service to other existing Cisco NAC services and can operate with the Cisco NAC Appliance or the Cisco Wireless LAN Controller. The […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Intel CEO Paul Otellini pledged his companys commitment to cutting power consumption in the technology industry during his remarks Nov. 13 at Oracles OpenWorld conference here. “Today, for every dollar you spend on server hardware, youre spending 50 cents to cool and power that machine,” Otellini said. “By 2010, it goes up to 70 […]

Oracle is the latest player to jump into the virtualization market, and the news helped cut the price of VMware shares. But VMware did not hesitate to respond to the announcement Oracle made Nov. 12 at its OpenWorld conference in San Francisco regarding its plans to offer free server virtualization software. “Oracles introduction of yet […]

Want some anti-spyware? How about a Trojan with that? That is not a literal sales pitch, but the end result of a multistep scam involving rogue anti-spyware that researchers at SecureWorks are warning Web surfers about. Though tricking users into downloading Trojans via bogus anti-spyware is nothing new, security researchers said the magnitude of the […]

Alert Logic is using a software as a service business model to bring log management to midsized enterprises. The companys new log management offering, dubbed Alert Logic Log Manager, provides fully indexed searching of all archived log data via a web portal. The data is archived in two separate Alert Logic data centers to ensure […]

Agiliance is releasing a new version of its governance, risk and compliance management product with the aim of delivering an end-to-end IT risk management tool. Agiliance IT-GRC version 3.0, rolled out Nov. 6, includes a number of enhancements designed to enable enterprises to address changes in their risk profile as their underlying IT infrastructure, processes, […]

Trend Micro and Provilla; Symantec and Vontu; Cisco and IronPort—the list of acquisitions this year in the data loss prevention space keeps growing longer. But some market-watchers speculate the buying spree may soon slow down. “The race is definitely on among larger security vendors to add content and behavior monitoring and data leakage protection technologies […]

Compliance is driving a boom in the data audit market and designing the tools of the trade. A recent Forrester report, “The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Database Auditing and Real-Time Protection, Q4 2007,” estimates the value of the database auditing and real-time protection market—including new licenses, support and services—to be $450 million, and predicts that number […]

Advocates of PostgreSQL say the open-source database is continuing to slowly win converts even as it remains in the shadow of the more widely used MySQL. PostgreSQL has come a long way technically since its inception in the 1980s, when it was known as Postgres. Today it remains sufficiently modern and relevant to developers, and […]

Now that Symantec has snatched up Vontu, the software giant is planning to bring data loss prevention to more than just large enterprises. In a call with members of the media Nov. 6, Ken Schneider, chief technology officer of Symantec’s Security and Data Management Group, said the company plans to broaden adoption of DLP technology […]