Brian Prince

Fresh off a successful round of Series C venture capital financing, EnterpriseDB announced the launch of two new products today at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco. The release of Postgres Plus 8.3 and Postgres Plus Advanced Server 8.3 are an attempt by the vendor to fully integrate its product portfolio and comes […]

While the world waits for the first major hypervisor exploit, vendors are doing their best to build technological defenses for virtual environments. However, developing that technology may lie with the ability and willingness of vendors to work together, officials at numerous companies said. In February, VMware announced its VMsafe initiative, the first of what company […]

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 an eye toward enabling enterprises, Web-based companies and software-as-a-service and independent software vendors to launch clustered database application systems more quickly in on-demand environments. Click Here to Watch the Latest […]

Mi5 Networks is preparing to launch its latest entry into a crowded Web gateway security space, this time with the ability to monitor, control and block more than 100 applications and protocols to secure businesses against Web-based threats. The move fills a gap in the security vendor’s product portfolio as it looks to gain ground […]

When it comes to user rights, less is more, according to officials at BeyondTrust. With that in mind, the company has launched a piece of freeware to help organizations minimize user rights as part of an overall enterprise security strategy. Using BeyondTrust Application Rights Auditor, users can identify software that requires elevated privileges. Once those […]

Sophos has integrated network access control into its latest endpoint security offering as it tries to catch up to key rivals in market share. Earlier the week of March 17, the company released Sophos Endpoint Security and Control 8.0, incorporating NAC technology with anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, application control and host intrusion prevention technology in one […]

8 Simple Steps to Protect Your Database By Brian Prince and Chris Preimesberger 8 Simple Steps to Protect Your Database – #1. Directly Monitor Your Financial Database Rather than monitor your network, where rogue users can gain untraceable access to your data, monitor your financial databases. Make sure your tools can identify, provide alerts and […]

The Most Common Database Design Mistakes By Brian Prince The Most Common Database Design Mistakes – Plan? What Plan? Lack of planning was an oft-repeated theme. Poor planning is the fountain from which many other problems spring- The Most Common Database Design Mistakes – Whats My Name? The failure to adopt a naming standard was […]

Shocking the encryption market is not easy to do, but officials at Voltage Security must hope their new approach to encryption will do exactly that. The company’s flagship SecureData product uses a cryptographic technique Voltage Security calls Format-Preserving Encryption. SecureData was first released to the public in fall of 2007, though the company waited until […]

Sybase is looking to bolster both performance and productivity for users with the release of the latest version of Advantage Database Server. Version 9.0 of the product, announced March 17, is one of two embedded database offerings from Sybase. It includes a number of enhancements aimed squarely at application developers. For starters, the company has […]