Brian Prince

Symantec beat revenue forecasts for the third quarter of fiscal year 2008 with a revenue increase of about 7 percent. The company earned $1.52 billion in revenue during the fiscal year that ended in December, beating predictions of analysts polled by Thomson Financial who projected that the company would make $1.45 billion in revenue. Symantec […]

Among the wonders of virtualization, Dennis Hoffman is impressed by the ability to move a virtual machine from one system to another without interrupting its operation. “It’s a communication of a system, a complete system state, a running machine,” Hoffman, the vice president and general manager of the data security group and chief strategy officer […]

RSA announced Jan. 7 that it would lay off security researchers and sales and support staff, part of a restructuring effort to eliminate redundancies since it was acquired by storage giant EMC in 2006. Though the company declined to identify the number of employees affected, RSA spokesperson Matt Buckley said the layoffs affected “small numbers […]

LongJump is the latest vendor to leap into the on-demand database market. The company’s new database-as-a-service offering, unveiled Jan. 8, allows companies to self-provision relational database access and storage on demand. Targeted at small and midsize businesses, the service is meant to reduce the costs and stresses of developers who need to buy a database […]

Cisco officials are hoping to field a triple play of sorts in the security space with a new series of appliances aimed at addressing threats posed by Web 2.0 in the workplace. The company is releasing the Cisco ASA 5580 Series Adaptive Security Appliances, as an answer for enterprises looking to protect media-rich, highly transactional […]

McAfee has baked encryption technology into its latest data security product in a bid to protect mobile devices, endpoints and the network from data leaks. Dubbed McAfee Total Protection for Data, the product is the Santa Clara, Calif.-based security vendor’s answer to compliance regulations requiring business secure customer data. It is an amalgamation of a […]

Arbor Networks is making a move to extend its footprint in network security with the planned acquisition of Merrimack, NH-based Ellacoya Networks. In the proposed acquisition of Ellacoya, Arbor Networks is advancing on its stated strategy to acquire new technologies to augment its own network security tools. The Lexington, Mass.-based company, which specializes in security […]

When Sun Microsystems announced it was putting $1 billion up for MySQL AB, members of the other open source database community – PostgreSQL – also took notice. For the past few years, Sun has been a major backer of PostgreSQL, packaging, distributing and supporting a version of the open-source database and some of its associated […]

Officials at Sun Microsystems are placing a $1 billion bet that the acquisition of MySQL AB will create a strong opportunity for deeper penetration of the enterprise market by open-source databases. Calling it the biggest acquisition in the history of Sun, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz said the move holds an enormous opportunity for growth for […]

Webroot’s software-as-a-service strategy took a major step forward when the company bought Email Systems in November. However, company officials said that was only the beginning. On Jan. 15, the vendor launched its Webroot E-Mail Security SAAS, which targets small- and medium-sized businesses looking to manage perimeter security. The service includes encryption, content and image filtering […]