Chris Gonsalves

An apparent DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack on the DNS run by Akamai Technologies Inc. slowed traffic across the Internet early Tuesday and brought the sites of the firms major customers to a screeching halt for roughly two hours. “There was a large-scale, international attack that did affect the Internet name service,” said Jeff […]

Cisco Systems Inc. celebrates its 20th birthday on Tuesday with the unveiling of its most powerful and flexible router ever. The long-awaited “Huge Fast Router,” now officially dubbed Ciscos Carrier Router System-1 or CRS-1, will debut at an event in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. While the device, designed for carriers moving […]

Cisco Systems Inc. next week will show off its long-awaited advancement in router technology and make the case that it has returned to networkings cutting edge, a place where Cisco has been challenged of late. According to sources familiar with the announcement, set for Tuesday morning at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., […]

Eager to pay down mounting debt, Electronic Data Systems Corp. will sell a profitable software development subsidiary to three investment firms for more than $2 billion in cash, officials said Sunday. The Plano, Texas services giant said Bain Capital LLC, Silver Lake Partners LP, and Warburg Pincus LLC had agreed to purchase its UGS PLM […]

After working together quietly for nearly a year, EMC Corp. and VMware Inc. made it official last week with the storage vendor buying the smaller software company in a bid to offer combined storage and server virtualization and management tools. The $635 million cash deal is expected to result in some 20 new offerings in […]

SAN file services vendor OnStor Inc. Tuesday rolled out its newest SAN filer for enterprises seeking the file-based simplicity of network-attached storage with the scalability and power of a storage area network. OnStors SF4400 series SAN filer is a hardware/software combo capable of managing an enterprises file services on a SAN. With more and more […]

It took Maranti Networks Inc. awhile, but its long-promised intelligent storage area network switches have finally arrived. Originally pegged for delivery more than a year ago, the San Jose, Calif., vendors flagship CoreSTOR line debuted this week with 16- and 128-port switches along with associated software and services all aimed at enterprises looking to prioritize […]

Compliance with government regulations and fear of liability are pushing enterprises to pay careful attention to e-mail archiving and management, and vendors are stepping up with new tools to manage such communications. CommVault Systems Inc. this week will introduce a new archiving tool for Microsoft Corp. Exchange users looking for organized, long-term storage of e-mail. […]

Security experts are blaming known but unpatched vulnerabilities in Microsoft Corp.s Internet Explorer for the theft and distribution of the source code for a much anticipated new video game. The source code for Valve Corp.s Half Life 2, a sequel to the popular shoot-em-up game that was due out by December, was posted on the […]

Security researchers are continuing to analyze a new worm that began spreading rapidly through e-mail systems worldwide earlier today. Known as W32.Mimail.A, the worm attempts to exploit a vulnerability in Internet Explorer that allows a scripting on a users computer. Researchers at Symantecs security response center rated the worms damage capabilities as “low” though they […]