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Research firm Gartner Inc. said 90 percent of mobile devices lack the protection necessary to ward off hackers. The top security threat to mobile users is loss of a mobile device containing corporate data. Some key tactics to improving wireless security, according to Gartner, include moving mobile devices into the PC support group, installing PDA […]

Foundstone Inc. this week launched a channel program designed to help solution providers sell managed security services to small and midsize businesses. Executives at the vulnerability management software vendor said that the effort eventually would provide a three-tiered approach that would enable solution providers to sign up as agents, resellers or OEM partners. The program, […]

Companies that dont make efforts to secure their networks could face civil and criminal penalties under an array of existing laws and court decisions, according to security and legal experts. A new accounting-reform law now being phased in is likely to have the biggest impact. The 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act holds executives liable for computer security […]

Princeton Softech Inc. this week announced an agreement to offer its database archiving software through Veritas Software Corp.s partner program, a deal that expands the companies distribution channels. Princeton supports heterogeneous applications, databases and operating platforms to accommodate all types of computing systems. The companies integrated Princeton Softechs Active Archive software with the Veritas Data […]

Network Appliance Inc. is developing a clustered storage infrastructure it calls a “storage grid.” Suresh Vasudevan, vice president of products and solutions at Network Appliance, said the companys goals are to optimize an enterprises storage investment by balancing the cost of storage versus the need for applications. The grid approach will future-proof enterprise investments to […]

Linda Sanford, senior vice president of enterprise on-demand transformation and information technology at IBM, sat down with eWEEK Senior Writer Darryl K. Taft in her office in Somers, N.Y., to discuss IBMs strategy. How much of the IBM infrastructure has had to shift to accommodate on-demand? Its a continuous thing. We are learning as we […]

The sprawling CeBIT trade show in Hannover, Germany, earlier this month presented a panoply of IT vendors from around the world hawking new and upgraded hardware and software. The largest trade show in the world, CeBIT hosted more than 220,000 attendees in its first three days. The following is a sampling of some of the […]

Microsoft Corp. took the wraps off the latest version of its Windows CE platform at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco on Monday. Microsoft is distributing a “technology preview” version of Windows CE 5.0, code-named Macallan, to attendees of the show. On April 1, Microsoft plans to make the preview available for download from […]

Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp.s chairman and chief software architect, sat down with eWEEK Senior Writer Darryl K. Taft to share some of his vision on where the industry is heading, whats next in Microsofts sights, and the Next Big Thing for software developers. Gates granted eWEEK an exclusive interview at the VSLive conference in San […]

What will happen with Ximians Red Carpet system management tools for Linux, now that Ximian is part of Novell? At the BrainShare show this week, Novell officials gave a roadmap for integration between Red Carpet and its own ZenWorks tools for crossplatform management. Stops along the way include two upcoming product releases, codenamed Birdman and […]

Veritas Software Corp. on Monday made a number of announcements, including the release of its data life-cycle management tool; several new partnerships and the opening of a marketing storefront office in New York. The company released its Data Lifecycle Manager 5.0 software, which lets users automate the management of files and e-mail message data using […]

To download fact sheet, click here. Problem Automating business processes is essential to keeping a competitive edge, but can make your company inflexible. In his 2001 book, Jack: Straight from the Gut, former General Electric Co. chief executive Jack Welch wrote, “The most valuable opportunities for establishing competitive differentiation are in how a product or […]