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Eleven of the nations top computer security companies this week announced the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA), a new organization that will lobby on cyber-security issues in Washington. Leaders of the Alliance stress that they remain wary of any government effort to regulate security practices. They are, however, willing to concede that some requirements, perhaps […]

Symantec Corp. executives this week laid out a broad strategy to expand the company beyond its core business of selling anti-virus software. The company is stepping up efforts to sell security software to companies and also help them integrate and manage security into their computer networks. The approach includes more services, training and consulting, such […]

President Bushs Homeland Security Assistant Wednesday stopped just short of referring to hackers as Al Qaeda terrorists in a keynote at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. “The [Al Qaeda] enemy fights from the shadows,” But Gen. John Gordon said. “This is similar to the cyber terrorist community.” Both types of attackers also can carry […]

Not satisfied with its assault on HPs Tru64 customer base, Sun Microsystems has made a move to go after HP-UX customers as well, offering them a “risk free” move to SPARC-based or Opteron-based hardware. For several months now, Sun has been trying to convince old DEC and Compaq users to come over to the Solaris […]

Microsoft claims the idea of an interim Windows release between Windows XP and Longhorn is just that: An idea. Nonetheless, such a release already has developers and users tongues wagging. /zimages/2/28571.gifClick here to read more about Microsofts plans for an interim release of Windows. “Longhorn is looking more like a 2007 release,” said one developer […]

After insisting last year that it would not release a version of Windows client before Longhorn, Microsoft is now considering such a plan. Company officials acknowledged on Thursday that the company is considering some kind of an interim Windows release that would follow Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). SP2 is due out by mid-2004, […]

High-performance storage vendor Dot Hill Systems Corp. this week said it acquired Chaparral Network Storage Inc. for $72 million. Chaparral is a long-standing provider of storage controller technology. The deal gives Dot Hill control over virtually all the technology that goes into its products. “We believe that owning our own controller technology is an important […]

Silicon Graphics Inc. recently unveiled a storage area network (SAN) that supports Mac OS X. The companys InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystem CXFS product allows OS X users to take advantage of the benefits of a shared file system approach offered by the companys SAN line. SGI developed the Mac-compatible version in response to demand from film […]

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies this week announced a 300GB enterprise-class drive, spinning at 10,000 rpm, with either Ultra320 SCSI or 2Gbps Fibre Channel interfaces. The UltraStar 10K300 breaks the capacity record for the SCSI drive, set over three years ago by Seagate with its Barracuda 180, a 7,200rpm drive with a capacity of 181GB. Seagate, […]

As the wireless LAN switching market matures a bit, some WLAN management start-ups are realizing the benefits of partnering with traditional industry vendors. To that end, Roving Planet and Airespace Inc. this week both announced plans to support hardware other than its own. Airespace on Wednesday announced plans to team up with D-Link Systems Inc. […]

Microsoft Corp.s rights management technology is coming to a host of third-party desktop and line-of-business applications—with or without the blessing of the app vendors themselves. Microsoft introduced last year its Rights Management Services (RMS) solution, designed to control the digital distribution of documents. Since then, several services and infrastructure firms, such as EDS, Digex, Reciprocal, […]

Bob Sutor, IBMs director of WebSphere infrastructure software, will be keynoting at this weeks Edge 2004 conference on software development in Boston. Sutor, who will be speaking on the concept of service-oriented architecture, took time last week to explain IBMs SOA strategy to eWEEK Senior Writer Darryl K. Taft. What will you be talking about […]