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The U.S. market for security consulting, implementation, management and training services will grow to $8.2 billion in 2004. The worldwide market will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 26 percent, to $17.2 billion in 2004 from $5.5 billion in 1999. Read the full story at VARBusiness News

A form of Internet fraud known as “phishing” increased 52 percent from December to January, according to the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). There were 176 new, unique attack types reported to the group in January, up from 116 in December. Companies including eBay Inc., Citibank and America Online were targeted during this period. Read the […]

European firms will keep spending on storage at 2003 levels or slightly above, according to a new report from IDC. The money will go to more efficient disaster-recovery systems and greater disk capacity, say European IT managers. Read the full story at vnunet.com. Check out eWEEK.coms Database Center at http://database.eweek.com for more database news, views […]

Theres growing suspicion that whats now known as “business intelligence” technologies, such as CRM and data warehousing, have failed. Simon Clark, a management consultant at Katapult-IT, believes that data warehouses have become data dumping grounds. CRM is worse, having empowered businesses in one-sided relationships with customers wherein they essentially become stalkers, pestering customers to buy […]

Oracle has yet to make up its mind on the possibility of per-employee pricing models. Server Technologies Senior Vice President Thomas Kurian said the company is still exploring the idea and that plans are still in a “consultation phase.” The difficulties of such a scheme—such as figuring out how to track servers or CPUs or […]

Microsoft has made a new, updated beta of its forthcoming Windows XP Service Pack 2 available to testers via its private BetaPlace site. The Windows enthusiast site Neowin has posted a number of screen shots of the new build, Number 2082, on its Web site. Service Pack 2 (SP2) — due out around mid-2004, according […]

VMware Inc. is updating its virtual machine technology aimed at departments and software development teams. VMware, which was bought in December by storage giant EMC Corp., this week announced GSX Server 3, the first major revision of the three-year-old technology in more than one and a half years. Officials with the Palo Alto, Calif., company […]

Last year, Microsoft officials said to expect the second beta of its Yukon version of SQL Server in the late spring or summer of 2004. But it looks like Redmonds already well on its way to laying the groundwork for Beta 2, at least based on the new screen shots on Neowin. Beta 2 will […]

European IT managers expect budgets for storage spending to remain at least at 2003 levels, according to a survey from IDC of Framingham, Mass. Nine out of ten of the surveys respondents expected to see spending on storage maintained or increased this year. New spending will be focused on more efficient disaster recovery systems and […]

Atrua Technologies Inc. last week unveiled a a cell phone touchpad with built-in fingerprint recognition as a security feature. The companys “Atrua Wings” product worked like the touchpad on many laptops, allowing users to scroll through menus and choose items with the touch of a finger. The same sensor also acts as a fingerprint reader, […]

Enterasys Networks Inc. this week will launch a new partner program as part of a new effort to tout its secure networking strategy. In a multimillion-dollar branding campaign also launching this week, Enterasys hopes to differentiate itself from market leader Cisco Systems Inc. by focusing on its strategy to build more intelligence, such as security […]

Within weeks of joining Oracle Corp. last spring Charles Phillips began to play a very prominent role in Oracles hostile takeover bid for enterprise applications developer PeopleSoft Inc. Having come from more than a decade as an IT industry financial analyst on Wall Street, that was not surprising. Observers did take note, however, when Oracle […]