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Asias Wireless Broadband Alliance—a collaborative effort of the areas most powerful telcos looking to provide seamless wireless connectivity and roaming across the region—continues to grow and expand. But with the growth of the organization comes concerns about the impact of new alliance initiatives on existing competition. To address the matter, and the importance of the […]

Iron Mountain Inc. Monday announced its new Data Restoration and Electronic Discovery Support service, for enterprise customers who need rapid recovery of vast information. The service organizes data and makes full-text searches available, unlike other recovery services designed for just data conversions, explained Pete Delle Donne, president of Iron Mountains Enterprise Solutions and Services Division, […]

High-end storage switch player McData Corp. Monday executed on its stated intention to acquire smaller competitors, landing Sanera Systems Inc. for approximately $102 million and Nishan Systems Inc. for approximately $85 million. McData, which also has invested $6 million in startup Aarohi Communications Inc., will assume $2 million of Nishans debt and will spend up […]

U.S. Wireless Market Hits New Growth The top four U.S. carriers had a combined net gain of 2.54 million customers during the second quarter, 40 percent more than the net gain a year ago, and the strongest quarterly gain in over a year. Verizon Wireless, the nations largest wireless carrier, posted its largest net subscriber […]

You havent read a lot on this site about Microsoft Office threats, and thats no oversight. If we time warped back to 1999 or 2000, there would be plenty to write about. But an unusual thing happened during the development of this particular category on the list of security problems: Microsoft put a stop to […]

The rising cyber-security risk, combined with the recent Sarbanes-Oxley law requiring companies to deliver greater information security and integrity, are forcing companies to retool operations-but its hard for companies to make the necessary trade-offs between competing, conflicting demands for greater security, lower costs and faster operations. Mark Doll, digital security services director for the Americas […]

Theres been a lot of speculation this week on when, whether and if Microsoft will make its patch-update feature an automatic default in Windows Longhorn. But it seems the Redmond software giant already is working on making auto-update a part of current and future versions of SQL Server. Microsoft isnt talking dates as to when […]

Cyber-insurance policies are becoming more popular, but does your company actually need one? CIO Insight Reporter Debra DAgostino spoke to Gartner Research analyst Vincent Oliva to find out what CIOs should keep in mind when considering such policies. An edited transcript of Olivas remarks follows. CIO Insight: Where did cyber-insurance originate? Oliva: It started with […]

CIO Insight: What is social engineering? Mogull: Social engineering is the manipulation of people rather than electronic systems in a security attack. The reality of it is that we all use it on a day-to-day basis-to get a discount at a store, to maybe get into a concert that were not supposed to get into, […]

Motorola Inc. CISO and VP Bill Boni has a formidable job: making sure his global company with more than 90,000 employees and 10,000 network segments is secure every minute of every day. CIO Insight reporter Debra DAgostino spoke to Boni about how he negotiates the trade-offs between perfection and “good-enough.” What follows is an edited […]

Its just the fastest spreading e-mail virus ever, according to security experts. According to the Redmond software giant, this WorldTech Tribune story, which claims that Microsoft, the FBI and Secret Service are investigating reports that SoBig-F and Blaster could be the handiwork of terrorists, is untrue. Meanwhile, however, to help stave off Blaster, Microsoft is […]

Enterprise Storage Pacific Digital Offers RAID for SOHO Networks Pacific Digital Corp. this week announced an enterprise-class RAID host adapter card for small computer networks. The RAIDStaQ RS4-100E is an ADMA/Ultra ATA PCI host adapter card supporting RAID levels 0, 1 and 0+1. The device offloads host interrupt processing, improves bus utilization and greatly enhances […]