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At the Windows Hardware Engineering conference this week, Microsoft officials hinted that the company is readying an online version of the “Watson” automated crash-reporting technology that debuted in Office XP. Read Mike Nashs Hints About Watson Online Here In fact, the Redmond software company already is beta testing this technology, via a new portal called […]

Enterprise Storage SAN Around the World According to Cisco System execs, Storage intelligence is moving from the host and array toward the SAN fabric, resulting in improved storage networking and the availability of improved storage services. During a keynote presentation at this weeks Storage World Conference, Luca Cafiero and Soni Jiandani of Ciscos Storage Technology […]

Read the terrifying sequel — iLoo II: This Time Its Porcelain News that the UK division of MSN has developed a Wi-Fi-enabled toilet led to a string of follow-on announcements that came in quick reaction to the dynamic new computing environment. Pumatech announced that it would soon be expanding its line of data synchronization utilities […]

A group of pro-Islamic crackers defaced a Web page belonging to Internet Security Systems Inc.s X-Force research team Monday, replacing the pages normal content with a profane anti-war message. ISS, the huge Atlanta-based security company, removed the page from the Internet following the attack. The page, called the X-Force Internet Watch, was part of a […]

Enterprise The duties of filling corporate security officer positions — whether the title is chief security officer (CSO), chief information security officer (CISO) or something else — are as diverse as the IT industry itself, according to a panel of security executives. Gathering at the fifth annual International Techno-Security Conference, the panel painted a picture […]

When I announced over the Internet I was forming the Programmers Guild in 1998 to do what you suggest, I expected 10,000 people to immediately sign up for the mailing list. It took over three years to get 1,000 to join us. I believe we are still the only programming group invited to testify before […]

Sony Electronics Inc. on Tuesday announced a series of desktop-class tape autoloaders using the Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT) format. Ranging from 280 to 800 gigabytes, the SCSI-connected devices are intended as upgrades for small companies and departments currently using older formats such as Digital Data Storage (DDS), officials said. Each autoloader has one drive and […]

Founded in 1989, Veritas Software Corp. has been steadily expanding its storage management software niche to encompass greater systems management functionality. Gary Bloom, chairman of the board, president and CEO of Veritas, joined the company in 2000 following a 14-year career with Oracle Corp. Like the company he manages, Bloom tends to be conservative in […]

EMC Corp. last week debuted hardware partnerships and upgraded software as part of the high-end storage hardware makers efforts to expand into data life-cycle management. EMC, based in Hopkinton, Mass., entered the low end of the enterprise NAS (network-attached storage) market by licensing Microsoft Corp.s Windows SAK (Server Appliance Kit). The company will attach it […]

This may be difficult to believe, but being in full compliance with your software license agreements does not make a software audit any easier. In fact, your level of compliance has virtually no bearing on how easy or difficult the audit is. I know. I went through two software audits in the past 12 months. […]

Oracle Tool Would Manage Licenses Oracle is developing a tool to help customers self-manage licensing compliance, according to Jacqueline Woods, vice president of Global Pricing and Licensing Strategy. The purpose of the tool—which Woods described as being between an idea and development—is to flag licensing compliance problems. “There tends to be a lack of coordination […]