Fahmida Y. Rashid

Seagate introduced on Dec. 13 the Constellation.2, a 1TB hard disk drive designed for enterprise server storage applications. The 2.5-inch hard disk drives are intended for a variety of storage environments, including direct attached storage, network attached storage and storage area network systems, according to Seagate. With high capacity, low power consumption and fast performance, […]

Foiled in an earlier attempted to expand its virtualized storage product line, Dell announced Dec. 13 that it had acquired Compellent to broaden its enterprise-class storage portfolio and expand its data-center capabilities. Compellent specializes in virtualized storage products with automated data-management features, including tiering and thin provisioning. Its main product, Compellent Storage Center SAN, is […]

As cables continue to trickle out of WikiLeaks in the second week since the site began posting, it appears that WikiLeaks and the United States government have learned some hard lessons. “Previously with security breaches, the focus has been on the outside threat,” said Darren Hayes, Computer Information Services Program Chair at New York’s Pace […]

North American businesses suffer an average of 10 hours of IT downtime annually, collectively costing them $26.5 billion in revenue, according to a study released by CA Technologies Dec. 9. In a series of interviews with CIOs, IT directors, and IT managers from 200 companies spanning the financial services, manufacturing, retail, and public sectors, researchers […]

Damballa trumpeted the ability to “triage” compromised systems with the latest version of its Failsafe botnet detection appliance. Failsafe 4.1, which Damballa officially announced Dec. 8, is “redefining cyber-security’s definition of risk,” said Stephen Newman, the company’s vice president of product management. Organizations generally approach risk as what “will happen if the system is compromised,” […]

The Pentagon’s new restrictions on removable media and file transfers may impact how United States troops abroad communicate with family and friends back home, according to a privacy and computer security expert. The new rules, outlined by the U.S. Department of Defense in a memo shortly after WikiLeaks started posting 250,000 cables from U.S. embassies […]

The latest holiday scam has online merchants sifting through refund requests to separate out the fraudulent requests from legitimate ones, according to security researchers at GFI Software. In this case, the hackers are targeting Amazon.com orders. The Amazon Receipt Generator is an executable file that has been making the rounds on various forums, according to […]

Personnel at NASA failed to remove data from obsolete computers before selling or discarding them, according to a NASA Office of Inspector General audit report released Dec. 8. Titled “Preparing for the Space Shuttle Program‘s Retirement,” the audit focused on the disposal procedures for shuttle-related processing and information technology equipment that contain sensitive information about […]

Dell and Compellent Technologies are in “advanced discussions” about a potential merger, the companies confirmed on Dec 9. Even though the negotiations are still ongoing, the announcement said Dell will acquire all outstanding Compellent stock at $27.50 per share. The all-cash deal would be valued at about $876 million. Compellent main product is the Compellent […]

WikiLeaks keeps finding ways to stay online even as it gets hit with repeated denial-of-service attacks aimed at keeping people from accessing the site and despite decisions by technology and financial companies to terminate essential services. With each passing day it’s getting harder to shut WeakiLeaks down, according to technology experts. “The harder you hit […]

Nimbula announced a public beta of its Nimbula Director which provides automated tools for enterprises to create private cloud systems in their own data centers. The Nimbula Director allows organizations to create Amazon-like “public infrastructure clouds” within their own private data centers to provide on-demand access to scalable computing resources including processing power, storage, and […]

Unisys and Rackspace rolled out private cloud offerings that combine cloud computing efficiencies, potential cost savings, and scalability, with the convenience and security of managed hosting services, at the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas this week. The Unisys Hosted Secure Private Cloud offers customers a cloud infrastructure that is deployed and managed remotely. […]