Fahmida Y. Rashid

Mobile Armor and Seagate Technology will work together to sell self-encrypting storage drives to government and health care customers. Under the partnership, Seagate will join Mobile Armor in co-marketing and actively selling the Seagate Momentus Self-Encrypting Drives with DriveArmor technology, the companies said in a statement on Oct. 25. Seagate has already been shipping its […]

BroadSoft unveiled its cloud-based unified communications offering for telecommunications service providers that includes messaging, mobile integration, Web collaboration and video conferencing. Dubbed BroadCloud, the hosted infrastructure will feature a full line of unified communications services that can be custom-branded for customers, BroadSoft said on Oct. 25. When evaluating unified communications packages and services, IT managers […]

Blue Coat enhanced its ProxySG network optimization appliance with Optimized Video Delivery to improve live video streaming within the enterprise, the company said on Oct. 25. Blue Coat added the ability to split a single Flash video stream to multiple viewers in a single location to avoid “video floods.” Video floods are caused when multiple […]

IBM unveiled a series of new security products and services for customers struggling with cloud security planning and management on Oct. 20. IT managers have a multitude of security and privacy concerns about moving their data to the cloud, said Jason Hilling, portfolio manager for the Managed and Cloud Security Service group at IBM Global […]

EFI has introduced enhancements to its PrintMe mobile printing service that works from any Internet-enabled device. PrintMe allows users to upload their documents and securely print them on any PrintMe-enabled printer, regardless of location. PrintMe supports users on any device with Web access, including laptops, desktops and mobile devices like tablets and smartphones, EFI said […]

Riverbed Technology acquired Cace Technologies, adding packet capture and analysis tools for wireless and wireline networks to its WAN optimization portfolio, the company said. The acquisition was announced on Oct. 21 and Riverbed’s senior executives discussed the deal on its third-quarter results earnings call. Riverbed did not give any financial specifics, but Randy Gottfried, Riverbed’s […]

The Obama administration changed federal policy allowing the military to step in and assist during a cyber-attack on domestic soil, reported the New York Times on Oct. 21. With the exception of natural disasters, the military cannot deploy units within the country’s borders. Even for natural disasters, a presidential order is required before moving the […]

Nokia will cut 1,800 jobs and restructure its smartphone business, despite a strong third-quarter performance, the Finnish phone manufacturer disclosed on Oct. 20. Reporting a third quarter profit of 529 million euros, or $741 million, Nokia surpassed analyst expectations of a profit of less than 300 million euros, as polled by Dow Jones Newswires. This […]

Spammers are bombarding users with malware-laden spam in order to build up new botnets, just in time for the holiday season, security researchers said Oct. 19. The Google Postini Services team analyzed spam and virus data collected during the third quarter by Google’s security and archiving services, powered by Postini. The results, posted on the […]

By the end of 2010, there will be 2 billion Internet users worldwide, according to a report issued by the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency. The report “The World in 2010: ICT facts and figures,” released on Oct. 20, found the number of Internet users worldwide has doubled over the past five years, […]

Western Digital has unveiled what it claims is the largest capacity internal SATA hard disk drive on the market. As part of the WD Caviar Green family, the disk drive will ship in 3TB and 2.5TB sizes, the company said. The WD Caviar Green 2.5TB and 3TB hard drives will be used primarily for use […]

Kemp Technologies added Microsoft Hyper-V support to its virtual load balancing appliance, which will provide customers running Microsoft applications with load balancing, scalability and high availability, the company said on Oct. 19. The Virtual LoadMaster now supports hypervisors from both Microsoft and VMware. Xen hypervisors will likely be supported in “a year or two,” said […]