Fahmida Y. Rashid

Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard published a roadmap outlining their launch plans for the four new converged appliances on Jan. 19. These appliances combine applications, infrastructure and productivity tools into a single system. The four appliances, HP Business Decision Appliance, HP E5000 Messaging System for Microsoft Exchange Server, HP Database Consolidation Appliance, and HP Business Data Warehouse […]

Kemp Technologies added new mid-range appliances to its LoadMaster family of load balancers, the company said Jan. 18. Kemp targets budget-conscious small and midsized businesses with its LoadMaster family. Designed to be easy to use and deploy, the LoadMaster appliances provide enterprise-scale features and performance to the smaller businesses. Kemp stratifies its hardware appliances on […]

OneNote, Microsoft’s note-taking application, is available as a free download for the Apple iPhone and is available from the iTunes store, Microsoft said on Jan. 18. OneNote Mobile for the iPhone is currently available in the United States only, with additional locations to be announced as they become available, according to a Microsoft spokesperson. Microsoft […]

Internap XIPCloud Storage, which just went into a limited beta test release, is the first major application using the OpenStack open source cloud computing platform outside of Rackspace, Scott Hrastar, senior vice president of technology at Internap, told eWEEK. The fact that OpenStack Object Storage was an underlying part of the Rackspace Cloud Files offering […]

An infected laptop was used to access the systems at the Pentagon’s credit union, exposing the financial records of the members of the United States military, according to a Kaspersky Lab report. The Pentagon Federal Credit Union notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of the breach, and said names, addresses, social security numbers, bank and […]

Two recent incidents at a hospital and a radiology lab highlight the importance of securing medical data from both internal and external threats. Three employees and a contracted nurse at Tucson’s University Medical Center were fired for accessing confidential patient records, according to the Arizona Daily Star. Katie Riley, the hospital’s spokesperson, said “We are […]

Watson, IBM’s latest DeepQA supercomputer, defeated its two human challengers during a demonstration round of Jeopardy on Jan. 13. The supercomputer will face former Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in a two-game, men-versus-machine tournament to be aired in February. However, the Jeopardy match-up was not the “culmination” of four years of work by […]

OCZ Technology will withdraw from the memory business altogether to focus on its solid-state-drive business, the company said, as part of its fiscal 2011 third-quarter announcement on Jan. 10. The company had announced in August that it will stop making lower cost memory products for budget-conscious buyers, but would continue to sell high-performance memory. However, […]

NetSuite has integrated CyberSource’s fraud management software into its cloud-based ERP (enterprise resource planning) platform. Customers using NetSuite’s cloud-based financials/ERP software suite to process their e-commerce transactions now have the option to have all orders automatically screened by CyberSource Decision Manager to detect fraud, NetSuite said. Fraud screening is fully integrated into NetSuite’s order-management process, […]

A critical security flaw in supervisory-control-and-data-acquisition (SCADA) systems used in China raises the possibility of another Stuxnet-like attack, a security researcher said. The latest stable version of KingView, the SCADA software developed by Beijing WellinControl Technology Development, contains a critical heap overflow vulnerability, wrote Dillon Beresford, a security researcher at NSS Labs, on his personal […]

Global network and data-security spending will exceed $10 billion by 2016, according to a market forecast from ABI Research, announced on Jan. 10. Spending on secure routers, unified threat-management appliances, VPNs, network-access control, firewalls and intrusion detection/prevention systems will rise from $6 billion in 2010 and exceed $10 billion by 2016, ABI Research said. “In […]

MegaPath announced on Jan. 10 a new managed security as a service offering, which can be entirely cloud-based, on-premise or a mix of both. Customers can decide whether to have the complete managed solution delivered from the cloud, have the equipment on-premises or have a hybrid of cloud and on-premise systems, according to MegaPath. The […]