Lawrence Walsh

Virtualization can compress data center footprints, decrease power costs and reduce staffing needs. Whether talking about the various products by VMware, Microsoft or Citrix, it is fast becoming the cure-all for IT woes, and that could spell trouble for security managers and solution providers. Virtualization evangelists are pushing for a complete virtualization of all IT […]

You can’t open a browser without hitting some report on cloud computing. Every vendor-IBM, Microsoft, Google, HP, Cisco, Dell-either has or is launching a cloud computing initiative, which promises to deliver applications directly to users via the Internet. And that, frankly, has many solution providers nervous. Cloud computing has the potential for revolutionizing the way […]

Storage giant EMC is taking a step closer to becoming more of a systems management company–and on a collision course with Symantec–through the acquisition of configuration management software company Configuresoft. Configuresoft, a pioneer in security and network device configuration management and change control applications, will become a part of EMC’s Resource Management Software Group once […]

Data loss prevention (DLP) or, as it was originally called “data leak prevention,” has been more of a promise than a reality. Many of the products on the shelf today are designed as the data equivalents of antivirus pattern matching to detect the emailing or streaming of common data sets, such as Social Security and […]

The Associated Press is reporting that VeriSign has divested its managed security services division to SecureWorks for an undisclosed price. VeriSign’s new management has reportedly been looking to sell off some of its non-core assets to focus the business on domain registration and management services, and SSL certificate units. Managed security services was among those […]

The Kindle is rapidly doing for digital books what the iPod did for music – transforming the medium by making the electronic form-factor simple and efficient and the acquisition of content easier. What Amazon hopes to do next is incorporate popular blogs into the digital reader, including those of technology enthusiasts and solution providers. Beginning […]

If chips and processor sales are an indicator of the downstream health of the IT marketplace, Intel chief Paul Otellini is signaling that PC and server sales may have stabilized. He told analysts that Intel sales are “a little better than we expected.” Intel stock value jumped 3 percent in after hours trading following Otellini’s […]

The University of California at Berkeley is the latest organization to suffer a damaging data security breach. The increasing number of security breaches and incidents has some calling for greater effort and controls of systems containing sensitive data. University officials revealed last week that hackers successfully breached the student and alumni records system, gaining access […]

After watching its core networking gear sales plummet in the first quarter, Cisco Systems is launching a stimulus package of its own: bounties in the form of padded margins and rebates of up to 15 percent of sale prices to solution providers who proactively sell switches and routers. Cisco, which will announce its third-quarter earnings […]

According to various security surveys, two-thirds of end user IT decision makers say they believe their security budgets will not suffer any further cuts or reforecasting through the end of the year. These surveys also reveal concerns related to cloud-computing, virtualization and browser-based attacks. The following is a sampling of key security and priorities statistics […]

More than 4,000 solution providers are registered to sell Microsoft Online applications, and until today these services were only available in 19 countries. The partnership with EDS will provide Microsoft with access to data centers in local markets, pushing Microsoft Online delivery to local customers and keeping data within local geographies. “EDS will host some […]

The pantheon of major security players includes the likes of Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, IBM, Symantec, McAfee and even Microsoft. Missing among the noted is Hewlett-Packard, which has fielded security products over the years, but not a concerted effort to stake out a piece of the security market. That’s changing, rapidly. Today, HP unveils its […]