Wayne Rash

HANNOVER – The soon-to-be-operational Boeing 787 “Dreamliner” jet aircraft is vulnerable to a hacker attack, said Kaspersky Lab CEO and founder Eugene Kaspersky during a press conference here today. Kaspersky used the jetliner’s potential problems as an illustration of how vulnerabilities are showing up in unexpected places. In the case of the 787, Kaspersky said […]

HANNOVER, Germany – The March 3 CeBIT Opening Ceremonies here featured addresses by European politicians who used the event as a means of pressing their vision of how European industry could be revitalized, how the evil empire (meaning the United States) could be kept at bay or for internal political agendas that served more for […]

The day before CeBIT dawned gray and threatening, but gave false hope with a brief period of sun. In March, the German weather can be fickle. Fortunately, that was the only fickleness of the day. The-day-before-CeBIT is a period of press conferences and speechifying, apparently in an effort to remove any remaining powers of discrimination […]

HANNOVER – It was a dark and stormy night. As we walked the narrow, rainy streets from the train station, bundled tightly against the blustery cold, Eric Lundquist and I looked like characters out of one of those cold-war spy movies. But of course, that’s not how it really was. We weren’t in a spy […]

Like Eric Lundquist, I too am heading off to CeBIT in Hannover, Germany. Unlike Eric, I’ve been to the South of France in March, and it’s not all that warm there either. In fact, choosing between Washington, Hannover and Cannes is more a matter of whether you like your cold weather to be damp, really […]

One of the things that you’re really an expert in is vertical search. How would a company use vertical search in furthering the things they need to do in business?Well, one of the things that we see vertical search doing really well is being very specific on understanding what people are looking for. A good […]

10 Things You Should Know About Business Continuity Business continuity is all about preparing for the worst. Here are some things you should know and do to keep your business going-no matter what. By Wayne Rash 10 Things You Should Know About Business Continuity – 1. -Disaster’ Is a Relative Term Just because it doesn’t […]

GPS devices seem to be on everyone’s holiday wish lists this year. And it’s no wonder, as eWEEK Labs’ tests show that today’s global positioning system can do a lot more than just navigate. For this review, I looked at four automotive navigation GPS receivers, from the big names in this market: Garmin’s Nuvi 760, […]

EMCs New Tech Directions EMC has evolved from a storage-oriented business to a company thats worth more than $11 billion, and has grown and acquired its way to a leardership slot in the storage, protection and distribution of data. At a press and analyst conference held in late November in Cambridge, Mass., company executives outlined […]

The idea behind the Stratus 6200 fault-tolerant ftServer is to provide a device that performs as well as a similar server thats not fault-tolerant. This is no small task, if only because the process of providing continuous availability can soak up a lot of CPU cycles, which in turn slows things down. Stratus, with its […]

EMC CEO Joe Tucci reminded me of a day several months ago when I dropped some hard-earned bucks on storage. The reminder came during a presentation in Cambridge, Mass., at EMCs Innovation Day, in which Tucci announced that his company would be releasing a new storage product for small and midsize businesses—something called HomeStore. Tucci […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—While offering few details, EMC Chairman Joe Tucci announced four new products at the companys Innovation Day conference, held at the Museum of Science here on Nov. 14. Tucci said the company would introduce a product for small and midsize businesses, two Web 2.0 products, and another product, which he coyly refused to describe. […]