Database and Network Journal articles from April 2008

Database and Network Journal archives from April 2008

IP/MPLS network management--automate or disintegrate!(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE: COMPANY VIEWPOINT)(Company overview)
April 1, 2008... As a network architect for a telecommunications service provider, your task is to realise the strategic vision laid out for the company at board level. Your plans will determine how the overall aims are achieved: how services are delivered and...

The good, the bad and the ugly of protecting data in a retail environment--Part 1.(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE)
April 1, 2008... The overall purpose of information security is to control risk by managing the impact of threats to information assets in the most cost-effective manner. This article takes a look at a typical point-of-sale (POS) solution, identifying common...

Businesses are embracing an XML future to prepare for changing times.(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE: OPINION PIECE)
April 1, 2008... XML has just celebrated its tenth birthday, yet while that period has seen a rapid expansion of XML's technical capabilities, its transition from the technical to the business realm is still in its youth. There is little doubt that...

Destination--quantum'.(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE: OPINION PIECE)
April 1, 2008... In an age where the undisputed appeal of speed seems to be as critical in the datacentre as it is on the Formula One track, Roger Llewellyn, CEO of BI and data warehousing solutions provider Kognitio, looks at the options businesses have when...

Infosecurity Europe 2008.(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE)
April 1, 2008... A selection of papers from exhibitors at Infosecurity Europe 2008, Europe's dedicated Information security event. Now in its 13th year, providing an education programme, new products & services, over 300 exhibitors and 11,700 visitors from...

Croft receives royal recognition.(IT News and Products)(Croft Technology )(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... IT firm Croft Technology has received official recognition from Her Majesty the Queen for providing information technology services to the royal household. Croft has been granted a Royal Warrant of Appointment and is now one of only a handful...

Perforce Visual Client.(IT News and Products)
April 1, 2008... Perforce Software has announced the availability of the newest version of its cross-platform graphical interface, the Perforce Visual Client, for its FAST Software Configuration Management (SCM) system. The Perforce Visual Client provides...

Workforce-XML completes online certification solution.(IT News and Products)
April 1, 2008... Workforce-XML have announced that it has completed the AR01X online test and certification solution for both Independent Software Vendors (ISV's) and Independent Hardware Vendors (IHV's). The facility enables vendors to quickly and easily test...

Offer to build data warehouses for up to 10 Teradata for free.(IT News and Products)(illuminate Solutions )(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... illuminate Solutions have announced that it will begin selling its database engine and tool suite in North America on April 14, 2008. It also announced an initiative to build--at no cost to participants--a data warehouse for up to 10 Teradata,...

Compellent statement.(IT News and Products)
April 1, 2008... Compellent Technologies, Inc. issued the following statements regarding Microsoft's announcement of its release candidate of Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualisation software available with Windows Server 2008. Bruce Kornfeld, for...

Brocade partners with IntelliMagic.(IT News and Products)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Brocade[R]and IntelliMagic recently announced a strategic partnership that they claim will help Brocade customers maximise the performance and utilisation of their storage environments. Through this partnership, the Brocade Services,...

Windriver and Esterel development.(IT News and Products)
April 1, 2008... Wind River Systems, Inc. has announced that it has established a new product integration with Esterel Technologies. The partnership will incorporate formal design and development technologies into safety-critical software for the avionics...

IT Mill Testing Tools.(IT News and Products)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... IT Mill has announced a new set of tools for web application testing. With IT Mill Testing Tools the testing and quality assurance (QA) of web applications is simplified. New functional tests can be created and automated without any programming...

DataDirect Technologies extends support For SOA.(IT News and Products)
April 1, 2008... DataDirect Technologies has outlined its plans to support the rapidly emerging Service Data Objects (SDO) standard within its family of data connectivity and mainframe integration products. The SDO standard, developed by a diverse group of...

MEGA International introduces EA Accelerator.(IT News and Products)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... MEGA International have introduced the MEGA EA Accelerator for TOGAF to expedite on-time, on-budget delivery of enterprise architecture projects and to reduce the risk of project failure. Based on the MEGA Modeling Suite for business process...

Actinic version 9 ecommerce software.(IT News and Products)
April 1, 2008... Actinic recently announced the release of version 9 of its desktop ecommerce range. Actinic v9 provides a range of enhancements to its ease of use, plus new features that improve the customers' experience and make it easier and more efficient...

New hard drives from Verbatim.(IT News and Products)
April 1, 2008... Verbatim have released their new External 2.5" Hard Drive with storage space for up to 320 GB. The slim-line hard drives weigh just 150 grams and are compatible with the latest operating systems--Vista(Windows) and Leopard (Mac). ...

Riverbed Steelhead appliance certfied.(IT News and Products)
April 1, 2008... Riverbed Technology (Nasdaq: RVBD), the technology and market provider in wide-area data services (WDS), has announced that its Riverbed[R] Steelhead[R] appliance running the Riverbed Optimisation System (RiOS[TM]) version 4.0 has achieved...

Sybase iAnywhere unveils Advantage Database Server.(IT News and Products)
April 1, 2008... Sybase iAnywhere have announced the release of Advantage Database Server[TM] 9. The updated features include support for Visual FoxPro 9, performance boosts for large transactions, reduced end user configuration requirements and the addition of...

TERA to BladePatch cords.(IT News and Products)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Siemon is introducing new versions of their hybrid TERA to RJ patch cords. These cords feature a standards-recognised TERA plug on one end and Siemon's patented RJ45-compatible BladePatch plug on the other. The four pair TERA to BladePatch...

Mobile search revenues to reach $4.8 billion by 2013.(IT News and Products)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Annual revenues generated by mobile search services are expected to reach $4.8bn by 2013, according to a recent report from Juniper Research. The report says that while revenue generated by data charges associated with mobile search is...

Secure computing delivers new generation of email security appliances.(Security News and Products)
April 1, 2008... Secure Computing Corporation have announced a new version of its on-premise email security solution, Secure Mail (formerly known as IronMail). This new version is capable of processing more than 7 million unique messages per day on a single...

AlgoSec unveils new firewall analyzer product suite.(Security News and Products)
April 1, 2008... AlgoSec Inc. have announced the availability of the AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer (AFA) product suite. The new suite, is built on three distinct software modules, each focused on addressing a specific set of technical requirements within the...

Security concerns call for industry-wide standards.(Security News and Products)
April 1, 2008... Common IT industry standards are increasingly likely as privacy and security concerns increase, says Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy in an exclusive interview with the British Computer Society (BCS). In the wide-ranging...

Applied Security fideAS[R] encryption solution.(Security News and Products)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Applied Security has recently released fideAS[R], designed to protect and secure access to sensitive data on fileservers, desktops and laptops by encrypting all the files and folders on the disk drives, while also being fully integrated into...

SMS spam tidalwave in China.(Security News and Products)
April 1, 2008... Experts at SophosLabs[TM], have warned of the rising nuisance of spam sent to mobile phones as China Mobile issues an apology after nearly half of China's cellphone users were sent unwanted junk text messages this week. According to media...

Palamida joins McAfee, Inc. Security Innovation Alliance.(Security News and Products)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Palamida[TM] has announced that it has joined the McAfee Security Innovation Alliance as an inaugural member. Through the program, Palamida will integrate its vulnerability reporting capabilities with McAfee's ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO[TM]),...

Unprecedented fraud and large fines highlight compliance requirements for unified communications.(Security News and Products)
April 1, 2008... Survey finds 45 percent of IT managers would be unable to produce an archive of specific employee communications FaceTime Communications has seen growing concern among large organizations over the past several weeks, examining their ability...

AutoRun growing as an infection vector.(Security News and Products)
April 1, 2008... ESET has announced that for the third consecutive month INF/Autorun, a generic detection for malware that uses the Windows Autorun facility to infect machines, was the number one detected threat in February according to ESET's ThreatSense.Net...

IBM cracks Web 2.0 security concerns with "SMash".(Security News and Products)
April 1, 2008... IBM recently announced new technology to secure "mashups," Web applications that pull information from multiple sources, such as Web sites, enterprise databases or e-mails, to create one unified view. Mashups are attractive for business use, as...