Database and Network Journal articles from August 2007

Database and Network Journal archives from August 2007

The SANS 2007 Log Management Market Report: a SANS whitepaper.(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE)
August 1, 2007... The SANS Industry Analyst team conducted its first major survey on the Log Management Industry in the spring of 2005. For the third year, the SANS team has again surveyed IT industry professionals, this year polling them during the Spring 2007...

How disk-to-disk backup saves time and money.(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE)
August 1, 2007... Information technology administrators in small and medium-sized businesses face unrelenting data growth, they work to ensure the availability of important applications such as accounting, document management and email. IT staff must also deal...

Duplicating the success of data deduplication.(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE)
August 1, 2007... Single Instance Storage (SIS) emerged as one of the hottest storage technologies in the past few years. By identifying redundant data segments and storing only a single instance of information, this technology dramatically reduces storage space...

Encryption--three different ways.(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE)
August 1, 2007... The SunPen company has created a database to track all of their client's financial information. They created the database with little thought to security. SunPen customers were, originally, happy because the database worked quickly and they...

Viewpoint--breaking the cycle of consumption with efficient software.(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE)
August 1, 2007... Suppliers of IT and IT systems tell you that there is valuable information in the data your business produces. They tell you of value in understanding your customer better and understanding the impact of market influences on their buying...

Smart metering set to rise in next five years.(IT News and Products)
August 1, 2007... A new report by independent market analyst Datamonitor, 'Smart metering in the energy and utilities sector', predicts the penetration of smart metering will grow to ah estimated 41% in Europe and 89% in North America by 2012. For technology...

ONStor and thinking SAFE launch strategic alliance.(IT News and Products)(Brief article)
August 1, 2007... ONStor have announced the launch of a strategic alliance with Thinking SAFE, the UK's backup innovator. Through complementary technology, this powerful combined solution enables effective storage, protection and disaster recovery for data...

Intelligent Software Solution becomes MuleSource Partner.(IT News and Products)
August 1, 2007... MuleSource have announced that solution provider Intelligent Software Solutions has become a MuleSource Premium Partner and is using the Mule ESB and integration platform to enhance the integration capability of their WebTAS modular toolset and...

Sybase releases PowerDesigner 12.5.(IT News and Products)
August 1, 2007... Sybase, Inc. have announced the availability of Sybase PowerDesigner 12.5, an all-in-one modelling and design solution for enterprises that need to build or re-engineer business applications quickly, cost-effectively and consistently....

Reuters selects complinet.(IT News and Products)
August 1, 2007... Complinet has signed a global contract with Reuters providing DataScope Select subscribers with the ability to screen selected entities against international sanctions lists, watch lists and other information that can help them comply with...

Web 2.0.(IT News and Products)
August 1, 2007... The advent of Web 2.0 technologies provides organisations with the ability to radically change how they interact with their customers, dramatically improving service levels and consequently increasing sales. This is the view of Transversal...

Verbatim expands presence in storage solutions market.(IT News and Products)(Company overview)
August 1, 2007... Verbatim, and its parent company Mitsubishi Kagaku Media (MKM), have announced the purchase of substantially all of the assets of SmartDisk Corporation's external hard drive (HD) and digital imaging business with effect from 30 June 2007. With...

Network-based time recording solution.(IT News and Products)
August 1, 2007... SCM Microsystems, Inc has introduced a new network-based version of its Chipdriver Time Recording solution that allows small and medium-sized enterprises to record and review the current working hours of their employees in real time. It also...

Run book automation solution on Linux.(IT News and Products)
August 1, 2007... Opalis Software, Inc., the Run Book Automation have announced expected availability of its award winning Opalis Integration Server on Linux in the first hall of 2008. Opalis delivers IT process automation capability today for enterprise...

Palamida announcement.(IT News and Products)
August 1, 2007... Palamida have announced that it has enhanced IP Amplifier with the addition of the GPL v3 analyser functionality. Further expanding their solutions and services, Palamida has also created a comprehensive GPL v3 online educational resource...

TIBCO iProcess Suite 10.6.(IT News and Products)
August 1, 2007... TIBCO Software Inc. recently announced the latest release of its business process management (BPM) solution, TIBCO iProcess Suite 10.6, which delivers a more integrated user experience throughout the stages of process modelling, design,...

Microsoft and Dassault Systemes expand alliance.(IT News and Products)
August 1, 2007... Dassault Systemes and Microsoft Corp. have announced the extension of their alliance, committing to add advanced new features to Microsoft's Virtual Earth platform. Combining Microsoft's geolocalisation technology with DS's proven 3D modeling...

Lyris enhances EmailAdvisor.(IT News and Products)
August 1, 2007... Lyris Technologies have unveiled EmailAdvisor 3.0 the latest version of its email deliverability monitoring tool. Updated to include all major ISPs and email clients, including Microsoft Outlook 2007, AOL AIM Mail and Windows Live Mall,...

Princeton Softech forges relationship with Microsoft.(IT News and Products)
August 1, 2007... Princeton Softech have announced that it is forging a relationship with Microsoft Corporation. The goal of the relationship is to integrate Princeton Softech's Optim solutions with Microsoft Dynamics and broadly incorporate innovations to the...

Brocade announcement.(IT News and Products)
August 1, 2007... Brocade have announced the availability of Brocade Access Gateway for IBM BladeCenter solutions. The new feature enables interoperability between Brocade blade Storage Arca Network (SAN) switches and products from other SAN switch and director...

Office business application for customer information management.(IT News and Products)
August 1, 2007... Open Text Corp. have announced an Office Business Application (OBA) for accessing and managing customer information. One of the first OBAs built upon the 2007 Microsoft Office system to be commercially available, Open Text's Livelink...

Red Hat appoints technology leader in Greater China.(IT News and Products)
August 1, 2007... Red Hat, Inc. have announced the appointment of Andrew Hu as President of Red Hat Operations in Greater China. Hu will be responsible for overall operations, business development, marketing and sales in the region and will report to the...

Support helps accelerate benefits of Oracle Database.(IT News and Products)
August 1, 2007... EMC Corporation have announced planned support for Oracle Database 11g. As a Certified Advantage Partner in the Oracle PartnerNetwork, EMC has been an active participant in the Oracle Database 11g Beta Program, helping to ensure customers can...

Infonetics study.(IT News and Products)(Brief article)
August 1, 2007... Leading worldwide research firm Infonetics has issued a study titled User Platas for Network Access Control: North America 2007 that confirms organizations surveyed for the report have an overwhelming preference for enforcing Network Access...

Embarcado $200 million transaction.(IT News and Products)(Embarcadero Technologies Inc.)(Brief article)
August 1, 2007... Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. announced that the $200 million go-private transaction with Thoma Cressey Bravo has been completed. As a private company, Embarcadero will have the resources and flexibility to accelerate the development of its...

Gartner survey reveals IT spending in Asia Pacific lags North America by half.(IT News and Products)(Brief article)
August 1, 2007... Australia spends highest proportion of revenue on IT in Asia Pacific, while booming economies of China and India increase spending to support growth Organisations in Asia Pacific spend only about hall as much on IT operations as their North...

DataSynapse GridServer 5.0.(IT News and Products)(Brief article)
August 1, 2007... DataSynapse have announced the newest version of GridServer, claiming to be the first product on the market to offer mega-grid capabilities for grids of up to 20,000 nodes. GridServer 5.0 answers the call for improved global administration,...

Spend on business data services in Europe will plateau at EUR29 billion in 2008.(Analysys Survey)
August 1, 2007... Growth in spend on fixed business data services in Europe will slow dramatically from 2008, according to a new report, Business Data Services: growth opportunities and forecasts for Europe 2007-12, published by Analysys, the global advisers on...

RIPA Part III goes before British parliament.(Security News and Products)
August 1, 2007... A step in the right direction is how encryption specialist nCipher has described significant revisions to the controversial Part III of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) 2000, aimed at fighting terrorism and organised crime by...

Trojan uses Hotmail, Yahoo as spam hosts.(Security News and Products)
August 1, 2007... BitDefender has issued a warning that a new threat--dubbed Trojan.Spammer.HotLan.A--is using Hotmail and Yahoo accounts to send e-mail spam. The trojan uses automatically-generated accounts, suggesting that spammers have found a way to...

Stop PC screen grabbers.(Security News and Products)(LockLizard's Safeguard 2.6)(Brief article)
August 1, 2007... LockLizard, specialists in PDF and web based information DRM solutions, announce a major new step forward in anti-piracy controls--preventing screen grabbing of their protected PDF content. Safeguard 2.6 protects PDF documents with enhanced...

FinallySecure 1.0 for Seagate 5400 Momentus FDE.2 drives.(Security News and Products)(Full Disk Encryption )(Brief article)
August 1, 2007... After two years of development Secude has announced the official release of FinallySecure 1.0 which provides Data-at-Rest security for new hard-ware based Full Disk Encryption (FDE) technologies. This software provides another avenue for system...

Marketplace site for security research.(Security News and Products)
August 1, 2007... WSLabi has launched a new international security research exchange. This exchange will create a portal where researchers, security vendors and software companies can interact in ah open market to enable researcher's to obtain the correct value...

Multi-layered defence for existing corporate networks.(Security News and Products)
August 1, 2007... Stonesoft Corporation has extended its StoneGate Secure Connectivity Solution with a new module. The module unifies IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) and Firewall functionalities, providing attack prevention and transparent firewall access...

One-time passcodes on users' mobile devices.(Security News and Products)
August 1, 2007... Secure Computing Corporation have announced the availability of SafeWord MobilePass, a new software authenticator that allows a user access to Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Citrix, Outlook and a number of other applications through one-time...

Barracuda real-time protection.(Security News and Products)
August 1, 2007... Barracuda Networks, Inc., have announced Barracuda Real-Time Protection, a set of technologies that enable the Barracuda Spam Firewall to immediately block the latest virus, spyware, and other malware attacks as they emerge. Providing customers...

BeCrypt joins Juniper Networks.(Security News and Products)
August 1, 2007... BeCrypt, has announced that it has joined Juniper Networks J-Partner Solutions Alliance program to provide a solution which offers self-contained, temporary security for un-trusted hosts in un-managed environments. The solution leverages...

InterScan Gateway Security Appliance.(Security News and Products)
August 1, 2007... Trend Micro Incorporated recently announced enhancements to Trend Micro InterScan Gateway Security Appliance, its' secure content management appliance for mid-sized organisations. The up-dated product is a multi-layered approach to stopping...

Voltage security platform products awards.(Security News and Products)(Voltage Security Inc's Voltage SecureMail suite)(Brief article)
August 1, 2007... Voltage Security Inc. has been awarded Common Criteria (CC) Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 2 for the complete Voltage SecureMail suite. Comprehensive certification covers the Voltage SecureMail Gateway, Voltage Key Management Server, Voltage...

Criminal investigation secrets leak onto internet.(Security News and Products)
August 1, 2007... Experts at Sophos's global network of virus and spam analysis centers, have reminded internet users of the importance of computer security after media reports revealed that sensitive information has been leaked onto the internet from...

PineApp blocks PDF spam in real time.(Security News and Products)
August 1, 2007... PineApp is staying one step ahead of the image based spammers as they try to avoid detection by sending spam images as PDF attachments. PineApp's Mail-Secure anti-spam solution with its advanced RPDTM (Recurrent Pattern Detection) technology...

China UnionPay data and Arcot Systems form partnership.(Security News and Products)(Brief article)
August 1, 2007... China UnionPay (CUP), the national bankcard association in China, through its subsidiary China UnionPay Data (CUP Data), and Arcot Systems have announced a partnership that will help minimize Internet transaction fraud. Under the agreement, CUP...

Novell ZENworks endpoint security management.(Security News and Products)
August 1, 2007... Novell have announced a new solution to help organizations enforce security policies at the most vulnerable location on the network, the endpoint. Novell ZENworks Endpoint Security Management complements the existing Novell ZENworks product...

Check Point data now supports Vista.(Security News and Products)
August 1, 2007... Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. recently announced that Pointsec PC 6.2, a full-disk encryption solution for laptops and desktop PCs, is now available to protect enterprise computers running the Windows Vista operating system. ...

Kaspersky report.(Security News and Products)
August 1, 2007... Kaspersky Lab has released a new analytical report on the evolution of self-defense technologies in malicious programs. The article provides an overview of how malicious programs have evolved to combat security solutions and which self-defense...

Third-party survey reveals increased need for email archiving solutions.
August 1, 2007... Email archiving is still in its infancy, according to independent survey results released by C2C, the supplier of enterprise email archiving software. While IDC forecasts email archiving applications to see an annual growth rate of 23.4 percent...