Database and Network Journal articles from December 2006

Database and Network Journal archives from December 2006

UNIX/Linux and windows--the power of an integrated, all-in-one, familiar environment.(RESEARCH BRIEF)
December 1, 2006... www.mkssoftware.com A recent IBM information technology market study shows that labor now accounts for seventy percent of an enterprise's IT budget. And almost three-quarters of this labor bill goes to people-related costs for managers of...

Are we really surprised that bargain-bin IT projects fail?(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE)
December 1, 2006... On the surface the figures look grim. At its inception the National Programme for IT was touted as costing a mere GBP2.3 billion, which swiftly rose to GBP6.2 billion. Now the government agency responsible admits that this figure did not...

Survey--2007 set to be year of online customer engagement.(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE)
December 1, 2006... Companies embrace Web 2.0 features to engage with their customers, while struggling with basic customer experience 2007 will be a watershed year for online business with large numbers of companies planning to adopt so-called Web 2.0 features in...

Business continuity plans--step by step.(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE)
December 1, 2006... Be it an art or a science, writing a business continuity plan on a blank piece of paper is almost impossible to get right. Yet this is what many people set out to do when they begin to develop a business continuity plan for their business. ...

Cyber-Ark ranked in the 2006 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA.(Cyber-Ark Software Ltd.)
December 1, 2006... Cyber-Ark Software, the information security software company that develops and markets Digital Vaults for securing and managing privileged passwords and highly-sensitive information, today announced that it has been ranked on the 2006 Deloitte...

Infosecurity Europe 2007.(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE)
December 1, 2006... A selection of papers from exhibitors at Infosecurity Europe 2007, Europe's dedicated Information security event. Now in its 12th year, providing an education programme, new products & services, over 300 exhibitors and 11,600 visitors from...

Wi-fi users at risk of data and identity theft.(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE)
December 1, 2006... A new survey commissioned by Steganos, has found that UK wi-fi users are needlessly exposed to the risk of data and identity theft. Although 86% of those wi-fi users surveyed said they knew there was a risk that their data could be...

Trend Micro teams with Sanmina-SCI.(Trend Micro Inc. (Cupertino, California), Sanmina-SCI Corp.)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Trend Micro Incorporated and Sanmina-SCI, have announced that they have entered into a mutual global relationship in which they will co-operate in the provision of global logistics and support services provided to channel partners and customers...

Dell offers software to European1 customers.(IT News and Products)
December 1, 2006... Dell have announced new strategic partnerships with Gem Distribution & SouthCoast Distributions to provide customers in Europe 1 with gaming, edutainment and leisure software titles. The software applications, available as both individual...

ASG introduces business service platform.(IT News and Products)
December 1, 2006... ASG, have announced the availability of a new software solution, ASG's Business Service Platform. This enables ASG to provide new integrated business service management solutions. ASG now offers a complete packaged solution for business...

NCR expands image-scanning capabilities.(IT News and Products)
December 1, 2006... NCR Corporation have announced that it has been granted preferred reseller status by Imaging Business Machines, LLC (IBML), an industry leader in high-speed colour document imaging. The agreement extends NCR's image-scanning capabilities beyond...

Quest Software to integrate Microsoft Windows Powershell.(IT News and Products)
December 1, 2006... Quest Software, Inc. have announced it will be among the first ISV partners to support Microsoft Windows PowerShell, Microsoft's next-generation command-line and scripting environment. The first Quest product to support and extend Windows...

Quest Software introduces Microsoft Operations Manager monitoring.(IT News and Products)
December 1, 2006... Quest Software, Inc. also announced availability of the Quest Management Pack for ADAM. The new product, available at no charge, extends Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 to provide proactive performance monitoring and real-time...

The impact of Acrobat 8 on electronic forms applications.(IT News and Products)
December 1, 2006... In November released Acrobat 8--its latest generation of software for creating and accessing electronic documents. But how will this software affect web applications that use PDF documents as electronic forms? A new key feature of Acrobat...

Aperture Technologies releases VISTA 500.(IT News and Products)
December 1, 2006... Aperture Technologies, Inc. have announced the launch of VISTA 500, a comprehensive data center infrastructure resource management system that revolutionizes the way companies manage today's increasingly complex data center environments. ...

Sealant joins VMware Community Source Program.(Scalent Systems developing virtualization software)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Scalent Systems have announced that it has joined the VMware Community Source Program, a collaborative effort to develop industry-leading virtualization technology and products. As part of its participation, Scalent would contribute server...

Novell enhance partner program.(IT News and Products)
December 1, 2006... Novell has unveiled enhancements to its PartnerNet program designed to make it easier, more strategic, and more profitable for partners to work with Novell. PartnerNet 2007 introduces several key new benefits, including technology...

Blackboard announces BbWorld Europe.(IT News and Products)
December 1, 2006... Blackboard Inc. provider of enterprise technology to the education industry, have announced its 4th annual European users conference, BbWorld Europe '07, to be held at the Acropolis Palais des Congres, Nice, France on February 26-28, 2007. The...

New WAFS capability completes Exinda's Unified Performance Management.(wide area file service)
December 1, 2006... Exinda Networks, provider of Unified Performance Management (UPM) worldwide, have announced the delivery of WAFS (Wide Area File Services) functionality, including CIFS protocol optimization and acceleration, enabling small, medium and large...

Beijing QTC announces a VoIP Telephone agreement with Beijing Oriental Jiachuang International.(IT News and Products)
December 1, 2006... The Bralorne Mining Company today announced that its 100% owned subsidiary company--Beijing Quan Tong Chang Information Service Limited ("Beijing QTC") has signed a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Telephone service agreement with Beijing...

Analyst firm reports greater sophistication in IT service management market.(IT News and Products)
December 1, 2006... IT service management is no longer the exclusive preserve of large enterprises. According to a recent Gartner study, the overall service desk market grew by 13% in 2005. Much of the growth in the small and midsize business (SMB) service...

New global community for collaborative software development.(IT News and Products)
December 1, 2006... CollabNet have unveiled openCollabNet, a new online community based on Web 2.0 principles and built around Subversion and CollabNet solutions. Developed as an extension to CollabNet?s products, the new site connects the 1.5 million users of...

Nordea pioneers virtualisation technology.(DataSynapse Inc.'s GridServer software used by Nordea)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... DataSynapse recently announced that Nordea, the Nordic region's largest bank and financial services company, has rolled out DataSynapse GridServer software to support its growing derivatives business. Nordea is the first Nordic bank to use...

MEGA International announces governance, risk, compliance platform.(IT News and Products)
December 1, 2006... MEGA International has launched additions to its existing range solutions for business process analysis and enterprise architecture modelling. The Platform is an integrated suite of software coupled to a proven methodology designed to help...

Sybase acquires professional software services.(IT News and Products)
December 1, 2006... Sybase, Inc. have announced that it has acquired certain assets from Singapore-based iFoundry Systems, a privately held engineering services company focused on designing, developing and building wireless mobility solutions, in an all-cash...

Attachmate demonstrates commitment to vista.(IT News and Products)
December 1, 2006... Attachmate Corporation have announced Reflection 2007, a next-generation terminal emulation solution built specifically to take advantage of enhancements in Microsoft Windows Vista. Combining the comprehensive productivity and security feature...

Novell to support Open XML format to advance document interoperability.(IT News and Products)
December 1, 2006... Novell have announced that the Novell edition of the OpenOffice.org office productivity suite will now support the Office Open XML format, increasing interoperability between OpenOffice.org and the next generation of Microsoft Office. Novell is...

Tougher penalties underlines importance of Data Protection.(Security News and Products)
December 1, 2006... The British Computer Society (BCS), has launched a new book: Data Protection and Compliance in Context. It provides professionals from many different disciplines with the tools to safely navigate data protection issues in today's business...

Laptop theft highlights need to think about Mobile IT Security.(Security News and Products)
December 1, 2006... The theft of a laptop containing Nationwide Building Society customer information highlights the need for companies to think urgently about Mobile IT security. Millions of confidential customer information details are able to be held on a...

UK enterprises vulnerable to data theft reveals survey.(Security News and Products)
December 1, 2006... While half of the largest UK companies report that their enterprise data is mission critical, nearly 75% reveal that that they do not currently have systems in place to track and trace potential data theft according to a survey commissioned by...

Service providers hold key to blocking text message spam.(Security News and Products)
December 1, 2006... Reports that text message spam is set to increase in 2007 * are no cause for concern, according to content security expert, Marshal. Marshal's Director of Product Management, Bradley Anstis, believes that text message spam will never grow to...

IBM Internet Security Systems shields customers from critical Microsoft vulnerabilities.(Security News and Products)
December 1, 2006... IBM recently announced its Internet Security Systems division is keeping customers ahead of threats posed by the most recent Microsoft vulnerabilities. Earlier this month, IBM Internet Security Systems discovered active exploitation of a...

Sophos protects Microsoft Windows Vista.(Security News and Products)
December 1, 2006... Sophos have announced a new version of Sophos Anti-Virus which fully supports the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system. Sophos's proactive protection delivers businesses with a complete defense against viruses, spyware, adware and...

Trend Micro support for Windows Vista.(Trend Micro Inc. (Cupertino, California) contracts with Microsoft Corp.)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Trend Micro Incorporated have announced that the beta versions of Trend Micro OfficeScan, its corporate desktop security solution and Trend Micro Internet Security, its consumer security offering, work with Windows Vista to provide customers...

U.S. patent for Protegrity.(Security News and Products)
December 1, 2006... Protegrity Corporation, provider of data security management software to the enterprise, has been awarded United States Patent 7,120,933--a method for detecting intrusion in a database managed by an access control system. Monitoring access...

Kaspersky Lab launches new technical support portal.(Security News and Products)
December 1, 2006... Kaspersky Lab has launched a new web portal for its technical support service. The portal shows visitors how to protect all types of IT systems, from PDAs and smartphones to file servers and mail systems. The portal also includes solutions to...

New Protection from Webroot.(Security News and Products)
December 1, 2006... Webroot Software, Inc., have announced the availability of Webroot SME Security, a new Internet threat solution designed specifically to protect small and medium-sized enterprises from spyware and viruses. Webroot SME Security combines...

Web application security holes and Christmas shopping.(Security News and Products)
December 1, 2006... Results from IMRG predict online shopping to hit 180 million [pounds sterling] per day leading up to Christmas--more than double the 82 million [pounds sterling] average for the rest of the year. But with retail web applications being bombarded...

Software spam report.(Security News and Products)
December 1, 2006... Softscan have announced that the torrent of spam over the past month has not decreased, the final percentage of emails stopped by SoftScan as spam during November was 89.73%, marginally up from last month's 89.07%. Image spam, reportedly on the...

IBM Internet Security Systems predicts security trends for 2007.(Security News and Products)
December 1, 2006... IBM X-Force have announced several predictions for the top security trends of 2007. Among the host of threats on the security horizon for 2007, X-Force foresees broader and more targeted identity theft attacks on consumers as well as an...

Top 10 viruses reported to sophos in November 2006.(Security News and Products)
December 1, 2006... 1. W32/Stratio-Zip 33.3% 2. W32/Netsky-P 15.6% 3. W32/Bagle-Zip 6.1% 4. W32/Zafi-B 4.3% 5. W32/Netsky-D 3.9% 6. W32 Nyxem-D 2.5% 6....

U.K. Parliament to view security.(Security News and Products)
December 1, 2006... The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, who are currently conducting an inquiry into Personal Internet Security, will next week hear evidence from APACS, The Financial Services Authority, VISA and the Royal Bank of Scotland. ...