Database and Network Journal articles from February 2009

Database and Network Journal archives from February 2009

Dynamic capacity management in virtual environments.(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE)
February 1, 2009... Capacity planning is undergoing a transformation as virtualization technologies gain adoption in IT environments. This paper describes the nuances of capacity supply in virtual environments, how to model the demands that workloads place on this...

Penetration testing as a business enabler: making the case.(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE)
February 1, 2009... When it comes for penetration testing I don't think I've ever met an IT Security Manager who's not had the problem of justifying their internal spend. Like most areas in IT security traditionally this is viewed as an expense and managers have...

IT administrators go 'Rogue': minimising the threat from inside. (Infosecurity Europe 2009).
February 1, 2009... Tough times for the economy often mean that businesses need to look at reducing costs. Typically, a company's largest overhead will be its staff, but IT managers may want to think twice before shrinking headcount in their department. A recent...

9 steps to halt data breaches.(Infosecurity Europe 2009)
February 1, 2009... The high-profile data-handling fiascos of recent months have underlined the importance of data protection. The loss of millions of child benefit records by HM Revenue and Customs, and the mislaying of laptops and security dossiers by MoD...

Check your spelling.(Infosecurity Europe 2009)
February 1, 2009... Just when you thought you were on top of the risks online another threat presents itself. Twenty years ago we learnt that infected floppy disks could spread viruses so we learned how to deal with that. Then we got used to social engineering...

I.T.'s dirty little secret--privileged passwords.(Infosecurity Europe 2009)
February 1, 2009... You have a gaping hole in your security. Actually, let me rephrase that. MOST of you have a gaping hole in your security. It's really big. It's huge. It's the kind of hole that when you think about it, it keeps you awake at night, worrying...

Absence of evidence does not equal innocence.(Infosecurity Europe 2009)
February 1, 2009... Imagine, for a moment, that the delete button on the email client of all of your employees was permanently disabled. This would mean that your email users would be forced to save and organize their email into various folders within the email...

Making the best use of your security budget in lean times: four approaches.
February 1, 2009... Many predict 2009 will produce the tightest economic conditions in decades. The subprime meltdown, tight credit markets and recession conditions will mean most CIOs will feel the downward spiral of the economy right where it hurts, in their IT...

Cyber warfare--how secure are your communications?(Infosecurity Europe 2009)
February 1, 2009... Almost every week the media reports on negligent loss of data, much of it highly sensitive. Perhaps with so many people using so much data in so many different places we should not be so surprised. Today more and more...

What can log data do for you?(Infosecurity Europe 2009)
February 1, 2009... Organisations today are deploying a variety of security solutions to counter the ever increasing threat to their email and Internet investments. Often, the emergence of new threats spawns solutions by different companies with a niche or a...

How to protect personally identifiable information: top ten data security best practices.(Infosecurity Europe 2009)
February 1, 2009... 1: Don't narrow security focus during economic downturns When IT budgets are slashed it's tempting to concentrate only on achieving compliance with regulatory requirements in order to avoid frees, other sanctions and bad publicity. The...

How to avoid becoming the next data loss headline.(Infosecurity Europe 2009)
February 1, 2009... Stories on data loss are hitting the headlines on a daily basis. Despite most of these laptops having security precautions such as passwords and encryption in place, there is still a lot of fear as to how the data they contain might be used and...

UK SAP management market grows 8.6% in 2008.(IT News and Products)
February 1, 2009... Application management (AM) is seeing rising activity, as it is increasingly perceived as a quick and simple way to achieve cost benefits. PAC estimates that stand-alone SAP AM expenditure grew by 8.6% in 2008, and forecasts a CAGR of 8.4%...

Job Scheduler.(IT News and Products)
February 1, 2009... Halcyon Software has announced the launch of the latest version of Job Scheduler systems management application for the IBM System i range of servers. Job Scheduler v 4.0 is designed to enable systems operators of all levels to create and run...

CA New Releases.(IT News and Products)
February 1, 2009... CA have announced new releases of its network and systems management solutions that help customers improve performance and increase availability for their increasingly complex business-critical applications Enterprise IT organizations...

MEGA introduces GRC solution.(IT News and Products)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... MEGA has introduced the MEGA GRC Suite Version 3.1. The capabilities of the platform and the Suite modules--GRC Audit, GRC Compliance and Control, and GRC Risk--have been augmented and enhanced to provide an even more complete and flexible...

JDSU Partners With Sanmina.(Sanmina-SCI Corp.)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... JDSU have announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with Sanmina-SCI Corporationfor the manufacturing of JDSU products. Under the terms &the agreement, Sanmina-SCI will acquire certain manufacturing assets, inventories, and employees...

Sybase record.(IT News and Products)
February 1, 2009... Sybase have announced that SybaseR Adaptive ServerR Enterprise (ASE) on IBM Power Systems has set a new transaction processing performance record for 4-core systems for Linuxby delivering 276,383 transactions per minute (tpmC) on the leading...

TIBCO's first hardware.(IT News and Products)
February 1, 2009... TIBCO Software Inc. has delivered the first hardware offering in the company's history, TIBCO Messaging Appliance(TM) P-7500. Mainstream messaging volumes in enterprise IT today routinely reach the level of I million events per second,...

Anonymity on the Web.(IT News and Products)
February 1, 2009... In the Internet age, the use of online shops is continuing to increase. However, consumers often encounter difficulties when browsing through American shopping sites as many US websites prohibit foreigners from accessing pages or only make...

Harte-Hanks Trillium Software and Cordy Alliance.(IT News and Products)
February 1, 2009... Trillium Software[R] and Cordys Software, the leading provider of software for business process innovation deployable in the Cloud as a complete Platform as a Service (PaaS), today announced a worldwide technology alliance. Cordys Software...

IT warning.(IT News and Products)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Cutting costs and cancelling new projects is clearly going to be an overriding theme in IT for 2009. Plan-Net, argues that this is a simplistic approach and could result in increased expenditure. And while in 2009 organisations will need to be...

ERP market in Russia: crisis will not stop growth.(IT News and Products)
February 1, 2009... Russia's nascent software and IT services (SITS) market grew by 18.4% to an estimated 6bn [euro] in 2008, according to the latest figures from PAC. However, the sector faces a gloomy outlook due to the adverse economic climate. The Russian SITS...

UK software plc struggles to make mark in Europe.(IT News and Products)
February 1, 2009... The UK has a diverse software market compared to its European counterparts, but the country's vendors have struggled to match the presence of their North American counterparts across Europe. In PAC's latest rankings of the 200 largest...

BETT 2009.(IT News and Products)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... BETT has reinforced its position as the world's largest technology in education event as it attracted a record number of visitors from both the UK and abroad. 30,008* visitors attended BETT, at Olympia, London from 14-17 January, which is a...

CiRBA version 5.1.(IT News and Products)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... CiRBA Inc., recently announced the release of CiRBA Version 5.1. With Version 5.1, CiRBA provides advanced analytics and collaborative capabilities that enable enterprise views of capacity health for both physical and virtual infrastructure....

New report recommends use of Mashups.(IT News and Products)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... A new report by Aite Group finds that the financial services industry could cut costs and better manage risk by using Mashups to coordinate myriad business processes. The December 2008 report, called "The Case for Mashups in Capital Markets,"...

Steganos survey.(Security News and Products)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... A privacy and encryption survey conducted by Steganos has found that consumers are not using encryption to protect their online identity. Steganos surveyed 120 consumers in America and Britain, asking them about how they protect their...

Hacker could face 10 years.(Security News and Products)
February 1, 2009... Authorities in Turkey are seeking a ten year jail sentence for a man who has admitted he was a hacker working for the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), and is alleged to have planted spyware on x-rated websites. According to media reports from...

Monthly Malware statistics: January 2009.(Security News and Products)
February 1, 2009... Two Top Twenties have been compiled from data generated by the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) throughout January 2009. The first Top Twenty is based on data collected by Kaspersky Lab's 2009 antivirus product and gives details of...

Webroot new release.(Security News and Products)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Webroot have announced the release of a new version of Webroot[R] Web Security SaaS, including significant enhancements to deliver innovative, proactive anti-phishing detection; policy enforcement despite the use of anonymizer or proxy bypass...

Major concerns in 2009.(Security News and Products)
February 1, 2009... According to BitDefender's latest E-Threats Landscape Report, more than 80 percent of malware distributed worldwide in 2008 consisted of Trojans. This second report, provides an overview of the security threats landscape over the last six...

Online release.(Security News and Products)
February 1, 2009... (ISC)2's(ISC)2 ("ISC-squared"), have announced that its "Resource Guide for Today's Information Security Professional, Global Edition" is now available online (https://resourceguide.isc2.org) for the first time since the Guide was published...

BeCrypt certification.(Security News and Products)
February 1, 2009... BeCrypt has gained the Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 for DISK Protect, the company's full disk data encryption product. DISK Protect includes support for removable media encryption and a secure wipe facility that simplifies the...

New ISACA business model.(Security News and Products)
February 1, 2009... Effectively managing information security is more critical than ever, yet until now there have been no comprehensive models to guide security professionals. To fill the gap, ISACA has developed the new Business Model for Information Security....

Cisco and Dell to deliver combined next generation data center solutions.(Security News and Products)
February 1, 2009... Cisco and Dell have announced that they will collaborate to deliver next-generation IT solutions that help customers simplify their data center infrastructure by pooling storage, computing and networking infrastructure resources to more rapidly...