Database and Network Journal articles from October 2007

Database and Network Journal archives from October 2007

Enterprise Ajax security with ICEfaces.(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE)
October 1, 2007... The question is simple: Can enterprise application developers deliver Rich Internet Applications using Ajax techniques, but do so in a secure and cost-effective manner? The evidence is mounting: The Yammer (1) and MySpace (2) worms are two...

Infoblox unveils new IP address management solution for Microsoft environments.(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE)
October 1, 2007... Infoblox Inc. have announced availability of the Infoblox IPAM WinConnect(TM) system, an IP address management tool for Microsoft DNS and DHCP environments that enables IT administrators to replace spreadsheets, manual processes and home-grown...

Beyond compliance: protecting sensitive data on the mainframe environment: part one of a two part feature from Ulf T. Mattsson, chief technology officer for data security management provider, Protegrity.(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE)
October 1, 2007... No single security approach will be able to deal with all the new and innovative intrusions in increasingly complex technical and business environments. But by implementing a combination of solutions we should be in a better position to face...

Finjan confirms botnet swarms shrinking to avoid detection.(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Finjan has confirmed fellow IT security vendor F-Secure's analysis that botnets are getting smaller, as criminals seek to ensure their botnet swarms evade detection. "F-Secure's assertion is in line with our own trends analysis," said...

Storage Expo 2007: features from exhibitors at Storage Expo 2007 the UK's largest event dedicated to data storage. Now in its 7th year, the show features a comprehensive FREE education programme and over 90 exhibitors at the National Hall Olympia, London from 17th-18th October 2007.(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE)
October 1, 2007... Seven Deadly Sins of Backup Jim McDonald, Chief Technology Officer, WysDM Software The large and complex part of good business governance that is data protection often relies on policies generated by technical staff with little or no...

4,200 courses delivered worldwide on content and records management.(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE)
October 1, 2007... AIIM--The Enterprise Content Management Association has expanded its certificate training program to include two new programs for Business Process Management (BPM) and Information Organization & Access (IOA). These new programs provide...

CEOs and CIOs may be talking the green talk, but IT is still not walking the green walk.(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE)
October 1, 2007... We've heard so much about green IT initiatives recently you'd be forgiven for thinking that everybody had this under control. You might be surprised to learn that storage vendor ONStor found that 58% of the companies they surveyed were either...

Demand for business intelligence technology set to soar.(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE)
October 1, 2007... Demand for business intelligence technology is set for further growth as enterprises globally look to derive further value from the enterprise applications they've already invested in and the growing volume of data generated by them. The report...

Fortune 500 companies lose c. $250 million per year from poor business intelligence.(BI SURVEY)
October 1, 2007... A study conducted by market research firm Dynamic Markets has today revealed that business intelligence systems are failing to improve operational performance, or impact decision making within US and UK businesses. The research, based on...

Enterprises urged to adopt a more strategic approach to application delivery.(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE)
October 1, 2007... Europe's IT research and advisory organisation, Butler Group, believes that the importance of providing key applications to remote workers and of extending business processes to distributed locations either through fixed or wireless...

Launch of AP operations based in Sydney.(IT News and Products)(Email Systems )(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Email and web management company Email Systems has launched a new regional operation based in Sydney to deliver the company's technology to businesses in the Asia Pacific region. The company is investing over $2 million in the Asia Pacific...

Riverbed and CommVault team.(IT News and Products)(Riverbed Technology Inc.)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Riverbed Technology, Inc. and CommVault have announced that the two companies have teamed to provide customers with solutions to accelerate enterprise data performance. The combination of CommVault's Simpana suite of enterprise data and...

LogLogic 4 release 2.(IT News and Products)
October 1, 2007... LogLogic have released LogLogic 4 Release 2, which extends LogLogic's log data warehouse capabilities to include fine-grain auditing capabilities that documents all users activities including data accessing, changing or deleting information at...

New Pantera 5000.(IT News and Products)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... ONStor Inc. have announced a new addition to its Pantera line of virtualized storage solutions with the launch of the Pantera 5000. A fortified version of its clustered NAS solution it more than doubles the per cabinet capacity of the Pantera...

Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V.(IT News and Products)
October 1, 2007... In an independent SPC-1 benchmark result Hitachi have announced that its flagship Universal Storage Platform[TM] V achieved the highest Storage Performance Council (SPC-1) benchmark result in enterprise storage system history, eclipsing the...

Open Text extends enterprise records management.(IT News and Products)
October 1, 2007... Open Text[TM] Corporation has offered to help organisations better manage content created in real-time communications applications such as instant messaging (IM) as well as incorporate the content into records management and compliance...

Adaptec and Open-E join forces.(IT News and Products)
October 1, 2007... Adaptec, Inc. has announced that it has joined forces with Open-E, developer of iSCSI software, to offer a RAID management solution designed for system integrators developing iSCSI target solutions for small to mid-size enterprise (SME)...

Remote support in the third generation.(IT News and Products)(TeamViewer 3)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... TeamViewer GmbH has released the latest version of its remote maintenance software in TeamViewer 3. The product enables PCs to be controlled via the Internet and is used for support, for example, now has special features for use under Windows...

Technical support from SupportSoft.(IT News and Products)
October 1, 2007... SupportSoft, Inc. have announced that The TechGuys, U.K.'s fast national, 24/7, fully certified technical support service, will use patented software from SupportSoft to deliver PC Healthcheck, a service which helps their customers achieve...

Fujitsu Siemens Computers launches Nnw FibreCAT.(IT News and Products)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Fujitsu Siemens Computers have announced two new models in its FibreCAT family. The competitively priced devices are designed to meet the needs of small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) and based on state-of-the-art storage technology,...

Ingres announces partnerships.(IT News and Products)
October 1, 2007... Ingres Corporation have announced the signing an OEM agreement with Infoflow to enhance its presence in the BI and reporting market. Ingres can now bundle Infoflow into its BI and open source technology stack. This allows customers to schedule,...

Far EasTone chooses Nortel WiMAX.(IT News and Products)
October 1, 2007... Residents of Taipei County in Taiwan will benefit from wireless broadband access when Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET), one of Taiwan's largest telecommunications operators, launches its Mobile WiMAX network from Nortel. As a participant in...

Serena delivers web-based tool.(IT News and Products)(Serena Software Inc's Serena Dimensions Express)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Serena Software, Inc. have announced the release of Serena Dimensions Express, a developer-focused software configuration management (SCM) tool. Dimensions Express delivers the performance and functionality that developers need, packaged in a...

Specialist data centre opens North American office.(IT News and Products)(Future Facilities)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... With the opening of its first US office in San Jose, California, Future Facilities aims to better support IT vendors develop cooling methodologies for their products and reduce the risk of thermal shutdowns. Future Facilities claims to be the...

Green IT the only way ahead for data storage.(IT News and Products)
October 1, 2007... A recent poll of 335 companies by Storage Expo 2007 has found that 95% of organizations are making investments in IT infrastructure to reduce their carbon footprint. The keynotes at Storage Expo reflect this change in the data storage...

Frankenstein standards in the powerline market".(IT News and Products)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Chano Gomez, DS2 "At the moment there is a lot of talk about standards specifications in the broadband powerline market but some proponents are still working with separate layers and separate modems in a single chip. Two or three separate...

Exinda Networks awarded contract.(IT News and Products)
October 1, 2007... Exinda Networks have announced a contract award from Government Integrated Telecom Network (GITN) worth more than RM3.8 million (USD 1.1 Million). The contract award, which is the largest ever for Exinda, is part of the Malaysian government's...

Finisar deploy Silver Peak.(IT News and Products)
October 1, 2007... Silver Peak Systems have announced that Finisar Corporation provider of optical components and testing equipment, has deployed Silver Peak NX appliances throughout its global footprint. With Silver Peak's WAN acceleration technology, Finisar...

GSS hacker warning.(IT News and Products)
October 1, 2007... Global Secure Systems has warned that hackers can now destroy hardware systems, as well as software. David Hobson, Managing Director at GSS, said that a US government video of a power station generator, released to the media, clearly shows...

Ministry choose AlgoSec.(Security News and Products)(Conference notes)
October 1, 2007... The Spanish Ministry of Finance told attendees at the Securmatica 2007 conference held in Madrid that it has selected leading firewall security risk and operations management company AlgoSec's Firewall Analyzer to ensure its network is secure...

AppGate USB end-point client.(Security News and Products)
October 1, 2007... AppGate Network Security has developed a portable way to secure access to information and applications by introducing the AppGate USB client. With this new client, which runs from a USB stick, systems administrators can grant users secure...

YouTube's "invite-a-friend" feature exploited.(Security News and Products)
October 1, 2007... Sophos has advised computer users to be on their guard after it uncovered evidence that spammers are exploiting the popular video website YouTube in order to promote their own goods and online stores. Spam emails seen by Sophos claim to come...

Enterasys delivers 10 Gigabit system.(Security News and Products)
October 1, 2007... Enterasys Networks Inc. have announced the Dragon(R) 10 Gigabit Intrusion Detection and Prevention System which leverages the company's experience and expertise with advanced security software and ASIC-based high speed packet processing...

Secure Computing unveils S.W.A.T.(Security News and Products)
October 1, 2007... Secure Computing Corporation has unveiled the company's new "SWAT" Initiative for protecting organizations from Web 2.0-related threats carried in Web and messaging protocols. The "Secure Web 2.0 Anti-Threat" initiative is an intensive effort...

Marketplace for security exploits and vulnerabilities.(Security News and Products)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... In just two months the IT security vulnerabilities marketplace launched by WabiSabiLabi (WSLabi) that encourages security researchers to sell their findings in an open marketplace to legitimate organisations, big or small, exceeded all...

BeCrypt data security survey.(Security News and Products)
October 1, 2007... BeCrypt has released findings from its recent Public Sector Data Security Survey, (October 2007). The survey, conducted amongst Councils, London Boroughs and Police Authorities, investigated how public sector organisations are approaching the...

Kaspersky Lab anti-phishing module.(Security News and Products)
October 1, 2007... Kaspersky Lab have announced that anti-phishing databases provided by the PhishTank service have been incorporated into the Anti-Phishing module of Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0. The PhishTank service, nm by OpenDNS, offers a consolidated...

Cyber-ark and GSS partner.(Security News and Products)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... ID Management will enter a new phase this month as renowned digital vaulting specialists Cyber-Ark together with GSS, one of the UKs largest security systems integrators, claims to deliver a complete password control and identity management...

Adobe, ING DIRECT and Intel to distribute Norton security offerings.(Security News and Products)
October 1, 2007... Symantec have announced the expansion of their consumer reach with three new partnerships to distribute Norton security software to consumers. Norton Security Scan, an easy-to-use PC scanning tool that informs users if they've been infected...

Barracuda becomes licensee.(Security News and Products)
October 1, 2007... Open Invention Network (OIN) and Barracuda Networks, Inc. have announced that Barracuda Networks has signed a license agreement. By becoming a licensee they join the growing list of companies who are supporting OIN to ensure Linux-based and...

Codel joins MuleSource Alliance partner program.(Security News and Products)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... MuleSource have announced a technology partnership with Codel, supplier of digital data authentication technology. Codel has created different adaptors for Mule and these are now available for immediate download from the MuleForge, enabling...

Information Security Forum spreads the word.(Security News and Products)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... The Information Security Forum (ISF) is hosting 13 executive security briefings around the world during October, November and December to raise greater awareness of the risks to information security and emerging threats. These interactive...

Two-factor authentication.(Security News and Products)
October 1, 2007... Strong two-factor authentication is increasingly replacing simple password protection for new VPN deployments according to Signify. This view is backed up by industry research * commissioned by RSA, The Security Division of EMC, indicating that...