Baseline articles from July 2007

Baseline archives from July 2007

Customers Seek Tools to Manage Virtual Machines.
July 2, 2007... With virtualization pushing beyond data center consolidation and moving into other areas such as high availability and disaster recovery, IT managers have to consider a new set of issues: how to manage all those virtual machines. It's a...

Hungry for Virtualization.
July 2, 2007... It started with a 5-minute presentation at a long-forgotten conference in 2004. While attending the conference, Lance Shinabarger, who was then working as a network engineer in the corporate IT department of Domino's Pizza, decided he would...

SAP Prepares Response to Oracle Lawsuit.
July 2, 2007... SAP is getting ready to fire back at rival Oracle, the last salvo in a bitter competition that was most recently fueled when Oracle filed a lawsuit. SAP officials said in a statement that they will respond to Oracle's lawsuit through two...

Six Difficult Questions to Ask About Data Governance.
July 3, 2007... SAN FRANCISCO--With industry analysts warning that business data continues to fill up storage at an average of 60 percent per year, enterprises of all sizes eventually need to make a strategic decision: Will they take better control over the...

Software Expertise in a Box.
July 3, 2007... High-tech companies have bundled lots of things into their products, such as software packages and browsers on PCs, and security features built into software programs. But an entire online software management community? That's right. The...

Security Appliance Vendors Blase About CSRF Flaws.(cross-site request forgery)(Brief article)
July 3, 2007... Security appliance makers are shrugging off CSRF (cross-site request forgery) vulnerabilities in their products--products that sit at the crossroads of enterprise protection. The vulnerable appliances, unified threat management products,...

Autonomy Acquires Zantaz for $375 Million.(Brief article)
July 3, 2007... Enterprise search vendor Autonomy announced July 3 that it has acquired privately owned e-mail archiving and e-discovery/compliance provider Zantaz for $375 million in cash. Zantaz will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of U.K.-based...

Experts: Enterprises Must Focus on VOIP Security.
July 3, 2007... As the number of VOIP deployments is expected to continue to increase, IT professionals and researchers are urging enterprises not to forget about security. Voice-over-IP security threats are viewed as more theoretical than actual. But the...

Fidelity National Reports Big Data Breach, Axes Worker.(Fidelity National Information Services Inc.)
July 4, 2007... NEW YORK--Fidelity National Information Services Inc., an electronic payment processor, said on Tuesday a database administrator stole and sold customer data, exposing as many as 2.3 million bank and credit card records, and that the worker has...

Report: Gadget Boom to Drive Up Energy Demand.
July 5, 2007... LONDON--Flat-screen televisions, computers and other hi-tech gadgets will use nearly half of a typical British household's total electricity by 2020, an energy conservation body said in a report on July 4. Britain's Energy Saving Trust...

Microsoft Says It Is Not Bound by GPLv3.
July 5, 2007... Microsoft cleared the air July 5 on its obligations to GNU General Public License Version 3 support, declaring it will not provide support or updates for GPLv3 under the deal it penned in November with Novell to administer certificates for the...

Tech Earns Interest at Wachovia.
July 5, 2007... Wachovia's roots are in the southeastern United States, but it is branching out across the globe. Wachovia, based in Charlotte, N.C., has $706.4 billion in assets and $408.1 billion in total deposits, with a presence extending to the West Coast...

Will Workers Lead The Next IT Revolution?
July 6, 2007... Sales of the much-hyped iPhone handsets have exceeded their admittedly ambitious estimates, say analysts and Apple Inc. executives. Now corporate chief information officers are bracing for another wave of security and compatibility issues as...

Microsoft Expands in Canada Amid U.S. Visa Crunch.
July 6, 2007... BOSTON/VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters)--Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday it will open a software development center in Vancouver, giving it a place to employ skilled workers snagged by U.S. immigration quotas. It may signal the start...

Samba Officially Adopts GPLv3 for Future Releases.(General Public License)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... In a note from leading Samba developer Jeremy Allison, The Samba Group announced that it is keeping its promise to move its code base to GPLv3. It wasn't an automatic move though. Without going into detail, Allison wrote, "After internal...

Microsoft to Patch Critical .Net Flaw.
July 9, 2007... Microsoft is issuing six patches on Patch Tuesday on June 10, one of which addresses a critical .Net Framework vulnerability that has the potential to affect a wide array of applications on all of Microsoft's actively supported platforms. ...

Intel Investing $200 Million in VMware.
July 9, 2007... Intel is investing more than $200 million in virtualization leader VMware, it announced July 9, giving the chipmaker a 2.5 percent stake in the company. Both companies said in a joint statement they expect the partnership to help...

New MS Marketplace to Compete with Salesforce.com.
July 11, 2007... Microsoft is giving notice that they plan to directly challenge Salesforce.com's online application marketplace, AppExchange, and on-demand programming language and platform, Apex. Microsoft announced at their World Wide Partner Conference...

Oracle Expects Database 11g to Set the Database Bar.
July 11, 2007... Database market leader Oracle released its latest database version, Oracle Database 11g, July 11, and company officials anointed it the next king of the market. After more than a year of beta testing and anticipation, Oracle executives,...

Former HP Exec Capellas to Head First Data.
July 11, 2007... Former Compaq and Hewlett-Packard executive Michael Capellas is slated to become the CEO of First Data later this year, following the $29 billion acquisition of the financial-transaction processor company by a private equity firm. Earlier...

Uh-O Canada: The Newest Nearshore Threat?
July 12, 2007... Fed up with U.S. immigration hurdles, Microsoft announced July 5 plans to open a software development center in Vancouver, British Columbia, that it hopes will "be home to software developers from around the world." Employing as many as...

Oracle's Suit Against SAP Raises Customer Concerns.
July 12, 2007... The hoopla around Oracle's ongoing lawsuit against rival SAP has left a gaping hole for customers questioning the value of major application vendor support. Oracle is accusing SAP of corporate theft on a grand scale, the result of SAP...

U.S. and Japan Keep IT Thriving.
July 12, 2007... What does it take for a country to support a thriving IT sector? The United Sates, Japan, South Korea and the UK have all done a good job of figuring it out. These countries stood out among the 64 nations reviewed in the IT Competitiveness...

Oracle Plans 46 Patches for Update.(Oracle Corp. enhanced Oracle Database, Oracle Application Server and Oracle Collaboration Suite)(Brief article)
July 12, 2007... Oracle has plans to deliver 46 security fixes for its customers by July 17. According to an Oracle security announcement, the patches will plug security holes in Oracle Database, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Collaboration Suite,...

India Rates Best, Worst in Management Study.
July 13, 2007... Companies in India display some of the best and the worst management practices, according to a joint report from strategic consultants McKinsey and Co. and the London School of Economics. Management practices in multinational companies in...

Finding a Linux Job at LinuxWorld.
July 13, 2007... So, you want a job in Linux do you? Well then get your tickets for San Francisco to see Dice's free Technology and Engineering career fair at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo taking place on Aug. 8 from 10 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. During the career...

The Merging of SOA and Web 2.0.(service oriented architecture)
July 15, 2007... Dan Cahoon was looking for a way to streamline staffing operations at tax company H&R Block, the nation's largest seasonal employer. Rather than use traditional desktop-based software for the job, the senior systems architect at H&R Block was...

Nortel, Microsoft Show Results from VOIP Alliance.
July 16, 2007... The one-year anniversary of the Innovative Communications Alliance between Microsoft and Nortel Networks on July 16 will be a short-lived celebration, as both vendors quickly go back to work on further extensions to their VOIP-focused...

Microsoft: No IP Talks with Red Hat.
July 16, 2007... Microsoft and Red Hat are no closer to a deal involving intellectual property cooperation, Microsoft has confirmed. "Red Hat and Microsoft have previously had conversations about interoperability, but none of our recent conversations have...

IBM Grabs DataMirror Technology.
July 16, 2007... IBM announced plans to purchase DataMirror, a provider of data protection and integration tools, and meld its technology into IBM's Information Management Server. Under the terms of the deal, IBM will buy DataMirror, based in Markham,...

Hackers Close to Cracking iPhone.
July 16, 2007... iPhone hackers are on the cusp of not only being able to write programs for the phone but also finding a way to cut the device's tether to Cingular's service plans. According to one of the group of hackers who are working collaboratively...

Salesforce.com Issues Apex Code.
July 17, 2007... Salesforce.com announced July 16 that its Summer '07 release--the 23rd generation of its on-demand customer relationship management software--will be available to users in August. While the latest iteration brings several important...

Study on Impact of RFID Use Released.
July 17, 2007... The European Parliament's Scientific Technology Options Assessment group released an 86-page study evaluating the use of RFID technology in everyday European life, from credit cards and retail applications to travel systems and passports. ...

IBM's Paul Horn to Retire.
July 17, 2007... Paul Horn, who led IBM's research division for more than decade, is stepping down to pursue a career in academics at New York University, the Armonk, N.Y. company announced July 17. Horn, 60, took the helm of IBM Research in 1996, and...

Appetite for Acquisition: Oracle to Gobble Up Bharosa.
July 18, 2007... Oracle is buying Bharosa, a provider of software that helps combat online identity theft and fraud. Financial terms of the deal, which is expected to close in August, were not disclosed. Oracle officials, in announcing the deal July...

Making the Business Case for 11g.(Oracle Database 11g usage)
July 18, 2007... Now that Oracle has officially unveiled its much-awaited 11g database, industry observers are wondering how quickly users will upgrade to the latest offering. A survey of members of the Independent Oracle Users Group who attended the...

A CIO's Lot Is Not a Happy One.
July 20, 2007... Though tales of ever-expanding compensation packages for executives and claims that companies have shifted their focus from hiring to retention continue to fill business news coverage, a study suggests that this has had little effect on the...

HP Buying Opsware for $1.6B.
July 23, 2007... Hewlett-Packard is buying Opsware, a software vendor best known as a provider of data center automation products, for $1.6 billion, the two companies announced July 23. The purchase of Opsware and its line of products will allow HP to...

HP Buys Neoware, Eyes Virtualized Client Computing.
July 23, 2007... Hewlett-Packard on July 23 announced plans to acquire Linux thin client specialist Neoware, in a deal valued at $214 million. HP said the deal will boost its thin client Linux software, and help the company compete in the emergent market for...

Researchers Crack the iPhone.
July 23, 2007... A security firm has run the first remote exploits on Apple's iPhone, proving that the widely popular smart phone is vulnerable not only to data theft but also to being turned into a remote snooping device. A trio of researchers from...

Airline Reservation System Hits Turbulence.
July 25, 2007... A next-generation airline reservation system that promised to use a wide range of Internet technologies, including Web services, to make discount airlines more competitive has lost a key launch customer. WestJet Airlines, a discount carrier...