The open source software community lags behind the commercial software sector in secure code development, according to a recent study of some commonly used open source packages.
- By William Jackson
- 07/22/2008
A first-quarter 2008 survey conducted by Computer Economics suggests a possible slowdown in IT spending and staffing lies ahead.
VMware has launched its first counter-attack to Microsoft's pricing structure for its virtualization products, announcing that ESXi, its lightweight hypervisor, is going to be given away for free.
A new Forrester Consulting report based on a survey of 389 global technology decision-makers who work with service management finds serious deficiencies with current SLAs.
- By James E. Powell
- 07/22/2008
The UC market grew by 20 percent in both 2007 and 2006, according to market-watcher Infonetics Research.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 07/22/2008
Speculation continues as to what the ultimate systemic Domain Name System (DNS) flaw could be.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/22/2008
Out with the old (frame relay, ATM and subscriber lines) and in with the new (e.g., Ethernet or IP MPLS VPN services).
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 07/22/2008
Yahoo partly acceded to the demands of corporate raider Carl Icahn by agreeing to seat Icahn and two of his proxy-slate candidates to Yahoo's board.
Enterprise security is an expensive proposition, one that's likely to get even more expensive as organizations take further steps to protect themselves.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 07/21/2008
Update adds product support plus a fix for an infamous bug that has plagued Microsoft's consumer server offering since December.
Maker of popular BlackBerry handset issued a patch to plug a vulnerability in its BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) solution.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/18/2008
Microsoft's fiscal fourth-quarter and 2008 year-end financial results were announced in a Webcast on Thursday.
Citrix has released details of a new tool that will speed virtual machine interoperability between hypervisors from Microsoft, VMware and its own offering.
Microsoft quietly opened its Live Mesh preview to more testers on July 15, but by today (July 17), the offer had been narrowed to just waiting-list only.
Microsoft's Chief Architect Ray Ozzie and some say the sky will be the limit for cloud computing in the enterprise, but there's still a need for IT security too.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/16/2008
A scan of Web servers by Internet security company Finjan Inc. has found more than 1,000 legitimate Web sites that had been compromised by a new wave of attacks in recent weeks.
- By William Jackson
- 07/16/2008
Oracle has released the latest quarterly round of critical patches for all its products.
- By Joab Jackson
- 07/16/2008
In its first product release since acquiring Borland's CodeGear business, Embarcadero Technologies Inc. this week released a new tool set designed to help developers optimize SQL code in databases.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/16/2008
U.S. House and Senate Judiciary Committees looking into antitrust matters heard testimony on Tuesday from executives representing the top-three Internet search ad companies -- Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
New director of product management talks up database and hints at future technologies.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/16/2008