April 2007

April 19, 2007 19 Apr'07
Oracle patches 36 security holes

Oracle has issued patches for 36 holes in the database management system, application server, E-Business Suite and JD Edwards and PeopleSoft software. Continue Reading
April 19, 2007 19 Apr'07
Sourcefire expands security strategy

Sourcefire has announced plans to expand its overall product strategy to span network access control, intrusion prevention, network behavior anomaly detection Continue Reading
April 19, 2007 19 Apr'07
BlackBerry outage cuts off millions

BlackBerry mobile email suffered a massive outage, preventing BlackBerry users from sending and receiving emails. Continue Reading

April 19, 2007 19 Apr'07
Dell releases LTO-4 drive

Dell is first out of the gate with the new LTO-4 drive, which offers native encryption; Sun unveils new array and deepens its relationship with FalconStor. Continue Reading
April 19, 2007 19 Apr'07
Securing Communications Day Three - What the vendors say

How does VoIP get hacked? And how can you prevent it? Read on to learn this and more in part two of our feature on securing communications. Continue Reading
April 18, 2007 18 Apr'07
How do I calculate the time taken for a file to be transferred over a WAN link?

Calculate the time it will take for a file to transfer over a WAN link with the help of Dr. Hughes in this expert response. Continue Reading
April 18, 2007 18 Apr'07
Convergence certification provides evaluation standard

Voice and data convergence are more prevalent and enterprises are looking for certified professionals to administer the combined networks -- leading CompTIA to develop its Convergence+ certification, designed to validate qualified convergence ... Continue Reading
April 18, 2007 18 Apr'07
CA offers new database management tool

CA has introduced a performance analysis and diagnostic tool for its Database Management system that enables administrators to monitor both real-time and historical performance metrics for all databases distributed across the enterprise. Continue Reading
April 18, 2007 18 Apr'07
Finjan offers free website browser security tool

Finjan has made available a free website browser security tool for users. Continue Reading
April 18, 2007 18 Apr'07
Deutsche Bahn rolls out all IP call centres

Germany’s rail company Deutsche Bahn has adopted an all IP customer contact system at six major call centres to take advantage of voice over IP. Continue Reading

April 18, 2007 18 Apr'07
Barclays leads way with card reader roll-out

Barclays Bank is set to roll out handheld chip-and-pin card readers to 500,000 of its two million online banking customers by the end of the year to protect them against fraud Continue Reading
April 18, 2007 18 Apr'07
HP targets mid-market with new storage management system

Hewlett-Packard has announced a new version of its storage resource management software that allows midsize businesses of up to 1,000 employees to gain better control over their rapidly expanding storage environments. Continue Reading
April 18, 2007 18 Apr'07
College secretary wins spying damages against employer

A college secretary from Wales has won a legal battle against her employers and the UK government after a senior member of staff at the college secretly monitored her personal communications for up to 18 months without her consent. Continue Reading
April 18, 2007 18 Apr'07
Oracle upgrades JD Edwards World platform

Oracle has announced general availability of JD Edwards World A9.1, delivering more than 1,250 enhancements to improve operations and reduce integration costs. Continue Reading
April 18, 2007 18 Apr'07
P&O Ferrymasters streamlines e-mail management to improve operations

P&O Ferrymasters has reduced e-mail administration by 90% and improved order processing and just-in-time sales opportunities to boot. Continue Reading
April 18, 2007 18 Apr'07
Royal & SunAlliance pulls outsourcing double

Royal & SunAlliance (R&SA), the UK’s second largest commercial lines insurer, has today announced two major outsourcing extensions covering network and IT infrastructure. Continue Reading
April 18, 2007 18 Apr'07
Security SaaS offering a first for Symantec

Symantec has launched a beta of the Protection Network, a software-as-a-service platform for SMBs Continue Reading
April 18, 2007 18 Apr'07
Sourcefire seeks fresh security approach

Sourcefire is launching Enterprise Threat Management. Sourcefire says the open source tool Snort is the backbone of the new strategy. Continue Reading
April 18, 2007 18 Apr'07
Users thrash out green storage

Power and cooling concerns, once the province of server administrators, are on the rise among storage users. Continue Reading
April 18, 2007 18 Apr'07
Avaya intros VoWLAN, IP DECT devices for 'campus nomads'

VoWLAN and IP DECT devices, released this week by Avaya, help connect the latest mobile worker: the campus nomad. Continue Reading

Surveillance technology under fire, amid growing societal concerns

As San Francisco halts city use of facial recognition technology, CIOs could see more regulatory actions against surveillance ...

Deep learning pioneer Fei-Fei Li on the fundamentals of ethical AI

AI luminary Fei-Fei Li was among a group of distinguished AI researchers asked to share their thoughts on how to develop ethical ...

Andrew Ng's AI playbook for the enterprise: 6 must-dos

AI legend and online education pioneer Andrew Ng has developed an AI playbook for businesses. Here are six must-dos.

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2019's top email security best practices for employees

Attackers exploit email every day to break into your network, but you can reduce risk for everyone by promoting these email ...

IT pros stress importance of security awareness training

End-user naiveté can lead to costly data breaches, underscoring the critical importance of security awareness training. Learn how...

What makes BSA's secure software development framework unique?

BSA rolled out a new secure software development framework in an effort to promote best practices for secure software development...

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Customers get a peek at future Extreme Networks products

Extreme Connect attendees got a peek at the company's product roadmap. Upcoming Extreme Networks products include an IoT device ...

Marconi Mainnet launched for building, scaling complex networks

The Marconi Mainnet platform provides blockchain security, multi-cloud connectivity, advanced firewalls and secure gateways for ...

Key factors to consider before evaluating campus edge switches

Before buying a campus edge switch, it's important to understand how technologies such as IoT could affect campus traffic and how...

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Exascale computing, now at $2.8B, described as critical to U.S.

The race to build exascale supercomputers is a project of big governments -- China, Japan, the European Union and the U.S. ...

HPE-Cray deal brings supercomputers to enterprises for AI

HPE's $1.3 billion deal to acquire supercomputing pioneer Cray Inc. should better position the company in the HPC market among IT...

IBM mainframe pricing overhaul inspired by cloud model

IBM's new Tailored Fit Pricing model gives enterprises more flexibility in the types of workloads they run on the z/OS platform.

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Inside view of Tibco integration architecture planning

Tibco's acquisitions of well-regarded, small software specialists such as SnappyData are part of a drive toward what it calls '...

Lumina launches Radiance, a data risk management platform

In an effort to prevent data loss, Lumina launched Radiance, a SaaS data risk management platform. It collects and analyzes data ...

Advice on enterprise data cleansing from an SAP VP

SAP's Kristin McMahon details data cleansing best practices and explains why a good data cleanse needs continual communication, ...