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• March 18, 2007 18 Mar'07

  Cisco stamps on Brocade in Q4, Dell'Oro says

  For the second quarter in a row Cisco is gaining SAN switch market share on Brocade, according to the latest report by the Dell'Oro Group. But the numbers are causing a firestorm.

• March 18, 2007 18 Mar'07

  VoIP security worries are plentiful, potent

  VoIP creates a new set of security issues for your network, as expert Ed Skoudis explains.

• March 18, 2007 18 Mar'07

  New gigabit standard: How fast is fast enough?

  Last June, the 10GBASE-T standard was published promising 10 Gbit operations on copper cabling. This standard was originally targeted toward data centers, but the Ethernet Alliance and IEEE are working on increasing this standard to potentially 40 ...

• March 15, 2007 15 Mar'07

  Cisco buys WebEx for $3.2 billion

  Cisco plans to buy WebEx, maker of hosted, on-demand collaboration applications.

• March 15, 2007 15 Mar'07

  Open source IP telephony on hold?

  Is open source telephony ready for your business? Read on to learn if it's the real deal.

• March 15, 2007 15 Mar'07

  Carrier MPLS support for VoIP

  Achieving QoS for reliable voice transmissions can be the biggest challenge of deploying VoIP. Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) might be the answer!

• March 14, 2007 14 Mar'07

  Podcast: Security360 - SOA, Web Services Security

  ZapThink analyst Jason Bloomberg offers an overview of the security issues unique to SOA environments, while executives from SAP and Oracle discuss how they address SOA security in their software.

• March 14, 2007 14 Mar'07

  Emulex launches storage virtualization appliance

  Emulex has packaged a chip from its Aarohi acquisition into an appliance that could be a lower cost hardware platform for storage virtualization software products.

• March 13, 2007 13 Mar'07

  NEC reveals HydraStor grid storage

  NEC announces its HydraStor array for secondary storage, touting its grid storage architecture, automated policies for data management and scalable deduplication.

• March 13, 2007 13 Mar'07

  What are some best practices for retaining data in a highly regulated business environment?

  Have a good information retention policy. I see a lot of organizations where they retain backups or copies of databases, but they don't know why they're retaining it or for how long...

• March 12, 2007 12 Mar'07

  VoiceCon Spring 2007: More news from the show

  Unified communications and VoIP were big topics at VoiceCon Spring 2007. Here are some news highlights from the show.

• March 11, 2007 11 Mar'07

  Wi-Fi interference

  In this research report, undertook the challenge to quantify the problem of interference in wireless LANs and defined a methodology for evaluating the effects of interference on WLANs.

• March 08, 2007 08 Mar'07

  Review: eGuardPost a B+ overall

  eGuardPost is a well-designed and highly capable product that meets an important need. It has strong security and great forensics capabilities.

• March 08, 2007 08 Mar'07

  Review: Sun Java System Identity Manager 7.0 'impressive'

  Hot Pick: Sun Java System Identity Manager 7.0 excels with agentless connectors, scalability and amazing auditing.

• March 07, 2007 07 Mar'07

  Microsoft cancels Patch Tuesday as DST looms

  IT administrators who are struggling to apply all their daylight-saving time (DST) patches will get a break from Microsoft next week, as no new security fixes will be released.

• March 07, 2007 07 Mar'07

  Microsoft outlines software-centric VoIP, UC

  Microsoft unveils its vision of a software-based VoIP system to enable unified communications.

• March 07, 2007 07 Mar'07

  Symantec acquires automated risk assessment firm

  Symantec has acquired Reston, Va.-based 4FrontSecurity, a maker of automated risk analysis and security management tools. An expert says it's the latest sign that the security risk assessment market is heating up.

• March 07, 2007 07 Mar'07

  Microsoft outlines software-centric VoIP, UC

  Microsoft unveils its vision of a software-based VoIP system to enable unified communications.

• March 06, 2007 06 Mar'07

  Tape restoration firm accelerates restores

  National Data Conversion uses Index Engines technology to speed up tape restores for litigation.

• March 06, 2007 06 Mar'07

  Cisco, IBM announce new unified communications platform

  Cisco and IBM today announced a new unified communications platform that will allow users to access collaboration applications and tie together the capabilities of both companies' solutions.

• March 06, 2007 06 Mar'07

  Unified communications translates to intelligent communications

  Unified communications and its business benefits were the underlying themes of the keynote presentations yesterday at VoiceCon Spring 2007.

• March 05, 2007 05 Mar'07

  Nortel switch release focuses on unified communications

  Nortel today released two new switch series aimed at unified communications deployments.

• March 05, 2007 05 Mar'07

  Nortel switch release focuses on unified communications

  Nortel today released two new switch series aimed at unified communications deployments.

• March 04, 2007 04 Mar'07

  NetApp stokes midrange fires with new array

  The FAS 3040 is a scaled down version of the 64-bit 3070 architecture; NetApp officials say more moves downmarket will follow.

• March 04, 2007 04 Mar'07

  Unified Communications to dominate VoiceCon

  Unified Communications will again be a major focus of VoiceCon Spring.

• March 04, 2007 04 Mar'07

  WordPress upgrade fixes 'dangerous' flaw

  Developers of the open source blogging platform WordPress say users should upgrade to version 2.1.2 immediately to address a "dangerous" security hole that was recently attacked.

• March 04, 2007 04 Mar'07

  Buzz builds around data reduction for primary storage

  Analysts predict that in-band compression offerings from StoreWiz, newly updated this week, are the first step toward a new wave of primary storage deduplication products.

• March 04, 2007 04 Mar'07

  Expert: NAC not a network security cure-all

  According to an expert at Black Hat DC, NAC success demands careful planning and a good understanding of the company network; otherwise, implementations can quickly go awry.

• March 02, 2007 02 Mar'07

  Police force secures data with biometrics

  Humberside Police has issued biometric USB drives among staff to maintain data security.

• March 01, 2007 01 Mar'07

  Linksys, Gateway launch low-end NAS

  Cisco subsidiary Linksys and PC maker Gateway launch new NAS products for small businesses and consumers.

• February 28, 2007 28 Feb'07

  RFID cloning presentation moves forward despite legal threats

  Chris Paget, director of research and development at IOActive spoke mainly about the science behind RFID tags and readers and the inherent security issues of the technology.

• February 28, 2007 28 Feb'07

  Can setting up a VPN help you get around blocked VoIP ports?

  Can setting up a VPN help you get around blocked VoIP ports?

• February 27, 2007 27 Feb'07

  McAfee fixes flaw in Mac antivirus software

  Attackers could exploit the hole in McAfee's Virex 7.7 antivirus program for Mac OS X to bypass the malware scanner, but a fix is available.

• February 27, 2007 27 Feb'07

  'Worm' targets Sun Solaris Telnet flaw

  Security researchers have found evidence that a worm is trying to exploit the recently patched Telnet flaw in Sun Solaris. Experts say it's another reason to stay away from Telnet.

• February 27, 2007 27 Feb'07

  Wireless security: IT pros warily watching mobile phone threats

  Security experts have warned repeatedly that mobile phone attacks will grow as the devices become more sophisticated. IT administrators are starting to believe them.

• February 27, 2007 27 Feb'07

  High-end storage array specifications

  The key specifications for a cross section of popular high-end disk storage array products.

• February 27, 2007 27 Feb'07

  Black Hat presenter nixes RFID cloning demo under pressure

  A demonstration of a device that could easily clone radio frequency identification (RFID) badges, was pulled from a conference presentation under pressure from a chip maker.

• February 27, 2007 27 Feb'07

  Corel offers WordPerfect for free

  Corel has made available a beta version of its WordPerfect Lightning software for free, in a bid to attract users into buying the advanced commercial version.

• February 27, 2007 27 Feb'07

  Home Office to introduce new police database to fight gun crime

  Home secretary John Reid has announced a new information database to help tackle increasing gun crime.

• February 26, 2007 26 Feb'07

  Pilkington gets flexible with Infor

  Pilkington, the global glass manufacturer, is poised to go live with Infor software designed to predict demand for its auto-glass aftermarket, after the firm found the required level of functionality was not available in its core enterprise resource...

• February 26, 2007 26 Feb'07

  Sun scraps 6920 array, offloads support to HDS

  The long-rumored deal that Sun will sell its 6920 virtualization array to HDS is done. But rather than developing the product, HDS will upgrade users to its TagmaStore instead.

• February 26, 2007 26 Feb'07

  HP acquires clustered file system software maker PolyServe

  HP announced its intent to acquire clustered file system maker PolyServe.

• February 26, 2007 26 Feb'07

  Storm rages again: Self-morphing Trojan uses blogs to spread rootkits

  A new variant of the Storm Trojan that changes with each download is infecting blog sites with malicious URLs, intercepting traffic when visitors try to post comments.

• February 25, 2007 25 Feb'07

  Storage switch startup burns out, turns to security

  The company formerly known as Maxxan has been rechristened CipherMax and is now marketing a storage switch/encryption appliance with one point of management.

• February 25, 2007 25 Feb'07

  HP announces iSCSI VTL for SMBs

  HP's new iSCSI VTL devices include automated backup capabilities for users with fewer than four servers.

• February 25, 2007 25 Feb'07

  PatchLink acquires STAT Guardian tool

  PatchLink says it will add more muscle to its vulnerability management portfolio by acquiring the STAT Guardian tool from IT vendor Harris Corp.

• February 25, 2007 25 Feb'07

  IP PBX: Ten reasons to switch

  Should you throw out the old PBX and replace it with a new IP PBX? This tip from WindowsNetworking.com provides ten compelling reasons to do so.

• February 25, 2007 25 Feb'07

  Does an organization have to have an IP PBX in order to have a unified communications system?

  Does an organization have to have an IP PBX in order to have a unified communications system?

• February 25, 2007 25 Feb'07

  Gartner: Quad-core slowed 2006 server sales

  New Gartner data suggests that quad-core servers are not exciting users.

• February 22, 2007 22 Feb'07

  Google offers 10 GB inbox

  The search engine giant is offering an email application on a subscription basis with five times the storage capacity of the free version.