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  • March 18, 2007 18 Mar'07

    Symantec: Data thieves thrive on zero-day flaws

    According to Symantec's threat report for the second half of 2006, attackers exploited misplaced USB drives and zero-day flaws to steal vast amounts of data. Expect more of the same in 2007.

  • March 18, 2007 18 Mar'07

    Hacker techniques use Google to unearth sensitive data

    Those who know where to look could use Google to dig up all sorts of sensitive company information, including intellectual property and passwords, one security expert warns.

  • 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.