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Organ donors preferences recorded inaccurately

The preferences of 444,031 organ donors were recorded wrongly on the Organ Donation Register (ODR) because of a software problem. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Rackspace launches system administrator app

Rackspace has launched an app that allows a CIO or system administrator to dial up or take down servers and storage moment by moment. Continue Reading

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• Ian Grant

Larry Page reclaims Google chief executive post from Eric Schmidt

Google co-founder Larry Page is to take over as chief executive in April from Eric Schmidt, who will then become executive chairman. Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

2010 IT security threats point to priorities for 2011, says Sophos

Cyber threats of 2010 highlight the top risks to business for 2011, including social media sites, whistleblowers, and hacktivists, warns security firm Sophos. Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Sainsbury's programmer jailed for £73,000 Nectar card fraud

A former Sainsbury's lead analyst programmer has been jailed for stealing more than £73,000 in Nectar reward points Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

What can businesses learn about real-time monitoring from the BP oil spill?

The full report on the BP oil-well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico has been released, revealing that its real-time data monitoring systems need to be improved. Continue Reading

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• Jenny Williams, University of Gloucestershire

Toptable.com selects Zeus Technology software for traffic management

Restaurant-booking site, Toptable.com, has chosen Zeus Technology's software-based traffic management application to manage its web traffic. Continue Reading

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• Jenny Williams, University of Gloucestershire

Amazon prices platinum AWS support at $15,000 a month

Amazon is offering support to enterprise users using AWS with prices starting at $15,000 per month. Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Google revamps Apps Engine

Google has revamped its App Engine to combat reliability issues in its Datastore. Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

BCS CEO David Clarke talks about the future of the IT industry

David Clarke, CEO of the chartered institute of computing the BCS, talks to Computer Weekly about being awarded an MBE, the future of the IT profession and tackling a membership revolt against his leadership last year. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

CES 2011: Tablets expected to dominate Vegas show

Tablet-style computers are expected to dominate the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show that kicks off in Las Vegas on Thursday. About... Continue Reading

Government shelves FiReControl

The government’s costly and overrunning FiReControl project has been axed. FiReControl has been cancelled because of serious delays with the EADS contract (now Cassidian) which began in 2004 and cost £225m. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

SAP's future of retail research labs

SAP’s Future Retail Centre, near Zurich, Switzerland, houses a range of new technologies that could change the way we shop in years to come. Continue Reading

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• Rebecca Thomson, Computer Weekly

Putting a value on social media in business

Companies can use social networking both internally and externally to improve efficiency, save money and connect to customers. Continue Reading

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• Clive Longbottom

Government scraps £80m Microsoft licensing deal with NHS

The government has scrapped the long-running NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) enterprise agreement (EA) software licensing deal with Microsoft after deciding there was no business case or budget to renew it. Continue Reading

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• Paul Kunert

The Computer Weekly guide to Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is changing the way IT departments buy IT. Businesses have a range of paths to the cloud, including infrastructure, platforms and applications that are available from cloud providers as online services. Continue Reading

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• Bob Tarzey

A guide to ERP for small and large businesses

Bob Tarzey looks at the business case for integrating ERP systems for large and small companies Continue Reading

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• Bob Tarzey

Visual Studio 2010 first look

Visual Studio 2010 offers an integrated environment of tools and server infrastructure that Microsoft says can be used to simplify the entire application development process. Continue Reading

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• Tim Anderson

Microsoft loses appeal on Office XML patent dispute with i4i

Microsoft has lost an appeal in its dispute with i4i over XML support in Office 2003/2007, following a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Photos: World Cup 2010 gets its own Hand of God

Hundreds of thousands of people will be attending this year’s Football World Cup in South Africa either as spectators or workers. But what no-one will notice, and few probably know, is that software written by Mahindra Satyam will make sure everything off the pitch goes smoothly. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Photos: Top ten free Nokia Ovi app downloads

Nokia's Ovi is attempting to take on Apple's AppStore. We take a look at the best free apps currently available. Continue Reading

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• Faisal Alani, UK at eBay

Israel carves a niche in IT security

IT security, risk, governance, continuity and compliance technologies are fast becoming some of Israel's top exports.

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Gary McKinnon loses case to avoid extradition, could face 60 years in jail

Hacker Gary McKinnon has failed in his last attempt to avoid extradition to the United States where he could face 60 years in prison. Continue Reading

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• Rebecca Thomson, Computer Weekly

Apollo 11: 40 years on, where is software engineering today?

The Apollo 11 lunar landing would have been impossible had it not been for software engineering. Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Photos: Apollo 11 pictures that amazed us

Here's our pick of the best Apollo 11 moon landing pics from the web with detailed descriptions of what was happening. Continue Reading

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• Faisal Alani, UK at eBay

Photos: Google Street View watches kid fall over

The Google Street View car passes a kid that buckles and falls off his bike at the worst possible moment. Continue Reading

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• Faisal Alani, UK at eBay

Final cockpit moments with blocked pitot sensors

Two fatal crashes of passenger aircraft show that it is dangerous for pilots to have conflicting information and warnings in the cockpit.

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• Tony Collins

Crash One: Birgenair Flight 301

This is the extraordinary story of an aircraft which was in good flying order except for a blocked pitot tube which caused multiple problems. Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Photos: Top Ten Google Android Apps

Google's Android OS is taking over with over eighteen new devices de out by the end of the year. We look at the best apps currently available for download. Continue Reading

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• Faisal Alani, UK at eBay

Photos: How to install Windows 7 on a netbook

It is possible to install Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 on a NetBook like the Lenovo S10, without burning a DVD and using a USB DVD drive. These instructions will show you how. Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Photos: Software supports Red Cross operations

The British Red Cross is using software IT service management software from Hornbill to help it support IT users across the globe. The company was attracted by the software’s compatibility with Blackberry devices as well as its ease of use. The British Red Cross supports thousands of workers in remote locations. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Photos: Reebok launch 'Your Reebok' iPhone app

Your Reebok app allows you to customize your next pair of trainers on your iPhone on the go. Continue Reading

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• Faisal Alani, UK at eBay

Photos: Top ten CGI films to keep the kids quiet over easter

Want some DVDs to keep the kids occupied over easter? Have a look at our photo story identifying the best CGI has to offer. Continue Reading

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• Faisal Alani, UK at eBay

Added critical data protection for SMBs

New technology aiming to solve small and medium size businesses’ perennial problems with protecting business critical data Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

Photos: Google Earth - explore Mars and the ocean

Google 5.0 brings a host of new tools to its users, including the ability to explore the surface of Mars and the bottom of the ocean. Continue Reading

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• Rebecca Thomson, Computer Weekly

The cloud computing revolution

Hewlett-Packard has become the latest supplier of many to sound the death knell on the IT department. Continue Reading

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• Cath Jennings

Photos: How IT helps relocate refugees

GPS and Google Earth software are helping to find suitable locations for refugees and displaced people to settle. Aid agency CARE International explains how. Continue Reading

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• Rebecca Thomson, Computer Weekly

Microsoft and Novell expand Windows/Linux integration deal

Microsoft and Novell are extending their interoperability agreement to tie Windows closer to Novell's SUSE Linux in the enterprise. Continue Reading

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• Antony Savvas

Facing up to security perils of outbound traffic

What about the threat from within and, more specifically, the security issues that arise from outbound traffic risks? Continue Reading

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• Steve Gold

Chinook helicopter disaster - computer software failure or pilot error?

Chinook helicopter crash: was it computer software failure or a cause we'll never know? This article gives the background to the Chinook helicopter disaster with links to all the relevant articles published by ComputerWeekly and other useful web links. Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Fire IT project two years late and £70m overbudget

A government IT project aiming to centralise fire control rooms is two years behind schedule and more than 50% overbudget, according to a report from the Communities and Local Government Committee. Continue Reading

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• Rebecca Thomson, Computer Weekly

EC to use mobile phones to track carbon footprints

New application allows users to see how their daily choices impact climate change in terms of the major greenhouse gases Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

Users leaving Fibre Channel for iSCSI Sans find pros, cons

Users who recently updated aging Fibre Channel equipment with new iSCSI San products have found ease of use can be a double-edged sword. Continue Reading

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• Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer

Adaptec reports losses

Adaptec's revenue was down year over year, as well as sequentially; DataDirect says the InfiniBand business is booming. Continue Reading

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• SearchStorage.com Staff

CommVault revenues spike after update of Simpana backup app

CommVault attributes a spike in sales to the integration of features such as archiving, replication and search into its backup products. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

How data deduplication works

Chapter one of our data deduplication handbook takes you under the hood to show how data deduplication works so you can maximise the efficiency of this data reduction technology. Continue Reading

Vanderbilt hospital fights archive growth with grid

Vanderbilt University Medical Centre simplifies document management using Bycast's archiving grid system. Continue Reading

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• Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer

DreamWorks draws on storage for animation

DreamWorks' senior technologist says it takes a lot of emerging storage technologies to make an animation movie. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

VoIP certification credentials

Many certifications touch on voice over IP topics tangentially, but numerous credentials now focus a fairly substantial portion of their coverage on this subject matter. In this certification survey, we take a look at available certifications, distinguishing between those credentials for which VoIP is a primary topic and those for which it is secondary. Continue Reading

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• Ed Tittel

SNW Preview: Data protection makes a stand

Led by EMC's integration of data deduplication and CDP into its backup software, data protection products are prominent at Storage Networking World. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo, News Director; Beth Pariseau, News Writer

VMware takes on data migration

VMware supports migrating data between disc arrays with Storage VMotion, changing the equation between server and storage virtualisation devices. Continue Reading

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• Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer

Checklist for purchasing hardware-based encryption

Encryption appliances sit inline on a network and use specially designed electronics to encrypt data at line speeds, essentially eliminating the performance penalty imposed by encryption software running on a general server. While software-based encryption is typically handled as a specific event or process (e.g., encrypting data during a backup process), appliance-based encryption normally can handle any quantity of data in flight. Continue Reading

Unified communications new priority for HP

Unified communications is a confusing area with a number of vendors in the mix. HP has launched new services to help ease companies into unified communications and help them determine which integrated tools will best fit their business goals. Continue Reading

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• Andrew R. Hickey, News Editor

CRM strategies for SMBs

Keeping your customers happy is job number one. With CRM software, luckily, that job becomes a lot easier. Here we present our top five CRM tips for SMBs. Continue Reading

Open source strategies for SMBs

One way to make the most of a tight budget is to invest in open source technologies. Not only are they generally more secure than most off-the-shelf proprietary products, they're usually free too. Here we present our top five open source tips for SMBs. Continue Reading

IP telephony adoption rising, quality sagging

IP telephony adoption continues to grow, but service quality is lagging behind, according to a user survey from Psytechnics. Continue Reading

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• Andrew R. Hickey, News Editor

IP PBX eases VoIP transition for gas company

An IP PBX with Sip helped one gas company upgrade to a new phone system while also jumping into VoIP. Continue Reading

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• Andrew R. Hickey, News Editor

Podcast: the true cost of IT security

In this interview, Cliff Saran speaks to Martin Sadler, director of HP's Trusted Systems Lab, about how much should we be expected to spend and how much security is enough. Hackers are getting smarter and Martin believes newly trained IT professionals are ill-equipped to deal with the sophisticated nature of modern attacks due to limitations in the current way IT security is taught. Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Pillar announces support for 1 TB SATA drives

Pillar is one of the earliest to announce 1 TB SATA drives in an enterprise array. IBM's SVC becomes the first storage virtualization product certified with VMware. Continue Reading

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• SearchStorage.com Staff

Web 2.0 strategies for SMBs

Web 2.0 technologies are catching on at companies of all sizes. Find out how to make them work for your SMB with SearchSMB.com's top five Web 2.0 tips. Continue Reading

How to select the right IP PBX

Selecting the right IP PBX system for your company can be complicated. Here are some important things to consider when purchasing an IP PBX. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Microsoft releases Windows Server 2008 RC0

Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 0 (RC0) is now available for customer review. Continue Reading

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• Antony Savvas

How to purchase a data encryption product

Data security is now a critical problem for every company, regardless of size. This buying guide explores the factors involved in purchasing data encryption hardware and software products. Continue Reading

PCI council adds Pin security to remit

The PCI Security Standards Council has added Pin Entry Device (PED) security technology to its payments industry testing portfolio to streamline standardisation. Continue Reading

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• Computer Weekly Staff

Storage session downloads: infrastructure track

This track looks at San and Nas issues, virtualization, distance demands, remote offices and how to build out systems. Continue Reading

Open communications vs. closed communications

Open communications are key to making the inevitable multimodal, multi-supplier communication environment work, so why aren't more suppliers providing open-source systems? Continue Reading

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• Paul Holliday, global market analyst, Siemens Enterprise Communications

3PAR adds tiered storage management tool

The new version of the System Reporter management tool for 3PAR's high-end arrays now includes monitoring for tiered storage environments. Continue Reading

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• SearchStorage.com Staff

Virtual appliance lets users convert DAS to iSCSI San

LeftHand Networks has released an edition of its SaniQ iSCSI San software that will convert locally attached disc to networked storage. Continue Reading

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• Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer

Microsoft update to patch critical Windows flaw

Microsoft plans to patch a critical flaw in Windows and plug holes in MSN Messenger, Visual Studio, and Windows services for Unix. Continue Reading

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• SearchSecurity.com Staff

Government warns of dangerous QuickBooks Online flaw

Attackers could exploit two flaws in the popular Intuit QuickBooks Online Edition to cause buffer overflows and download or upload files in arbitrary locations, US-CERT warned. Continue Reading

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• Bill Brenner

Cybercriminals employ toolkits in rising numbers to steal data

The market is increasing for crimeware toolkits that help cybercriminals avoid detection and exploit flaws, according to new research from security vendor, Finjan. Continue Reading

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• Robert Westervelt, TechTarget

Understanding VoWLAN

Like VoIP, VoWLAN contributes to cost efficiency. Because calls can be routed over the data network internally or over the Internet externally, mobile telephony costs can be eliminated or decreased significantly. In the long term, VoWLAN deployment is a significant step toward interoperability and seamless mobile connectivity between private WLANs and public wireless and cellular networks. Continue Reading

NAC switches, appliances help track users, malware

Some vendors are offering switches and appliances to monitor traffic for malware and unauthorized access, as the NAC market including Cisco NAC and Microsoft NAP sorts itself out. Continue Reading

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• Neil Roiter, TechTarget

Firefox security issues persist despite update

Despite Mozilla's recent Firefox security update, researchers say there's another way attackers could exploit the browser for malicious purposes. Continue Reading

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• Bill Brenner

Critical flaw discovered in IBM DB2

IBM's DB2 database management system contains a flaw that could be exploited remotely by an attacker to take control of a system. Continue Reading

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• SearchSecurity.com Staff

Flaw found in MSN Messenger

Attackers could exploit a flaw in MSN Messenger to run malicious code on targeted machines, according to Danish vulnerability clearinghouse Secunia. Continue Reading

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• SearchSecurity.com Staff

Critical flaw found in Oracle developer tool

A popular tool used by Oracle developers contains a critical flaw that could be used by an attacker to compromise a system. Continue Reading

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• SearchSecurity.com Staff

Rootkit found in older Sony USB device

F-Secure says it discovered rootkit technology in Sony's Micro Vault USM-F fingerprint reader software. The find comes two years after controversy over Sony's DRM technology. Continue Reading

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• Bill Brenner

SaaS apps being deployed by business units, not IT

When it comes to deploying applications via SaaS, IT is still behind the curve. What's preventing IT from getting control over the programs business units want? Continue Reading

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• Shamus McGillicuddy, Enterprise Management Associates

Data archives overview

When a file is lost due to user error, or data is corrupted because of system problems, the affected data can be restored from a backup. An archive is different from a backup because the data may not be used for months, even years, but must be accessed quickly when needed. There is simply no time to search through burgeoning volumes of tape or optical media to locate important files. Traditional backup platforms are poorly suited for archival data storage, and users are relying on disk storage systems for a mix of performance and reliability. Files can be archived to any disk storage system, but content-addressed storage (CAS) technology has appeared to support archiving efforts. Continue Reading

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• Stephen J. Bigelow, Senior Technology Editor

SANS: Attackers may be attempting Trend Micro exploits

The SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC) warns that attackers may be attempting to exploit flaws in Trend Micro products to hijack computer systems. Continue Reading

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• Bill Brenner

IBM back in iSCSI SAN fray

IBM is looking to take on HP's MSA and EMC's AX150, as well as EqualLogic and LeftHand, with a new iSCSI SAN product OEMed from LSI. Continue Reading

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• Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer

Experts: IDS is here to stay

IDS technology has survived predictions that it would be replaced by IPS. One expert says it will remain a separate product while IPS is folded into firewalls. Continue Reading

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• Bill Brenner

Trend Micro fixes flaws in ServerProtect, PC-cillin

Attackers could tamper with servers and run malicious code by exploiting flaws in Trend Micro's ServerProtect, Anti-Spyware and PC-cillin products. But fixes are available. Continue Reading

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• Bill Brenner

Microsoft adds CA vets to anti-malware team

Microsoft has hired Jakub Kaminski, one of CA's more talented and well-regarded antivirus researchers, and three of his colleagues from CA's Australian lab. Continue Reading

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• Dennis Fisher

Attackers target two Microsoft security flaws

Symantec warned customers about attacks targeting two Microsoft security flaws -- an unpatched DirectX Media vulnerability and the XML Core Services flaw patched in MS07-042. Continue Reading

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• Bill Brenner

Backup reporting expands to add capacity planning

Aptare adds capacity planning for primary data storage to its product line, joining Symantec in recent attempts to broaden the appeal of reporting software. Continue Reading

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• Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer

Sourcefire acquires open source ClamAV

Sourcefire, maker of the popular Snort open source IDS tool, has acquired ClamAV, an open source email gateway scanning tool. Continue Reading

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• Bill Brenner

VMware acquires HIPS provider Determina

VMware, the leader in virtualization software, has acquired Determina, a provider of host IPS technology. Continue Reading

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• Dennis Fisher

College campuses prepare for Microsoft Vista challenges

With new Vista machines coming to campus, the IT shops of academia have no choice but to embrace the latest Windows OS and its security implications. Continue Reading

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• Bill Brenner

Wal-Mart deploys new data security system

Wal-Mart Stores has deployed a data security and encryption system to secure data going over its global network. Continue Reading

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• Antony Savvas

HDS, HP simplify high-end disk array pricing

Users of the new USP-V disk array from HDS and the XP24000 disk array from HP will now pay less for attaching external storage, as well as capacity. Continue Reading

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• Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer

TJX profit takes hit over data breach

TJX says it has spent $256 million responding to the massive data breach that exposed 45 million customers to identity fraud, and the bottom line has suffered as a result. Continue Reading

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• SearchSecurity.com Staff

Firewall deployment options increase for enterprises

With a growing number firewall configuration options, companies need to spend more time and put more effort into determining how to design and deploy firewalls. Continue Reading

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• Paul Korzeniowski

Latest Microsoft flaws affect Windows, IE, Excel

Microsoft released nine security updates Tuesday -- six of them critical -- for flaws in Internet Explorer, Excel and other programs within the Windows OS. Continue Reading

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• Bill Brenner

Novell to acquire Senforce for endpoint security

Novell is acquiring Senforce, an early network access control supplier, to integrate its endpoint security features and develop an endpoint management suite. Continue Reading

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• Robert Westervelt, TechTarget

Apple iPhone to provoke complex mobile attacks, expert warns

Mikko Hypponen, director of antivirus research at F-Secure, said he expects mobile malware attacks to escalate thanks to interest in Apple's iPhone. Continue Reading

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• Bill Brenner

VoIP models and services: Complete guide

With clear, concise explanations of existing VoIP business models and deployment methodologies, this guide will enable you to weigh the pros and cons of each based on your needs. Continue Reading

SMEs’ CRM needs catered for in Sage 200

Accounting software specialist Sage has expanded its business automation software portfolio with the launch of a customer relationship management system, Sage 200. Continue Reading

Buying Guide for NAS management software

Learn the key evaluation factors for purchasing NAS management software in this Buying Guide. Continue Reading