Addressing the challenge of managing increasing amounts of data over time, Silicon Graphics has released the SGI InfiniteStorage Data Lifecycle Management Server (DLM Server).

A recent increase in malicious activity on the Internet, including the development of attack tools and exploit code, has resulted in an automated attack against computer users in the form of a worm identified as 'W32.Sasser.worm' ('Sasser').

How do five of IBM's most highly-placed executives, the five GMs of its Software Group, see the future unfolding in areas like grid and autonomic computing, security, systems management, application development, and SOAs? What's the current story with DB2, how do Tivoli and Lotus fit i...

Symantec, which uses a 1 through 5 scale to denote the overall state of Internet security, has raised its ThreatCon threat assessment from a 2 to a 3. 'Symantec ThreatCon will be maintained at 3 for at least the next 24 hours,' said a Symantec alert, 'while the threat is assessed.'

The latest version of eTrust Antivirus, the virus management solution from Computer Associates, includes new features to help customers successfully fend off the onslaught of viruses and worms across large, heterogeneous IT environments.

DataDirect Technologies has launched its new online Developer Center. A portal for developers worldwide who use data connectivity components from DataDirect Technologies, the interactive Web destination allows users to access technical information and exchange insight.

The McAfee brand name is about to get a further boost: Network Associates is dumping its name and renaming its entire operation 'McAfee, Inc.' - for the company's well known anti-virus software. By focusing only on security, McAfee hopes to boost its overall profitability. The company ...

Enabling secure access improves communication and facilitates business with customers, strengthens partner relationships, and bolsters employee productivity. So Overnite Transportation was careful about picking how best to make sure its customers will be able to receive the full benefi...

Sun Microsystems' Sun StorEdge products, from enterprise to workgroup offerings, have passed the Storage Networking Industry Association Conformance Testing Program (SNIA-CTP).

'The conclusions drawn by Forrester have extremely limited real-world value for customers assessing the practical issue of how quickly serious vulnerabilities get fixed,' say GNU/Linux vendors Debian, Mandrakesoft, Red Hat, and SUSE. The four have joined together to give a common stat...

In case that sounds like a secret code, it's supposed to be a beta of the 2.6-based Fedora Core that supports SELinux or Security Enhanced Linux, which means the security modules endorsed by the National Security Agency (NSA). And that in turn means granular permissions for all users, ...

Comparing all the Windows platforms that came out between June 1 of 2002 and May 31 of 2003 with all variants Red Hat, MandrakeSoft, Debian and SUSE, Forrester has concluded that Microsoft is better at patching vulnerabilities than the Linux folk.

In what would be a massive boost for storage awareness worldwide, Google has issued a press release about a search-based Web-mail service with a storage capacity of up to eight billion bits of information, the equivalent of 500,000 pages of e-mail. It will, the release alleges, be f...

Sun's EVP of Software, Jonathan Schwartz, stated at a Software Day on the Sun Microsystems campus this week, that 'Sarbanes-Oxley will be a huge driver, as viruses and Sarbanes-Oxley are essentially about the same thing: knowing where the content is coming from and who the source is.'

In its second acquisition of the year, Cisco has just agreed to buy privately-held security technology company Riverhead Networks for about $39 million in cash.

EMC information storage systems with five terabytes of capacity - the equivalent of five million books, one million digital photos, or 200,000-300,000 MP3 files - have just been donated by EMC to 6 schools local to the Hopkinton, MA-based storage giant.

Small businesses, corporate workgroups, and branch offices with increasing data storage needs are the target market for Dell's recently announced PowerVault 745N network attached storage (NAS) server.

Cisco remains in the forefront of the battle for more secure networks, with new additions to its market-leading Catalyst line of products on display at CeBIT this week.

IsoSpace, Inc. has released IsoSpace v4.6, the next generation of its real-time collaboration software product. IsoSpace v4.6 combines permanent secure file storage for all file types, with co-editing, screen sharing, IM and email, VoIP and video.

The University at Buffalo (UB) Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics, The State University of New York, will use IBM technologies and research expertise to study the structure and behavior of human proteins.

In what it's describing as 'another industry first,' a Waltham, MA-based company has announced a 'Web services security' play, releasing what it is claiming is the only way stop a new breed of Web services-related threats before they enter the network.

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, speaking on the RSA security conference this week, demonstrated a Windows Security Center that will become part of a new update to the operating system this summer.