New security appliance gives DBAs a leg up on flaws and vulnerabilities lurking in corporate database management systems.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- October 13, 2008
As Microsoft readies pre-release bits for its Professional Developers Conference later this month, the company's Connected Services division today announced key components of its "Oslo" modeling platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- October 10, 2008
Microsoft's Chairman Bill Gates has been supplanted as the world's richest man, according to a revised Forbes Magazine ranking, using October 1 data.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 10, 2008
What a difference a little money makes -- and it's nearly $7 billion in the case of New York-based chipmaker AMD (Advanced Micro Devices), which unveiled a major investment and restructuring deal on Tuesday.
- By Jim Barthold
- October 09, 2008
IBM expects to announce some pretty sweet news in a sour economy when it details its third-quarter 2008 earnings on Oct. 16.
- By Jim Barthold
- October 09, 2008
Military information technology folks wondering if their use of Apache, Perl, Linux and other open source software is copacetic with the brass will soon get some answers from the Defense Department's Office of the Chief Information Officer.
- By Joab Jackson
- October 08, 2008
Analyst firm Gartner put Microsoft at the top of its "leaders" category for information access technology, which includes enterprise search.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 08, 2008
A new study from Gartner concludes that the WLANs of today comprise a "significant vulnerability" for enterprise IT organizations.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 07, 2008
Migration to virtualization won't be the quick transition that some technology evangelists have predicted, according to recent surveys by two IT security companies.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- October 07, 2008
Microsoft's Chairman Bill Gates expressed confidence in the current economic system, despite plunging market values, in a TV interview broadcast on Sunday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 06, 2008
Jet-setters should be careful about how they use the Internet connections supplied by hotels, as most are not secured properly, according to a new study from the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration.
- By Joab Jackson
- October 03, 2008
Open source software vendor Red Hat went global with its high-performance computing (HPC) product on Thursday.
- By Herb Torrens
- October 03, 2008
Is "cloud computing" the next big thing in IT, or are you just a victim of "cloud wash"?
- By Herb Torrens
- October 02, 2008
Amazon announced on Wednesday that it is conducting a private beta test of Microsoft's server products running on Amazon's hosted computing platform, which is called Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 01, 2008
Cisco, Microsoft and other players have bet big on unified communications, touting it as another in a line of Next Big Things.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 01, 2008
Microsoft Office pioneer Charles Simonyi, PhD, will visit space for the second time in the spring of 2009, according to Space Adventures, a Virginia-based company that organizes flights for private space explorers.</
- By Herb Torrens
- October 01, 2008
The Payment Card Industry Council on Wednesday released an updated version of its PCI data security standard, which is designed to help protect transmitted charge and debit card information.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- October 01, 2008
Who's ahead: Microsoft Corp.'s .NET or Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java Platform Enterprise Edition?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 30, 2008
A high-performance computing network called the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) will be formally introduced on Friday as part of an international scientific collaboration investigating particle physics, including "Big Bang"-type calculations.
- By Jim Barthold
- September 30, 2008
Microsoft and the state of Washington are waging a legal war against vendors of "scareware," according to an announcement from the Washington State Attorney General's Office issued on Monday.
- By Herb Torrens
- September 30, 2008