Many folks in the high-tech industry have been busy this week pining about open source at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco. But not Enterprise Windows columnist Oliver Rist. Fresh from proclaiming that the ‘Vista’ name which Microsoft chose for its pending version of Windows just might have roots somewhere within the film White Men Can’t Jump, Rist has been contemplating the reasoning behind another name chosen by the software giant. This time: the Strider HoneyMonkey project. Calling the handle “amusing with enough beer,” Rist suggests some possible reasons for the ostensibly nonsensical moniker: One: copious amounts of tequila and foreign tobacco-style substances. Two: a random-name generator built using Windows coding practices. Three: Redmond simply got tired of the name jabs and decided to send a message that it doesn’t care anymore. Or four: You can simply read Microsoft’s technical report on the project, available here as a PDF, and find out that the name does make sense as long as you’re thinking strictly along component lines.For those of you not yet familiar with the Strider HoneyMonkey project, as Rist explains, it is an effort to build an Automated Web Patrol consisting of multiple XP machines with various degrees of patchability and capable of ferreting out zero-day vulnerabilities. EMC, too, has been talking a lot about security, particularly with the surveillance management application it announced on Tuesday, as well as what it called an end-to-end security strategy detailed last week and further expounded upon in this Q&A with CEO Joe Tucci. Storage Insider columnist Mario Apicella takes a look at what storage vendors are doing to secure their data in Buckle up for the storage security ride. Apicella dissects news from EMC, NetApp which recently bought Decru, and Symantec/Veritas. His point is that unsecured storage devices may be joining the Model-T in obsolescence someday, but along the way he waxes nostalgic about the time before cars had locks and sketches out a parallel between those autos and today’s storage systems. On the backup front, the InfoWorld feature Data security as a service, looks at the crop of options available to ROBO’s (remote offices/branch offices) and SMBs that make backup financially realistic. According to the story: [The latest] offerings show that you don’t need to buy a $20,000 tape library and sign a large contract with an off-site vault vendor to have automated backups. You just need to install some software, pay a monthly fee to a BSP, and go worry about something else for a change.Back to LinuxWorld. The show has been kickin’ this week, with an array (no storage pun intended) of products, services and startups. The offerings include business intelligence tools; databases from Apache, EnterpriseDB, and MySQL in conjunction with Novell; grid starter packs from IBM and Platform; and a portable Linux server that plugs into USB ports on Windows machines. Of course SCO wiggled its way into headlines. In an interview on Forbes.com, SCO CEO Darl McBride says the Linux case is just getting started, and he told China Martens of the IDG News Service that regardless of the outcome its legal case may face, the company will succeed on the merits of its Unix business. I’ll let destiny determine that, but I wouldn’t recommend leaving your company’s open source future entirely to fate. Instead, pick up a plethora of invaluable tips in Build your business with open source which is available as a PDF download and includes a Buyer’s guide to open source. Software Development