Columnists’ Corner: While portable storage devices make the lives of end-users easier, the same cannot be said for the IT admins who support them. This can apply to a range of devices, points out Mario Apicella in Storage Insider. What’s more, protecting tape drives won’t prevent insider threats. Quoteworthy: What business does Red Hat think it’s in? — Tim O’Reilly, as reported by Matt Asay in Open Resource, from SDForum’s Open Source in the Enterprise summit. Security: Backup vendors EMC and Veritas face security flaws in their software. EMC issues patches for Networker to fix the problems, which could enable unauthorized remote access or cause a system crash. Exploit code, meanwhile, has been released targeting a hole in Netbackup that Veritas plugged late last year. Best of the blogs: Paul Krill proclaims in a Tech Watch post that “consolidation in the Web services management market clearly has arrived.” The catalyst of his declaration is Progress Software’s acquisition of Actional. Oliver Rist discusses event logs on a SOHO budget. The news beat: Microsoft releases a JDBC driver for SQL Server 2005 to help developers link Java applications to the database. The Tokyo stock exchange admits it is having difficulty keeping up with market volumes, as a rapid jump in Internet trading is seen as the root of its problems. And a study finds that Google users in China find the search engine more frustrating to use than do U.S. surfers.