Columnist’s corner: There is a single alteration to PCs that can “significantly reduce the risk of malicious exploit.” But, as Roger Grimes explains, “removing admin rights is difficult for different reasons.” Yes, Mr. Grimes does offer some advice on how to do just that. Five steps for reducing unnecessary use of administrator accounts. “No matter how you go about it, you should audit your company’s use of elevated accounts.”Storage: Most storage networks run on Fibre Channel but it’s limited to the back-end and data has to jump over barrels and through myriad hoops en route to users. “Sound inefficient?” Mario Apicella asks in A single protocol in your SAN. “You bet it is.” But a potential solution lies in Fibre Channel over Ethernet, or FCoE for short. “What FCoE proposes is essentially running FC directly over Ethernet, without using another transport layer.” The news beat: BEA Systems injects its portal with Web 2.0 capabilities, including an AJAX-style framework, support for REST Web services, and tools for portal management and governance. Intel says it will demonstrate a potential DRAM replacement that it is calling PRAM. Medis Technologies begins commercial production of a fuel-cell charger for Microsoft. And a special committee at CA blames co-founder Charles Wang for the accounting fraud scandal that rocked the company and for which former CEO Sanjay Kumar was ordered to pay in excess of $1 billion in restitution. Security