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Seven shortcomings of virtual security

Don't be fooled into thinking virtual security technologies are a panacea for your malware woes

Test Center Tracker: Open source rules management

Rewriting the business rules: When it comes to deploying a BRMS (business rules management system), you have a couple of choices: Invest a huge chunk of change in an enterprise-level feature-rich proprietary package, or go for a highly capable open-s

Botnet Spam Getting Out of Hand

Well, at least I'm not the only one who feels like the spammers are winning. Since I wrote last week about our struggles with link spam here, the evidence has been mounting that spam in general has been increasing at an alarming rate in just the

Review Extra: Jess 7.0 and JBoss Rules 3.2 code examples

The old CLIPS syntax used by Jess has its place, but the more English-like rule language used by JBoss Rules will be much easier for non-technical analysts to grasp

IBM Unveils Virtual and Physical Management Tool

As data centers continue to adopt virtualization, the need for tools and applications to help simplify management and keep costs down continue to grow as well. IBM believes it has an answer to these types of problems. IBM introduced its systems manag

Parallels Offers Installation Assistant and Network Sharing

Parallels is making installation of the Windows operating system on a Mac even easier than installation on a PC with the introduction of the Parallels Installation Assistant. The software comes included as part of Parallels Desktop for Mac, the faste

What’s in it for Microsoft?

So Novell and Microsoft are bosom buddies now. Unreal. While that's undoubtedly good for Novell, what's in it for Microsoft? Forgive me for playing the cynic, but Microsoft has historically "innovated" by buying what they needed,

Spring Web Flow released

Interface21, makers of the Spring Framework for Java, on Thursday announced release of version 1.0 of Spring Web Flow. With Spring Web flow, developers can build reusable, self-contained controller modules, called flows, to guide users through the co

Living With Office 2007 Beta Part III

And we're back again–gonna buckle down and get this freaking thing done. This time it's Access and OneNote. ACCESS 2007 Last time I talked to Microsoft, I told them that as far as I was concerned, the best-redesigned app out of the whole O

More about spare PCs

The question of keeping spare PCs on the shelf, which I mentioned in a recent post ("Budgeting when there aren't any budgets,") Advice Line 10/31/2006) seems to be more controversial than I'd expected. Especially, some readers exp

Visiting Vista RC2, Part Three

System admins will find much to enjoy in the way of Vista treats for IT

Staying the course at SNW

Disk encryption, SAS, and iSCSI continue their quiet revolution

rPath Supports Virtual Appliances for Xen 3.0.3

rPath, platform provider for creating and maintaining software appliances, announced the ability to create virtual appliances that run on the Xen 3.0.3 hypervisor using rPath's rBuilder. The rBuilder platform allows software developers to combin

Acronis Joins VMware Technology Alliance Partner Program

Acronis, Inc. released an official announcement that it has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner Program. The program allows Acronis to optimize its Acronis True Image and Acronis Disk Director products with VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3,

Working Towards Virtualization Benchmarks

As the virtualization seeds begin to sprout throughout IT organizations everywhere, there is a growing interest in being able to accurately measure and report on the performance of a virtualized platform. Back in June, we discussed how VMware was rel

Dynamic language IDE upgraded

ActiveState Software has released a beta of Komodo 4.0, the next version of the company's IDE for dynamic Web development featuring client-side language support. The release extends dynamic language support to client-side AJAX (Asynchronous Java

Living With Office 2007 Beta Part II

Apologies for the wait. I'll crank through the rest of these in the next couple of days. As promised, this post is on Excel 2007 and Word 2007. EXCEL 2007 Being a writer, I try to avoid Excel as much as possible. As a small business operator, ho

IBM tool can convert .Net to J2EE

IBM on Wednesday is unveiling Lotus Expeditor, which the company is positioning as a tool to integrate applications and move Microsoft .Net applications to J2EE. Expeditor is an Eclipse-based development platform to integrate existing and new applica

Notes from the SOA for eGovernment Forum…Ontologies, Ontologies, Ontologies

I was asked the speak at the SOA for eGovernment Forum yesterday, hosted at the Mitre facility in McLean VA. I could not attend the first day, but I did attend the later half of the second day, including a few presentations on SOA approaches for the

More about winning the budget game

Dear Bob …As usual, thanks for the great discussion (in "Playing stupid games to win … or at least to not lose," Keep the Joint Running, 10/23/2006).Per your comment: "In practical terms, this means agreeing to whatever cuts in you

Simple, single-purpose screen sharing

Desktop collaboration applications should concentrate on doing one thing well

Does saving computing power save money?

It’s not easy to calculate the cost savings from consolidation and green computing

Test Center Tracker: One app to view them all

Desperately seeking screen-sharing: Lead Analyst Jon Udell's not asking for much: just a simple, no-frills screen-sharing application that ensures that everyone sees the exact same thing during a collaboration session. "Why don’t scre

Altiris ManageFusion and the Software Virtualization Solution

Recently, I was fortunate enough to be invited to speak at Altiris ManageFusion 2006 in Orlando where I was exposed to a number of interesting products from Altiris. But the one that stuck out for me, obviously, was their Software Virtualization Solu

Traditional EA and SOA & Governance Issues

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Is Google Enterprise For Real?

Kidaro introduces virtual workspace for enterprise desktop computing

New technology provides fully operable, centrally managed and secured enterprise work environments to users anywhere, utilizing a server-less, scalable infrastructure. NEW YORK – 31 October 2006 — Kidaro, provider of virtual desktop computing for th

Budgeting when there aren’t any budgets

Dear Bob …I just read your KJR column on budgeting ("Playing stupid games to win … or at least to not lose," Keep the Joint Running, 10/23/2006) and you make some very valid points.  However, none of them will work for me becau

Steal my data, please

Learning a lesson about system security can be easy — or very, very hard

EuP: The coming regulation storm

Sleeper EU eco-design directive due out this summer will cause monumental changes

Test Center Tracker: Storage trading, virtualization video

Buy low, sell high: Can predictive market technology make a difference in which storage products and ideas make it to market? Mario Apicella examines Storage Markets, a predictive market research tool aimed at storaged: traders buy shares in ideas th

Cox Clobbers Competitor’s Customers

If you're one of those lucky folks who has a real choice in broadband providers, savor the moment while you can. As one reluctant Cox customer just discovered, the "last mile" cable and/or phone monopolists aren't going to give up

Suddenly, Fedora Core 6

I was planning on upgrading my Dell D800 to Fedora Core 6 at some point. I just didn't expect it to be yesterday. Due to the fickle finger of fate, the 80GB 2.5" drive in the D800 decided to develop amnesia right in the middle of running te

Parallels and Sentillion Partner in Desktop Virtualization

As Sentillion begins to roll out its next release of its desktop virtualization solution, it seems as though it won't be powered by VMware any longer. According to the announcement, Parallels and Sentillion have entered into a strategic partners

Microsoft Updates VM Additions for Linux

In a very quiet and fanfare free way, Microsoft released a package that contains the Virtual Machine Additions for Linux that is used with their Virtual Server 2005 R2 virtualization platform. The Virtual Machine Additions for Linux can be installed

Cassatt and PlateSpin Form a Partnership

Cassatt Corporation and PlateSpin, Ltd., today announced a new technology and business relationship to accelerate the move of large enterprises to consolidate their servers and implement automated data center management, with the goal of making IT mo

Serena touts mainframe-change management

Serena Software on Monday is announcing availability of Serena ChangeMan ZMF version 5.6, for controlling software change on mainframes. Version 5.6 features ease of use, extended application lifecycle support and team collaboration. Users can visual

Review: ComVu wows with camera-phone video broadcasts

YouTube proves the value of Internet video. But what if you could build the infrastructure for live video, broadcast from camera phones (like the Motorola Q or Palm Treo 700w), and embed GPS tracking data frame-by-frame as a bonus? That's exactl

Bostech unfurls Java ESB software

Bostech on Monday unveiled ChainBuiler ESB, a Java Business Integration offering that can be used as an enterprise service bus. ChainBuilder, which currently is in an alpha stage of development, enables disparate software systems to plug into ESB and

Security weapons to fight the next malware war

Behavioral analysis, app IDs, and data encryption will figure prominently in defending networks against future attacks

Future-proof your IT security

Small, targeted incursions are the next wave of attacks compromising enterprise networks. Know the enemy

Oracle’s Red Hat support spells trouble for Sun

Linux push from the database giant could be end of the road for Sun’s Solaris

2006 InfoWorld Security Survey: IT’s confidence crisis

If incidents are down, why the crisis atmosphere? Because the attacks are much more targeted and severe

How malicious hackers get away with data

Lax oversight of outbound data allows hackers to extricate desirable information

Making Noise About Audio Support

When a vendor you've paid good money to won't even give you a decent way of contacting them to handle problems, what can you do? Well, at the very least you can make a little noise about them on the Gripe Line, as one reader chose to do aft

How to become a published author

Dear Bob …I am new to the business of publishing books and I was hoping to run a question by you.  What happens first?  Does an author sell an idea to you and you work with him/her to develop the manuscript?  Or does an a

Info-Tech Research Group Reports Virtualization Findings

Small to medium-sized companies that implement server virtualization tend to take an 'all or nothing' approach to the technology, a new Impact Research report from Info-Tech Research Group says. Although smaller companies are less likely to

LSI gets Virtual with StoreAge Acquisition

LSI Logic Corporation announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire StoreAge Networking Technologies Ltd. for something in the neighborhood of $50 million in cash. StoreAge Networking Technologies, a privately held company based in N

I/O Virtualization Startup Secures $12M

VirtenSys Ltd., a U.K. fabless semiconductor company and developer in the emerging PCI Express I/O virtualization market, announced that it has closed a first round of funding in the amount of US$12 million. The financing came from a syndicate that i

Blade Shootout 2006: InfrastruXure setup!

Paul Venezia has joined me in Hawaii for our Blade Shootout 2006 where we're pitting Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, and Dell against each other in our continuing effort to bring you solutions based comparitive reviews of enterprise grade IT