Brian Prince

With a new product on the way and the companys acquisition now a few months old, Watchfire Chief Technology Officer Michael Weider has his eye on the future. Watchfire was acquired by IBM in July. On Nov. 19, the IT giant will officially release IBM Rational AppScan 7.7, a Web application security tool based on […]

CA is moving to provide end-to-end security management for service-oriented architectures, beginning with a major update to its identity and access management product. With CA IAM r12, the company promises to ease the strain of regulatory compliance by automating identity access management-related controls and providing security policy analysis and reporting capabilities. In addition, the product […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Following in the footsteps of other speakers at Oracles OpenWorld conference, Dell Chairman and CEO Michael Dell stressed the need to simplify IT and push for more energy-efficient products. Dell has had its share of announcements this week, from a partnership with Sun Microsystems that puts Suns Solaris and OpenSolaris operating systems on Dell […]

SAN FRANCISCO—While Oracle executives collectively have spent much of this years OpenWorld conference talking about Fusion Middleware and Applications, their Database 11g still looms large over the show. During the conference, there have been several announcements around 11g, from a partnership with Cisco Systems to develop an acceleration protocol to increase scalability for Oracle RAC […]

Cisco hopes to ease the process of managing guest network access with a new feature in their network admission control product. The companys new Network Admission Control Guest Server adds the Secure Guest service to other existing Cisco NAC services and can operate with the Cisco NAC Appliance or the Cisco Wireless LAN Controller. The […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Intel CEO Paul Otellini pledged his companys commitment to cutting power consumption in the technology industry during his remarks Nov. 13 at Oracles OpenWorld conference here. “Today, for every dollar you spend on server hardware, youre spending 50 cents to cool and power that machine,” Otellini said. “By 2010, it goes up to 70 […]

Oracle is the latest player to jump into the virtualization market, and the news helped cut the price of VMware shares. But VMware did not hesitate to respond to the announcement Oracle made Nov. 12 at its OpenWorld conference in San Francisco regarding its plans to offer free server virtualization software. “Oracles introduction of yet […]

Want some anti-spyware? How about a Trojan with that? That is not a literal sales pitch, but the end result of a multistep scam involving rogue anti-spyware that researchers at SecureWorks are warning Web surfers about. Though tricking users into downloading Trojans via bogus anti-spyware is nothing new, security researchers said the magnitude of the […]

Alert Logic is using a software as a service business model to bring log management to midsized enterprises. The companys new log management offering, dubbed Alert Logic Log Manager, provides fully indexed searching of all archived log data via a web portal. The data is archived in two separate Alert Logic data centers to ensure […]

Agiliance is releasing a new version of its governance, risk and compliance management product with the aim of delivering an end-to-end IT risk management tool. Agiliance IT-GRC version 3.0, rolled out Nov. 6, includes a number of enhancements designed to enable enterprises to address changes in their risk profile as their underlying IT infrastructure, processes, […]