Brian Prince

It seems round two of the Untangle Anti-Virus Fight Club has begun. McAfee officials and others are taking issue with the methodology of a live test that pitted proprietary anti-virus products from vendors such as McAfee and SonicWALL against the open source project ClamAV at LinuxWorld. The test was the brainchild of Untangle Chief Technology […]

Database software remains the bread and butter of Sybase, which enjoyed growth in the number of new licenses last year after the release of its Adaptive Server Enterprise 15 product. With the OLTP (online transaction processing) database market arguably already decided, Sybase CEO John Chen said in an interview with eWEEK Aug. 7 at the […]

Oracle has its eyes on its Linux customer base with the beta release of Oracle Authentication Services for Operating Systems, a new offering within Oracle Identity Management. The Aug. 8 release is meant to underscore Oracles commitment to making Linux deployment easier and faster for users and is designed to make user management in operating […]

Mandiant has released Mandiant Red Curtain, a free malware analysis tool aimed at helping security professionals evaluate files from potentially compromised computer systems. MRC examines executable files to determine how suspicious they are and calculates an overall threat score to establish whether a set of files should be examined further. The tool is aimed at […]

Sybase CEO John Chen remembers the doubts that swirled around his company when it first began to focus on helping enterprises manage and mobilize data several years ago. At the companys annual TechWave conference, Chen assured Aug. 7 attendees that the companys decision was paying off. “Patience is a little bit of a virtue here,” […]

Symantec announced Aug. 6 a comprehensive e-discovery initiative featuring two e-discovery connectors for users of Symantec Enterprise Vault Discovery Accelerator that provide tighter integration with third-party case management, review and forensics tools. Two e-discovery connectors have been released to partners to provide tight integration with third-party case management, review, analytics, forensics and desktop collection tools. […]

IBM dubbed it the IBM Information Server Blade. It is a marriage of IBMs Blade Server technology and data management software in a bid to offer customers a heterogeneous data integration platform and aimed at reducing the cost and complexity of managing and integrating enterprise data across silos of information. IBM unveiled the product Aug. […]

A new study has put a price tag of more than $7 billion on the financial suffering experienced by victims of Internet fraud and attacks. That is how much Consumer Reports 2007 “State of the Net” survey projects U.S. consumers have lost during the last two years to viruses, spyware and phishing schemes. According to […]

San Diego-based security vendor Websense has deployed what it calls “HoneyJax” across the Internet that attempt to seek out malware, phishing kits and other threats before they snare Web surfers. Websense Vice President of Security Research Dan Hubbard will unveil the “HoneyJax” to attendees of this years Defcon convention in Las Vegas. The name is […]

IBM is buying Princeton Softech, a privately held company specializing in data archiving, test data management, data privacy, and data classification and discovery software. The financial details of the deal, which was announced Aug. 3, were not disclosed. Officials at IBM said the acquisition of the Princeton, N.J. company is a key part of IBMs […]