Brian Prince

Oracle issued 45 security fixes for its customers July 17 as part of its quarterly Critical Patch Update. The 45 patches plug security holes in Oracle Database, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Collaboration Suite, Oracle E-Business Suite and Applications, and Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise products. The most serious of the flaws are two vulnerabilities affecting Oracle PeopleSoft […]

IBM announced plans to purchase DataMirror, a provider of data protection and integration tools, and meld its technology into IBMs Information Management Server. Under the terms of the deal, IBM will buy DataMirror, based in Markham, Ontario, for approximately $161 million. DataMirror technology identifies and captures data that has been added, deleted or updated and […]

Database software vendor ANTs has formed a consortium of ten companies to develop processes and programs to migrate pilot Sybase applications to the Oracle database using the ANTs Compatibility Server. The Compatibility Server is middleware that ANTs officials have said will help migrate applications from any of the major database offerings to another. The first […]

Oracle has plans to deliver 46 security fixes for its customers by July 17. According to an Oracle security announcement, the patches will plug security holes in Oracle Database, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Collaboration Suite, Oracle E-Business Suite and Applications and Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise products. The most serious of the flaws—two vulnerabilities affecting Oracle PeopleSoft […]

Database market leader Oracle unveiled its latest database version, Oracle Database 11g, July 11, and company officials anointed it the next king of the market. After more than a year of beta testing and anticipation, Oracle executives, customers, industry analysts and members of the media packed the Equitable Auditorium in New York City July 11 […]

FileMaker today unveiled the new FileMaker 9 product line, the companys desktop database for Windows and Mac OS. The new FileMaker 9 product line includes FileMaker Pro 9, FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced, FileMaker Server 9 and FileMaker Server 9 Advanced. FileMaker officials have added a number of new features for end users and developers to […]

Security vendors have 2.3 million more examples of the need to protect against the so-called “insider threat”—one for each of the consumer records believed to have been stolen and sold by a database administrator at Fidelity National Information Services. More than ever, corporations need to find a balance between treating the database administrator as a […]

IBM and AGS have teamed up to offer security and management tools for the newest installment of IDS (Informix Dynamic Server). AGS Server Studio and Sentinel R. 6.1 are aimed at forming an infrastructure of multi-platform tools to help database professionals manage IBM Informix data server environments. Bernie Spang, IBMs director of data servers, said […]

As the number of VOIP deployments is expected to continue to increase, IT professionals and researchers are urging enterprises not to forget about security. Voice-over-IP security threats are viewed as more theoretical than actual. But the few cases that have come to light have been brazen and costly. For example, investigators arrested two people in […]

3Com officials are getting ready to file an IPO by the end of the year for TippingPoint Technologies, which 3Com bought in 2005. But just what will happen if TippingPoint steps out on its own in the crowded market for intrusion prevention systems remains to be seen. Paul Proctor, an analyst at Gartner, said that […]