Fahmida Y. Rashid

Riverbed Technology updated its WAN acceleration and Cascade software to provide customers with better network visibility, the company said Feb. 7. Riverbed updated the Riverbed Optimization Service to version 6.5 and the Cascade interface to version 9.0. Customers have been asking Riverbed for tools to make it easier to see what is happening on their […]

Blue Coat Systems launched a new Web security module as part of its new Blue Coat Cloud Service software as a service offering, the company said on Feb. 7. The cloud service offers customers real-time Web protection for single person in the organization, regardless of where they are physically located, Anthony James, vice president of […]

Aryaka Networks has added quality of service support to its WAN optimization service that provides customers with a portal dashboard to prioritize their applications on the network, the company said. Aryaka provides WAN optimization tools as software as a service. Organizations don’t need to pay for new appliances or worry about costly deployments, Ajit Gupta, […]

Nasdaq OMX, the shell company that owns the Nasdaq Stock Market, has been repeatedly breached by hackers over the past year, according to the Wall Street Journal. The United States Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are investigating the attacks to identify the perpetrators and to uncover their motives, according to the Feb. […]

With the transition to IPv6 network addresses gaining momentum, organizations are checking their infrastructure to ensure they are ready. The last blocks of IP addresses were allocated to Regional Internet Registries (RIR) in a public ceremony on Feb. 3. While each RIR has its own policies and rules for how these remaining addresses will be […]

Chief financial officers at technology organizations are much more optimistic about the outlook of their business than they have been in years past, according to the results of a research report released Feb. 2. A majority of the CFOs said they expected revenues at their organizations to go up in 2011 in the survey, according […]

Cyber-criminals will be disguising malware and phishing scams as Super Bowl commercials and related advertisements to trick unsuspecting viewers, warned security researchers at PC Tools on Feb. 3. The Super Bowl is never just about football, although there will be plenty, as the Green Bay Packers and Pittsbugh Steelers go head-to-head this Sunday at Cowboys […]

Cisco said on Feb. 4 it will acquire digital-media company Inlet Technologies to strengthen its online video-delivery capabilities. Cisco will pay approximately $95 million in cash and retention bonuses in exchange for all shares of the privately held company. The deal is expected to close in the first half of the year, after which all […]

OpenStack, the open-source cloud-computing platform, announced its second release of a cloud operating system on Feb. 3. Code-named “Bexar,” the release focused on solidifying the code base to make it more stable and introduced enterprise-friendly features, according to OpenStack. With Bexar, organizations will find it easier to install OpenStack to create public and private clouds […]

The gradual transition to IPv6, or Internet Protocol version 6, has officially begun, with the distribution of the last five remaining IPv4 address blocks to each regional organization overseeing the net-address assignments. The official distribution took place in a ceremony Feb. 3 in Miami to mark the occasion. AfriNIC, the RIR (regional Internet registry) that […]