Fahmida Y. Rashid

Dell and Compellent Technologies are in “advanced discussions” about a potential merger, the companies confirmed on Dec 9. Even though the negotiations are still ongoing, the announcement said Dell will acquire all outstanding Compellent stock at $27.50 per share. The all-cash deal would be valued at about $876 million. Compellent main product is the Compellent […]

WikiLeaks keeps finding ways to stay online even as it gets hit with repeated denial-of-service attacks aimed at keeping people from accessing the site and despite decisions by technology and financial companies to terminate essential services. With each passing day it’s getting harder to shut WeakiLeaks down, according to technology experts. “The harder you hit […]

Nimbula announced a public beta of its Nimbula Director which provides automated tools for enterprises to create private cloud systems in their own data centers. The Nimbula Director allows organizations to create Amazon-like “public infrastructure clouds” within their own private data centers to provide on-demand access to scalable computing resources including processing power, storage, and […]

Unisys and Rackspace rolled out private cloud offerings that combine cloud computing efficiencies, potential cost savings, and scalability, with the convenience and security of managed hosting services, at the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas this week. The Unisys Hosted Secure Private Cloud offers customers a cloud infrastructure that is deployed and managed remotely. […]

As federal agencies consolidate data centers, both government IT managers and service providers are increasingly looking at open source software stacks to ease the transition, according to the IDC Government Insights report released on Dec. 6. Data Center consolidation also involves “migrating to new platforms, improving IT economics, eliminating unnecessary software licensing fees and reducing […]

The anonymous group of hackers that launch denial-of-service attacks against the entertainment industry refocused their campaign to target companies perceived to be anti-WikiLeaks. In response, the same group is also currently under a DoS attack for supporting the whistle-blowing site. “We fight for the same reasons,” such as more transparency and stopping censorship, and will […]

While organizations are beginning to adopt DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) to secure their Websites, many of them are not correctly implemented or maintained according to specifications, according to a survey released by Infoblox on Dec. 6. The sixth annual survey of domain name server infrastructure on the Internet is a “census of name […]

StorSimple unveiled a line of cloud storage appliances that are optimized for Microsoft applications, file servers and virtual machine libraries, the company said Dec. 6. The appliances are deployed on premises within the data center and stores data locally on SSDs (solid-state drives) and in the cloud to offer hybrid storage while maintaining or improving […]

Pushing ahead with its mainframe strategy, CA Technologies said on Dec. 6 that the first CA Mainframe Chorus workspace is available to customers. Originally announced in May, CA Mainframe Chorus provides management capabilities and improvements designed to make mainframe management simpler and more efficient for administrators, CA said. Part of the Mainframe 2.0 initiative introduced […]

With government pressure squeezing the WikiLeaks site off U.S.-based Web hosting services, federal officials are turning their attention to preventing future embarrassing leaks. U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman issued a statement on Dec. 2 that he will ask what “Web service providers will do in the future to ensure that their services are not used to […]