Fahmida Y. Rashid

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Is Ready for Heavy-Duty Computing by Fahmida Y Rashid First Full RHEL Version Upgrade Since 2007 RHEL 6 is the first major version update to Red Hat’s Linux platform since RHEL 5 debuted in 2007. RHEL 5 currently has version 5.6 available in beta. The first public beta of RHEL […]

Gordano is jumping onto the cloud bandwagon by launching GMS Cloud, a hosted version of its Gordano messaging platform on Nov. 16. GMS Cloud has the Gordano Messaging Suite in the back end, according to John Stanners, Gordano senior vice president. All the features of GMS are available in GMS Cloud, including the antivirus and […]

Botnet activity, malicious spam and resurgence of SQL injection attacks were some of the most significant cyber-crime threats during the third quarter of 2010, according to a multiteam report from Cisco released Nov. 17. According to the report, enterprise users experienced an average of 133 Web malware encounters per month. August was the most prolific, […]

Dell announced its Dell Data Protection/Encryption software to protect the data on endpoint devices against data breaches, the company said Nov. 17. Designed to simplify endpoint encryption, Data Protection/Encryption protects data on laptops, desktops and external media, in case of loss or theft, said Dell. The software will be installed on Dell Latitude notebooks, Dell […]

Brocade Communication Systems unveiled a family of 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches intended to “flatten” the data center, the company said on Nov. 15. Intended for virtualized and cloud-optimized data centers, the new Brocade VDX family will simplify the network infrastructure and increase mobility, the company said. “Brocade has architected a flat, high-performance and highly scalable […]

Advanced Micro Devices has joined the MeeGo open-source project, to contribute “engineering expertise” to the next-generation mobile operating system, the company said on Nov. 15. Run by the Linux Foundation, MeeGo is a mobile operating system for next-generation mobile platforms and embedded devices. AMD’s rival Intel and Nokia lead the project’s development efforts. “MeeGo represents […]

Rembrandt IP Management filed separate suits against Seagate Technology and Western Digital charging that the two companies violated patents on the method for writing data to hard disk drives at high speeds and high storage densities. The patents in question concern low-noise toroidal film read/write heads on drives that minimize magnetic interference, according to court […]

Riverbed Technology unveiled two new network optimization appliances aiming squarely for the public cloud on Nov. 10. The Riverbed Cloud Steelhead is a version of its existing WAN optimization appliance that has been redesigned specifically for public cloud environments, and the Riverbed Whitewater appliance is a cloud storage accelerator. They will both be generally available […]

Mac Malware Attacks Prompt Security Vendors to Rush Out Antivirus Tools by Fahmida Y Rashid Sophos Sophos Antivirus for Mac detects both Mac and Windows malware. If the Mac navigates to a compromised Website that tries to download a Windows virus, the software will detect it and shut it down before it can wreak havoc […]

Sybase announced a beta of the new Sybase IQ 15.3, which now supports massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture. Sybase IQ 15.3 will be generally available in the first half of 2011, Sybase said. The beta is invitation only. Featuring the new PlexQ Distributed Query Platform, the beta of the column-oriented database offers high performance, high […]