Fahmida Y. Rashid

Eight additional security vendors have signed on to offer e-mail security products for Zimbra e-mail and collaboration platform, said VMware on Oct. 28. The virtualization vendor expanded its VMware Ready Program to include SpamTitan Technologies, Halon Security, InBoxer, Proofpoint, Sendmail, Softnext Technologies, Symantec, and Trend Micro, according to the company. The VMware Ready products from […]

Consumers are interested in the benefits of cloud computing, but are worried about the privacy of their personal information, according to a research report from Fujitsu released Oct. 27. The report, “Personal Data in the Cloud: A Global Research of Consumer Attitudes,” found data privacy was a global concern, with 88 percent of consumers worried […]

The new Unity user interface will be standard on the next version of Ubuntu Desktop, according to Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical’s founder. Making the announcement at a keynote Oct. 25 at Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando, Fla., Shuttleworth said Ubuntu Desktop 11.04 will swap out the GNOME user interface in favor of the Unity interface Ubuntu […]

SAP’s lawyers have asked a federal judge to issue a gag order on Oracle on all things related to the TomorrowNow lawsuit, according to a motion filed on Oct. 22. The request was spurred by an Oct. 8 “Talking Business” column in the New York Times. Business writer Joe Nocera accused TomorrowNow of “the most […]

Intel opened the company’s first Asia-based advanced chip manufacturing plant in China, the company said Oct. 26. “This manufacturing facility helps deliver on our vision to contribute to sustainable growth in China while giving us better proximity to serve our customers in Asia,” said Paul Otellini, Intel’s chief executive, in a statement. Located in Dalian, […]

Joyent unveiled new Windows and Linux cloud hosting capabilities that strengthen its line of products for building and hosting Web applications, the cloud computing provider said on Oct. 19. Joyent’s line of virtualized servers for businesses power large-scale Websites and applications, reminiscent of Amazon EC2. The new Windows and Linux virtual machines will allow customers […]

Mobile Armor and Seagate Technology will work together to sell self-encrypting storage drives to government and health care customers. Under the partnership, Seagate will join Mobile Armor in co-marketing and actively selling the Seagate Momentus Self-Encrypting Drives with DriveArmor technology, the companies said in a statement on Oct. 25. Seagate has already been shipping its […]

BroadSoft unveiled its cloud-based unified communications offering for telecommunications service providers that includes messaging, mobile integration, Web collaboration and video conferencing. Dubbed BroadCloud, the hosted infrastructure will feature a full line of unified communications services that can be custom-branded for customers, BroadSoft said on Oct. 25. When evaluating unified communications packages and services, IT managers […]

Blue Coat enhanced its ProxySG network optimization appliance with Optimized Video Delivery to improve live video streaming within the enterprise, the company said on Oct. 25. Blue Coat added the ability to split a single Flash video stream to multiple viewers in a single location to avoid “video floods.” Video floods are caused when multiple […]

IBM unveiled a series of new security products and services for customers struggling with cloud security planning and management on Oct. 20. IT managers have a multitude of security and privacy concerns about moving their data to the cloud, said Jason Hilling, portfolio manager for the Managed and Cloud Security Service group at IBM Global […]