Fahmida Y. Rashid

Microsoft introduced Windows Embedded Automotive 7, the latest version of its Windows platform for cars, on Oct. 19. It will be available to “select car makers and suppliers in the automotive industry,” the company said in a statement. Part of Microsoft’s family of embedded platforms, Windows Embedded Automotive 7 targets car makers and suppliers that […]

For the first time, companies are reporting more electronic data theft than physical thefts, said London-based risk consultancy Kroll. Kroll’s “Global Fraud Report,” an annual report on international fraud trends released on Oct. 18, surveyed more than 800 senior executives worldwide and across a range of industries in July and August. The results in the […]

CA Technologies revamped and relaunched its CA Automation Suite for virtualized dynamic cloud computing environments, CA said Oct. 18. The new CA Automation Suite features two new products and enhancements to four other products, including The CA Server Automation, CA Virtual Automation, CA Client Automation and CA Workload Automation. CA realigned the automation suite with […]

Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, the father of fractals, died of pancreatic cancer on Oct. 14, AFP reported. He was 85 years old. His work on fractals has become a foundation of the Chaos theory and is critical to many applications and systems, ranging from digital compression on computers, modeling turbulence on aircraft wing designs, and texturing […]

Seagate Technology is considering going private, the company announced after the markets closed on Oct. 14. In a statement, Seagate said it had received a “preliminary indication of interest” from an unnamed party for a leveraged buyout and its board is evaluating the offer and other alternatives. “There is no assurance that the company will […]

Brocade and Blue Coast Systems jointly announced an appliance to proactively monitor the virtual health of an enterprise network on Oct. 13. The system’s monitoring capabilities are specific to Web caching, the companies said in a statement. The network health monitoring product consists of Brocade’s ServerIron ADX application delivery controllers as an intelligent front end […]

Red Hat updated and expanded its Red Hat Enterprise Messaging, Realtime and Grid Linux platform, a critical set of tools for building and managing a private cloud, the company said on Oct. 14. The enhancements in Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1.3 include adding support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8 and 5.5, improving Messaging APIs, […]

Juniper Networks introduced Media Flow Publisher, an application that would facilitate delivery of high-quality video online, the company said Oct. 14. The Media Flow Publisher application must be deployed in conjunction with the company’s Media Flow Controller, Juniper’s content delivery and caching software for rich media content. “Delivering content to multiple devices over the Internet […]

Blade Network Technologies introduced RackSwitch G8264 to accelerate data center adoption of 10G and 40G, the company said on Oct. 14. The RackSwitch G8264 is a single-chip 40 Gigabit Ethernet top-of-rack switch that delivers more than 1 Terabit of low-latency throughput to the data center. Based on a non-proprietary TRILL platform, the switch is designed […]

Imation will partner with online backup and data recovery vendor Nine Technology to offer a data backup and disaster recovery system for the cloud, said Imation on Oct. 12. “We’ve known for a long time that we’ve got the best online backup and recovery software available, and with Imation RDX-based cloud seeding, we can jump-start […]