Fahmida Y. Rashid

Despite their bosses’ insistence on strong cyber-security in government, federal officials find those measures get in the way of doing their jobs, according to the results of a Government Business Council survey released Sept. 30. Federal executives said cyber-security measures impacted “information access, computing functionality and mobility” and reduced their productivity, according to the Cybersecurity […]

Survey results reveal that businesses are overconfident in their business continuity and data recovery capabilities, despite all evidence to the contrary, CDW said on Sept. 29. In a poll of 200 IT managers at medium and large businesses who had experienced network disruptions in the past year, 82 percent said that prior to the outage […]

CA Technologies has acquired Hyperformix, a company that sells capacity management software for virtual environments. The move strengthens CA’s ability to build and manage internal cloud environments. CA Technologies officials announced the agreement on Sept. 28 but did not disclose any financial details. The deal is expected to close by the end of 2010. Capacity […]

Dell announced something old, something new and something to come for its Virtual Integrated System cloud platform on Sept. 29. The new tools add self-service automation, management and network monitoring to the company’s VIS architecture, launched in spring 2010. The announcement focused on enhancements to Dell’s Advanced Infrastructure Manager, a technology the company acquired as […]

Some OpenOffice.org developers have created a new version of the OpenOffice.org application suite called LibreOffice that will be free of Oracle oversight, the newly formed Document Foundation announced Sept. 28. The Document Foundation will manage and oversee all the work for LibreOffice. Essentially a vanilla version of the latest OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice includes the Go-OOo updates […]

The beta release of Fedora 14 is available for download, Red Hat Release Engineer Dennis Gilmore said in an e-mail to the Fedora developer mailing list on Sept. 28. “Mark your calendars, and get ready to break out and have some fun: Fedora 14 will launch in early November,” Gilmore wrote. The beta is the […]

The Obama administration is working on a proposal that would make it easier for law enforcement and security officials to eavesdrop on online chatter, including e-mail, instant messaging and social networks, reported The New York Times on Sept. 27. The proposed legislation will likely come before Congress next year. The White House-sponsored bill would require […]

Malicious cyber-criminals aren’t just targeting Twitter users; LinkedIn members are in their crosshairs, as well. LinkedIn members were reportedly deluged with spam e-mail messages masquerading as connection requests from the career-oriented social networking site Sept. 27. Clicking on these requests sent users to a Website that displayed “PLEASE WAITING…4 SECONDS” before redirecting them to Google. […]

Companies are steadily marching toward virtualization, but they have to plan for more virtual and physical servers to see the benefits, said Gartner on Sept. 27. Despite the fact that more than 80 percent of enterprises have a virtualization program or project, only 25 percent of all server workloads will be in a virtual machine […]

Novell has released a new version of its popular SUSE Linux distribution optimized to run SAP applications, deepening its already close relationship with the enterprise software vendor. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications “simplifies both physical and virtual deployments of SAP solutions, including the SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search application, SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator […]