Year: 2006

  • Exanet Unveils New Intelligent Clustered NAS Manager

    Exanet Unveils New Intelligent Clustered NAS Manager

    Chris Preimesberger

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    Network storage software maker Exanet on Nov. 27 introduced a new intelligent enterprise package that uses system virtualization to provide automated data storage and delivery services across a wide range of enterprise platforms. By harnessing commodity storage hardware into a virtual single unit, ExaStore-ICM (Intelligent Cluster Management) offers interoperability by providing support for NFS, CIFS… Read more

  • Finjan Touts Smarter Web Security Tools

    Finjan Touts Smarter Web Security Tools

    Matt Hines

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    Network appliance maker Finjan released an updated version of its Internet security software on Nov. 27, claiming new capabilities for identifying and defeating Web-based IT threats. Dubbed Vital Security Version 8.4, the software will be made available as a free download to all users of the company’s existing network security appliances, and promises to allow… Read more

  • Acunetix Offers New Security Audit Service

    Acunetix Offers New Security Audit Service

    Brian Prince

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    Internet security company Acunetix is offering customers an extra set of eyes to search for vulnerabilities on their Web sites. The company launched Acunetix SiteAudit on Nov. 27, a new on-demand Web security audit service. SiteAudit is designed to evaluate business Web site and Web application security, while eliminating the cost of having business owners… Read more

  • Ubuntu Founder Solicits OpenSUSE List, Irritates Developers

    Ubuntu Founder Solicits OpenSUSE List, Irritates Developers

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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    There has been a great deal of heat in open-source circles over the Novell/Microsoft patent deal, but Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth took it to a whole new level when he went to the main OpenSUSE list to invite OpenSUSE’s developers to abandon Novell SUSE for Ubuntu. In his OpenSUSE list note, Shuttleworth opened by slamming… Read more

  • McAfee Aims at ISS Customers with Swap Program

    McAfee Aims at ISS Customers with Swap Program

    Matt Hines

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    Not everyone was happy to see IBM acquire Internet Security Systems, according to officials at McAfee, which launched a new program Nov. 27 aimed at convincing ISS customers and partners to move over to its own technology. When IBM snapped up Atlanta-based ISS for $1.3 billion in late August 2006, a number of the security… Read more

  • Models and Measures

    Models and Measures

    Peter Coffee

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    Announcements this week from Sweden’s Telelogic and Alfresco Software in San Francisco address both ends of the process that brings the next generation of Web-based applications to reality. Telelogic announced Nov. 27 its release of Version 3.0 of its Tau model-driven design tool. I had a chance to review the details of the new version… Read more