Recent Articles
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The Dissection of a Rootkit
Security analysts have been predicting that kernel rootkits, which cloak their activity by replacing a portion of a program’s software kernel with modified code, are expected to continue to grow in frequency in 2007. While rootkit-fighting technologies such as the PatchGuard kernel protection system built into 64-bit versions of Microsoft’s new Windows Vista operating system…
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Ubuntu Wants a Bigger Piece of Desktops, Servers
NEW YORK—The 2007 road map for the Ubuntu Linux operating system includes continuing its focus on the desktop, paying more attention to the server and garnering additional corporate support. Speaking at Ubuntu user conference UbuCon here at Google’s New York complex on Feb. 16, Steve George, director of support and services at Canonical, said, “The…
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Analyzing the Data
Hurricanes in Florida. Floods in Louisiana. Fires in California. CEOs in hot water over regulatory concerns. Couple those issues with a cyclical profit-and-loss business model that tries to factor in the unknown, and there’s a potential recipe for trouble for insurance companies. Around 2000, Chubb, a global company that specializes in insuring individuals and companies…
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Synnex to Offer Tech Support Services
With plans to offer technical support as a service to channel partners and their customers, IT supply chain services provider Synnex announced its intention to acquire Link2Support, a technical support and contact center company based in Manila, in the Philippines. Link2Support offers voice, e-mail and technical chat support as well as other value-added services. The…
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Google Faces Long Campaign to Win Enterprise Customers
Google is smart to play coy about whether its online business application bundle is aimed at cutting into Microsoft Office’s dominance on the enterprise desktop. It has a lot of work to do yet before an online suite like the newly introduced Google Apps Premier Edition can seriously challenge the solid position of Microsoft Office…
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Gartner: Server Shipments Increased Nearly 9% in 2006
The number of server shipments worldwide grew nearly 9 percent in 2006, with Hewlett-Packard leading with 27.5 percent of the market, according to the latest study by Gartner. IBM led the annual survey in terms of revenue, with $16.9 billion worth of server sales in 2006. That number represented a 1.7 percent increase from the…
