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Guardium Database Compliance Tool Tracks All Changes
Database security specialist Guardium released its latest set of compliance automation tools Jan. 23, aiming to help businesses record and monitor every alteration workers make to their enterprise information vaults. While most companies have developed database change control guidelines since the dawn of the compliance era and the arrival of mandates such as the U.S.…
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Power to the Channel
There’s a battle of wills going on within most customers these days that is creating an unusual opportunity for solution providers to play the mediator. Opportunities to wear the white hat don’t come along all that often, but even the warring camps inside the customer base would generally agree that this argument is unproductive for…
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The Open Source Initiative Still Lives
There was a time when the Open Source Initiative was one of the hotbeds of open-source activity. After the retirement of its co-founder and leader, Eric Raymond, in January 2005, the OSI lost much of its fire. That may be changing soon, though. An investigation by Linux-Watch has found that there is still heat in…
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Secondary Market Supplier Turns to Channel at Both Ends
Network Liquidators, a supplier of used network hardware, launched a program for VARs to help them bring wares in the front door and out the back. The company finds VARs a useful source of used product procurement and expects their ranks would be an equally efficient route to market, said Joe Serra, Network Liquidators’ executive…
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Cloudmark Combats Rising Tide of Spam
Cloudmark added Jan. 23 a new feature to its Cloudmark Authority 2.0 security tool to help Internet service providers reduce spam. Cloudmark’s Active Scan is able to block the vast majority of unwanted e-mail by allowing service providers to filter unread messages against up-to-the-minute lists of known attacks. Every minute, Authority 2.0 updates local caches…
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Mac Tablet Distributor Recruits Dealers
Two weeks after its introduction, the Axiotron ModBook, which Apple reseller Other World Computing called “the One and Only Mac Tablet” computer,” is starting to lure independent Macintosh dealers. “We have had significant reseller interest,” said OWC’s Lawrence R. O’Connor. “We would prefer not to disclose the number of pre-orders, but to say the least—we…
