Recent Articles
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Thinking Outside the Bits
The dominant theme of data protection discussions is one of preserving secrets. Much less attention gets paid to the problem of ensuring data’s availability—not to mention verifiability—rather than limiting it. I spoke this month with representatives of Surety about their technology for addressing all four elements of affirmative data access management: confidentiality, authentication, integrity and…
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Xiotech Adds iSCSI Storage to Magnitude Line
Data storage company Xiotech has added the Magnitude 750, a user-installable iSCSI storage area network system, to its line of storage management products. Designed as an entry-level system, the Magnitude 750 requires little or no prior storage system knowledge, and provides up to 12TB of IP-based storage. The SAN comes in dual and single controller…
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New Bluetooth Protocol Saves PC Data to PDAs, Phones
Transferring Internet content from a PC to your cell phone or PDA is about to get a whole lot easier. On Thursday, at Ziff Davis’ Digital Life consumer electronics trade show in New York, the Bluetooth SIG—a group that develops and approves various wireless technologies for the specification—announced the release of a new version of…
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HP Hires New Ethics Chief
Hewlett-Packard has appointed a new chief ethics and compliance officer in the wake of the controversy surrounding its investigation into news leaks over the past two years. Jon Hoak, former senior vice president and general counsel for NCR, is replacing Kevin Hunsaker, one of five people charged in California last week with four felonies in…
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Websense Aims to Complete Channel Transition Next Year
Security vendor Websense has launched an aggressive partner recruitment drive and embraced two-tier distribution in its efforts to implement an all-channel sales strategy. The San Diego-based company has forged its first distribution partnership in North America with Ingram Micro, of Santa Ana, Calif., the world’s largest IT products distributor. Websense aims to move all its…
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Business Intelligence as IT Tool
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