Recent Articles
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OpenDNS Fills the PhishTank
Can a small startup in San Francisco play a big role in the fight against the phishing scourge? OpenDNS, a 10-employee company with technological expertise in the domain-name-resolution field, is betting that a mix of social networking, Web services and user-generated submissions can power a valuable, freely available anti-phishing database. Phishing, which has emerged as…
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BladeLogic Looks to Unify the Data Center
BladeLogic is looking to bring greater integration of management software in the data center. At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Oct. 9 in Orlando, Fla., the company is unveiling its BladeLogic Orchestration Manager, which is designed to work as the bond that ties the disparate software products from different vendors that many customers run in their data…
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Peering Into the Wireless World
Enterprises that need a clearer view of their wireless environments are getting help from Cisco Systems and Cognio. The two companies are teaming to bring new RF (radio frequency) monitoring capabilities to Cisco’s WCS (Wireless Control System) by integrating Cognio’s Spectrum Expert. The move will give administrators a way to view their RF environment as…
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E-Mail, IM Are in the Hot Seat Again
It seems as if we hear every week about another organization that has failed to manage both its communications and its people. The latest incident, concerning former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley’s inappropriate communications with congressional pages, illustrates failure of governance at many levels. One question that immediately comes to mind: How can an organization that…
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Massachusetts CIO Change Worries ODF Supporters
Massachusetts has a problem. The Commonwealth can’t keep its CIO or pass an IT budget. Louis Gutierrez, the of CIO Massachusetts’ Information Technology Division, resigned earlier this week. Does this mean the end of the state’s pioneering ODF rollout? First let’s look at why Gutierrez is leaving. As he said in his resignation letter, it’s…
