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Black Duck Releases Code Export Tool
Black Duck Software has announced exportIP, a new software compliance tool that helps organizations ensure that their software products do not violate government restrictions regarding encryption export. Waltham, Mass.-based Black Duck announced its new offering at the Update 2006 Conference on Export Controls and Policy on Oct. 16. The Update 2006 conference runs Oct. 15-17…
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Itemfield to Integrate with Oracle
Itemfield, a maker of universal data transformation software, announced Oct. 16 that it has started a new collaboration with Oracle. The company, based in San Mateo, Calif., said that it would begin to integrate its ContentMaster software, which automates data transformation, with Oracle’s Warehouse Builder 10g Release 2. Itemfield’s software transforms data into high-performance and…
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McAfee Acquires Onigma, Launches Risk Management Strategy
McAfee launched a new corporate strategy on Oct. 16 aimed at helping companies integrate IT defenses used to fight external attacks and manage internal compliance, announcing a $20 million buyout of data leak prevention software maker Onigma as part of the expanded effort. Officials with McAfee, based in Santa Clara, Calif., said customers are increasingly…
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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…
