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Hard Drive Sales Spiral Upward
A healthy spending environment, with businesses and users snatching up servers and PCs, last year pushed sales of hard disk drive units to grow by 25 percent unit in 2005. Leading the HDD charge, Seagate Technology shipped 108 million drives to customers and organizations, according to a new report by TrendFocus. In the desktop HDD…
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Security May Dog Software as a Service
As the thirst for low-maintenance on-demand software continues to grow in the enterprise, some security experts and customers worry that security weaknesses could disrupt on-demand applications and leave them high and dry. For now, these security concerns lurk well below the surface—few of the big vendors pitching their wares at the RSA Conference on Feb.…
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SAP’s Breakout: Vendor Steps Up Efforts to Capture Market Share
When he looks at the competition for market share in the enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management space, SAP executive Rodney Seligmann recalls the Battle of Verdun. The battle was a nine-month saga in 1916 during which 1 million French and German soldiers lost their lives for less than 100 meters of French countryside…
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Free Removal Tools Released as ‘Blackworm’ Approaches
With the clock ticking on a Feb. 3 D-Day for the activation of the destructive ‘Blackworm’ worm payload, anti-virus vendors are rushing to release free removal tools to help contain the damage. The worm, also known as Kama Sutra, MyWife.E or Nyxem.E, uses the lure of sexually explicit photographs to trick e-mail users into executing…
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Of Couch Potatoes and Network Administrators
I’d had it. Having to remember which of four remote control units I should press when using my home theater system or TV had, simply put, gotten out of control. It was time to take action, so I motored to the nearest Brookstone and got me a nifty universal remote that not only controls the…
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Security Conflict: Auditing the On-Demand Realm
Marc Maiffret is a worried man. The chief hacking officer and co-founder of eEye Digital Security looks at the rising popularity of hosted Web applications and sees a future where legitimate bug hunters are blocked from auditing popular product for security flaws. “How can you do an independent code audit when you have no access…
