Alex Goldman

The images coming out of southern California are dramatic as wildfires continue to threaten homes and residents. And as so often happens with tragedy, purveyors of malware hope once again to cash in on misery. According to reports from Sophos and CA, malware writers are using blackhat SEO to poison the search results of those […]

Storage giant EMC today introduced EMC Proven Solutions for the private cloud, a combination of hardware, software, partnerships, and consulting services designed to help companies achieve a reliable ROI from private cloud deployments. “The last thing CIOs want to do is introduce risk as they transition their current data center to a private cloud,” Todd […]

Oracle today took the wraps off release 2 of its 11g database, an update that aims to capitalize on enterprises’ focus on cost-cutting. In contrast, the initial 11g database release in 2007 concentrated on innovation. The change is in tune with the times, according to Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) and industry researcher IDC. “As organizations face […]

VMware is restricting the role that Microsoft can play at its virtualization user conference because Microsoft, like Citrix, is a VMware rival, Microsoft said. Based on the agreement Microsoft signed in order to exhibit at the show, “we don’t believe we have the right to demo our products in the booth. This decision runs counter […]

RSA today warned that organizations face complex security and compliance risks when they adopt virtualization, but added that those companies that succeed in managing the challenge will achieve a “security bonus.” The news adds to the warnings concerning security in modern businesses. Earlier this year, RSA, the security division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), issued a […]

CA today announced virtualization management systems for private cloud and datacenter deployments at the VMworld 2009 conference, but it was hardly alone. There were a number of announcements from storage and networking vendors as well. CA’s enterprise software products — CA Spectrum Infrastructure Manager, CA eHealth Performance Manager, and CA Wily Application Performance Manager — […]

Amid many VMware-related VMworld announcements, Citrix announced today that Xen.org, the home of the open source Xen cloud computing project, will build an open-source cloud infrastructure called the Xen Cloud Platform (XCP). “Today Xen is already the most widely used hypervisor in the service provider market and the community will be able to build on […]

Albert Gonzalez, the hacker accused of masterminding the Heartland and TJX breaches, will plead guilty at a hearing scheduled for Sept. 11, according to a draft of the plea agreement supplied to InternetNews.com by the Department of Justice. Gonzalez will plead guilty to all 19 counts of the indictment and surrender his assets, some of […]

VMware (NYSE: VMW) today unveiled the vCenter family of products, designed to improve the utility of VMware’s flagship vSphere 4.0 virtualization system. The announcement came at the company’s VMworld virtualization conference, which opens today in San Francisco. “With the VMware vCenter family of products, customers will be able to dramatically simplify infrastructure management, service delivery, […]

Today is the start of VMware’s (NYSE:VMW) VMworld conference, celebrating all things related to virtualization. A raft of companies in the virtualization market are scheduled to make announcements of new products and services ready or near-ready to launch. The flood of announcements began last week with news from IBM, Tranxition, and many other virtualization providers. […]

OpSource, a company that delivers back-end services to software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers today announced the beta release OpSource Cloud, an offering the company calls “the first cloud to bring together the flexibility, availability and community of the public cloud with the security, performance and controls the enterprise demands.” The announcement comes just two days after Amazon […]