Alex Goldman

Google today introduced the Google Search Appliance 6.0 (GSA), the latest in its search appliance for datacenters that focuses on greater scalability, security, and delivers better search results. Cyrus Mistry, Google enterprise search product manager, told InternetNews.com that the top feature is scalability. All of the devices have been given a significant performance boost. The […]

The product currently supports VMware and Amazon EC2 clouds as well as physical servers (Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and bare metal servers, with compatibility with more virtual and cloud environments planned for the future. Virtual servers can be delivered in VMDK, AMI, or disk image formats. Price at launch is $20,000 for five […]

An ex-employee of Energy Future Holdings logged on to the corporate VPN and caused $26,000 in damages related to lost business, reports say. A company spokesperson told InternetNews.com that the company could not comment due to an ongoing FBI investigation, but added, “at no time were any of our operations at risk, and the employee […]

Businesses need to understand the cost and value of the software they have and are developing. With that need in mind, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced several upgrades to its IBM Rational software family at the 2009 Rational Software Conference. The upgrades build on tools such as the IBM Rational Requirements Composer, announced late last […]

The BBC reported last week that sensitive personal data concerning 500 Royal Air Force officers was on a hard drive lost last September. The personal data contains sensitive information that could expose officers to blackmail, according to reports. The hard drive was lost from RAF Innsworth, an air force base that is now used as […]

There’s a hole in the enterprise software market between the expensive stuff that requires its own hardware stack as well as a consulting team and the apps you can download for a small fee right onto your PC. “Basically, if you want to do billing, it’s either $200 for [Intuit’s] QuickBooks or millions for Amdocs […]

A report from McAfee that lists what it considers “The Web’s Most Dangerous Search Terms” includes a lot of terms that may surprise you. The news comes shortly after a report from Panda Security revealed that malware writers have become adept at search engine optimization and are even building their own search engines. The McAfee […]

Spam has become a flood and financial attacks are increasing fast — with small businesses in particular finding themselves in scammers’ crosshairs, according to a new study conducted by Vasco Data Security International. The company said the 700 small European businesses it studied recorded 120 million blocked spam e-mails in January. After installing a pre-scanning […]

Malware authors, always opportunistic, are hoping that people will click on an e-mail that claims to be from Western Union — and contains malware. “Our labs are seeing a stampede of e-mails claiming to come from Western Union’s support team, but are actually carrying a malicious payload in the form of a Trojan horse,” Graham […]

Salesforce.com on Wednesday announced a new version of Force.com for Google App Engine that integrates with Google apps and improves on the previous effort. The new release takes advantage of Google App Engine’s Java support, announced last month. The combination brings Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) apps, from calendar and Gmail to Google Checkout, to a platform […]

Now we know how defense secretary Robert Gates is going to find all those security experts. Last month, he proposed to completely overhaul the U.S. military in a widely publicized speech. One of the many changes he recommended was increasing the number of cyber security experts that the Department of Defense (DoD) can train each […]

Graphics software giant Adobe has unveiled the latest in its Web-based software push — today debuting Acrobat.com Presentations, a free service that enables users to build Flash presentations through their browsers. It is in public beta. It’s the most recent move in Adobe’s (NASDAQ: ADBE) efforts to ride the wave of interest in all things […]