Alex Goldman

While many enterprise communication vendors tout HD communications as a feature, as far as we know, only Tandberg touts it as their key differentiator. “HD across the product line and unsurpassed reliability set Tandberg apart,” says the company on its Web site. Founded in 1989, the Norwegian company entered the U.S. market about 11 years […]

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is looking to beef up security of a key e-mail system — and the bidding process could be a windfall not just for some lucky contractors, but also for burgeoning technologies like Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud computing. In a Request For Information (RFI) from the DoD’s […]

CA is today releasing its Compliance Manager for z/OS software, which delivers compliance reporting and enforcement on IBM’s mainframe operating system. The software is needed because auditors are trained to understand client-server architectures and often don’t understand the mainframe environment, David Hodgson, senior vice president of CA’s mainframe business told InternetNews.com. “I admit that I’m […]

Verizon Business is today announcing a series of products to allow managers to better provision services and ensure the security of their networks. At the highest level of network management, the company is deploying the MPLS Transport Manager of CA’s Spectrum Infrastructure Manager 9.1 product to manage global networks. In addition, the company is adding […]

NEW YORK — Is the Web site passé? You might think so if you spoke to Aza Raskin. During a keynote here at the Web 3.0 Conference, Raskin — head of user experience at Mozilla Labs, as well as a mathematician, physicist and user interface guru — told the audience that the evolution of the […]

Spammers are opportunistic. Recent spam threats used Swine Flu and the tax season to entice victims to click on bad links. Users are familiar with spam peddling erectile enhancement medication, and many know they won’t get anything if they try to buy by clicking on a link in a spam e-mail. That has not stopped […]

Avoiding sleazy-looking Web sites may not be enough to protect users from malware infection. Instead, experts warn that it’s the sites you like and trust that can hurt your PC. Just this month, users have been assaulted by infections from targeted and sophisticated attacks on sites like Facebook and Twitter. Two new studies now charge […]

Competitors for some time have sought to provide tools like monitoring and management on top of Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing service. Now, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is getting into the game itself with cloud monitoring, load balancing, and automatic scaling for its EC2 cloud service. “These features will help our customers to monitor their Amazon EC2 […]

NEW YORK — Gartner’s cloud expert and infrastructure guru Thomas Bittman said that IT departments’ use of cloud and virtualization technologies will enable their companies to succeed or fail. “IT is a differentiator. IT does matter,” he said in a presentation at the Wall Street Tech Association’s seminar “Cost Effective IT-The Power of Virtualization.” Bittman’s […]

An auditor working for a privately held water supply company in California was caught attempting to move millions of dollars out of the country, in yet another example that a firm’s employees can be more dangerous than outside hackers. According to reports, Abdirahman Ismail Abdi transferred $9 million to accounts in Qatar after he was […]

If you re-use passwords, Facebook may be your weakest link. In recent days, hackers stepped up attacks in which the social networking site’s users were sent links that led them to phishing sites. And while Facebook credentials may not be particularly valuable on their own, they could be used to access other sites. “About one-third […]