Alex Goldman

Another day, another compliance software deliverable. Enterprise and mobile software provider Sybase today released version 15.2 of its Replication Server. The upgrade is a response to market needs, Bill Zhang, product manager for Replication Server at Sybase (NYSE:SY) told InternetNews.com. Zhang said that data and transaction volumes continue to double every two years for critical […]

Just how secure are the government’s IT systems? You’d think that at the very least, critical systems would be protected and invulnerable, but you’d be wrong. On the heels of news that the DoD had been penetrated and the electrical grid suffered a breach comes news that our air traffic control systems have been attacked […]

Compliance was already on every manager’s mind before Heartland Payment Systems reported that a breach early this year cost it $12.6 million during Q1, 2009 in expenses and accruals. Of those costs, $6 million were in fines from MasterCard and almost $1 million from Visa for alleged failures in PCI compliance. “It will be interesting […]

The telecommunications industry isn’t known for innovation, and its hottest products right now, such as the iPhone weren’t invented by telecoms and are not part of the wireline business. Here’s another innovation the phone company has had almost nothing to do with: HD Voice. There are plenty of initiatives to improve voice quality, but the […]

A new Market Pulse survey released this morning by Austin-Tex.-based SailPoint, an enterprise identity management software provider, said that only 14 percent of the survey’s 125 respondents felt they had adequate user controls in place. The survey tracked IT directors at large enterprises. Companies surveyed had an average of 30,000 employees. User controls matter now. […]

If you’re building a smart heart, an airplane, or even a shoe with software in it, that software must not fail because it cannot be updated. “90 percent of the innovation in today’s automobile industry is in software,” said Scott Hebner , IBM Rational‘s vice president of marketing and strategy, to InternetNews.com. “Planes fly themselves […]

Thieves have a new technique for infecting their victims, warned Sean-Paul Correll, threat researcher and security evangelist for Panda Labs. He said that they build custom search engines that present valid links but which use a redirection script to send all clicks to malware downloads. “The link would be in the form ‘malicious-search-engine.com/redir/’ and then […]

Although advocates agree that healthcare IT will improve service and save money, they worry about the privacy implications. Those fears were brought home with a breach in the state of Virginia. A hacker last week claimed to have seized 8,257,378 patient records and a total of 35,548,087 prescriptions from the Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) of […]

Despite all of the buzz surrounding virtualization, Citrix believes that far too many companies don’t yet understand its abilities. “More than 75 percent of servers on the market are still not virtualized,” it said in a statement. The company aims to change that with several new products and initiatives, including version 5.5 of its open […]

IBM expects to redefine what it means to be “at work” this year. As messaging becomes unified and collaboration applications are delivered to mobile devices, even the most complex applications will always be with us. IBM foresees an end to rigidity in software, hierarchies, and business structures — a process that starts with BlackBerry integration. […]

It’s likely that we’ll never know how hackers managed to redirect so many Web sites in the Puerto Rico TLD, .pr. Some guess that they exploited a site vulnerability but we don’t know and the press inquiry e-mail address for the Puerto Rico NIC is still down: e-mails to press@nic.pr continue to result in delivery […]

Oracle today announced that Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Applications release 7.9.6 is now available, accompanied by the following new products: Oracle Project Analytics, Oracle Loyalty Analytics, and by new features in the core application. The company also announced certified integration between BI and its JD Edwards EnterpriseOne financial management software. Business Intelligence is part of […]