Alex Goldman

There is pervasive fear of identity theft. Victims spend an extraordinary amount of time and money recovering from it. The government is doing something about it, but businesses may not be pleased to hear that the government’s latest action is another unfunded mandate. New rules concerning identity theft prevention at financial companies go into effect […]

German software giant SAP reported worse-than-expected first-quarter results today, joining the ranks of major IT vendors stung by the protracted economic downturn. The company said first-quarter earnings totaled about 24 cents per share (€0.18) while non-GAAP earnings came to 29 cents per share (€0.22), well below analyst expectations of $0.38 cents per share. SAP’s (NYSE: […]

Internet security firm Trend Micro said today that it’s acquiring smaller security player Third Brigade, a move that aimed at beefing up its presence in the growing area of virtualization and private enterprise clouds. The acquisition of privately held, Ottawa, Canada-based Third Brigade is expected to close quickly, in the second quarter of 2009, subject […]

Cablevision Systems announced that starting May 11, it will offer the nation’s fastest home broadband service, Optimum Online Ultra, delivering 101 megabits (Mbps) downstream and 15Mbps upstream for a list price of $99.95 per month before fees and taxes, using the new DOCSIS 3.0 cable infrastructure standard. “Optimum Online Ultra firmly solidifies Optimum as the […]

With concerns about the swine flu outbreak on many minds this week, it shouldn’t be a surprise that the public is turning to the Web for information on how bad the threat might be, and what they can do to mitigate the risk. Concern about swine flu is evident in the volume of Google searches […]

The challenges of virtualization continue to bring hardware and software vendors together. Today, HP is tying its adaptive infrastructure suite of software and hardware designed for always on-datacenters into Microsoft’s back office software — including System Center, Operations Manager, Configuration Manager, and Virtual Machine Manager — when running on HP ProLiant and HP BladeServer hardware. […]

Autonomy isn’t just releasing the Autonomy Web Content Compliance solution this week, it’s also showing off the scalability of its Digital Safe Archive. Autonomy Digital Safe already manages over 10 petabytes (PB) of data and it’s ready to add more. The new solution, unveiled yesterday, repackages the services and capabilities that Autonomy (LSE: AU) already […]

Conficker has a business plan. As early as January, InternetNews.com reported that experts feared the Downadup worm, also known as Conficker, might infect as many PCs as the Storm worm had. So it’s ironic that the latest reports suggest that the new worm is making money by infecting PCs with Storm-related malware, called Waledac, and […]

The season of cost-cutting continues as IT organizations are still being asked to do more with less. Enter Service Lifecycle Management software from CA. The new software from CA (NASDAQ: CA) is designed to enable IT organizations to become service providers by automating everything from the minutiae of provisioning to the big picture as depicted […]

It’s been a month of bad news for federal security. First came a report that the U.S. electricity grid was hacked (but no damage observed). Then Pentagon officials said that a breach had cost $100 million. Then, earlier this week, came reports that data on the Air Force’s most modern fighter aircraft, the Lockheed Martin […]

The Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS) reported that a laptop was stolen from one of its employees. The laptop was in a car and the employee lost it as well as several other items that were in the car at the time. The theft highlights the significance of data risk that government organizations and […]