Alex Goldman

Sybase (NYSE:SY) today reported non-GAAP earnings of $0.56 per share, beating the estimates of 11 analysts polled by the Thomson Financial Network by four cents. Revenues for the quarter were $278 million, down from $283 million for the same quarter a year ago. While license fees were up compared to the same quarter a year […]

Mobile data bandwidth usage increased by 30 percent in the second quarter of 2009 and peer-to-peer networks have a lot to do with it. A report by deep packet inspection (DPI) provider Allot also found P2P accounted for congestion in highly utilized nodes. “We had seen similar report on fixed line bandwidth but nothing specific […]

Panda Security today announced a full suite of new products to deliver e-mail protection, Web protection, and endpoint protection. “We are releasing new versions of the entire product portfolio to align our products with our technology vision,” Josu Franco, Panda Security corporate customer unit director, told InternetNews.com. Two of the products are SaaS offerings. Panda […]

Where does spam come from? If you guessed the U.S., you’d be right, according to new data from Microsoft’s Hotmail team and online security player Sophos. This conclusion was supported by data from The Honeypot Project, which is run by anti-spam firm Unspam Technologies and consisted of 41,073,248 spam traps at press time, with more […]

Several companies today announced the release of a new cloud standard, the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) Federation specification (CMDBf), created by the non-profit Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) (a PDF version of the standard is available here). CMDBs give IT organizations complete visibility into the attributes, relationships, and dependencies of the components in their enterprise […]

McAfee today outlined an aggressive SaaS-based security strategy and released Total Protection Service 5.0, its latest SaaS security software. Marc Olesen, McAfee (NYSE: MFE) senior vice president and general manager for SaaS, was hired a few months ago to build McAfee’s SaaS strategy. Olesen told InternetNews.com that McAfee has delivered today with the industry’s only […]

IT departments know that they need to modernize, but a fundamental cultural change requires leadership from the top of the org chart, said one consultant and author. “This is not just information security,” John Pironti, president of IP Architects, told InternetNews.com. “This is true business alignment.” Pironti will be giving a speech on the subject, […]

It’s another example of how IT administration isn’t getting any easier. Today ConSentry published a report warning that IT managers have to manage more things than ever before, even if the number of users on a network is not growing. There are more mobile devices, more non-approved applications, more non-user IP devices, more approved applications, […]

Oracle today announced Oracle Coherence 3.5, the latest version of its grid computing software, designed to enable critical Web applications to access large data streams and handle heavy user loads. “A commodity server may now support 100 GB or RAM in a single server,” Cameron Purdy, Oracle vice president of development, told InternetNews.com. “It doesn’t […]

Microsoft this week accused mobile ringtone and entertainment firm Funmobile for resorting to spamming Windows Live Messenger users to hawk its wares. In a lawsuit filed in the Washington State superior court for King County against Funmobile, which sometimes does business as Mobilefunster, Microsoft accused company officials of misusing Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger infrastructure in […]

Delfigo Security this week released its DSGateway application, available in cloud or licensed software formats. The new application promises to solve identify management issues at a fraction of the cost with cloud computing efficiency. The product provides a granular measure of certainty in identifying users by employing 14 Confidence Factors (CFs). “Most of these CFs […]

Virtualization isn’t easy, and security issues, which make a complex process harder, are all too often ignored in the haste to deploy this technology. To those planning virtualization deployments now, Steve Orrin, director of security solutions at Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), had a simple and useful piece of advice. “Don’t go after the high-value, mission-critical stuff […]