Larry Barrett

So you’ve made it through the holidays. What’s next? According to cybersecurity experts, the new year will bring a bumper crop of challenges stemming from socially engineered scams, poorly protected databases and the arrival of Windows 7. eSecurity Planet puts on the dark glasses and looks ahead. The dawn of a new decade will usher […]

It’s been a tough year for data security on campus. The most recent data breach hit Penn State University, where an unknown hacker or hackers accessed computers in three of the school’s facilities. eSecurity Planet has the details. Penn State University gave its students an unwelcome gift over the holiday break, notifying some 30,000-plus students […]

eSecurity Planet looks at the latest incident that continues an alarming trend in college campus data breaches. This one affected a network of community colleges in North Carolina, and appears to have exposed thousands of patrons’ driver’s licenses and Social Security numbers. Officials for a community college system in North Carolina this week acknowledged that […]

Though it may not literally be a matter of life or death, security analysts say this week’s revelation that Iraqi insurgents were tapping into live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones should have enterprises reevaluating the security applications and processes they’re using to safeguard their wireless networks. According to a story first reported in the […]

Two rivals in the hot enterprise storage market were the subject today of a new report from Goldman Sachs, which said NetApp may be near the end of its run while the larger company may soon see a lift. Enterprise Storage Forum reports. Data storage hardware and software makers EMC (NYSE: EMC) and NetApp (NASDAQ: […]

Some of the biggest vendors have been racing to offer scalable, cloud-based services to firms that don’t have big-league budgets. Datamation takes a look at a barrage of new SaaS offerings on that front from HP. HP this week rolled out three new on-demand applications designed to make it easier and more cost-effective for telecommunications […]

It’s a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe’s ubiquitous PDF offering that can cause computers to shut down or be taken over by hackers. Adobe has acknowledged the threat, but says a patch won’t be coming for almost a month. eSecurityPlanet explains the delay. Adobe this week acknowledged that a new PDF zero-day vulnerability is causing computers […]

Oracle on Wednesday topped analysts’ estimates in its second quarter, posting a profit of $2 billion, or $0.39 a share, excluding special charges, on sales of $5.9 billion. A survey of analysts conducted by Thomson Reuters pegged the software giant for a profit of $0.36 per share on sales of $5.7 billion. The $5.9 billion […]

Amazon keeps upping the ante for its cloud services, now adding streaming Flash-based media to its bevy of content-delivery network offerings. Datamation takes a look. Amazon Web Services on Wednesday said it is now offering audio and video streaming media support from its CloudFront content delivery network, giving companies a fast and cheap way to […]

IBM continued its buying spree of software firms focused on business process management, with the purchase of this privately held firm. After spending several billion on firms like SPSS, Cognos and FileNet, what does IBM get from a relatively smaller player> Datamation finds out. IBM on Wednesday added another piece to its business process management […]

Business process management (BPM) continues to be a hot spot in the enterprise software realm, and IBM is looking for a bigger share of the pie with its purchase today of Lombardi, a smaller player in the area. Datamation has the story. IBM on Wednesday added another piece to its business process management (BPM) portfolio […]

IBM has landed the contract to build the first private sector cloud service in South Korea for the nation’s largest telecom provider. The sheer scope of the project will be ambitious but IBM has been aggressive in the cloud space with its offerings. So what will the people of Korea get when Big Blue is […]