Richard Adhikari

More than five billion e-mails will stuff registered voters’ inboxes in the 30 days leading to the November 4 presidential elections, Internet security solutions provider SonicWALL predicted today. About 90 percent of the e-mails will be from spammers referencing the elections, SonicWALL e-mail security expert Andy Klein told InternetNews.com. Another seven to eight percent will […]

VMware may include a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) as part of its offerings but partner IBM beat it to the punch in finding a way to leverage the technology. IBM has created a component based on VMware’s VDI that slashes VDI storage requirements by up to 80 percent, it announced at VMworld 2008, the VMware […]

When VMware (NYSE: VMW) invited archrivals Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Citrix Systems (NASDAQ: CTXS) to VMworld 2008, its user conference being held in Las Vegas through Thursday, everyone was surprised. Sure, VMware is trying to show it’s open, but being this open could be a recipe for trouble for the virtualization kingpin. And that trouble […]

VMware (NYSE: VMW) is taking steps to simplify creating and managing virtual appliances with new updates unveiled yesterday at VMworld 2008, its user conference running this week in Las Vegas. A virtual appliance bundles one or more virtual machines containing a fully preinstalled and preconfigured application, complete with operating system. Offering software in virtual appliance […]

In his keynote speech today at VMworld 2008, VMware’s (NYSE: VMW) conference being held through Thursday in Las Vegas, company President and CEO Paul Maritz said the IT infrastructure should be treated as “a single giant computer on which applications can be provisioned in a more manageable, scalable way.” This will enable enterprises to leverage […]

At VMworld 2008, VMware’s user conference being held through Thursday in Las Vegas, the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) took the wraps off VMAN, the virtual-management initiative aimed at simplifying and cutting the cost of managing virtual environments. The DMTF also announced that the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) is now officially a standard. OVF, which […]

When a truck slammed into a Baskin-Robbins store in Aurora, Colorado recently, killing two women in the vehicle and a three-year-old boy in the store, that was news. In seeking to add further color to the story, the newspaper assigned the journalist to create real time posts via Twitter about the child’s funeral. The posts were listed, […]

BusinessWeek.com, which just last week publicly launched Business Exchange, a kind of social network for readers and industry leaders, has been hit by a SQL injection attack. Security software vendor Sophos discovered the vulnerability and notified BusinessWeek. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos, wrote on his blog that hackers tried to infect readership that […]

At VMworld 2008 today, VMware’s (NYSE: VMW) user conference being held through Thursday in Las Vegas, the virtualization giant unveiled strategies aimed squarely at the enterprise amid a backdrop of increasing competition from players like Microsoft. Those strategies center around VMware’s Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS), its combination of infrastructure, application and cloud services for […]

A former Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) engineer is facing charges of stealing trade secrets from his former employer after taking a new job at archrival Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD). The FBI unsealed a criminal complaint Tuesday alleging that Biswahoman Pani, of Worcester, Mass., had copied confidential Intel documents — including 13 designated top-secret and containing […]

At VMworld 2008, the VMware user conference to be held in Las Vegas Sept. 15-18, Hewlett-Packard will expand its partnership with VMware by rolling out a variety of virtualization ventures to support VMware (NYSE: VMW) technologies in four areas: management software, virtualization services, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), and servers and storage. “Virtualization is part of […]

Terry Childs, the system administrator who is in jail awaiting trial for, in effect, holding San Francisco’s fiber-optic wide area network hostage back in July, continues to darken the lives of members of the city’s IT department. Childs had installed equipment on the network without authorization and essentially taken it over, creating a super password, […]