Richard Adhikari

Nature may abhor a vacuum, but vendors often abhor it even more because it means leaving money on the table. The latest space that vendors are looking to fill is a lack of tools to manage virtual machines. Enterprises sorely need these tools as they virtualize. According to a survey of 1,000 IT managers at […]

SAN FRANCISCO — As more enterprises incorporate cloud computing into their IT infrastructure, the number of clouds will proliferate, and there will be “thousands of clouds deployed out in the world,” Dell executive Forrest Norrod said at a press briefing here this week. Many will be owned by enterprises on their premises, and others will […]

You’d think the United States’ space agency, which conducts highly sensitive research and has had its servers hacked before would be extremely thorough about computer security, but that does not appear to be the case. A worm that steals online gamers’ user names and passwords has been running rampant on laptops on the International Space […]

Updated: PALO ALTO, Calif. – SAP said it plans to aggressively pursue new markets with a slew of innovative new technologies for its troubled Business ByDesign on-demand suite of products for small and medium-sized business (SMB) customers. When SAP first detailed its plans for Business ByDesign a year ago, it was met with tepid reviews. […]

As enterprises virtualize their data centers to cut costs and consolidate their servers, they may be setting themselves for big trouble. According to the latest disaster recovery research report from Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC), based on surveys of 1000 IT managers in large organizations worldwide, 35 percent of an organization’s virtual servers are not included in […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. – Full speed ahead. SAP executives at a media event here today, shrugged off questions about its recent price increases and a legal battle with Oracle and instead emphasized its bottom line results and competitive advantages. “Our share prices are outperforming most of our peers, outperforming all indices,” said long-time SAP CEO […]

That old saw about every cloud having a silver lining is true — at least when it comes to data breaches and ID theft. Bad as these may be for the average consumer, they open up a great opportunity for vendors. That burgeoning opportunity now sees CA strengthening its SiteMinder Web Access Manager by teaming […]

A new e-mail malware campaign has hit record levels in the past 24 hours. More than 21 million spam e-mails claiming to be notification of non-delivery from FedEx (NYSE: FDX) have hit the Web, managed e-mail security vendor MX Logic’s vice president of information security Sam Masiello told InternetNews.com. This accounted for about 80 percent […]

FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is scrambling to find out how hackers got into the voice mail system at its training center in Emmitsburg, Md., over the weekend and placed $12,000 worth of calls to the Middle East and Asia. The attackers got in through a vulnerability in the Private Branch Exchange (PBX) installed […]

A federal grand jury has charged Leni de Abreu Neto for his alleged involvement in a ring responsible for maintaining, leasing and selling a botnet , a network of hijacked computers often used to send spam. According to the indictment, Neto, who is originally from Brazil, used a botnet consisting of more than 100,000 computers […]

Another week, another data breach. One of the latest to hit the headlines was Wells Fargo, which recently revealed that personal information on thousands of consumers was stolen. Then there was the New York-based educational and test preparation provider The Princeton Review, which apparently exposed information on its Web site about 100,000 students based in […]

Microsoft’s claims about strong sales of Windows Vista for the enterprise may not be true, if statistics from Devil Mountain Software, a perennial thorn in the Redmond, Wash. software giant’s side, are true. According to Devil Mountain Software, about 35 percent of more than 3,000 business computer users worldwide who have installed its DMS Clarity […]