Information Infrastructure News Archive

IronPort has announced an appliance designed to keep Web-based threats, including spyware, viruses, keyloggers, and phishing, from entering an organization.

At their own risk, companies continue to ignore technology available to secure data, says GlassHouse CTO Jim Damoulakis in his weekly column.

In this excerpt from Linux Patch Management, Michael Jang outlines issues to consider when determining the most efficient ways to update multiple systems.

The New South Wales Department of Education and Training began operating its new network analytics software last week, which is set to service some 2,600 sites and 1.3 million users.

To handle the difficulty of passing corporate applications and other traffic across the WAN boundaries of various service providers, Siemens AG turned to a virtual network operator, Vanco PLC. The managed network approach paid off.

NAS vendors are offering alternatives to managing storage boxes as individual resources by opening the network through virtualization, gateways and other technologies.

On the Mark: Searching for information on a corporate network requires tools that index data stored on a myriad of systems in numerous formats. Mark Hall may have found a viable option.

Features such as spectrum analysis and capacity planning help simplify the job of network managers, as more users attempt to run demanding applications, such as voice, on their wireless LANs.

IBM has developed a chip set that enables wireless devices to operate more than 10 times faster than today's advanced Wi-Fi networks.

Silicon Graphics Inc. on Tuesday announced a quarterly loss of $28 million and promptly named a new president, chairman and CEO: Dennis McKenna, the former CEO of privately held SCP Global Technologies Inc.

McData has produced a new 10Gbit/sec. port link for its directors that it will allow SANs to be linked over high-speed networks.

This Yankee Group research reveals best practices in proactively identifying and correcting network weaknesses. Guidelines are based on Qualys' "Laws of Vulnerabilities" research.

New division created by Verizon's acquisition of MCI will focus on providing telecommunications and Internet services, including optical network products and data services such as frame relay, ATM and private line.

Dell will start making laptops that let users access the Internet on Vodafone's networks in the U.K., Germany and France.

This white paper explains the value of the various approaches to network security. It focuses on the unique role of vulnerability management, and automated security audits in particular. The paper concludes with a description of the QualysGuard solution.

3Com announced the V6000 Integrated Branch Communications platform, hardware to run IP-based voice, data and video communications over a new version of 3Com software.

The walls between IT groups are crumbling, and network professionals find that responsibility for optimal application performance is shifting to them.

The aim of good endpoint security is to protect the network without cutting too deeply into employee productivity.

LogLogic has integrated its appliance-based log management software with EMC's Smarts real-time network management technology.

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