Data Centers -- Who Needs 'Em Anyway?
September 27, 2007 17:53 PM
Data centers: they're expensive, hard to power and cool, and full of cranky hardware and software that requires ceaseless attention. But what can you do? Make it somebody else's problem.
Breach Notification Service is a Bad Sign
August 16, 2007 20:26 PM
You know data security breaches are way too common when a company builds a business around customer notification of stolen information....
Meat Space Still Matters in a Web 2.0 World
August 08, 2007 16:52 PM
It's important for enterprises to recognize the limitations of Internet-mediated communication and collaboration.
Twitter Turns Drivel to Cash
July 31, 2007 13:31 PM
Web 2.0 venture Twitter has discovered a simple formula for success: encourage users' conceit.
$28 Million for an Old Idea?Part 2
July 27, 2007 20:53 PM
We have to kill the firewall in order to save it. That's the essential message from startup Palo Alto Networks (PAN)....
YouTube's Reign of Terror
July 24, 2007 14:07 PM
The next leader of the free world may have stood on stage at The Citadel last night, but the real power in the room was YouTube....
$28 Million for an Old Idea?Part 1
July 20, 2007 17:04 PM
You have to admire the chutzpah of startup Palo Alto Networks. The company has raised $28 million to sell a "next-generation" firewall based on ideas that are 20 years old....
Users Move Faster Than Policy
June 27, 2007 20:44 PM
I moderated a Webcast recently on messaging-based security threats. An analyst on the panel did what analysts always do???provided some very sound advice that happens to be very difficult to implement....
Major Vendors to Set Standards for IT Energy Efficiency
February 28, 2007 15:39 PM
The Green Grid is a new standards body promoting energy efficiency in the IT industry. Its goals are to reduce energy costs and help enterprises better manage energy usage by developing industry-wide metrics for measuring power usage and efficiency, create...
Extrusion Protection Heads for the Desktop
February 12, 2007 18:24 PM
Extrusion protection is heading for the desktop. Once defined by gateway appliances that monitored Web, e-mail and IM traffic for sensitive information that might be slipping out of the enterprise, a new crop of products put an agent directly on...
Cisco Gets 2 for 1 with IronPort Acquisition
January 04, 2007 20:54 PM
Cisco Systems tapped into two robust markets???anti-spam and messaging compliance???with today's $830 million acquisition of IronPort....
Beware My +2 Sword of Leadership!
December 19, 2006 19:37 PM
I got a press release today with the following headline: "Genesys Named in Leaders Quadrant of Leading Analyst Firm's Report." The double use of "leader" immediately jumped out at me. The headline implies that being named a leader by a...
Info Leak Prevention for the Mid Market
December 12, 2006 14:07 PM
Code Green Networks is launching an information leak prevention appliance for the mid market. The appliance sits at the boundary of the internal network and monitors e-mail, Web mail, HTTP and FTP traffic for sensitive corporate information....
PC Power Costs -- Should You Care?
November 30, 2006 01:22 AM
Energy costs to power and cool the data center are a top concern for IT these days, but what about all those laptops and desktops in your organization? Does their power consumption matter?...
Bye-Bye Independent Managed Security Providers
October 27, 2006 01:03 AM
BT bought Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) Counterpane this week for "tens of millions of dollars," according to Chuck Pol, president of BT Americas....
Teaming up for Leak Prevention
October 18, 2006 18:30 PM
Major vendors are partnering with start-ups in the emerging Information Leak Prevention (ILP) market to spice up their products and tap into compliance dollars....
Barracuda Networks Responds
October 03, 2006 15:22 PM
The following post contains the correspondence between Barracuda Networks and Frank Bulk in response to Frank???s blog on Barracuda???s representation of its Spam Firewall e-mail capacity....
Truth vs. 'Truthiness' in Vendor Claims
October 02, 2006 20:33 PM
Veteran IT buyers know that vendor promises about performance or capacity tend to be aspirational rather than factual. But Barracuda, maker of the Network Spam Firewall, has stooped to a new low: eight times lower, that is....
IBM Acquires ISS for MSSP Biz
August 23, 2006 18:07 PM
IBM today announced it will acquire security vendor ISS for approximately $1.3 billion. ISS made its name selling intrusion detection and prevention products, but Big Blue snapped up the company for its managed security services portfolio....
But Will It Match My Tinfoil Hat?
August 17, 2006 15:44 PM
A new line of wallets has metal-infused RF shielding built in to prevent thieves from remotely scanning RFID-embedded credit cards. This is just silly....
