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CERT casts doubt on security find
News However, security researchers at the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordination Center downplayed the issue, saying that the program simply inundates a network with so much data that computers have problems functioning correctly.
[January 23, 2004, 9:10]
IBM gives Shark more teeth
News Some of the Shark improvements to be offered beginning Friday center on what IBM calls its "FlashCopy" tool, which takes a snapshot of data in the storage system. But with IBM's so-called "cascading" PPRC enhancement, a New York City-based client...
[June 20, 2003, 10:57]
Increase awareness of the control and management of usb devices.
Talkback Lumension has now provided an implementation of its Device Control solution - Lumension Device Control for System Center (DCSC) -whereby Microsoft customers can now leverage Configuration Manager 2007’s powerful centralised management capabilities...
[May 5, 2009, 9:47]
Disaster recovery planning must take all angles into account
News "If your data's off-site, halfway across the country, it's safe. Most data recovery plans account for the loss of a facility and not the catastrophic loss of people. Baradet, like several other Corporate Partners contacted for their reactions to...
[September 14, 2001, 12:02]
Anti-terror blitz hits privacy worldwide
News Four trends have become apparent, according to the report: the swift erosion of pro-privacy laws; greater data sharing among corporations, police and spy agencies; greater eavesdropping; and sharply increased interest in people-tracking...
[September 3, 2002, 15:15]
Report praises search engines' privacy efforts
News An analysis released on Wednesday by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) concluded that it is good news for consumers that Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Ask.com and AOL pledged in recent months to amend how they handle user search data.
[August 9, 2007, 11:57]
Hard drives: a pictorial history review
Reviews The original 1956 hard disk drive, known as the RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control), stored only 5 megabytes of data on 50 disks, 24 inches in diameter. A 1-inch 8GB platter holds more than 80,000 times as much data as a single...
[September 13, 2006, 15:10]
Sun and Google underwhelm
News Sun gets to showcase its present and future data center and services delivery platform grid efficiencies at the premier I say it's the voice and data network providers, the Verizons, Sprints, Sun+Google=Voice and Data Efficiencies as a service...
[October 5, 2005, 11:05]
Citrix rebrands its XenSource spoils
News Citrix Delivery Center brand reflects "the growing need for IT organisations to transform static data centres into dynamic delivery centers", the company said in a statement. We expect the virtualisation market to continue to grow, but understand...
[February 11, 2008, 15:44]
HP, Intel, Yahoo team up on the cloud
News The Joint SuperComputer Center (JSCC), which will engage in the processing of large arrays of biological data, nanotechnology, 3D modelling and other applications, and port them to cloud infrastructure
[June 10, 2009, 11:34]
Inside Windows Vista Build 5231 review
Reviews To guard against hardware failures, Windows Vista monitors the health of the hard drive and can proactively warn users of impending disk drive failure, allowing them to back up their data and replace defective hardware before the situation turns...
[October 18, 2005, 10:25]
Catholic Medical Center Chooses IBM DB2 9 With pureXML Over Legacy DBMS to Support Its Integrated Healthcare Platform
White Papers Looking for an offering that would be cheaper, more flexible and more reliable than their existing DataBase Management System (DBMS), which comprised Oracle and Sybase systems, staff at the association migrated patient files to an IBM DB2 9 data...
[March 15, 2007, 0:00]
World Facts Maps
Downloads If you are new to PrettyMap, try it here.PrettyMap not only lets you read raw data, perform searches, take a quiz and extend your knowledge, but also see countries on the world map so that you can better understand the data and refer it to...
[February 19, 2007, 7:00]
U.S. backs off private monitoring
News But in spite of indications in a government document on the plan obtained by the Center for Democracy and Technology -- which indicates that private networks would also be watched -- the NSC spokesman denied that there is any plan for the...
[July 29, 1999, 10:53]
Windows Vista: Build 5231 review
Reviews We also saw a new Migration Wizard for transferring the data from one hard drive to another, a new Power Management Center for better notebook control and even a new Windows calendar. Windows Vista Disk Diagnostics, another set of tools, monitors...
[October 18, 2005, 10:25]
New Windows flaw similar to MSBlast bug
News The first two flaws are buffer overruns, which allow a hacker to take over a computer by swamping it with data. By sending too much data to the RPC process, an attacker can cause the system to grant full access to its resources.
[September 11, 2003, 10:57]
Google tightens up search privacy
News This period is too long and it's not in fact data destruction, it's more data de-identification, and that should be happening in 18 to 24 hours, not months," said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
[March 15, 2007, 7:55]
US furor rises over PC wiretap plan
News But in this case, the computer equivalent of the "listening device" is the authorisation for investigators to disable data-scrambling encryption programs on PCs. In order to actually copy data from the computer, police would still need a separate...
[August 23, 1999, 9:07]
FBI agent: I am Big Brother
News Dempsey, senior staff council for the technology-policy think tank Center for Democracy and Technology and a member of the panel, agreed, adding that more efficient data collection makes a privacy policy that much more critical.
[April 6, 2000, 9:37]
'Gordon' supercomputer uses flash to go faster
News This [high-performance computing] system will allow researchers to tackle a growing list of critical 'data-intensive' problems. One petabyte (PB) is equivalent to one quadrillion bytes of data. A supercomputer which uses flash memory instead of...
[November 6, 2009, 14:24]
